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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09
May Adopt Our Land Laws,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-Land Commits
sioner Carter received an application
from the Russian government for de-
scriphon of the methods and for a copy
of the land laws in vogue in this coun-
try.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-09

italy win Not Exhibit.
ROME, Oct. 6.-Italy has decided to
taxa no mart in the Chicago worlds fair.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
oddities About Fleas.

Nothing curious about a flea, ehg Let
us see. Put one under a strong micro
scope What transformation IL seems
to be clothed in armor from head to foot, :"
formed of brown, overlapping plates, that
are so exceedingly tough as to be almost
indestructible Its head is small and very
thin, with a single black eye on each side,
the rays of light scintillating through the
tiny optic like sparks of fire. Puget man
aged to look through the eye of flea with
his powerful glass, finding that its surface
diminished objects in size while it multi
piled them in number-a man appearing
like an army of fairies. and tine tiame of a
candle becoming a thousand tiny stars.
From the shape of its head and for other
reasons the flea is supposed to use but one
eve at time The offensive weapon of
the little creature is composed of two
palpi, or "feelers," two piercers and a
tongue When it feeds it stands erect,
thrusting this sucker into the flesh, and
will eat without intermission if not dis
turbed.
The fiea's manner of breathing is still
undetermined, but is thought to be through
two small holes at the end of the palpi.-
st. LOUIS Republic.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
sHFRMAN's HUNGRY SOLDIERS.


How They Snatchet% Up a Dinner at
Which He Had just sat Down.
Mr.. j. c. Jamison tells an interesting
story of Sherman's march TO the sea.
For eighteen days the men had been on
quarters rations, and ON this particular
day they took up their weary march
noon they came TO pretty plantation
presided over by cultured and wealthy
adherent of the lost cause. His mansion
was palatial, and everything the eye
beheld betokened plenty.
Visions of a square meal arose before
the tired boys in blue, and those in the
van quickened their pace and soon were
on dead run for the house. Mr.. Jami-
son was something of a Splinter in those
days, and was the first to reach the
house. He dashed through the kitchen
and headlong into the dining room. but
no sooner had he passed the door than
he stopped, transfxed with horror. Be-
fore him sat Gen. Sherman and some of
his staff officers, the guests of the house.
Before them was steaming dinner
Anticipating instant arrest, Mr.. Jami-
son tried to retreat, but the hungry
hosts blocked the way. They showed
him forward, and brawny hand reached
over his shoulder and seized savory
spring chicken. That was a signal, and
in an instant the grooming table was
stripped of everything edible.
General" shouted the outraged ex-
ponent of southern chivalry, do you
stand silently by and see me thus plum
dered?''
YES" quietly responded Gen. sher-
man. THE boys are hungry. They
have been on quarter rations for eigh-
teen days, and we are living off the
country. guess they need the dinner
worse than we do. Pittsburgh Dis
match
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30

Where Babies Are Buried in the snow.
The Swedish child or barn compare the
Yorkshire barn and the Scottish bairn), is
swaddled in more complex fashion than
the German. 1t is wound about with six
inch wide bandages, sometimes with the
arms free and sometimes not, sometimes
the legs included in the whole bundle. but
usually swathed separately. The band
ages are additionally supposed to make
the limbs and figure grow straight The
bandaged barn is then wrapped in pillow
and tied about with ribbons and bows like
the German child, except that frequently
his arms are free and his legs are shortly
and stoutly suggested by the tucSing in of
the pillow After that he may be fastened
tiatwse to another pillow, and slung per-
pendicularly from a supple pole stuck in
the wall, so that he looks like a very queer
fish indeed, fit to be shown outside the shop
Of an angling tackle maker.
Like the German. the Swedish child al
ways wears Il cap, which is borderless and
of special fineness for its first Sunday,
when il is christened. Then also it wears
beads upon it's neck and gorgeous gar
ments with gay bows of ribbon, all of
which are provided by the godmother. In
the remoter parts of both Sweden and Nor
way it is still the custom every Sunday to
carry these swaddled infants to church,
which is probably long way off. They
are not taken into church, however, but
buried for warmth in the snow, in which
a small hole is left for them to breathe
through.-Strand Magazine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
Every two and a hair minutes

The blood makes a Circuit of the BODY
every IL minutes, delivering nrtriment
and taking back waste matte 10 be be i'll
tered out by the liver ana kidneys and re
moved from the body through the bowels
or obstruction of this process NAV pro
duce various forms of disease, such Is
Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Consultation.
Headache. Debility, and bad blood with
its multiplied evils (boils, blotches, pim-
pies, sores, eruptions, Assesses and the
evidenced by the presence of complaints
similar to those just mentioned. the best
medicine to use is Burdock blood Bitters,
which unlocks the secretions, removing
all impure and effete matter through the
proper channels. By restoring healthy
action of the stomach, liver, kidneys, and
bowels, B B B removes all impurities OF
the blood from common pimple to the
worst scrofulous sore.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
SMALL SHOT.

