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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

Most men are willing to make any sacr-
flee for their wives except to get up and
find an extra bed covering when it turns
cold in the night.-AtchiSon Gi0Je.
A good old man used to say, with true
Christian charity, when he heard any one
loudly condemned for some fault; "Ah!
well, yes it seems very bad to me- because
that's not my way of SHINING"
"Your husband" said the caller, sym
pathizingly, twas man of many excel
lent qualities"
eyes" sighed the widow. HE was a
good man. Everybody says so. wasn't
much acquainted with him myself. He
belonged to six lodges. "-Chicdgo Tribune.
Mrs. Gruff entering street car)-'I
should think you might easily stop on the
street crossings" Conductor-"I can't
help it, ma'am; the hind end O. the car
keeps on runnin' when the front does"
Neg York Sun
Little Mabel, three years old, suddenly
burst out crying at the dinner table
"Why Mabel said her mother, "what is
the matter?' "Oh," whined Mabel, my
teef trod on my tongue
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
VERMONT VALLEY RAILROAD

I'm and after October s. 1891 trains on this road
i1.io eSSe b5attle6oro for all points North Al
Ct R Ii,lo A NJ train is mail train for Montpeler
b ~ PP a, Rutland, Burlington, Montreal and
express. anu quebec day
Pine me 6:s5 p NJ, train is mail train for Wbita
o. The 1918 p. NJ, train is an express 10 AIo,...,
ta nJhroiooS and Quebec, with sleeping cars az
treal only) ' Noundays 10 Mon
trains leave Bellows Falls for the South o,,,
ebg with the Connecticut River line ar Rrat
train foS as follows Montreal and Quebec exDTeSs
a ireii ana accommodation, $3.50 A. NJ. mali 80
S.o5 iInodaton 1902. NJ. New York day expr es
ID Al these trains make close connao,,o,. III,
sOsEOn Albany r. r. both east and Isa S!t1
j, MULLIGANSup
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
". /. HAWLEH.
lob purchase.

JOB purchase.
Closing three numbers OF a
manufacturers line ; 1o2,
ladies' White Skirts, hand
some Hamburg trimmed, 8
tucks, IS cents ; 1o1, ladies'
Night Gowns, 80 tucks, four
rows hem stitching, Hamburg
edge, IS cents ; 1911, ladies'
Night Gowns, 2S tucks, two
rows insertion, Hamburg edge
at IS cents.
SbeciaILtnen Sale-Nap-
kins, Table Damasks, Quilts,
Towels, Crashes and Diapers.
New line Pillow Shams and
White Apron Checks.
One bale heavy standard
brown cotton same weight and
count as Atlantic A, 6 IA
cents.
Lot Prints for Comfortables
at 3 cents.
Lot standard Prints, 4 cents.
The best styles in standard
Prints, 4 "a cents.
New lot Indigo Prints, 5
cents.
Lot II IL cent twilled
Dress Goods, 10 IL cents.
Lot IS cent twilled Dress
Goods, II IL cents.
Lot of 10 cent Broadway
Plaids, s cents.
These prices are made to
clear up and reduce stock be-
fore inventory Feb. I.
Every garment in my Cloak
Department is now offered at
a material reduction in price,
and very many odd garments,
OF which we have only a bro
ken assortment of sizes, will be
sold now at very much less
than actual value.
| endeavor at the end of
each season to clear up my
stock thoroughly and now is
the time when all overstoCk,
slow selling, soiled or shop
worn articles are forced out
at some price.
~ HTTZT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
The Author of the .old oal.en Bucket"

