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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
DEATHS.

I'm Brattleboro, Feb. o. Mrs Mary a. Horton, 81
In Bratteboro, Feb 4, Sarah w. Wood, 50
In Bratteboro, Feb. &, Jane d. Barber, &C.
In Brattlehoro, Feb. H. Robert H., son Of
Horace H and Emma F. Hail. years.
In Bratteboro, Feb (, Rev. Baxter Burrows, 81
In Plainheld, Feb. Q, Rev. Alison Scott I6
In Halifax, Feb s. Mrs. Polly kingsley, 80.
In Chester, Feb ?, Mrs. II. J. Kendall of Bond
Vile
In Creston. H., Jan 23 Mrs Mary CHoward)
Allbee Goa native of Londonderry.
In East Jamaica, Jan. r. Mrs Lucy Allen, ~
years 8 months, 10 days.
In Vernon, Feb. g. Edwin b. Brown, 7b
In Dummerston, Feb. s, suddenly Mrs Charlotte
X Ballou 81.
I'm Fitchburg, Mass, Nov 20 Maria p. Goode.
nough wife of Silas Hutchinson, ia native Of
Brattleboro.
In North Springfield, Feb. II Elliot Howe, about
80
In Chester, Feb :, Albert F. Baldwin, a.
In North Charestown, \. II" Feb 3 John II.
Locke, "a years 10 months.
Willy. ,,....
In Townshend Feb. II, Mrs, Roxana H. Martin
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
People Wonder
How il is Done.

But it is fact that we are sell
ing at $l.9S a mems genuine cork
sole calf shoe which cost the man
ufacturerS $50 and is sold by re-
taiIers for $3.50. We have left
only llS pairs and they are NOV
ing fast. We can give you any
size of lace and congress, plain
or cap toes. They are warranted
in every part.
Lot Sheepskin mOccaSins, sizes
from to 6 at ST., worth 81 80.
Lot mems black, red or grey
pontiac leggins at IS cents; reg
ular price 81 and $l.25.
Lot ladies' velvet slippers at 79
cents; worth 81 TO 1925.
Lot mems velvet slippers at 80
cents; regular $l.25 to $l.75
goods.
Lot misses fine dOngOla button
boots, heel and spring heel, at
81. 80, marked down from 50.
All sizes and widths ladies' don
COLA opera and common sense
button boots at $l.37; usually
sold for $1.75 to 50.
All sizes and widths ladies' DON
COLA opera and common sense
button boots, patent tips at 81 .4S,
well worth 50.
Bargains in misses and chill
dren's slippers.
You can save money by pur-
chasing now and money saved is
better than money earned.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
RucI,Ien,. Arnion nnIve.

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
Sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever Sores letter chap
ped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions
and positively cures piles or no pay required. 1t
is to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
f. IL. Holden & Co.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
WHAT MADE A RAILROAD TRAIN
BREAK DOWN.

From the New York sport, Music and Drama y
What might have been a serious accident
happened recently on the New York, New
Haven d Hartford railroad.
On the train which leaves Boston every
afternoon at four o'clock were three we'll
known members of the music trade-Com-
modore VESSEL, John Haines and Col.
Julius j. Estey.
These gentlemen met in the smoker and
entered into a very interesting discussion
on music trade matters,
Commodore VESSEL gave a thrilling ac-
count of his battle for the benefit of the
music trade in espousing the cause of pro
lection at Washington, and how, in spite of
numerous intrigues, he achieved his victo-
ries.
John Hanes expressed his views, in his
usual decided and intelligent manner, on
associations, combines and the future of
the trade.
Col Julius j. Estey delivered an Grafton
on Fuller and pitch, with few hints about
the merits of the Estey piano.
The arguments OF the three gentlemen
became at last so weighty and the discus
sion so exciting, that the train suddenly
came to a stop and the engineer sent the
conductor to find out who was using up all
the steam, saying that unless the people in
the smoker ceased the train couldn't 90 on.
Commodore VESSEL, with that instinct
tive genius which always enables him to
take care of every emergency, Immediately
undertook to arrange matters.
But it seems that again the discussions
in the smoker became all tangled up, as
after three more stoppages John Haines
was compelled to get out of the train at
155th street and walk home, while the Com
modore and Colonel did not reach New
York till early morn.
The truth of this episode is vouched fol
by Commodore VESSEL, who related the
story to his friends at Grote's Wine Palace
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
REMOVAL.

