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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
We Guarantee to Cure You
Or Refund Yeur Money.
COULD WE DO MOREf
ISN'T IT WORTH TRYINGP
What They All Say.

Best axle grease l ever used. My carts and bug
gies run longer than with any other. PERRY
the Wood Man.
1T does not gum and lasts longer than any
other. '-CHAS. DAVIS, Chesterfield, n. II
Will tell you what others say later Good ex-
press wagon for sale or SIS. Buggy poles from
S9up Concord buEges from $50 up The best
top buggy i'm Vermont for the money. Work
keeps coming. Thank you. D. l. GRIGGS.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
MARKET REPORTS.

BOSTON, Mass, Aug ~ The butter market
is unsettled and unsatisfactory. 1t is unsettled
because there has been a weak tendency in prices
IN other places, and unsatisfactory because il is
dlmcult 10 make sales at anything over cost
flneSl creamery, both western and northern sold
at from 3OG3l; good to choice at 23n25 cents:
winter dairy varies from 2O027 cents. according
to quality. Cheese, lO116l2lk cents per pound.
Eggs, 1901 cents per dozen.
WatertOwn Cattle Market, Aug. -.
Market Beef-A very few choice at So OOaS6 so;
extra, So 500 1913 trst quality, $50O0S5. 25 sec
ond quality, S4.5O0S475; third quality, $4,000
SAYS
Store Cattle-Working oxen, y pair. S6OdI4O
FancyCows, S5O9l75; Mich Cows and Calves SIS
Q4s; yearlings, $S00Ql6; two years old, 3l2G22
three years old, S20032.
Sheep and Lambs lots, 81 90, s. OO0s. so each
extra. a. OO05.OO, or from 2I514 cts . h. Spring
Lambs, 466Ac.
Veal Calves, 216c. p n.
Country Hides. 40 4lSc. y n. Country Tallow !
921f C. 2 n. Calf Skins. Sc. y ~; Pelts 5OGSl
each. Dairy Skins i5D30c. each,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
A HOUSEHOLD
CONUN DRUM.

MOHer.-Wha shall We do with our Johny He
is through the public schools ana has no special
aptitude for anything that can See.
Fdthcr.-Why not give him a business ,duca-
ton: IL will be- Invaluable 10 him any walk in
life Why not send for a prospectus of the Bur
dett Business aud Shorthand College, Boston,
Eleyalnr rmlramce. go Mashin.Lmn street.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26

The tobacco harvest is in progress.
L. Perham's.
Miss Amelia Hunt of Westboro, Mass
is at George Albees.
Mr. and Mrs. Webster and Miss Oracle
Chase are at Miss Ellen Wetherells.
Walter b. wilkins of Lexington, Mass,
is stopping at his sisters, Mrs. II. A.
Hannum's.
George wilkins and family of Beaufort,
S. c., are staying with his sister, Miss
Eliza wilkins.
Mrs. Rollin Ranney is repairing the in
side of her house where it took fire last
spring and come near burning up.
J.. H. Underwood is to oversee the re-
pairs on the town hall, which are to begin
as soon as help can be got to do the work.
Harry y. Dascomb supplied the pulpit
at Dummerston last Sunday, in place of
Rev. p. F. Barnard, who was detained at
home by illness.
Among the sick this week are Mrs. l. c.
Wyman and two of the guests at the Good
ridge home, while number of others are
suffering from colds and sore Threats. DR..
Pierce and others recently mentioned are
all recovering.
Walter b. wilkins of Lexington, Mass,
who has suffered great pain from gallstones,
was recently operated on at a city hospital,
and no less than 49, stones, of sizes vary
ing from pinhead to a small marble, were
removed, the surgeons pronouncing it an
unprecedented case. He is relieved of the
pain and is now recuperating at his sister s
home. Mrs. IL. \. Hannum's.
James o. Wiley, formerly of Rocking
ham, and Miss Gertrude Z. Richardson
were married last Saturday at the home OF
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. n
Banks. They left the same day fol
Chicago, where the grooms home now is
and where they will live. Westminster
gives them good wishes, but regrets to lose
another of her highly esteemed young
! ladies.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
WESTMINSTER.