"Who is there that has not sung or read
or heard 'The Old Oaken Bucket?'" writes
George NJ Young in the New England
Magazine. MANY musical compositions
have been set TO its lines, and it has been
translated into many languages; it has gone
the rounds of the civilized world for more
than two generations And how many
know the name of the author? He was
Samuel Woodwork and was born in Scitu-
ate, Plymouth county, Mass, Jan. -,
17S5. He came to Boston and chose the
profession Of printer, binding himself to
Benjamin Russell, then editor of the Col
umbian Sentinel with whom he remained
until 1906; and while serving his appren-
ticeship he contributed poetry to the differ
ent periodicals then published in Boston.
under the signature of 'Selinp. From
Boston he went to New York, and it was
while working at his trade in the latter
city that The Old Oaken Bucket was
written. The most commonly accepted
version has it that Woodwork wrote the
poem one afternoon after he had been
drinking with some crones in Frankfort
street saloon, which was their favorte re-
sort. The liquor on this occasion was un-
usually excellent, and Woodworth seemed
inspired by it. After taking draught. he
set his glass on the table and, smacking
his lips, declared that Mallorys cau de RE
was superior to anything he had ever tasted.
NO. said Mallory, you are mistaken there
was one thing which in both our estima-
tions surpassed this in the way of drink
ing What was that? asked Woodwork
obviously The draught of pure spring
water that we used to drink from the old
oaken bucket that hung in the well, after
our return from the field on a hot day in
summer \ teardrop glistened for "A mo-
ment in Woolworth's eye. True. true"
he replied, and shortly after quilted the
place. He Immediately returned to the Of
flee, took pen, and in half an hour The
Old Oaken Bucket was ready in manu-.
script to be embamed in the memories of
succeeding generations"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
Empty Pocket Books.

WEEE GOT EN-. Big assortment at bottom
w, prices II you look at them you will INV
can't help It, When you are scr1bbing ro 0uy
LOOK az our scrub brushes spOnges and hensebnid
ammonia Tor house cleaning time is most hers
cage springs, etc. When you want 10 hu,, i es
thlnR cal and see us II we have Il 1--WE hayye
most every thing you will have no occasion to
70 turther Tor our prices are right. VIII CSYSS
BAkGAIN STORE, near Main street bridge a
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

Enpec-"A man told me a story about
woman who did not speak to her husband
for - years" Mrs. Enpec-"Indeed;
what was the natter" Enpec-"She was
dead. '-Nep York Herald.
Saidso-"What was that solution YOU
gave my wife for her eyes?' DIR. Endes-
"Chloride of sodium; why?" Saidso-
Nothing, only Mrs. Knoitall was so cock
sure il was salt '-Nelr YORK. HernLd
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
Railroads.
NEW LONDON NORTHERN RAILROAD

Trains leave Brattleboro as follows
30 A. NJ, for Springfield and New York daily
80 NJ; Tor Boston, via Belchertown and the
central Massachusetts r. r and for New T.ono
don and intermediate stations -'''
York F'"e"0'u anu New
lo;Io A ~, for Millers Falls Boston and the West
wa hoosac Tunnel line, Palmer, CONNECTING
Win Boston & Albany r. r., for and from
Springfield, Pittstield and Albany. and from ali
d, points west and New London '''
20 r. M express for Springfield and New York
80 =. M, steamboat train for New York via New
York. P'''si'eiu ana New
GOING NORTH
Trains arrive in Brattleboro.-
~ ~ A. NJ, from New London and Nav YorL
lSiSo p NJ, from Millers Falls, Hoosac TnnpaI
Boston, Fitchburg etc ''"S iunneI'
90 % p NJ, from Palmer and New London
zig zig p NJ, from Springfield Montreal exnrass
~ p. NJ, from Springfield Ga PieSs'
SSO p. NJ, from New London paI,,o, 49,,
wa wa Central Massachusetts, r. r.. "DN DoS'on
Io'lO p NJ, from Springfield and New YORK.
Neyr to,,ao. G F. SPAULDING, Supt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

VIM. Timmons, postmaster of Idaville Ind
writes: Electric Bitters has done more for me
than all other medicines combined for that bad
feeling arising from kidney and liver trouble "
John Leslie, farmer and stockman, of same place
says: II find Electric Biters to be the best kidney
and liver medicine; made me feel like a new man
j. w. Gardner, hardware merchant same town
says: Electric Btters is just the thing for a man
who is all run down and don't care whether he
lives or dies" He found new strength good ap-
petite and felt just like he had new lease on life
Only % cents bottle, at f. H. Holden & Co IS
drug store.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
You Can Rely

Upon Hoods Sarsaparlls as IA positive remedy
for every form of scrofua, salt rheum, boilS
pimples and all other diseases caused by impure
blood. It eradicates every impurity and at the
same time tones and vltalizes the whole system
Constipation, and ali troubles with the digestive
organs and the liver, are cured by Hoods Pills
Unequalled as a dinner pill
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

II you are tired taking the large oldfashioned
gripping pills and are satisfied that puTgiDg voiIr
self till you are weak and sick is not good common
sense, then try Carriers Little Liver Pills and learn
ache, constipation, and all liver troubles These
little pills are smaller easier to take and give
quicker relief than any pill in use. One a dose
Price 25 cents.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for CastoriA,
When she became Miss, she chung to CastoriA,
When she had Children, she gave them CastoriA,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
SOLID COMFORT.

