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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-01-18
In


all the garden of girls you were the
loom.
Ia like a bud that furls its heart in
umc;
blance and word and tone seemed
truth. and grace,
Bur eyes II beauty shone that glori-
J face.
Lllied through the hours and dreamed
b dream.
,ner days and budding flowers made
b eartn a-gleam;
Fom loves fountain drank, with full
ic soul,
enroll.
N days and summer flowers will soon
81 recall,
hose rnpturous love-lit hours ore buried
h hopes pail;
that soulful mask that you es.
wear.
'Tla the coquctte bask and selishnes
here.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-01-18
A Mining Opportunity Missed.

Speaking of gold eXcitementS,"
said George w Zeal in the presence
of a little social gathering in West
Park street a few evenings since,
''reminds me Of a chance | once had
to purchase a placer claim in Con-
lederate gulch. The men who owned
the bar offered il to me for 800 cash
and were anxious to sell at that figure,
but l hesitated. Finally L told them
l would have an expert examine and
test the ground and if it was what
they represented it to be 1 would
purchase it. This was, satisfactory,
and my expert made the test and re-
ported unfavorably upon it. That
settled the deal, and l went On my
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-01-18
She Wrote Too Well.

In an after-dinner talk, as report
ed by the Boston Transcript, a lady,
whose handy writing has never driven
her publisher to request the use
of a typewriter. told a most amusing
story Of what happened once, because
she wrote Il hand as finished and legi-
bic as copperplate. While she was
in England, at a friends country
house, a former maidSeryant wrote
to her hostess, requesting a written
''character." The hostess was glad
t. comply with the request, but be-
ing for the moment much engaged,
she asked her visitor to write the
'.%character' from her dictation.
About q fortnight later, we were
interrupted at an afternoon tea by
the parlOr maid, who said that sarah
the n to whom the '~character'
had been Sent-waS in the hall, in
charge of d policeman. crying bitterly
and begging to see Mrs. -, my
hostess.
We went to the hall together, and
found the girl in an agony of shame
and distress.
80 ma'am," said she, 81 applied at
Lady Graywhacke's for a situation,
hearin' as how a maid was wanted.
''lier ladyship asked for my char
actcr. and l showed her, immediate,
the one you was kind enough TO send
ne, ma'am. And sac looked at it
awhile, then she touched d bell, and
sad to the fOotman:
":Send for a plcceman at once.
says she. This girl is using IA lady's
name without her permiS,iUn,' says
she. She has hired some profe ssiOnal
clerk or accountant to write out this
paper. with Mrs. IS name in it,
says she. No lady ever wrote such
Il hand as that" says she. Only pe0-
pie who write for a living write such
a hand, says she: and that's how l
know it is a forgery
"Well. ma'am, | cried, and | stuck
to it before her and the plecceman
that you'd sent me this paper lust as
she saw it.. And at last She told the
plecceman to bring me down here, in
charge, and get your word for it,
ma'am. And o ma'am, you'll speak
for me?:"
My friend spoke for her TO such
purpose that the goOd-natured Bobby
was soon on his way to London. The
girl was cOmforted with the assur-
ance that, in addition TO the message
which the policeman "a to take,
she should have Il decisive letter, in
my friends w handwriting
(which is bad enough to be Il
Duchess" said she.
The most truly English part of the
whole queer matter is that after
Lady Graywhackc's outraged. : insult
to the poor unotfending 5irl, the
girl meekly AMI gratefully emit
into her service, and has continued
there these ten years.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-01-18
MEN OF SNEAR5DEGTH
Remarkable Escapes Since the Attempt to
Blow Up Russell; Sagc; ~ -.

Remarkable Escapes Since the Attempt TO
Blow Up Russclf$age' "a, -.
"Quitc a number of men of mil
lions have had narrow escapes from
sudden death during the past year or
So" remarked a Wall street man to Il
writer for the New York World. II
was reminded OF the fact a few DAYS
ago by the report in the newspapers
OF the narrow escape George Gould
had from a quick death by the pre-
mature discharge Of his gun while
hunting in the Adirondacks. Russell
Sage started the ball rolling by cScap-
ing the bomb of Norcross. Mr.. sage
had IL narrow escape, indeed, but not
more SO than did William X. Wander
Dilt, who barely saved himself a year
ago when his big Yacht, Alva, went
down at night. Cornelius Wander
bilt just escaped death from a train
OF cars about the same time. Then
John w. Mackay, the California DO.
nanZa king, was shot at and wound
ed by Rippey, a San Franc SEQ crank
who fancled he had been wrongcd by
the money king. c. L. Yorker, the
Chicago cable king, was in a rail-
road wreck out West shortly after
Mr.. Mackay's escape from being MUIR
dercd. A passenger sitting in front
OF MIR. Yerkes was instantly killed,
but the cattle king got out OF the
wreck without a scratch. Eddie
Gould is reported to nave had a mar
row escape from death at the hands
OF n Of the Buffalo Railroad strik-
erS a year ago while doing guard duty
with the Seventh Regiment. George
Vanderbilt vas almost drowned in
the private bath at Newport Il short
time ago. He was rescued by a
young lady. the newspapers reported.
John Jacob Aston had a narrow es-
cape aboard his yacht in a collision
in New York waters recently, and a
son OF Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., was
seriously injured while following the
hounds at Newport, his horse falling
and throwing him against d wall.
Men Of millions are lucky in other
things than making money, you see"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-01-18

