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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
BARNARD, SUMNER
g. PUTNAM co.
Worcester, M ass
KID GLOVES, 69c.

KID GLOVES, 69c.
Best Trefousse glace kid
gloves sold for $I.25-price
Coo a pair. Guaranteed gloves
6 button lengths, mousquetaire
wrist; finished in pique style,
which is the style. Ten to-
date shades. All women's
sizes. Gloves sent by mail to
any address upon receipt of
price.
AT 79c,
Four-button glace gloves. Tan,
slate, beaver or brown, black
or gold, big buttons. Welt
edgings; fine embroidery. A
dollar often buys no better.
SILK MITTENS.
Eureka black silk mittens, 81
a pair. The kind and quality
no one ever purchased before
below $I.25; all sizes boxed
nicely.
UMBRELLAS.
For the holidays, and worth
$2.25. A thoroughly valuable
umbrella at s. ; honest as Abe
Lincoln, but not so homely.
Made of silk and worsted, par
agon frame, natural wood sticks
and handles of silver WAR
ranted), also handles of wood
from English and German for
ests; horn, acacia, weichsel silk
and worsted covers with each.
DRESS GOODS.
Dress patterns of serges,
cashmeres, henriettas and choic-
est novelty fabrics,
1929 AND $3.50 EACH.
Specially made for Christmas
and reduced from $3.50 and
S5.25. Priscilla cheviots-all
wool, SOC winter dress goods,
last lot to be had in New York,
now
CSC YARD.
For the holidays-39 pieces
of regular CSC dress fabrics,
will be put upon the counters
to be sold at
I5c YARD.
Double-fold dress fabrics
in de- k shades and boucle
strip 5, SO inches wide, and
sp' ,ndid value at
12I-2c YARD.
Spring sateens-in advance
the 25c styles at IL I-2c a
yard, for this week.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
Here is the greatest bargain
in handkerchiefs ever shown in
the city Of Worcester. We
firmly believe it. We are sat
ished of it.
WOMEN'S SWISS EMBROID-
Erred HANDKERCHIEFS.
1000 dozens, bought to ar
rive 10 days ago, just reached
us yesterday. They are. all
regular 81 I,2c and CSC hand
kerchiefs. We bought them of
a man afraid of-the tariff inn
porter to sell at Ioc each. It's
too late for that, too late for|
profit. Our patrons may come
and take them at
121-2c EACH.
Hundreds of handsome pat
terms, mostly all being seal
loped. Entire center counter,
S. feet long, will be devoted to
these goods. We expect, and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
SILK MITTENS.

Eureka black silk mittens, 81
a pair. The kind and quality
no one ever purchased before
below $I,25; all sizes boxed
nicely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
12 l2c EACH.
NIGHT ROBES.

Women's night dresses, Of
grand good cotton, with v
yoke, embroidered Insertions
slanting tucks, and embroiderei
cuffs with tucks,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
W0MEN'S SWISS EMBR0IDs
Erred HANDKERCHIEFS.
IL I-2c EACH.

Hundreds of handsome pat
terms, mostly all being seal
loped. Entire center counter,
S. feet long, will be devoted to
these goods. We expect, and
are prepared, for the biggest
rush on handkerchiefs ever ex-
perienced in this city. Also
same hour and same place-25o
dozens women's Jap silk en-
broidered handkerchiefs, white.
and colored, value CSC each,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
HANDKERCHIEFS.