WYE get solid comfort from good wood fire
w All the improvements of modern science
fail Of giving us the comfort that we find in a
good wood fire. KIndlings of good quality TO
start coal fire a comfort also. Order wood
for summer use now. When will you pay that
bills GEO IS PERRY
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia and too hearty
eating is relieved at once by taking one of Car
ter's Little Liver Pills Immediately after dinner
Don't forget this.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

For severe colds Johnson's Anodyne Eminent
surely excels any remedy we ever used
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

This midwinter reduction in prices on certain
goods NAV interest YOU. Phase notice this is not
a general reduction on all goods. VIII explain
more fully when you call.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
gave "Cordie,, a Stab.

But it is not in the senate only that DAVIS
will be opposed. He has placed his cam
paign in ST. Paul in the hands of mis- law
partner, Mr. Severance. man who is said to
be not at all fitted for work of that kind. To
Severance is laid the blame of the mistake
the Davis men have made in throwing their
support to Lee for speaker of the house. and
it may be said in this connection that this IL
perhaps the straw that will break the camel
back. if it is broken The forces of Greer
and Turreil, if they unite. could throw Davis
out OF the fight and elect any4sman they
might select. That they will do some such
thing is now the fear of some of the DAVIS
men themselves OF course it is denied that
the support of Davis had been given TO Lee,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
IMMIGRATION.

The immigration question is just now
receiving more attention from the press
of the country than any other problem
of government. There seems to be an
almost unanimous desire for reform in
this direction, and PROFESSIONALLY there
is room for much improvement in our
immigration and quarantine arrange
ments. But the danger is in geing TOO
far. Restrictions on immigration of
the better class would greatly hinder the
progress and development of our vast
Western territory.
The cramped farmers of the old world
should be encouraged to come to this
country. We need them, and they need
our broad acres. What we do not need,
and should refuse to. receive, is the
scum and riff-raff of European cities.
1t is not the quantity, but the quality of
immigration which should be looked
after. For the honest and industrious
classes we have plenty of room. For
vagabondS, thieves. anarchists and agi-
tators we should have no welcome.
What should be required of every immi-
grant is not money fee. but record
of his previous career and satisfactory
evidence of good character.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
SENATOR DAVIS.

1t is announced that Senator DAVIS
is on his way from Washington to look
after his reelection. 1t is also an
nounced in his organs that his return to
the senate lis absolutely assured"
Possibly his organs state the truth.
The GLOBE sees no reason why the Re-
publican majority IN the legislature
should notreturn MIR. DAVIS. He stands
not only as the nominee Of the party,
but as its logical candidate, even though
he were not the nominee. He stands
alongside of MCKINLEY and HARRISON
as an exponent of those cardinal prin-
ciples OF Republicanism, High Tariff
Protection and Elections I'm der Force
of Federal Bayonets.
To turn Mr.. DAVIS down and Substi-
tute Tariff Reform and Anti-Force Bill
Republican, if there seriously be any
such. would be to repudiate the present
Republican administration and the &C.
ton Of the late Republican congress.
1t would put the Republican party of
Minnesota out of line with the Repub-
lican party of the country.
There is an additional reason why
Mr.. DAVIS will probably be returned to
the senate: No other Republican of
prominence will consent to stand as a
candidate against him. There are those
who are extremely anxious to have his
place, but they are not men OF courage.
They belong to the housing class of
politicians. This class does by stealth
or corruption what manly men are brave
enough to fight openly to accomplish.
No man of this class can beat DAVIS,
for the reason that no man of this class
can receive the support of the manly
Democratic members of the legislature;
and without their votes no sche ming
Republican can scheme his way into
DAVIS seat.
The Democrats of Minnesota have re-
Gently fought clean and manly cam
paign, and they have no intention of
now defiling themselves with the filth
of a Republican doodle" crusade for
the United States senatorship.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
SENSIBLE SfR. BOEN.