We visited the busiest place in town
Wednesday-the corn canning factory
and talked a few minutes with Mr.. Baxter,
of the firm of Baxter Brothers, who started
the canning business in 1878, and now
have nine factories, this being the largest.
Everything is starting to their satisfaction.
The machinery is all new, and there was
some friction at first and little delay in
the delivery of corn, but everything is
running now like clock work There are
no lazy folks there. for the machines must
be fed from the word 60. The corn is I'M
loaded at the huskng place, where a gang
of - Italians husk it at four cents bushel.
Then it is taken to the hopper, where the
corn is scraped from the cob i'm a twink
ling As the ears slide along i'm they look
like so many white rats racing one af-
ter the other to get out of sight. From
the hopper the corn goes to the heater,
then to the filters, then to the soldering
machine. The tenders seem like a part of
the machinery as the corn comes out and
is packed up in cans at the other side of
the room. Fifteen thousand cans were put
up on Wednesday. The full capacity of
the factory is $4,000 cans a day. The
farmers get S14 ton for their corn. There
is about % per cent shrinkage for husk
and cob, which they carry back to feed to
their cattle. The season is about ten days
earlier here than in Maine, and will last
until September p. The farmers and
help will not he paid until November l.,
when the product is marketed. Thirty
three more Italians are on the way, and a
few more girls are wanted at 50 a week.
About 20 girls are now at work there. In
all there will be about 200 hands employed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
gaants.
ALL STYLES AND PRICES.

SALESMEN WANTED.-Val COM
~ mission offered Twenty dollars weekly
earned by many of our agents Samples free
p. o. Box 1871, New York.
M ANTED.-TwO horse teamsters, paw
w so per month; also man and wife man
TO drive team, wife to do homework and paw 992
per month. Address, j. c. NEWTON, Fishers
Island. y. y. X-6
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
BELLOWS FALLS.

Gov. VIM. Mckinley of Ohio will ad-
dress the people of Bellows Falls and
vicinity, at an hour and place to be an
nounoed, next Wednesday afternoon
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-26
Chamber Suits.

Have you seen our new Suits, finished in Six
tenth Century We claim them to be the best
suit We have ever had for the price. We have
sold over twenty Of them in the last two weeks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
Bees and Their Business End.

Scarcely Il summer passes in which
children are not fatally injured by
bees. y paragraph sent by the Lon
don Standards Paris correspondent
gives striking illustration of the
deadly power Of bees when assembled
in sufficient numbers. At Nantes,
Lucieu Petit, seventeen years of age,
Willie driving in Il cart drawn by a
horse and donkey, passed garden in
which there were some forty bee.
hives.
Whether from the excessive heat, or
some other callsc, the bees swarmcd
ont on the approach Of the cart, and
the Ia | just had time 10 jump down
and take refuge in the ditch full of
water when they attacked the team,
Maddcncd by tho myraid of stngs, the
poor auimals gallopcd away at a
furious rate, followed by the bees.
The donkey soon succumbcd, and the
horse survived only very short time.
The lad in the ditch witnessed that
extraordinary scene, trembling with
fear When the horse and donkey
were dead, the cloud of bees flew
back to their hives, and l4ucicn Petit,
taking courage, crept out Of the ditch
ran of to Nantes, where, it can easily
be imagined, his story was scarcely
credited.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
Quite Appropriate.

A book pcdlcr, who was wearing
small circular piece of court plaster on
his face, removed it while shaving,
few mornings since, and replaced ii
when his toilet was compIc'c.
Contrary TO his usual experience, as
he went about his business during the
rest of the day, he was everywhere
received with smiles. which grew
broader and broader, until a last
somebody laughed in his face Led
bv this TO look in the glass, he was
somewhat taken aback TO discover
that, instead of the court plaster, he
had affixed 10 his face a little round
printed label which had fallen from
the back of Il new mantcl cloci; pur-
chased the day before, aud which bore
the appropriate inscription, "War'
ranted solid brass. - Yankee Blade.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