Here is the greatest bargain
in handkerchiefs ever shown in
the city of Worcester. We
firmly believe it. We are sat-
ished of it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

at her house last week and Mr.. Davis took
her remains to New Hampshire. 80 Rev.
Mr.. Tucker, Mrs. Samuel Bemis, Mrs.
James Newton and DR. Carver are i'll with
the grip. Mrs Bemis Cameron is no better.
- w. G. Goodwin and Merrill East
man of Barre were in town, Monday night.
60 A son was born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Bohonan.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
JERSEY UNDERWEAR,

Women's Jersey ribbed .ecru vests
finished, 49c each. UNDERSTANDABLE
strongest value offered this We ~
price Toe EACH.
The evening world., 1893-12-02

But It was not of the brown hills or
of the Winter that Mary Elizabeth
thought one bright November day, as
she helped her mother clear away the
had come from King. He had sold some
land belonging 10 Mr.. Pickitt to one OF
his eastern friends and the closing sem
II think | will drive over on Monday
and bring the money"
Then followed some pleasant messages
for Mrs. Pickett ana Mary Elizabeth,
Pears like you don't care much
whether he comes or not" sGld her
father, as he noted her apparent lack Of
interest but the girl did not answer, and
said nothing Of the long, slccplcss nights
aud weary days when she had listened
always To the sound of the wheels which
would bring King back.
who had sat by III. l,rD IN sullgn silence
during the reading Of tho letter. got up,
and as h" passed Mary EliGahcth on his
way to the door she caught once more
The day before KING expected return
news came T. lhe llrm of the death Of
a ncighhpr, MIR Pickitt and his wife
were forced TO go the next day, but their
last words to Mary EiiZIbttu wcT-:
wen sure be back this afternoon" Mr..
Plckltt adding as he glanced up at the
ketch us fore we get here
As urv drove of down the hill the
girl stood at the window gazing after
In m. hut 1t was not Of their departure
that she thought. She Ill.el the stove
with wood, for she knew that the drive
from X would he long and cold and
there must be no chilly welcome await
ing King. Then she swept NJ the hearth
and among the ashes a hlackenad pa
pCr caught her eye 10 was evidently
il piece of letter which had been
thrown into the stove hut only partly
destroyed few words in coarse
hand were distinctly le-ible:
AT the CrossroaGs-gcC the cash-f
We have TO kill him." and further down
the word Jim"
That was all. hut II was enough. James
Myers had left that morning, promising
TO be back in "A few hours, but the girl
knew now that he would not.
great horror came over her as she
anu saw his name upon the black -..el
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of a letter in his pocket from the dark
eyed Eastern girl.
DO what he might he could not keep
the joy from his voice, as he said:
Eastern friends. and have come to say
gOOd-by.'
Mary Elizabeth was silent She did
not understand the gladness in his eyes
lie was going away-that much she
hand, and she stood looking at him.
Was it childish grief In her eyes or
something far deeper? King did not stop
took the slender form III his arms and
kissed the trembling lips. There was one
strange. startled, happy glance from the
brown eyes and then the girl was gone
before king could utter one word OF en-
cuse To which quick sense of shame
pramutei him.
But, after all, why should he say any
thing he thought t. himself, Ghecklng
the first impulse to follow the little figure
up the nil. She was but child and as
such could be carcssed.
And So he went away, but often dur
ing the long ride 10 x that last look
in the girls brown eyes came 10 his
mind ana troubled him. NeNei as he was
a, his own foolish fancy, he could not al
King vas young, aud with the case OF
youth gradually threw of all disturbing
rehec ions, and as he ncarci his d"stI1l-
ton there was hut one woman In his
heart. nor was there in this Image any
rescmbIance TO the simple country girl
upon the bank Of the Sac qui Parle.
But MARY Elizabeth sat long by the
window that night and looked out into
the darkness. She saw the dim outlines
OF the hills and fancied she heard AT
times the rinUle of the waters as they
fell over the stones. but there was
naught to toll her the meaning of the
strange JOY and pain that hlied her
heart The night-bird,s melancholy note
did not tell her, nor did the soft breeze
MS IL murInurCd through the grasses. but
FAR above the shining stars looked down
upon her with an infinite love and pity.
II was November. The hills were no
longer green, but touched by the breath
OF the coming Winter stretched away
brown and dry. \ slight snow had al
ready fallen. but II melted quickly, seem
ing to have come but as advance guard
of the long cold months with the blind.
Ing storms which every inhabitant OF
DakOta has learned 70 know and fear.
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band was away In the fields.
Often the mother and father had
talked of the time when Mary Elizabeth
would marry But she was now eighteen
touched by any sentiment of love, and
so they had come to think with a great
gladness in their hearts that they would
always have the girl with them.
When James Myers, coming to work
at the farm. had, after a few weeks.
offered himself, to Mary Elizabeth they
were silent and made no attempt to in
'Jim's a steady hand" said Mr. Pick
lit. smart, as a chain Of lightning. but
dqrned i6 Ike the lSof 81 IN hi ms eyes eyes ,h,s
although she would probably have heart
lily agreed with her fathers view, for
she always disiked the rough face and
sharp gray eyes OF the man.
When he found she was not to be won by
tenderness James Myers was silent. but
the girl sometimes caught glance from
his eyes that made her tremble with
The first evening passed pleasantly, for
King was touched by the lonely hard
s of anS hsSs ana Iraye Wn ms 10 kHy bnyy
little brightness into the home. To Mary
Elizabeth he spoke Du. seldom, but he
looked often at the sweet, brown race and
tlmid. dOwncast eyes Of the girl. IL must
be her eyes, he thought, that made her
face so sweet. for he had not been i'm
pressed by the face down by the river;
AS ne looked AT ncT ne was HipNtu ny
the thought that she, too. must live this
hard life-must be shut in forever by the