Mr.. BOEN is the gentleman to whom
the chief justice referred in his brief
remark to Mir. FEIG's attorney, the other
day, that 1.-THE votes for Mr. BOEN will
all be cOunted;" which remark, short as
it was. was long enough and strong
enough to snuff out the last, lingering
hope of Mir. FEIG to sit for brief space
in a congressman's chair.
The state is to be felicitated as much
on the escape from FEIG as on the acces-
sion Of BOEN. The latter is so sensible
a man that he should be a full.fedged
Democrat. 1t is a marvel that he found
even temporary shelter in that way
side, socialIstic OtfSho0t of Republican
ism, the Peoples party, and that he did
is only accountable on the ground of his
environment.
That Mr.. BOEN is a very sensible man
is evident from his reply to the ques-
lions of the New York Herald. asking
him whether he. was in favor of an eX-
ira session OF congress, and whether he
favored repeater modification OF the
MCKINLEY act. Both of these inquiries
MIR. BoEN answered as every sensible
man who is also aneaInest one does. he
would favor an early session if it would
relieve the financial depression of the
people, and he says that his cOnSttu-
ents have twice condemned the MCKIN-
LEY act. This means that he wishes to
have that twin relic of barbarism'
wiped off the books as soon as possible.
But Mr.. BaEN goes farther in his
demonstration that he possesses good
sense. He says: "AS farmer l have
to compete with all the other farmers in
the world. and must sell my products in
an unprotected market. Therefore |
would like to buy in free trade market
those things | want" Of course he
does, and so does every other farmer
whose brain is not as pulpy as a jelly
fish. Mr.. BoEN ''SeeS the cat." and it is
encouraging that so many others are
beginning to see it through the obScura-
tons Of the home market sOphiStry. The
wage earnerS saw before the farmers
did that they, too, were selling their
prOduct-their IabOr-in free-trade
market, and are also demanding that
they be permitted to buy what they
want in a market just as free. The
traders, who usually subordinate every
thing to business, begin to see that de-
creased cost means increased consump-
ton, with greater amount of trade and
greater solvency of buyers. And so the
dawn brightens into the day when men
will see how criminal is any policy
which lays obstruction or embargoeS
across the pathway of free exchanges of
the products of labor The day is COM
ing when commercial slavery will be
laid away beside human slavery, and
people Will marvel that either were ever
endured, and to which no one would
return.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
A CHICAGO JURY.

Chicago is large city, and its citi-
ZenS, from the loWlest highwayman up
to the Hottest aldermanic bOodler, have
fine, large ideas. 1t is next to impossible
for a Chicago man to come down to
small, cramped ways and methods of
looking at life. The action of Chicago
Jury in a suit for damages the other
day will illustrate this Chicago largeness
of procedure. Not that the verdict was
large, for what was the verdict to the
jury? 1t was not the jury's funeral for
which bereaVed mother was seeking
to recover damages from negligent
corporation. 1t was only nine-year-
old child dead through the criminal
carelessneSs of this corporation: but
what was one child more or less to a
Chicago jury? The jury scorned to de-
scend to such a trivial matter, and on
retirement to the jury room the jury i'm
mediately asserted its Chicago largeness
by sending a bailift with the following
TequiSition to the honorable court:
One case export beer.
One quart McBrayer whisky.
One dozen Bass ale.
Three decks of cards.
One quart Pepper whisky.
One box Figaro cigars.
Dinner for twelve from the Sherman
house.
There was nothing small about that
jury. Those were twelve representa-
tive citizens of Chicago. But the court
was, hard up, and refused to honor the
TeQuisition; whereupon the jury straight
way came back to its benches and re-
turned verdict Of damages in the sum
of one cent.
No beer for the jury, no damages fol-
the dead child. No whisky, no verdict
That was this Chicago jIry's large way
of sizing up the case. But the painful
feature of the affair was yet to trans
pire. The hard-hearted judge immedi
ately fined the jury for contempt OF
court and dismissed it in disgrace
Wasn't that rather severe, in view of the
large and liberal and eminently Chica.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
KILLED BY MISTAKE.
Facts OF Murder Come Out
After Ten Years.

