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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
Announcements.

FouND-An 80 pin. CHAs. A TRIP & Co.
l will pay p cents per 100 pounds for ripe cider
apples delivered at my Jelly mill at West Dunn
merston, until further notice JoHN TAFT
Croquet croquet, croquet at Clapp & Jones's.
Beautiful pictures, new mouldings in latest
styles and effects at Clapp & Jones's
HYMN Books AND BIBLES. Have your name
stamped on them. W F. Goddard will do it for
you at his Bookbndery in Harmony Block
Leave your laundry at Knapps for the best
work
Buy Picture Frames of Geddis
wANTEp-2OO men to smoke the celebrated
Chronicle cigar.
The place to buy pictures and frames is at Clapp
& Jones's.
W. g. Collier, agent for the Singer Manufactur-
ing Company machines Office in Geo Cutters
boot and shoe store, Brattleboro.
See the novelties in sterling silver for wedding
presents received this week at Ranger & Thomp-
sons.
If you wish to save money when paying cash
for groceries, ask for one of our cash cards.
H. w. Simonds successor to Stckney Bros.
wANTED-An elderly woman in a small family
on a farm. Address The Phoenix office.
Send D cents for the only good picture of the
Bennington monument taken under the direction
of the architect. Address G. A. Wattles, Ben
nington. Vt, or SIpperly, photographer Hoosick
Falls n. Y.
Send p cents for fine view of the arch at
Bennington. showing the Goddess of Liberty,
singers and states represented. Address G. A.
Wattles, Bennington, Vt, or Sipperly, photogra-
pher, Hoosick Falls, y. y.
DIR. PRESCOTT the Oculist and Optician, is kept
so busy attending to calls of patients at their
homes, that his Office hours will be changed from
1130 to ,, instead of O'Clock. On Saturdays he
can be consulted in his rooms at the Brooks
House all day by out of town patients.
Bring us ripe mellow cider apples at 25c per
hundred pounds. We discount Toe per hundred
for hard ones, ne don't rant them.
BRATTLEBoRo JELLY Co.
Exchanged at the Pratt Durham wedding. a
fine Chudda shawl, short fringe. with mark of
maker in the corner. The finder will please re-
turn it to Jas. Dalton, Spring street. and get one
in return
$3.50 watches, Waltham or Elgin make: 25c
steel bowed spectaces; 81 90 nickel alarm clocks
All warranted No. / by
CHAs. A TRIP x Co, Jewellers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
THE WILD CARROT PEST.

With the warnings which are constantly
given in the agricultural and general news
papers of the country il is a surprise to us
to see the Indifference of Windham county
farmers TO the wild-carrot pest, which is
laying hold on the land in so many sections,
and is steadily increasing its ravages. At
the present time many of the roadsides
along pastures and cultivated lands are
white with this blossom and mown lands
have been taken possession of by it since
the hay crop was cut. No weed spreads
its seed more widely and more surely. The
ripened tops, filled with seed, stick above
the snow in winter, where they are easily
broken off by the first high wind, especial
ly if crust forms, and then they are
blown hither and thither, often TO great
distance, and the seed is deposited ready to
Increase the crop ten or hundred fold the
coming year. No good farmer will let this
rank-growing pest go to seed upon his
lands. 1t should be cut down before the
seed forms, and wherever possible thorough
work of ii should be made by uprooting.
If neighborhoods of farmers would com
bine against it its ravages might be stopped.
If some thorough and general remedy is
not applied a day of reckoning will come
very soon, and in some cases il is already
here.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
A Great Gin 10 ,he PeopI.

There have been great Advancements in medi,
cal science during the last few years. 1t no
longer surprises us TO hear that the blind see the
deaf hear, the lame walk Heretofore sufferers
from nervous and chronic diseases could have a
cure OF their cases accomplished only by a per.
sonal visit 10 one of the large cities at great ex-
present day all this is changed. celebrated
specialist In the cure of nervous and chronic dis
eases, known all over the United States on &C
count OF his enormous practice, great skill, and
the thousands of sufferers he has restored to
health by his system Of harmless vegetable rem.
edles, proposes 20 send 10 all sufferers from any
form OF nervous or ong-standing diseases a val.
liable written diagnosis of their cases fully ex-
planning their diseases, and telling how they can
be cured free OF chareg. Thousands are being
cured. Don't delay but write al once about
your case to this great physician DR. Green.
81 Temple Place Boston Mass. the discoverer OF
Send for his symptom blank to I'll out.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
THE SCHOOLS.