The traveller in the uncivilized re-
giOns Of South America has 10 face
many pcrils. If he escapes the saw
agcs, who are adroit and bitter enemies;
if he can secure water and food, aud
survives the Intense heat, and believes
lis expedition has every chance OF
success, he may die within an hour
from the bite of poisonous serpent.
NJ. Thouar. in his dairy kept during
his explorations in the Pilcomayo
delta under commission from the
Argentine government, describes an
experience which prompted him TO
eternal vigilance in regard TO snakes.
He wa, lying in his hammock; the
sergeant of his guard was asleep un-
der tree close by. Suddenly he
noticed an immense serpent coilcd
abou, the scrseanrs leg, and extend
ing its head toward his bare chest.
What should he do? To wake the
maj meant certain death to him; but
how kill the creature or attract ii
away without waking him? He re-
called Il method of capturing the
cobra Of ludia.
lie prepared slipknot. BY steal
thy, almost imperceptible movements
he attracted the scrpenl's attention. 1t
turned its head. Then he leaned from
IN ok, and with a long piece
of grass tcklcd it gently Oh the throat.
II raj ed its head. He cast the moose
over it, and drew /. tight around the
reptiles neck.
1t was not Il moment too soon. The
sergeant awOke. He tainted with
fright, bat the danger was past. The
slipkuot had saved him, and q stroke
Of the sabre cut off the serpents
head.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
4 Fortunate Find.

!. \. Locke of Wayne County was
formerly an active trader. In May,
1872, he was in Chicago, and bought
n lot for a small sum. He put the
decd in an envelope and placed it in
hi, pocket with other papers. A few
days afterwards, while getting into
his buggy, lie lost the envelope and all
its contents. lie advertised for it, but
really cared only for the notes, think
ing the lot of little value. John
Ritchcy, victim of softening of the
brain, was wandering aimlcssly on the
street the day Locke lost his papers
lie found them and laid them away,
and even after his death no notice
was taken of the supposed worthless
papers. About ton days ago John
RiIchcy found the package and gave it
10 Mr., Locke, arI through his attor.
neys his claim has been established.
Had the deed remained concealed q
few days longer the twenty yeara
would have expired and 10 claim
would have been allowable. 1t is q
lot on the boulevard addition, and the
parties occupying It have given Mr..
Locke $50, 900 for q quitclaim. --rIn.
dianapolis News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

Inc mouth of the Iaqui river is only
~ mile. down the gulf from Quay
mas, Mexico, and is the place where
the ancient explorers reported having
seen oysters growing on trees. This
was doubtless true, as the oysters now
fasten themselves 10 the branches
hanging in the wafer, aud are taken
of bv The Indians aud brought TO the
city aud sold, Oysters arc the great
dish here aud may be had for most any
price. Tue Indians will bring a boat
load of about ten bushels with the
shells still on them and sell them for a
dollar in Mexican money, which is
about GO cents in our money. They
alc scarcely half as large as the Eastern
oyster, but have Il splendid flavor and
are flvoritc dish at al times of tho
year. - rSt. Louis Republic.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

The year of greatest growth in boys
is tie l7th; iu girls, the 18Th. While
girls reach full height in their l5Ib
year they acquire full weight at the
age of 20. Boys are stronger than
girls from BIRTH to tue llh year; then
girls become superior physically TO
Tho 18th year, when the tables are
again turned TO remain so. From
November to April children grow
very little aud gain no weight from
April to July they gain in height, but
lose in weight, and from July 10
November they increase greatly in
weight, but not in heisht.-[lndiana.
polls News.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

and to the general reader. To avoid
the recurrence of q similar catastrophe
the Government established a uniform
archi cciural design that will permit
the exterior walls Of masonry TO fall
without drawing with them the inte-
rlor of the building, Of which they
are independent Two houses are al
ways built together, and when the
framework is entirely finished and
solidliicd the walls are pu around The
structure. The Lisbon houses receive
the light only in front and in the rear.
In the middle is Il sort of court per-
fcctly dark.
This method of construction is at
least a partial explanation Of the uni
form appearance Of the city, TO which
the architects have found il almost inn
possible 10 give greater variety.
Though the streets Of Lisbon are COM
monplace, and its public places with
their ornaments inferior TO those of
! other great capitals, the situation OF
the city on the Tagus and it's fine back
ground Of hills give it noble aspect.
The streets on the hills seem quiet af.
ter the QMys, with their fishermen,
! hurry of business aad the noisy street
RAILROADS, of which the number is con-
siderable. On the great avenues the
shops are brilliant with their display
of foreign goOd>, and curious for the
display Of native laccs and jcwelrv.
To see the people. however, it is
necessary, as in Spain, TO visit the
bnli-lights, where all classes, massed
in great arena, present n chaos OF
movement and brilliant color. The
gaicgos with their green caps, the
fishermen with their red berets, the
peasants with broad. d.brimmcd hats and
many coIorcd garments, and the fish
women, dcckcd with great ornaments
like idols, mingled with the upper
classes. who were showily, though not
S, gaudiIy dressed. AS in spain, the
baIlligh' is the crowning sight having
seen which the stranger leaves the
country willingly, as If there was
nothing more to he scen.-[San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
HUMOROUS.