hills til her life should become narrow
and cramped. as her mother --ad been
before her.
And then he thought of a dark-eyed
Eastern girl. about TO take honors In n
great college, of her free, happv life In
the world. and feeling Of pIty came to
him AT the injustice Of 1t all,
The days went or anc KI1S still lin
gered, tle hunted and tshed finding the
rush and hurry OF grea; city. He
gends and stories OF the early days Of
Dakota. as he walked and rode about the
country. These. together with his impress
sons of the place, he stored up In !iis
memory, as useful matcTla. for a future
story FOR King wrote much and he saw
In the simple lie of the farmers much
that could be woven into romance.
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Mary Elizabeth told him much as they
walked over the hills, for between him
and the girl a friendly intercourse had
sprung up. She was but a child to him,
and lonely, ofttimes unhappy one; SO
ing her much Of the world from which
he had come and trying to brighten a lit
tie Mhth the sSs sadness 6s of her To-, the y Of
dream All her life she had lived here
among the fields, knowing naught else.
She had been content, for why should
she not? Her home was dear 10 her and
she could imagine nothing more beauti-
ful than the green stretches OF hills the
tiny river and the great, blue sky above
Of the thoughts in her heart II at
times. though loving her surroundings
she felt the lack Of cOmpanionshIp. the
loneliness of her life. no one knew Of II
even, this no one but King had ever
noted.
one evening they were riding home
from town, where they had gone to get
drew near the house they SAW by the
dusky light man standing IN the road.
He did not move ill they wfre almost
upon him, when he stepped meckly aside,
close to the horse. Mary Eizahcths
eyes met those Of James Myers. full Of
Il burning hatred As King passed him
he muttered "A curse. The girl was
troubled. but not for long, What did
she care for the love or dislike Of such
a man Enough for her that life was
becoming bright, that the hills grew
more beautiful and the river rippled over
the stones with softer, swectcr song.
one morning, a few weeks later, Mary
Elizabeth stood by the river trying 10
entanglc her tish-linc from n great limb
that stretched out into the stream, She
had just freed II when she heard Kings
voice behind her and turned with fush
on her face to see him coming towards
he", Very fair she looked as she stood
there by the water, the checkered light
falling so ftly upon the sweet face and
smooth brown hair. Never before had
her simple girlishness struck King as il
did now Not thought OF love did he
have for her yet he was attracted by
her simplicity and felt for her that re-
gard which one might have for pleas
ant child whose lot is hard and un-
lovely. But to-day King felt that he
loved the whole world, ana there was 4
great gladness In his face as he thought
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week, the programme will include Eu-
nice Vance, character vocalist; Frank
Bush. Harry Hastings, a comic singer:
nfel,y; Ashby and Edwards, in a comedy
ssKetch; Frank Moran, the All brothers,
Nile. Edmee l.escot, Mario and Dunham,
sherman and Morrissey, Wood and
shepard, John lie Clair and Clara Neu-
The Fercnczy Comic Opera Company.
that was received so cordially in this
country last season, will he heard at the
! irving Place Theatre, Monday night In
cIDSp Sp ogelhaWendier" os,a Wnr The cast vii in
Mathilde Otto, Carl Schulz. Leopold
Deutch, Ernst Monti--his first appear
ance In America-Carl Bartl and Herr
4 Nutmeg Match" will be the play
at the Grand Opera-House next week
In the cast win be Ralph stuart Mr..
WIson MI Mrs isra1 ni%S1m9nt Smith MILAN T.
Wade. Oscar Schoening, Josephine Lau-
rens, and Annie Buckley. The play has
some amusing features, and one big
will like
"A Flag of Truce" will be presented
at the Peoples Theatre next week.
This Is the play with the quarry scene
IN which the villain raises his axe to cut
the rope which holds n huge block Of
stone suspended over the inunmate body
OF the. hero. This is exceedingly thrill
Ing, of course. and the rest of the play,
compared with this episode sinks into
insigniticancc.
There will be a vaudeville performance
at Hermann's Theatre, Monday night
given under the direction of j. NJ. Hill.
The artists will be Mark Murphy, the
Weston brothers, Guibal and Greville,
Miss Minnie Renwood, the graceful SER
pentine dancer, and number of others
There will be twenty-five In all Mr.
Hill says that smoking and drinking will
not be allowed.
HaEenbeck's trained, animals at Tat
tersall's are wei worth seeing. The en-
tertainment opened Thanksgiving Day,
and made great hit The animals
execute marvellous feats. and are treated
tempt for their savage strength" Next
week there will be reduced prices at
certain matinees for children.
The Chevalier Cliquot, "A sensational
Fourteenth Street Museum next week.
His feat is said to have been topic of
discussion among the Boston medical
fraternity. who set 1t down as a puzzle.
The two vaudeville companies will in
clude Al Reeves Billy Payne. Vary
and Worth, the Allen sisters and others.
The Prodigal Daughter" is about to
at the American Theatre has been n
phenomenally succt ssful one. 1t ran
through the hot months OF the summer,
when mcst theatres were closed. The
thermometric unpeaSantness of the me-
tropolis did not affect 1t in the least. Nor
have the various attractions In the city
at present caused 1t any inconvenience.
The Eden Musee has Jared splendidy
during the past week. The Thanksgiv-
ing performances We're very largely at
tended, and the popularity of this de-
lightful resort has been proved once
more. The waXworks are in excellent
order, and the vaudeville entertainment
on the stage is better than ever. Next
week there will be the usual enjoyable
features.
Slivinski. the Polish pianist. will give
his third concert at the Madison Squa re
when he will play selections from the
works OF Chopin. Beethoven. Bach. Han
del, Schubert and Rubnstein. Ills last
concert will be given next Thursday af-
ternOOn.
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At The BROOKLYN THEATRES,
Nhe New City Directory at the
Park Next Week.
I" Masked Ball" Mt tho ColumbIs-
Other Attractions