HoUsToN COUNTY, Georgia, claims the
Youngest confederate soldier in the per-
son of Augustus L. Dixon, who enlisted
in 1868 under twelve years of age.
FIELDS MARTIN, who lives near Flow
cry Branch, Ga, has worn a coat only
a few times since the surrender of Gen.
Lee. He says he feels more comfortable
without one, no matter how cold the
weather is.
A SINGULAR incident is on record of
this power of blind men to remember
voices. Henry Singleton, colored, a
member of Admiral Foote Post G. A.
r., of New Haven. when in a neighbor-
ing town met a blind comrade named
John Porter, who, though he hadn't
seen Singleton for twenty-eight years,
recognized him by his voice as one of
three runaway slaves whom he had
halted while on guard on the union line
near Newbern. n. C, in 1852. Porter
RECALLED the affair in detail, and also
named Singleton's two companions
Henry Chase and William Ford. As
twenty-eight years had elapsed since
the incident occurred, the case is re-
marlxable Brooklyn Standard Union
ONCE Gen. Sherman was asked by
gentleman how it was that he had al
ways been willing to fight under Grant,
without questioning or caviling, or OPP
position, or baclSbiting, or trying to
supplant him. His answer was char
acteristic and key to the situation.
He said: II could always plan a dozen
different ways of accomplishing mill
tarv object, and Phil Sheridan would
declare that he could fight any one of
them out to victory; but we could
neither of us tell which was really the
best plan. Then we would go to Grant.
Law the whole of them before him and
he would tell us which plan was the best
and why; and then we could see it too.
Grants place was where he was, at the
head Troy Times.
MARTIN WATERS. living at Mechanic
vile. this county, has a family war
record to be proud Of He was himself
a member of the 169th regiment, New
York volunteers during the late war.
and was in every engagement of the
regiment, thirty-three in all. He also
had four sons in the war, three in the
army and one in the navy; also one
brother and eighteen nephews We're in
the volunteer service. His father VIM.
Waters. was in the war of 1912. His
grandfather. George Waters. was a
lieutenant in the revolutionary army.
His grandfather on his mothers side,
Joseph Perry, was also in the revolu-
tionary war, and was wounded in the
battle Of Bunker Hill And Joseph
Perry was the uncle Of Commodore
Perry of Lake Erie fame. Mr.. Waters
is seventy years old and is on the pen
sion roll for ten dollars a month";.
Y. sun
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
LEGALLY DEAD.
An Ex-soldier Who Is Supposed to Have
Been Killed.

An Ex-soldier Who Is Supposed to Have
Been Killed.
'Did you ever see a dead man walk
ing about?" queried a Griswold street
insurance agent of friend the other
day.
''Of course not"
'sWell, there is case of it. See that
man ON the corner?"
''He looks pretty lively"
Eyes. but he's legally dead. Let me
tell you about him We served in the
same Ohio regiment in the war. AT the
battle of Groveton, which took place a
day or two before Second Bull Run, he
was detailed as slxirmisher. The con-
federates pushed forward, and as the
slxirmishers were running back to the
lines this man stopped for a moment on
a little knoll. A shell came through
a gap in the confederate lines, en-
tered the base of the knoll and when
it exploded he was lifted twenty feet
high
And torn TO pieces?'
1--WE thought so, and thousand men
saw the performance. He was picked
up by the confederates, sent TO hos
pital, and then held year and half
as prisoner of war. Our captain re-
ported him dead, he was carried down
the rolls as such, and even now the tan
gle has not been Strengthened out
When taken prisoner the confederates
put him down as James instead OF John,
and that helped mix matters
s,But was he badly wounded?"
mo He did not lose a drop of blood.
but was simply stunned, and it was six
months before his hearing was fully re-
stored He has paid claim agent over
five hundred dollars to secure his dis
charge as a union soldier, but he has
not got it yet. Detroit Free Press
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30