The public schools opened on Monday
with larger attendance in all the grades
than last year The total number of pu-
pills in the High school is about $50. AT
the opening session the committee were
present. DR.. HOlton introduced Mr..
Horne to the school, the new principal
spoke few fitting words, and prayer was
offered by Mr.. Phalen. Mr.. Howe, the
sub master, and Mrs Elmer and Miss Hast
ngs have returned TO the High school.
The new teacher is Miss Carrie Houghton
of Lynn, Mass, who has been teaching at
Cumberland, Nd. The outlook for good
work i'll the High school is very bright.
and there is a general feeling of confidence
that Mr.. Horne is the right man in the
right place. He will certainly have the
hearty cooperation of all for the success of
the school.
As has previously been stated Miss De
Wolf of TiconderOga, y. Y, succeeds
Miss Barnard in the Sth grade, Miss John
son succeeds Miss Cobb in the intermedi-
ate department, and Miss Brown, a new
teacher, is associated with Miss Sherman
in the first intermediate, where formerly
there has been only one teacher. The It'll
and Sth grades were so large that it was
necessary to make another mixed grade.
This is in charge of Miss Coolidge of
Felchyille. Miss Lulu Elmer succeeds
Miss Reed as teacher of the Esteyville pr-
mary school. The Chase street school
was filled TO overlooking, over so pupils be-
ing present on Monday.
On Monday evening the teachers and the
committee met at the High school building
and voted to form a teachers association.
A committee was appointed, Mr.. Horne
being the chairman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
DREW A BIANK.
From the Keene, y. H., Republican.

lfrom the keene, n H., Republican.
The is credulous members of the order
of the Golden Grail in this city have at last
been fatty Informed by their supreme
treasurer that there is no money in the
treasury to pay them their expected 500
each, and that there is not likely to be. but
that they must consider the S97 each paid
in as so much money invested in a lottery.
in which they have unfortunately drawn a
blank There is no doubt they have drawn
blank, but this cavalier treatment is
hardly the entertainment they were invited
TO when they were beguiled into this sup
posed easy scheme for getting a big return
for comparatively small outlay. The
managers have made a good thing them
selves in fees and perquisites as long as the
thing could be kept on its feet, and by
themselves or their friends have probably
secured about all the early maturing pol
icies, and taken the whole loaf after they
got the trimmings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
BASE BALL RREEzEs.

The Manchester players are running a
cooperative team and Cross is pitching for
them.
The Boston Athletic association defeated
the Northamptons Tuesday in an exciting
game, TO /. Highlands and Person were
the pitchers Each side made four hits,
but two by Mahaney and one by Deadly
were three-baggers. Northampton played
an errorless game, Hickey at short having
two put outs and six assists.
The Winchesters with Cross and Leahy
as a battery. were defeated by the Baldwin
villes, 9 to 3, and last Saturday the IL. II.
Pratts of Ashuelot downed the Baldwin
villes 10 to l.
The High school team defeated the Olym-
pics last Saturday Ii to 10, in an interest
ing game. A feature was Collins playing
The Burlington Free Press is decidedly
lame on base ball matters, or wilfully mis-
represents facts. Wednesday it stated that:
"The three L. V. Ms, Kinsella, Ranney
and O'Connor, who played with the North
Adams team Monday, established repu-
tation for themselves in that vicinity. The
North Adams boys were victorious by a
score of l6 to &. Kinsella, Ranney and
O'Connor pounded the ball in their usual
persistent style. Ranney hurt his thumb
in the fifth inning and was forced TO retire
Kinsella coming behind the bat and catch
ing pretty game The fact was that the
three Burlington players We're with the
North Pownal team, which was defeated
Possibly OConnor, Ranney and Kinsela
did establish a reputation, but it was by no
means an enviable one. Fifteen hits were
made off O'Connor's pitching, and the
three Burlington men are credited with
four errors. The way they pounded the
BALI is richness. Not one of them made
a hit of any kind 1t is bad case when
il is necessary to crow over such a record.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
Optical Notice.