With the accountant it is always
summer time.
- .-~--. 49,. a. T. --l-i-.,- a-..-..ssa
to keep in must be constantly going
out.
SIM Pathizcr--I look run down,
old mau. Kant EIcIpit-l am. My
creditors are after ne every where.
1t isn't considered good form for
physician to tell his butcher patient
that something is the matter with hi:
liver.
"WhO won that long-distauce walk
ing maIch?" "Spriggins.' CHE did;
who was his traincr?' eli, l0-month
old baby"
Ralph-There is one Thing | notice
that every girl likes to have her finger
in. Robert-What is that? Ralph -
An engagement ring
Ere long the wind will whistle
But let us still BE- gay
For it cannot whistle comrades
Or"Tarara Boom-de-ay.
"Tnat wallpaper has Il very cold
look" said q customer 10 dealer.
"Well, you see it Is inteuded for a
fricze," was the dealers reply.
Mr.. Youngwiie-My dear. the bank
in which my money is deposited has
broken. Mrs. Y.-What mercy
you've got your chcck1ook at home.
loye!"
Lieutenant Thorpc-Were YOU pres.
cnt when Mcynell died? What were
his last words? Lieutenant Foley
lie hadn't any-his wife was with him
at the time.
"Thc mean things that are said
about women," said a very nice man
to me today, "arc just as likely to be
untrue as the nice thugs which are
said about the men,"
First Orator Everyone thought you
were very happy in your speech to-
night. Second Orator-Ah! First
Ora!or-Yes; everybody said you
loved to hear Yourself talk.
Miss Grcenlcaf--l have iHS' been
reading a book called How Men Pro-
pose. VIVA! is your opinion Oh iIlnL
subject: Miss Brownleaf-Simply
that they don't do any such thing.
Feathcrstonc-Wha hat did YOU leave
your suburban boarding place, for?
| thought your Iandlady was going 10
be like a mother 10 YOU. Ringway-
She was. She wanted NE to sleep in
a cradle.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
A Parabie.

"Who sang the song that thrilled my soul
last nighl2'
Queried the King. His courticrs bowing
low
Before the throne with gold aud gent
alight,
Answered him, musing "Sirc, we do not
know.
I'VE heard the song, 1t echoes in our
heart
The singer from our vision passed away;
We deemed him only Of his song a part
And then-it is so long since Yesterday
The singer heard, nor hearing felt regret;
What could it matter where their praise
might fall:
The song, at least, they did not quite forget.
Naught is the singer, but the song is all.
- May Lenn0X, in Independent.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
The Woes of Il Dairynlan.

"Wc get the smallest share Of the
profits from the sale of milk" far
mer Oh the New York and Northern
road said to Mail aud Expressman,
"and we have the biggcs, share of
the work. There is more injustice
done to the farmer in the sale OF mIik
than the public has any knowledge Of
Now how much do YOU suppose We
get per quart? Only two cents. There
are forty quarts in every can. The
same can nets the retail milk dealer
from ~ TO 81. The latter runs no
no risks either. I'll explain why he
doesn't. Any loss from leakage while
the milk is in transit OIL the railroad
falls upon the farmer. Last year my
lost can bill was 800. All of this
was due to the spillng of the milk in
handling. We arc only paid for what
is delivered. Milk dealers frequently
contract for more milk than they can
sell. Then they return the cans claim
ing that the milk has soured. We
cannot complain because the farmers
have no association or union like
other laboring people. know hun
dred cases, including several personal
ones, where famers have been swim
died out of several hundred dollars at
time through the failure of dealers
to pay their bits. New York NJ ii
and Express.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

A new paint, which is said 10 be
specially u.cful for the protection of
metallic surfaces, is prepared from
cotionSccd oil. A gallon of pure cot
tonsced oil is put into suitable iron
vessel and twenty pounds of melted
lead poured into it. Af,cra thorough
stirring the lead separates into glob-
ulcs, and when the oil has been poured
off after cooling, there are found to
be about seventeen of the twenty
pounds of lead remaining, the other
three pounds having been absorbed by
the oil. On the lead which has been
employed being again melted, and the
operation being repeated TO the fifth
pouring-the amount of lead being
less at each succeeding pouring-lhe
total quantity of lead absorbed is about
ten pounds. The oil thus charged
with the lead is then used as paint,
being employed in the usual manner
for metallic surfaces. - [Picayuuc,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
A Wonderful Machine.