Master Mechanic Buchanan, of the VAR
derbilt lines. has been at work on an idea
for a new coach and engine for q long time.
He is experimenting on steel coach, with
both ends shaped similar to a ships PROV.
He wants his cars lighter and his engines
heavier, for greater speed. He believes a
steel cover can be arranged on the engine
so that the air cannot eddy around the cab
and the boilers. The entire scheme would
be on the line of the least possible resist
ance to the atmosphere.
He believes the railroad train of the fu-
ture win make seventy-five or eighty miles
an hour between this city and Chicago
New York Telegram.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
The SPIRIT OF woak.
stesdfasfness TO ideals Is the True Prin-
cipfe of the Higher Life.


stesdfasfnss- to ideals Is the True Prin-
cipie of the Higher Life.
On the part of faithful workers the spirit
Of work must ever copsist Of constantly
careful adherence to the truth. This is
not the ightest way TO work. 1t is always
easier to copy the work Of others than to
work from nature, whether the creation
belongs to the highest art or the lowest
kind Of manual labor.
The usual aim of worker 10 TO follow
the best accepted models. and to secure
perfect imitation is his highest ambition.
lie has no belief in his own thought sim
ply expressed. He takes his idea from this
authority and his method of transferring
it 70 the minds of others from that. He
tries to please the eye, and creates forms
striking, snowy, even beautiful-with the
beauty of skillful imitation.
He tries to charm the ear, and utters
fine, fanciful phrases, sonorous sentences,
words which appeal to the imagination
and show a wide knowledge of the produc-
tions of other people But this is never
the way to reach the heart, for the heart is
satisfied only with the truth, and If the ex-
preston is not true to the thought. then it
is falsehood, and the nobler the thought
the worse the guilt of the caricature.
Such work answers for passing human
needs 1t has often a fair body. But If it
has no soul of its own it cannot live, and
though used in lieu OF that which is better,
when the need that used it dies 1t dies too.
The other sort of work is slow and pain
full. Once begun, there is no more rest for
the worker. Though he labor with I'M
ceasing effort, he sees more and more
clearly how feeble is his expression of the
truth he would have it declare. He works
with a heart that falters and with hands
that tremble as they move. Ali very poor
and weak must be our best attempts, yet
to work nearer to the truth in each mo-
ment of our working lives is the divinest
blessing we can ask. To reach it is of the
things hopel for-not seen. But it is the
things not seen which are eternal.
The work is slow. 1t is II life work.
What better life work can there bei The
work is painful. IL is through much trib-
ulation we enter the kingdom. For mo-
ment, is the struggle TO be compared TO the
victory The work is difficult. Again
and again are we thrown back, bruised
and faint, to cry. "Who can endure to the
endy'
But hard and toilsome and slow though
it be-. we must labor. Steep and stony
though the PATH we must climb it. By
and by, when no longer through glass
darl1ly, but face to face. we read the mean
ing of all the hardship, the slow growth
and the bitter suffering, then out of the
temple our human hands have built shall
shine out the spirit of truth, which we
waited for with an inexpressible longing.
For we must sow with painstaking zeal
and patient abiding We must water of
ten with tears. 1t is only God who giyeth
the increase-Harper's Bazaar
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
The Capital Savings Bank &
Trust Company.
slO,OOO.OO
S100,000.O0
Capital Stock,
Additional Liza bility,

Total Guarantee to depositors s200, 10000
The bank guarantees per cent, inter-
est free from taxes TO its depositors,
which in most cases is equal to a 6 per
cent. investment when it is taxed to the
individual.
The company has over $50 stockholders,
the largest of any Savings Bank or Trust
Co. in Northern or Central Vermont. The
management of the bank is in the hands
of seven Directors who are all well known
men as follows:
ALBERT JoHoNNoTT, A. j. SIBLEY,
H. y. TAPLIN, G. F. SIBLEY,
f. r. BLAKELY, T. j. DEAvITT,
ALEXANDER COCHRAN.
This Company solicits loans on real es-
tate in Vermont and to towns and school
districts. A few shares of stock in this
company are offered at s105 per share sub
ject to sale. r. +. BLAKELY, Treas.
Capital Savings Bank and Trust Co.,
Montpelier, vt.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30

TIVE sword which Custer used in his
camnairns against the Indians, and
Swb;ch he lost with his life at the battle
- tbe Little Big Horn, is now in pos
sass;on of a Chicago man Its battered
1,Ia5e Is as flexible as whalebone, and
looks as if it had been through many a
hand-to-haud encounter It IS covered
-~;tF inuumerable designs Of drums.
e. e. cannon and other implements Of
varfare.-N. Y. World
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
Comforting.