Mr.. A. ], Landry of the firm A J. Landry &
Co, opticians 23l Washington street. Boston,
Mass, will be at my store from Sept 2S TO Oct 3,
to correct all errors of refraction far can be
done with any form of lenses. People who are
DESTROYS of having their eyes properly tested
should avail themselves of this opportunity All
lenses required for weak and defective vision are
adjusted and ground to order. Satisfaction guar
anteed. CHAs. A TRIP & Co.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11

An exchange says: "Luciers Minstrels COM
pany exhibited in the opera house Wednesday
evening, before a large audience. This is the
third time this company has been here in the
past two years, but 1t has presented different
programs every time. Our people regard it as an
old friend, one that they rely upon and have
no fear of being humbugged. The entertainment,
Wednesday evening, was remarkably good. The
fine music was the leading feature; the acting
and funny jokes by the MINISTRIES, the clog dane
ing and acrobatc feats by the artists made up an
evenings page of enjoyment At the opera
house next Thursday evening.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
THE BRArTLEBoRo DIRECTORY
A Botch Palmed off on the Brattleboro
People.


People.
\ glance at the new Bratteboro directo-
ry is sufficient to show that it is the worst
botch of the kind ever palmed off on the
Brattleboro public. 1t is nothing less than
a swindle to sell directory so full of glar-
ing mistakes, and upon which it is evident
that almost no work was done. The own
er of one copy has already checked of
some 200 mistakes, not including names
left out. and the total number of mistakes
will undoubtedly run up into the hun
dreds. The name of Geo. W. Fuller is
omitted from the list of bailiffs. and Geo.
W. Perry is given in place of W. Dorr Per
ry. Geo. NJ. Highly is given as the clerk
of the board of bailiffs. 1t is highly in
teresting to read that y. c. Nealey is pres
ident of the Rural Improvement society.
and that such organizations exist as the
Fort Drummer chapter of Masons and the
Ladies Christian Temperance union. Ac-
cording to the directory Mrs. f. Avery is
still in the millinery business. F. W.
Childs d Co. are the proprietors of the tel
ephone exchange, +. II. Scott of the din
ing rooms in the bank block, Gleason Il
Robbins of hardware store, II. c. CHS
bee of a grocery store. and there are no
such firms as f. l.. Hildreth a Co.. i. II.
Holden Il Co. and II. T. Willard Il Co.
Henry Il, Brooks is proprietor of the Ell
liot street livery. w. II. Bracket is as
sistant cashier of the Vermont national
bank, = W. Edwards is a clerk for Young
a Keith, f. \. Foster, longtime resident
of Organ street, boards at No. ) Main
street and the residences of other people
are given on streets where they have not
lived for dozen wears Several we'll
known men by the name of Knights are
given as Knapp, Atheusion is given for At
kinsOn, Sheleck for Selleck, etc, etc.
This directory is of about as much use as
an 1900 almanac would be for this year.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
MY Family Doctor

For the last two years has been Sulphur Bitters,
and until began using them in my family we
had more or less sickness, and our doctors bill
has been very large. Since we began their use
We have had no doctor TO pay, and three dollars
invested in sulphur Bitters has kept health in
our family.-E. Knott, Postmaster, Waverly, la
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11

The Brooks House Hack and Coupe
Line
Is now under one management and is prepared
to carry passengers to and from all trains and to
all parts of the village. Orders may be given by
telephone to the Brooks House, coupe stand on
Main street, or at the Brooks House stables. All
baggage carried free. We shall strive by prompt
and courteous service to merit the public patron
age. H. o. COOLIDGE
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
Four

Handsome dinner sets on our bargain counter at
prices that will make it g. then ?, then |, and
soon o. VAN DooRN & MORRIS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11

Japan has now 1000 newspapers where twenty
five years ago not journal existed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-11
BAND CONCERT

If the weather is favorable the First
Regiment band will give two more con-
certs this season. Following is the pro
gram for next Wednesday evening:
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-03-13