G. NJ. Spencer, whose inventions
some time ago much simpliiied the
making Of screws, has, with A. ii.
T. ldy, President of the Eddy Electric
Company, recently invented and COM
plcicd a machine which is believed to
be as far ahead of his other inventions
us they were ahead of the old hand
machines. The new machine, says
the Hartford Comm Courant, is in
successful operation, and every test of
it las proved highly satisfactory. HUI
man ingenuity, il would seem, can
develop screw m chinery no further.
The machine will take the WIRE from
Il coil, head the screw, cut the threads,
cut of the screw from the coil and
make the slot No machine has been
invented before that will do all this
1t doe, without any additional
handling OF material what before this
present invention was always done by
two or three machines. Besides, il
separates the finished screws from the
shavings, depositing them clean and
bright in receptacle placed to re-
ceive them. All other machines have
to be fed with the Strengthened wire,
the rods being about 10 feet long.
The last two or three inches of every
rod are wasted. With this machine
tic only waste is at tho end of each
coil, two or three inches, and the coil
may be 400 or 500 feet long.
The advantage of feeding from q
coil is not only in saving Of waste,
but also in the saving of labor. Put
on Il coil Of wire. start the machine,
and it vii attend to itself. The opcr.
ator can attend to other duties if he
lkcS. and when he returns he VIII
find Il lot of completed screws, the
little machine being still at work and
attending strictly TO business.
Simplicity is the ruling feature of
this machine and the impression pro.
duccd in watching il work is tho won-
der that 10 one ever invented il be.
fore. 1t is safely covered with patents,
of course. In other machines the wire
is rcvolvod rapidly against the tools
and die. In this the wire is held in
the same position throughout the pro.
cess ""d il cnr"iod by nrn, nlr.i..t
the different Instruments, which oper.
ate upon it until the completed screw
is turned out.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
The Gun Not Needed.

A rtau doctor in northern Maine
is noted for his love of hunting, and
he is rcckoncd pretty good shot.
During an epidemic not long ago a
wclI-known lumbcyman (now dc.
crascd) had the misfortune to have
several of his men quite sick, and one
of them being in dangerous condi-
lion, the lumberman started in haste
for this doctor Now our medical
friend is sometimes quite slow in get
ting ready for his trips, and on this
occasion, after being called. he was
unusually so. Suddenly the thought
came to him that he was to go so far
into the woods he might see some
game, and stepping to the door where
the nervous lumberman was Impatient.
Iy waiting, lie inquired, "Say, don't
YOU hink | had better take my gun
aIong!' "Gun? no!' was the excited
reply, "the man will be dead enough
before you can get there .'-[Lewiston
Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

He Clasped her in his arms, and they
clung to each other little while.
Then Mat said, more steadily:
Come, Sam. Les 90 ovah Z Mex
ico-an' mcbbc we en- try m do bet
ovah thar"
And they rode forth in the bright,
free moonlight, down toward the Rio
Grandc new and better life. -
-TThe Argonaut.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
POrtugal's CAPITAL,

Tie earthquake and tidal wave that
destroyed Lisbon in 1885 gave the city
n reputation which it has since never
lost. There are few geographical
names more familiar 10 the schoolboy
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14
The Closing Year.

When chimneys no more music hold,
For that the swallows all are gone
When winds be salty, blowing cold
From sailing ships and the wet dawn;
When briers where the rose was bold,
On blackened twigs show berries sere.
Then oh, my love, and hey, my love,
The closing o. the year
When gusts die down and lanes grow still,
And the cold weather comes once more;
When stf'ening stalks begin to thrill,
And twisted boughs bud at the door;
When for some sweet space on the hill,
White as long since the thorn-bush blows,
Then oh, my love, and hey, my love,
The year is at the close.
- Lizette Woodward l.eese
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1892-12-14

Ayoung man who lost both his legs
year ago while saving a girl from
being run over at station on French
railway is about to marry the girl,
daughter Of q wealthy silk mauufac-
turer.