,,....u,. ,,-...,,.- II, H., "a,
Russelrs Comedians will give Brook
rectory" the coming wool, Mt tho park
,r, ,r,s,.. " -
ihea're' rms most successtul OF
farco-comedes is In It's fourth sea-
,l,.,o, "a, ,,,,,t,,,,. vs.,,,. ,,a,. "a,
'"Sioh III orhliah' NorLu fhir eui-
ton. a whole budget OF new things
has been added and the old features have
peeh Pol's"eu up anu piousht .horousniy
up TO date. The company still includes
the old favorites. Dan Daily. Willis =.
s..-.,..,, 80, 49,, ,,t,,, =,
Mack, Mathiide Cottrelly, Nellie Par
ker, Kate TART, Maym Kelso. Amy
s,o,,,r, Io,.io pa,,,, ana IN, Ar,srio,,
stewart Jessie fa'ph ana 'he american
the stage after a serious Illness
,rho ,tasL,d uau" In which robr
i"e NaSAe' Dan, III "n'.n 'o"'i
Drew reappears at the Columbia next
niece. although Mr. Drew. by his cley-
p'.'e' a''"'"en VT D'."' Wy n'' .e
erness' makes his role the leading char
w. ..',.,, .,' ',, 80, Wv.
VINO witnessed the play VIII forget h"r
amusing assumption of tipsiness In the
second act. 1t was a scene which might
tasiS become o1Jvev'1hapte IL ,,'rusreu rs,ne
TO an actress lacking the aeilcate refine
i,lenu nt MiSS Aaa"s orrw i,rnrwonSs o,s
COMPANY lnc,uses Harry AIRY marwo0u,
ADAMS Auaiin NY, anu otners. x,o,, l., ,, -, A.,
topical songs .s, which GeorEs w; Monroe roe
rand T riSTe pera IN Hosc Au NEXT nrEe weeE He wii Viii
be i aSSis.sa Inh III presein'@Ins pnin @ sns p'aS Us
hiiGe Johnson, Jennie ' Dickerson' Saule
The evening world., 1893-12-02
COOPER UNION FREE LECTURES.
DR.. Welles on Gl,mpsss OF the
Worlds Fair" Tonight.