The people at the Worlds
Dispensary Of Buffalo, N. Y,
have a stock-taking time once
a year and what do you think
they dol Count the number
of bottles that've been re-
turned by the men and women
who say that DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery or
DR.. Pierce's Favoritc Prescrip-
tion didn't do what they said
it would do.
And how many do you
think they have to count.
One in ten? Not one in /sss
hundred!
Here are two remedies
one the Golden Medical Dis
covcry, for regulating and in
viyorlting the liver and purify
ing the blood; the other, the
hope Of weakly womanhood,
and they've been sold for
years, sold by the million bot
ties; sold under a bosalive
guarantee, and not one in five
hundred can say:
1t was not the medicine for
me !"
And-is there any reason
why you should be the one?
And-supposing you are what
do you lose : ABSOLUTELY
I
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-03-13
Pete Wasn't in It.

There was meeting Of the stockholders
Of certain railroad at jackson, Miss A
colored man crept up to the head of the
stairs in the building where the meeting
was in progress, and whisperingly asked OF
another colored man on duty there:
"Moses, has dey dun voted to cut wages
down."
'Sahl What you talkin' bout! doan'
know you, sahp ponpously replied the
other.
"You dun doan' know mer
mo, sah"
"Git outl Didn't dun marry your sis
ter Mary. an hain't workin' right in dis
depot"
"What's de name, sahw
"Namel Namel Hain't your brudder-
law, Pete Williams?"
can is yo' one of de stockholders of dis
railrode?"
lob co'se not"
''Kin yo' vote in dis meetin'"
"No."
'Den, sab, begs to inform yo' sab, dat
arter we git frew purceedin' wild our pur-
ceedins we may decide to eliminate de
same to outsiders; an If we do sab, an
should happen to meet me, sab, shall be
happy to participate all de elucidashun in,
comprehensive wild our policy. Good day,
sahl'-New York Sun.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-03-13
he WAS A GENTLEMAN.


He Believed in Being Polite to Every.
| body Anyway.
There were ton Of us who rod. from the
depot to hotel In Charleston In the same
bus. and AZ we entered the office a short
thick set and determined looking man col.
Jared young man wearing Eyeglasses and
said:
"I'll thank you to return my walletr'
Certainly, sir; certainly. Let US con-
duct ourselves az becomes gentlemen"
"You picked my pocket on the way up,
and want my wallet back or I'll mash
your shouted the short man.
Exactly. No need Of raising your voice
to q disagreeable pitch Never forget that
you are gentleman, no matter what the
circumstances"
"Where is my Wallet"
"Here, sir, and have great pleasure In
returning it. lam sorry that we have had
any Misunderstanding"
An officer was sent for, and while wait
ing his appearance the young man said to
the crowd:
II never have any trouble with gentle
man, never. lam obliged to all of you for
the courtesies which you have extended.
Let us part as gentlemen should"
The officer soon arrived and walked him
away to the station, but that evening
about Q o'clock, as was walking on Meet
ing street, the prisoner halted me and said:
II desire to thank you for your consider
alton in that affair. You treated me as a
gentleman, sir. and shall not forget it,"
"But thought you-you"-
"Oh, yes. was locked up tight enough,
but the officers at the station were. no gem
tlemen, sir, no gentlemen, and they treated
me in such manner that felt compelled
to bid them good night. will now say au
revoir."
Invent up to the police station to inquire
about it. and the sergeant in charge re-
piled:
"Whatl That genteel fellow with eye
glasses! Oh, he's in there"
"But you'd better look"
lie entered the corridor and looked into
the cell. 1t was empty. The gentleman"
had sawed one Of the window bars off and
gone out by way of the alley.-New York
Sun.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-03-13
LAST CHANCE FOR THAT LITTLE BILL.