DR D. W. JONES has removed to 2s6 Claren.
IL don street, near Copely square, where he
will continue the special treatment of Piles, Fis-
tula and all diseases of the rectum, after methods
Practiced by him for the past 10 years. ONCE
hours, o A. NJ, tolP,M, Boston, Sept. 1881.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
Hoods SarsapariIIa

have taken it now pretty regularly for
ten years and have no more pain and
can get around all right. have
advised a good many to try Hoods Sar-
saparilla." r. D. WHEELER, Deputy
Sheriff Winoosh Falls, VT.
Hoods Pills Cure Liver Ills
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
BASE BALL.

j. j. O'Neill has been in Northampton,
Holyoke and Westfield the past week.
The outlook at Northampton is a great
deal brighter than last week. Mr. Feiker,
the hustling manager of 1890, has again
taken hold and Northampton will once
more be well represented on the diamond,
Westfield and Holyoke will be dropped, as
spirit for the national game does not
exist in these cities. Bellows Falls, which
has always been to the front in base ball.
Springfield, Northampton, BrattlebOrO and
Bellows Falls will, therefore, comprise the
Connecticut Valley league.
"WOody' is at Amherst college coaching
the pitchers, and is at the same time get
ting into condition for the seasons work.
Cobb, the Harvard catcher who was with
the Boston Athletic association nine last
season, has been in town this week and is
desirious of playing with Brattleboro next
season.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
Births.
Marrta0fS.

In Chesterfield Factory, y. H., Feb 10, Albert
A. Hubbard and Miss Hattie f. Scott.
In Townshend, Feb II, by Rev G. II. smith
assisted by Rev. G.. ID. r Meacham, CharltS W
Cutler and Anna NJ Howard.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12

A THE expense of the plsmbers have not
IA been as numerous as usual this winter
Probably on account of the Grip Well, l always
have enough work Sometimes looks as though
l should get caught up, but never do. Am sell
ing lots of piping nowadays.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
DON'T YOU TELL.

7 WILL TELL YOU quietly that we expect to
i offer some bargains to those who call for
wheeled vehicles soon. We are busy making,
mending, shoeing and painting. Call in when
handy. We like to see good looking folks about
us. ID. l.. GRIGGS.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
sciatic Rheumatism

for if ever a man suffers with anything
in this world it is with that awful dis
ease. 1t seems to me as if all other
physical suffering were compressed into
that one. took about everything man
ever tried for it but never got dollars
worth of help until began taking
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
HOLDEN g. MARTIN.
All Phoenix Clubbing Rates
ARE STILL IN FORCE.

The Manchester Mirror and Farmer in Connec-
tion with The Phoenix, only 30 cents year.
The Boston Weekly Journal, New York Weekly
cents each
The Boston Daily Journal, only $3.50.
The New York Daily Press, only SI.SO.
The Household and the Albany Weekly Jour
nal only 40 cents, or Sa.26 for the three pa
pers,
These rates are to advance-paying Phoenix sub
scribers, and are the best clubbing rates ever Of
fered. Address THE PHOENIX,
Brattleboro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12

Wh,u ae bought the Brooks House Shoe
Slurt. We found good many pairs Of shoes
III stock that We did not want Not that
there was anything the matter with them,
for they were kinds that had long been sold
IN Brattl, boio. only We knew We could buy
better to sell for the same money.
These with an accumulation Of shop-worn
goods constitute our burden.
We are going to unload.
With how little care may be seen by a com
parison of the prices quoted below, though
the list /, not complete
Remember, these are not worth
less goods bought for almost moth
ing TO sell cheap with cry of "Big
Bargains" or "TremendOus Sacri-
hce," but are regular lines that were
in the store when we took posses
sion.
We price them below cost TO sell
them quick and make room for the
goods intended TO replace them,
now here and waiting to he unpack-
ed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
DRY. DRY. DRY,
DRY WOOD WANTED,

I BUY TO SELL. l sell that | may buy To
i buy and sell one must have something TO buy
with. / merely speak of this because the 10Th is
almost here and thought whoever else you skip
ped, perhaps you would pay GEO S, PERRY.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
$1,000 a Bottle

l should still Keep using it, as have
for the past ten years. With me the
question as to whether life is worth
living depends upon whether can get
Hoods Sarsaparilla. | don't think
could live without it now. certainly
should not wish to, and suffer as | used
to. For over ten years suffered the
horrors of the damned with
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
AGENCY.