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n the
y at
blue
age Of
ented
&C.
carer.
slip
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then.
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play
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dirty,
which
ntain
h re-
filthy
le an
nally
and
tered
town
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with
b this
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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-01-18

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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26
Consolidating Schools.
Questions which Suggest Themselves TO
Dummerston school Director.

Questions which suggest Themselves to
DummerstOn school Director.
The bill introduced during the present
session of the legislature by Mr. Wilder of
Nottingham, about consolidating schools,
suggests the idea that it might be well for
school directors to report their experience
in that matter. 1t may be helpful in aiding
The legislators to vote intelligently on the
subject. Four schools have been discon-
tinued in Dummcrston: seven are now in
operation. Two schools were discontinued
last year because the parents in those dis
tricts were willing to send their children to
school in an adjoining district The
number of pupils in each district was less
than six. Two schools were discontinued
this year for the same reason. the parents
being willing, except in one instance, and
the number of pupils less than six in each
district. The districts in which schools
We're discontinued this year, We're canvassed
10y the directors to ascertain what the wants
of the district were and to act accordingly.
They were willing to continue schools in
districts where there We're only six. or even
less number of pupils if it seemed best
as matter of good economy and manage
ment to do SO Nothing has been said
about discountng on the value of real es-
tate as a result of disseminating schools.
In what way can the selectmen deter
mine whether TO continue or discontinue a
school, better than the school directors.
provided they are competent men? Why
not make a law that no man shall pull
down his barns and build new without the
consent OF the selertmen?
The transportation problem is much
more difficult 10 solve than the one of dis
continuing schools. What limit shall be
fixed as walking or riding distance for
scholars: and how much shall be paid for
the service of conveying them? Prices
now being paid for conveying pupils will
amount to -. 10 If continued through the
third term Of schools. The highest price
paid per week is 50: lowest. $3.50. Put
ney has paid - per week for conveying
pupils. Chesterfield, y. H., has paid 50. i
for that service in one year: and Walpole
81 Some Of the conyeyors are not
satisfied with the prices paid and want
more; others think they are getting too
much pay, and are making more money
conveying scholars than they make in farm
ing. Some men of good judgment think
il is not worth over dollar per week to
carry pupils to school. How can the mat
ter be rightly adjusted so that all parties
will be satisfied? May be Mr.. Wilder of
Nottingham will introduce another bill to
have the transportation problem left with
! the selectmen for solution. Then there is
the teachers board. The price is advanc-
ing. How shall We keep it down? Shall
we ask the seectmen?
d. l.. MANSFIELD.
Chairman Of School Directors
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No one can choose his duties. He may
accept or reject those presented there is no
third course. He may shut his eyes and
try to persuade himself that some things
more pleasant, and not those painful, diff
cult things, are what is required Of him,
But it will be of no use. They will remain
duties just the same. If they come to him
in the order of Gods will, his only hope of
peace and true prosperity lies in manfully
performing them. He will not escape, by
fleeing, the pain or the trouble from which
he shrinks. That is inevitable to every
one who lives. But he may very easily es-
cape the consolation, the high support, the
glorious thrill Of JOY, which come only to
him who stands mlnfuly in the place al
lotted him and holds till death the post to
which he was assignel.-Ih MDrntinA.
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and came merrly back. But when he saw
what had happened he let the book fall
"There we have it," he exclaimed, sob
bling with anger and REF Didn't | say
you understood nothing about it? Just
look now! l can't collect them together
by myself. Now you will have to help
mel"
After the boy had instructed the king
how he must lift up his arms wave them
about and shout aloud, he ran off to fetch
the most distant of the strayed flock.
The king did all that was in his power,
and after great eXertions the whole flock
was at last assembled again then the boy
began to scOld the king for doing his duty
so badly, concluding with the word: "Nev-
er in my life will | trust the whip out of
my hands again. l wouldn't even ntrust
it to the king himself. if he tried to persuade
me to leave the flock
You are right my brave lad" said the
king, bursting into a loud laugh; "he I'M
derstands it no more than ! 90, for / am
the king myself"
you. You may make smpleton be
lieve that, but not me- lie exclaimed
Take your book, and make haste and 90
home. To pretend that you are the king,
after showing yourself so clumsy"
Don't be out OF temper said the good
natured king as he offered him another
form: Il will pledge my word never again
to take charge of geese
The boy thanked him, thought for lit
tie while, then said: whoever You are.
you are a good gentleman, but don't de
ceive yourself into thinking that you are a
goose herder. Remember the proverb,
Shoemaker, stick to your last -Rcpriut-
cd from Romance.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26