81 can't understand your father, Marie
He doesn't like me any better than he did
at first, aud has always treated me as if /
was a blockhead"
Il know. Tom, it's too bad, but it takes
poor father such long time to get over
first impressions. New York Truth.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30

CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD
Corrected to June Is 1891.
GOING SOUTH
Trains leave RANDOLPH as follows
roo m Night Express from Ogdensburg, MOI.
treal and the west, for Boston. Lowell ann Al
New England points. Sleeping cars Tor Dos-
ton via Lowell also for Springfield drums daiiy
sundays included Montreal 10 Boston VIA
1924 m. Mailfrom st. Adams and Burlington for
Boston, via Lowell and Fitchburg. Tor an
points in New England.
l.5O m, Limited Express. from Ogdensbure MOI
treal and the west. for Concord, Manchester
Nashua, Lowell. Boston; and Ne" fork'NA
Springfield
7.15 pm. Passenger for Whichever junction and
GOING NORTH:
800 N. Night Express, from Boston ahu ~"
York for Montreal. 0gdensburg and me sesh
Sleeninr ar 70 Montreal runs daily sundays
inclndec Boston to Montreal via Lowell. q.
$50 a. N. Passenger for Rutland. Burlington 81.
Adams. Richford and Rouses Point.
2.4O pm. Mall Train from BostonlM orcestel,
Springfield. New London, and New OTIS. ~ ~
Burlington. st. Albans o gdensoure. oso hs.eeis
and the west Drawing room car % ne . -.
os4o m. Fast Express. from hostol ~
Montreal and West. Pullman fAi@S 1s saeSR Y.
ing car attached running through 70 C"i~~e0
without change. Ia
through tickets for Chicago. and the west TOT s-e
az the principal stations.
I. c. Smith, Second Vice Pres
s. w. Cummings, Gen. Pas Agt.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30

There are no flies on your papa" re-
marked gray haired Detroit widower to
his lively and lovely daughter.
YES, papa" she responded softly, as her
pretty fingers tangled in his silver locks;
yes there are-time flies. "-Datroit Free
Press.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
Banks.
RANDOLPH SlyINas Bank
West Randolph, Vermont.
A VERMONT INSTITUTION.
CHARTERED IN 1855.

Receives and pays deposits every business day.
Any person can open account.
Accounts accepted from married ladies and mi
noFs in their own name.
Accounts received from Trustees Guardians. Ex-
ecutors and charitable and religious societies.
Deposits received from sl00 10 $1,000.
Interest is credited to depositors only on the first
days Of January and July and il not withdrawn
draws interest from date.
The bank pays ali taxes on deposits Of $500 OF
less
The only stockholders the depositors, there
fore all earnings less expenses belong to the depos-
itors.
Loans are made only on approved security.
All accounts are treated as strictly private and
confidential.
Especial preference for small accounts.
Deposits made or before the 5th of any month
draw interest from the first.
No interest paid on any withdrawn for the
time elapsed since the last dividend day
This bank is under the supervision Of the State
Inspector OF Finance.
No loans made out Of the State until all home de-
mands are met.
JAMES HUTCHINSON, Pres.
W. II. NICHOLS. Vice Pres.
B. T. LOMBARD, Treas
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30
rs Worst Form.

BENTON, Laf. Co., Wis.,, Dec, 1883.
Rev. J. c. Bergen vouches for the following:
James Rooney, who was suffering from st. Vitus
Dance in its worst form for about IL years,
was treated by several physicians without
effect. Two bottles Of Pastor Koenig's Nerve
Tonic cured him.
Would Have Died.
HoLYoKE, Mass. November, 1890.
was in pain all over. could get no rest either
NIGHT or dav and was not able to do any work
Tor months but after taking Pastor koenig's
Nerve Tonic only one week, was able TO sit az
and attend TO my dressmaking. had laic
beneft ] certainly think should have dieo
long ago If bad not got this medicine.
MRS. ADA Pencil.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-30

RAEE-A Valuable Book en- Nervous
III u Diseases sent free to any address
and poor patients can also obtain
This remedy has been prepared BY the Reverend
Pastor KoeniR Of Fort WAYNE, Ind since lsao and
e NOV prepared under his olrectlon o. the
KoENIc MED. CO.. Chicago, III.
Sold by Druggists at 81 per Bottle. 6for So
Iarze size. s1.75. 6 Bottles for 80.
The record-union., 1891-07-11

Why, our folks have packed lunch
enough for Company E. You don't need
to take any
The record-union., 1891-07-11
THE TWO ANGELS.