The third of the series of the Saturday
night lectures will be given this evening
in the great hall Of Cooper Union. Dr.
Charles Stuart Welles will occupy the
platform. He will deliver an interesting
talk. his subject being "Glimpses of the
Worlds Fair" profusely illustrated.
The Cooper Union lectures are free to
all comers but those who desire to at
tend should go as early after 7.15 o'clock
as possible. for the seats are soon taken
and the doors are closed at 8 o'clock.
Abram s. Hewitt is the secretary. 1t is
the aim of the management to secure
lecturers who instruct as well as enter
tain
Other dates and subjects of lectures
are as follows:
Dec Q. THE Five Musical Giants" with vocal
and instrumental illustrations, by John Towers
director OF Towers's School Of Vocal Music; Dec.
l6, Mining and Metallurgy at the Worlds Fair"
illustrated by DIR. r. W. Raymond Dec. a.
India" illustrated by Frank II. Robertson /.
Dec; 80, Japan and the Japanese illustrated.
by Mr. Robertson.
There are also free lectures on chem
istry, geology, physics and astronomy In
the lecture rooms on the fifth floor OF
Cooper Union every evening except
Saturday.
The evening world., 1893-12-02

me sun was nearing the west in an
afternoon early in June. A tiny stream
"tth the quaint name of Sac qui Par!e,"
"Hlcn had been given 1t Ions ago by
some French or Indian hunters, when the
ereeh hills echoed only to the sound OF
.he bUffalo's feet, and bstGTe ever a
human voice had broken the :ilence OF
sne place, rippled quietly between the
s'dSSy banks, now and then breaking
i"'o louder mIrmur as it ell over
sumo great stones, its waters cleaning
eht sparkling in the rays of the after
noon sun.
very sleepy was this quiet little stream,
Shl great stiffness was all about over
lNe green Dakota hills Even the tall
e'asses by the waters edge nodded
o'eepiiy in the breath OF the June day,
S' II was no wonder that the sir.ish
I''m upon the bank had yielded TO the
W'Ws!ness Of the time and place and. all
to,Be'ful Of the fishing pole, had dropped
asleep.
ihe girl was not beautiful No one
tO' moment could have fanc.ed her
some sleeping beauty of the long ago.
."arned by some strange magic upon the
o"Hk OF this little river: nor was there
a''y ming In the rough. stout calico dress
ncavy shoes which she wore u add
~ he Illusion. And yet there was some
The evening world., 1893-12-02