A Policy in any one of the above Com
panies is a sure indemnity against loss,
CUDWORTH & CHILDS,
AGEN rs,
BRATTLEBORO, VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12

Sarsaparilla

1t would be difficult TO find man
better known in the vicinity of Burling-
ton, VT, than Mr.. II. d. Wheeler of
Winoosk Falls, the efficient Deputy
Sheriff of Burlington county. He says
&C. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass:
Dear Sirs If Hoods Sarsaparilla cost
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
A STEER INA GROCERY.

A wild steer wrecked grocery and
dwelling in Williamsburg, n. Y, the
other afternoon. After being I'M
loaded from vessel at South Ninth
street wharf he trotted into Terence
Frees store near by. Once inside, the
and plunged wildly about in its efforts
to get out. The terrified proprietor
lost no time in escaping by back
door The steer tried to follow him,
but got into the family apartments
behind the store and wrecked the
furniture, having previously upset
the canned goods and sugar barrels.
Some cattlemen finally got the
steer outside, when he at once became
calm and went back to his herd as
docile as a lamb
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
MILK AND EGGS.

There is in the city of Pittsburg,
Pa, quite a big bakery. There is
nothing remarkable in this fact of
itself, for other cities have big
bakeries. The particular establish
ment in question, however, took
pains last year to make a record OF
the materials used during the twelve
months, and some of the figures
presented are quite remarkable
in magnitude. For instance, in the
item of eggs alone, 1885, 900 were
required to meet the demands-a
number which would quite appal
the most industrious old ''biddie"
that ever cackled in triumph over her
latest and freshest production. In
the department of fine cake this
bakery used over five tons of the
highest grade creamery butter with
in four months. 1t also consumed
the entire milk and cream product
ion of the largest herd of thorough
bred Holstein COWS in the state,
that of the Clover Crest Dairy
Farm in Washington county.-[Good
HOUSEKEEPING
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

An Ohio school teacher will spend her
summer vacation in an original way
From Yellow Springs, O., where she
lives, she will travel upon bicycle to
Davenport, la. The trip will require
twenty-five days, and the plucky young
womans gain in mental, muscle and
nerve power should be great. 1t IS strange
that vacation excursions of this sort are
not more common. Instead of being
crowded into stuffy summer boarding
house for weeks party of ladies and
gentlemen might have delightful vaca-
ton bicycle excursion. The way to see
the country is to travel leisurely through
it, looking at nature and objects of in
terest at first hand, not through the win
dow of a flying car. History, botany,
geology and biology might be studied
thus in the true way-the way that
Agassiz advocated.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

noise of exploding powder would fright
en- away the animals he most wished to
get. But the spring gun will noiseless-
ly drive into the creatures brain Lol-
low steel arrow, containing fifteen drops
of prussic acid. Death will be painless
and almost instantaneous.
Thus equipped, Mr.. Garner will have
there study his favorite science of
monkey and ape talk. While he him
self is properly insulated by rubber
blankets inside of his cage, its electrical
wire meshes will repel outside attacks
at close hand. In the heart of the Afri-
can jungle he will seek to pluck the
heart out of the mystery of monkey
talk. He will listen as no man ever had
opportunity to listen before to the sounds
made by anthropoid apes in the free
wild state, unterriied and undisturbed
He believes these man monkeys have a
real language and that he can phono-
graph and translate it. For years the
idea has been present with him, and
after reading his letter in The North
American Review, one is more than half
inclined to admit that it seems a reason
able one. He says: 81 am not a fanatic
on whom the thought has suddenly
dawned, for l have persistently sought
for years for that one great secret-the
first form of speech"
For many years the professor has
studied the sounds made by the smaller
monkeys in captivity. He believes he
has made progress toward understanding
them. At any rate, he will bring back
from his African journey valuable con-
tributions to the knowledge of the Con-
go country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
Professor Garner and the Apes