''job" through congress, but the rule
must be more honored in the breach
than in the observance, for it is rare
thing for any legislation out of, the com.
mon run to be enacted during the last
days. Everybody is on the alert at such
times; all the watch dogs are scanning
the legislative horizon, ears pricked up
and eyes wide open.
There is such a struggle for place OF
preference, such fight between meas
ures which are forced to be rivals for the
simple reason that only one of fifty of
them can be considered, that the man
who has bill of doubtful honesty or
usefulness may as well let it lie buried
among the thousands of other dead and
dying bills on the calendar What a
graveyard of hopes this calendar isl A
book Of ninety or one hundred broad
pages, all classified and indexed, print
ed in the highest style of the art pre-
servative and containing-what? A
list of the bills on the calendar Of
the households unconsidered, bills un-
debated, bills unknown, bills that sleep
the sleep of death. There are thousands
Of them, little and big. In vain do the
members fill the space in front of the
chair ard shout, ''Mr. Speaker! Mr..
Speaker" Fifty men crack their voices,
grow red in the face, faunt their bills
excitedly in the air, as if they wished
their arms were long enough SO their
pet measures might be thrust literally
syo%o %ho e. d. III
and few are chosen.
1t is not the man with the loudest voice
or the longest arms who is first seen by
en sfaaaher.- Here is an Occasion on
which it behooves one to be on good
terms with the presiding officer, lest he
be overlooked by that gentleman's eagle
eye. Shout and yell and dance and
throw your limbs about as much as you
please, all will be in vain unless you are
on the speakers little list. If you have
been omitted from the magic roll, he
will not hear you though you below at
him with lannon's voice; nor will he
see you if you swell up ten times your
normal size and dance ghost dance
somewhere between the floor and the
ceiling for half hour.
1t is sometimes a great thing to be
speaker. There is genuine power in it
But the man who does not want to be
growled at, cursed, fayed by friend and
foe, should leave to others the task of
presiding over house during the closing
days of a session. How they do growl
at Mr.. Reed friend and foe alike!
"How can l go home and face that
widow whose pension bill promised to
pass?' eff Reed had only looked me in
the eye and called my name l could
have passed the public building bill for
my town, and that would have reelected
me-" So they go. They always do.
Everybody seems to take satisfaction in
cursing the speaker, just as satisfaction
has been taken every other March for
a hundred years or more.
But there is one thing concerning the
big speaker, who has SO long been con-
spicuous in the public eye, that all these
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bis desk. Old letters, more precious
than the average run OF communities
tions, and therefore long preserved
each with story Of its own; newspa-
per clippings, perhaps tales Of triumph
in convention or ct polls; documents,
memoranda, reports, bills, even few
photographs pasted to the lid Of the
school-like desk-all must be removed.
Reader, did you ever clear out desk
ct which you had long worked, and make
ready to turn 1t over to another, to your
successor? II 80, you can sympathize
with this statesman, who feels that he is
leaving life and hope and soul behind in
the ink stained, dingy old desk. You
can understand why his hand trembles,
and there is tremor in his voice and q
tear in his eye. Twelve years he has
worked at that desk. II has been the
scene Of his struggles and triumphs, the
post at which he has battled, not with
out success, for fame. And now-his
constituents have rejected him, and q
new man is coming to take his place.
Men are rushing to and fro between
the two ends of the Capitol in these clos
ing hours. The clerk of the house trots
to the senate to announce the passage of
another bill, the appointment of an
other committee of conference or dis
agreement to amendments. The secre
tary Of the senate runs to the house on a
similar errand. Not q minute is to be
lost. Every second is precious. Every
one is in a hurry. Senators are elbow
ing their way through the crowds in the
rotunda or corridors, fastening without
much regard to dignity to give their
representatives pointers about bill
which is to be saved from the wreck if
effort and ingenuity will save it.
Representatives knock people over in
the echo room or statuary hall in their
mad rush toward the senate, where SEN
ators are to be appealed to in behalf of
this measure or that. Even the phleg-
matte Capitol policemen become infected
with the fever of the movement, and ex-
pectorate three times a minute, whereas
in normal times they expectorate but
once. This is the only change noticeable
in these worthy officials, for in all my
experience never heard Of a Capitol po-
liceman indulging in any more exciting
or fatiguing activity than that of ex-
pectoration.
The hours pass rapidly, too rapidly to
suit the thousands Of persons whose
hopes are bound up in what may yet be
accomplished. There are many anxious
glances at the clock, and finally, the
hands standing almost perpendicular
and nearly parallel, old Father Time
himself-Capt. Bassett-mounts chair
and turns back the hand of the senate
clock SO that it shall not yet mark high
noon of March 4, and thereby seal the