] have been fishing along the stream and
have wandered much further from my
companions than l thought"
There was something winning in the
eyes, and Mrs. Picktt assented so far as
to say:
There's my husband. You might ask
him"
As the stranger, laying down his pole
and basket, hastene' towards the farmer
Mary Elizabeth, who had come up in time
to hear. Kings, words, went past her
mother into the house, a slight flush upon
her face from her hurried walk.
"Of course, father will let him stay"
she said; ''he always does" but there was
no word 10 tell whether or not the little
pleasant to her. There was only a differ
ent look In the brown eyes,
When her husband came in soon after
MIS- PGkit Learned tnat 1ne yoHng fra man iba
East, but that ne had Joined 1t more on
account Of his health, which needed
Western air and change, than from any
II low he !an stay for a spell" said
the farmer, for he, too, had been i'm
pressed by the kindly manner ana friend
so characteristic of the West
AS Mary Elizabeth laid the cloth, Mrs
Plckltt set about preparing, the supper
with good-natured, somewhat stupid
looking face, from which her black hair
was drawn tightly back. In her younger
days she must have possessed some
beauty. and even now there was some,
thing pleasant about her face. one could
see that she was not ill-ndturei, though
the hard life that had been hers ever
since that far-off day when in the VII
lage church of a little Eastern town she
mad married Reuben Plck.tt might wei
have brought sharp lines to her face and
bitter words to her lips.
A kind OF duh contentment had settled
upon her, shut in for 50 many years
from the outside world. She gradually
lost ali desire or thought Of any higher,
broader life, and performed her rough
duties without a word of complaint; She
had been good wife and mother. with
ali her heart she loved the quiet, brown
haired daughter who had been the only
one OF the four children 70 grow up and
rp,,eyc the loneliness Cf the house through
the iong summer hours when her hus-
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paper. There was but one road from
k. and King could not escape. Hast
iIy seizng a hood and heavy shawl. me
pale-faced,, frightened girl ran do"h rne
hIll towards the barn, saddled morse
with trembling hands and started 10
give the warning TO, King, .,.
The wind had redouhled In vlolence
since morning. Keen and sharp, it swept
over the hills but there was no snow,
only the dark, lowering sky. The girl
did not feel the sharp blast, nor did her
practlced eye note any SIGNS Oh S'oiia i
as fast as her horse couh go. II she
could but reach him before he gained the
crossroads!
begun to fall; another and the hills were
white The air was filled with whlrl-
in%, binding mass of icy makes; Inc me
road was almost lost 10 view; only the
sure instinct of the horse Kept them
from wandering aside.
The wind came in furious basis ana
Mary Elizabeth realized, with deadly
sinking of her heart. that the first ter
If she could but keep on for another
hour she knew she would reach some OF
the scattered houses of k she cluns
with her chilled hands to the saddle, for
she had long ago ceased to guide the
So binding was the furious storm that
the girl could scarce see the head or the
animal, that. staggering on, seemed to
realize that the only nope OF safety lay
in resisting the deadly WEAKNESS which
was creeping over them
And 50 they struggled on; still the wind
hurled the great drifts of snow and swept
with its icy, deadly breath over the hills
The next morning, after the storm, as
two men tenderly lifted a womans $ rigid
body from the soft snow, gazing with
young face, King Ellison stood by the
window of the hotel IN k, looking out
at the snow covered street.
TOO bad the storm came and spoiled
our ride" he said. as he bent over
pretty girl in a large easv chair and
kissed her.
81 wanted to show you where l stayei
last Summer and have YOU see that
pretty. little girl of PIckitt's that l told
you about"
And King never knew the tragedy. OF
the simple life which was lost that day
on the Exchange.