The account of Professor r. L. Gar
ner's preparations for his visit to the
Congo country is itself an epitome of
the achievements of modern science.
He goes 800 miles up the Congo river,
to the region inhabited by the gorillas,
in order that in their native wilds he
may study the speech of the apes which
most resemble man in physical confor-
nation.
To protect himself from wild animals
and hostile natives, Professor Garner
has made an iron cage into which he can
lock himself securely. The cage can be
taken down and set up like tent. 1t
can be locked fast to trees, so that any
attempt to dislodge it would be vain.
The cage will contain the professors
camping outfit and supplies. 1t will
contain, besides telephone, phono-
graph, Photographic apparatus and an
electrical battery. The battery arrange
ment is the most ingenious of all. Be-
sides working monographs and tel
ephone, it will be protection more safe
than half a regiment of soldiers. Pro-
fessor Garner charges the wires of his
cage with current of 800 volts. If SER
penis crawl upon the wires, if some of
the gorillas whose friendship Mr.. Garner
seeks desire to eat him because they
love him so: if, again, any of the natives
have hostile designs on him in the cage
or seek to NEEDLE with its contents while
he is absent, the first touch upon its
electric wires will make them feel like
the civilized citizen when an electric
light wire drops upon him in the street.
Professor Garner will always carry
buckled under his arm a canteen filed
with strong ammonia water. A touch
of a metal ring upon his finger to the
nozzle of the canteen will on the instant
send terrible spray of ammonia into
the eyes of any wild beast that attacks
him. He has also chloroform to quietly
stife the life out of specimens" which
he wishes to secure without disfguring
them. If he wishes to shoot animals at
distance he will use for the purpose a
powerful spring gun. The instrument
Of death will not be bullet, for the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

The bill permitting any enlisted man
in the United States army who is I'M
married, not over thirty and of good
habits to be examined for promotion to
a second ieutenancy is a step in the
right direction. 1t will aid little to
break down that awful and idiotic bar
rier now existing between the private
soldier and his West Point officer.
Whatever tends to force it on the under
standing of West Point graduates and
their families that the private soldier of
free and Independent republic is a man
and citizen, and in so far as he has in
telligence and cultivation is every whit
as swell gentleman as his captain, will
have salutary effect on the little West
Point mind. Americans must not be
snobs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

The nest and egg of bird of para
disc CPtiloris victorie) were found on
an island on the coast of Queensland.
The nest was about ten feet from the
ground, and the bird sat quietly, al
though the party was camped about
five feet away from the tree. The nest
was somewhat loosely constructed of
broad dead leaves and green branch
lets of climbing plants and fibrous
material and lined by two large
leaves situated under pieces of dry
tendrils, which formed a springy
lining for the egg or young to rest
on.-Nature.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
Benefit of the Higher Criticism.

A worthy timber merchant an
nounced that he was relieved to find
that he need not believe literally the
various passages in the Bible which
he had often proved to be impossible.
Being pressed to name one of these
passages he mentioned the ark 1t
was, he understood, $50 feet long, &c
feet broad and 45 feet high, and was
filed with live animals He was con
WINGED, therefore, that the Israelites
could not have carried it about with
them for forty years. Mall Ga
Zotte
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
ANOTHER IDOL CRUSHED.