Boston, Dec. 23.-Certain facts have
come to light which tend to show that
Mrs. Harriet A. Bell, who was stabbed
to death in the doorway of her house
on Kirkland street, March Z, 1882,
was killed by sailor who mistook
her for a woman of ill-repute, who lived
few doors above, and who, with a male
companion, had robbed and thrown the
drunken sailor into fife street ear
ly in the night of the muir
der Mrs. Bell somewhat resemblcd
the other woman in form and the
dOorwayS of their residences were alike
and the sailor may have easily made
the mistake in his probably befogged
condition. 1t is supposed that the man
slept IN doorway near by and waited
to revenge himself for the way he had
been treated.
Mrs. Bell had been to the bakers and
was returning when the man crept up
close behind her and entered the door
way with her. A passer-by, who had seen
the man following MIR. Bell, heard a
scream from the doorway and
saw the sailor come out and walk down
the street. The citizen, who did not
know Mrs. Bell had been killed. pointed
the man out to two policemen, telling
them that he thought that the man had
assaulted woman, but the rolice let
him go, and Mrs. Bells murderer has
never been captured. The facts about
the robbery of the sailor come from
the man who participated in it. He
was then wanted for highway robbery
and did not dare to appear before the
police with his story, as that meant his
arrest for the old otfense with the pro-
bable addition of a charge of rObbing
the sailor. He is now in state prison.
Mrs. Bell was most respectable
woman and public interest in the murder
was intense.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
WAS ONLY ASLEEP.
Hamburg in Great Danger of Be
ing Rayaged Again by
Cholera.
The Disease Again Spreading in
Russian Provinces Along the
Austrian Border.

HAMBURG, Dec. 23.- 1t was hoped
that the cases of cholera that have oc-
cured here within the past few days
were sporadic, but indications point to
the tact that the disease which ragged
with such fearful effect last summer has
only been quiescent not killed, and the
city is in danger of another epidemic.
Today two new cases of Undoubted
Aslatic cholera have been reported. and
two of the patients, who had previously
been removed to the hospital, died. A
general feeling CT uneasiness exists,
and with the approach of warm weather
an exodus of the wealthier classes is
looked for.
VIENEA. Dec. 23.-The cholera IS in
creaSing in the province of Lu6lin, in
Russian Poland, and adjoining the Aus
trian border. The CONSERVATION caused
by the ravageS of the cholera last au-
tum iii that region had become allayed.
but is again being aroused and many of
the people are fleeing from the cholera
stricken districts.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.-The secre-
tary of state received cable message
this morning from Mr.. Estes. our new
consul at Hamburg. saying: "Bills of
health have not been clean. Two cases
today" The first paragraph of the
above message is in response to an in
quiry as to the truth of a report
that the consul had decided to issue
clean bills of health to vessels sailing
for the United States from Hamburg,
Notwithstanding the continued exist
ence of cholera in that city. The au-
thorities at Washington doubted the re-
port from the first and are now con-
vinced of its falsity.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-24
SYMPATHY FOR BLAINE.


The hearts of sixty millions of his
fellow countrymen are with him.-Bos-
ton journal.
The American people NAV we'll feel
deeply serious while such life hangs
in the balance, with the scale depressed
SO low as this.-Sprlngfeld Republican.
The nation will watch anxiously at
the bedside of the invalid. hoping even
against hope that health may yet come
back to James e. Blaine. - Utica
Herald.
Mr.. Blaine has been so prominent in
the nation during the past third of a
century that all classes of people feel a
profound interest in his condition. No
man since Henry Clay was so univer
sally admired and beloved by the peO-
ple.-Cleveland Leader.
The heart of the whole people is full of
tender sympathy for the feeble invalid
who recently was was the most con-
spicuous, self-reliant and aggressive of
the statesmen of the republic.
Ign Times.
The universally expressed anxiety
about the outcome of the struggle now
in progress in the sick chamber at
Washington shows how great is the at
lection felt by all conditions of the peO-
pie for the distinguished inyalid.-New
York PreSS