God called the nearest angels who dwell with
The tenderest one was Pity, and the dearest
one was Love.
ARISE He said, ''ny angels wall of woe
and sin.
Steals through the gates of Heaven, and sad
dens all within.
"My harps take up the mournful strain that
from a lost world swells;
The smoke OF torment clouds the light and
blights the asphodcls.
Fly downward to that underworld. and on
its souls of pain
Let Love drop smiles of sunshine, and PITY.
tears like ratn.a
Two faces bowed before the throne, yeiled in
their golden hair;
Four white wings hastened swiftly down the
dark abyss OF air.
The way was strange, the fight was long. ot
last the angels came
Where swung the lost and neither world rod
wrapped in rayless flame
There Pity. shuddering, wept; but Love, with
faith too strong Tor fears,
Took heart from Gods almiohtiuess and
smiled smile OF cheer.
And 10! the tear of Pity quenched the fame
whereon it fell,
And, with the sunshine of that smile hope
Two unveiled faces full of JOY looked upward
Four white wings folded at the feet of him
who sat thereon
And deeper than the sound of seas. more soft
than falling flake
Amidst the hush of wind and storm the Voice
Eternal spake:
Welcome. my angels, ye have brought a
holier joy to heaven
Henceforth its sweetest songs shall he +ba
song OF sins forgiven -
-John G. Whittier.
The record-union., 1891-07-11

Fares only thirty cents, and anyhow
I'll get you a pass
The record-union., 1891-07-11
TIE BnEAKING or THE COLT.

Yes, boys viii be boys ana there's no use in
We must handle them gently, or get them to
They are, just like colt one is trying to
break;
The simplest means are the means that we
take.
We discard altogether the use of the whip.
But have them well harnessed from head to
the hip.
We havca good bit fixed in a strong bride:
With this he's checked up to a hook in The
A stout pair of lines taen pass through two
At his sides and connect with a strong pair of
hands.
And these hands are controlled by much
That don't have tor It's motto, "In break him
You first say, sect up!" when you want him
If yoU want him to stop, you firmly say,
# he seems disinclincd to obey your slight
Pest assured he don't understand what he has
heard.
You then proceed quickly 10 teach him their
Toward lrmness ana gentleness constantly
leaning.
He is lead a few PAGES ah 2ad in a line.
While YOU hold the lines and say, Get up
behind.
This les on a few times with most colts viii
show
That when you say. '.gatup, you want him to
Pull TIE line and say, ..Geer' to steer to the
right:
For the LETT you say, "Haw - and pull the line
But don't pull the left line and tell him to
Nor say @haw," and the right line pull, for
If you do lie viii surely get muddled up so.
lie VIII not know which way You want him to
Don't urge him forward if he must go slow.
but tell him and show him just what he must
And stick to him till he does it. with the te-
naclty OF glue.
a word kindly spoken. a reassuring caress.
VIII DO much to alleviate tie poor colts dis
For all things are new to him; he has much
to learn,
And each thing must come by it's SELF in its
He must not be crowded with too much at
once,
For fear that you may make wise colt a
Ounce.
Now there is just one more thing, more essen
tial than all,
And to it your atsaaton especially call.
10 the man or person who is doing the
Mark well the means and the methods he is
taking.
Does he whipe Does he slashe Does he fun,eq
Does he gnash?
Docs he curse? Does he rave and do other
things rash?
Does he jerk the colt back when he wants him
to go?
And whip him because he does not go slow?
Such men have no business in breaking q
colt
They should deal with their own kind-the ass
and the dolt.
'Tis indeed good maxim and very well
spoken;
That "a horse. always shows the way he was
broken"
So TO have good horse remains most with
the trainer.
Parents, act on nv words for they could not
be palmer.
Charles j. Fountain in Farm and Fireside.