Hard Hearted and Unfeeling Engineer
Replies to Few Questions.
Our train was delayed by a smash
up, and as 1 came back from the
scene of the wreck I stopped a mo-
ment to look at our locomotive on the
siding. She was a magnificent piece
of mechanism, and lay there breath
ing in short, quick gasps, as engines
do, impatient of restraint and throb-
bing to be flying along the glittering
lines of steel The engineer was
hanging out of the cab.
She's beautiful, isn't she?" I re-
marked admiringly.
(Which one?" he asked, looking
after three or four lady passengers
walking on the track THAT little
one in front is a corker, only she's
most too squat"
was inexpressibly shocked.
q mean your engine" explained
hurriedly.
ooh, he said in a half tone of dis
appointment.
81 suppose you think a great deal
of her, don't your" I ventured as l
stepped nearer and laid my hand
gently on a projecting bar.
That's my business, and I don't
have time to think of anything else
while she's on the road" he re
sponded.
But don't you love to watch her
pulsating with life and to feel the
thrill of her speed as she whirls you
along?"
''Wel, l can't say that do exact
"" he said as he rubbed his head
for thought.
Don't you caress her, and humor
her, and pride yourself upon her, as
you would a woman you loved2"
mot hardly" he said with a grin.
Don't you call her sweetheart
and dear old eighty-seven,' and
things like that?"
''Of course not''-this in a tone of
disapproval.
Don't you feel toward her as if
she were HUMANE
mot that l know Of
All the poetry and tradition of the
engineer and his engine were oozing
out at every pore, but I kept on to
the bitter end.
Don't you sing to her and whistle
softly as you speed through the
night?' asked hopelessly.
II can't sing any more than
crow" he admitted.
Don't you chirrup to her in her
fight?"
Never to my knowledge. Meb-
be the fireman does. I'll ask him"
mo, no, said, putting up my
hands pleadingly. ''Don't you speak
of her as friend"
mo"
Don't cherish her as of your own
flesh and blood?"
No"
Don't talk with her and commune
with her9''
Nav, of course I don't"
The engineer was becoming uneasy
and suspicious.
Don't coddle her as a child9" I
tried once more.
NAV"
Don't care whether she runs
through herself or twists off a piston
rod or bursts a cylinder head or any
thing SO long as your wages go on
and you don't get bounced?" said in
desperation.
For the first time he began to look
natural.
''Thats about the size of it, I
guess" he said with laugh, and I
went back to my car with the rem
nants of a broken idol clutched con-
vulsively to my bosom. Free
Press
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

Talk of women not having as muck
business shrewdness as men. There are
yet living nineteen widows of Revolu-
tionary soldiers regularly drawing gov
eminent pensions. The oldest of them
is hundred, the youngest seventy-four
years old. Some of them must have
been only sixteen and the veterans who
were the fathers of this country must
have been past eighty when they were
welded, yet these shrewd bits of girls
knew enough to go in for the pensions
which were a sure thing all the rest of
their lives. They know also how to ex-
emplify the truth of the saying that pen
sionars live long
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
Changed Into Adults.

When the civil war broke out
young lads north and south forgot
their plays in their interest in ma
tional affairs. The theaters were al
most deserted in our great cities
Girls ceased to trifie over the fash
ions. The electric current of a great
thought had flashed into their lives
and made them men and women
Youths Companion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

If photography had never done any
fling else it would have paid for itself
by demonstrating to the world that
certain well defined types of facial ex-
preston are dependent upon certain rel
ative tensions of the oculo-motor mus
cles." So glad to know it, you know
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
New Advertisements.
March
May

Are the best months in which to purify your
blood. During the long, cold winter, the
blood becomes thin and impure, the body be-
comes weak and tired, the appetite may be
a reliable medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla is
peculiarly adapted to purify and enrich the
blood, to create good appetite and to over
come that tired feeling. 1t is the ideal
Spring Medicine.
1t Is a sure Thing.
So SAYS mine Host Pollard, keeper of the
hotel at Ludlow, vt Read his letter:
MY wife has used Hoods Sarsapari11a for
several years and always found it ex-
cellent remedy. AS blood purifier and gen.
eral tonic it is thing. We take to it
duck does to water. Other members of
our family have used it with good effect"
Al POLLARD, Hote1 keeper, Ludlow, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
A Snake That Bites Sheep.

The snake known as the sheep
singer is very common in South AT
RIGA, where it causes much more in
jury to sheep, dogs and other animals
than it does to man.-Quarterly Re
view
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16

1t was very near Memorial Day that
General A. Il. Streight passed over to the
comrades to whose memory he had aided
in doing honor for quarter of century.
His escape from Libby prison by burrow
ing through the earth in tunnel is one of
the two or three most thrilling and dra-
matte incidents of the war. The tunnel
was designed by another Union prisoner,
a soldier named Rose. Colonel Streight,
in spite of prison diet of corn bread
and water, was still rather stout, and
the difficulty he experienced in squeez-
ing himself through the narrow tunnel
has been told many time. The tunnel
escape is story that will bear telling
as long as the American flag waves. The
boys and girls of each generation will
enjoy hearing it as they enjoy the story
of Putnam's ride down the stone steps
at Horseneck.