OF course do not mean that a man will
not produce more in week by working
seven days than by working six days. But
! very much doubt whether at the end of a
year, he will generally have produced more
by working seven days a week than by
working six days week. Therefore it Is
that We are not poorer, but richer, because
we have, through many ages. rested from
our labor one day in seven. The day is not
lost. Man, the machine of machines-the
machine compared with which all the con-
trivauces of the Watts and Arkwrghts are
worthless repairing and winding up SO
that he returns to his labors on the Mon
day with clearer intellect, with livelier
spirits, with renewed bodily vigor-Lord
MdcdUiay.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26

Wife (tearfully). "You have broken
the promise you made me"
Husband kissing herr. "Never mind,
my dear Don't cry, I'll make you anoth-
er.-Sp0rc Moments.
Teacher. "Who was it that supported
the world on his shoulders9"
Bright pupil. at was Atlas, ma am"
Teacher And who supported Atas9"
Bright pupil. THE book don't say, but
l guess his wife supported him. "-Truth.
He. you women have no right to
the ballot for the simple reason hat in case
OF a war you would not be able to fight"
She. Then why do you allow man
who is crippled to vote?"
He. "Why-er-if that isn't just like
woman to ask some such fool question as
that. '-IHdiaHGpoiiS JoTHdL
"Can l see you apart for moment?"
You mean alone, don't you?"
~ rs, a loan-that's it exactly. | want
to borrow five. '-IndidHdpoliS Journal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26
Overheard at Nom on the Lawn.

Say" said the Lawn Mower to the
Lawn-Roller, I'm as hungry as a bear
Give me a roll, won't you?'
Cant do it,, said the Roller. They re
too heavy to eat. The Rake tried to eat one
the other day, and broke two of his teeth
off short. Why don't you ask the Sickle
for pear?'
I'D rather 60 to the Axe. Idon't want
any fruit"
"What can the Axe give you?'
"A chop, of course
That's so,-didn't think of that. Ii he
fails you you might 90 down to the gar
den and get stake. By-the-way, what :
the matter between you and the Weeds ?
They tell me you cut them whenever you
pass
II do. l don't like the Weeds They
intruded themselves into a lawn party
was at last summer and spoiled the whole
thing. Did you get off to the mountains
this summer"
mo; l went down to the seashore to
see my relatives"
"Relatives? l did't know you had any
down there"
"Oh yes, the Rollers are famous all
along the Jersey coast You get away?'
mo; I've been right here. attending to
business. | didn't feel that ! could afford
to 90 off this summer. I've been pretty
poor, and had to do a good deal OF cut
ting down to pull through the hard times
as it was. hear that Hose is going to be
married.
Yes; he met one of the a Fucets at a
watering-place up here, and they got much
attached to each other. It's good match -
Il think so myself; but for lighting a
cigar l think I'd rather have parlor
match"
"Ha-ha! How cutting you are"'
"Yes-that's my business"
And then as the hired men had finished
their luncheon, the Roller and Mower had
to return to work.-Huper'S Young Peo-
pie
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TX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1894.
THOUGHTS THAT UPLIFT.
a High Purpose.

To 60 through life with high purpose
brings out the best of youth and manhood.
Money, fame, position, influence may come.
But the noble impulse to turn them all to
others good comes with them, and every
year marks the practical difference between
one whose only thought in life is Of being
successful, and one who is all the time
thinking of being useful in that station of
life to which God has called him. The
one, as a matter of habit, looks over every
body with whom he comes in contact,
wondering how far he can use him for his
own purposes. The other is trying as he
can to see how he can use himself for 9TH
ers and for mankind. The record that the
tirst-named class makes is that of self-seek-
ers. The record that the others make is
that of noble manhood.-BiShop Mich
aIy
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Keep the Henri Omen.

He who keeps his heart open to the Wis
ions which God sends to every living soul
shall find the darkness of his life illuminated
by them his doubts vanishing before them
his soul issuing into a new found liberty,
and no matter what his misfortunes, his
trials or his burdens, shall find his life in
spred by them with freshness and JOY.
And it shall come to pass that l shall pour
ont my spirit upon all flesh; and your
sons and your daughters shall prophesy A.;
your Old men shall dream dreams. your
young men shall see visions; and also up
on the servants and upon the landmarks
will pour out My spirit" saith the Lord.
Life Of ages richly poured,
Love of God unspent and free;
Flow still IN the prophet word
And tine peoples liberty
-HsU. Rodney r. JJhOHudt
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CAairman 81 ScLooL Director.
Romantic Marriages and the Prose of
Amer Life,


Marriage in the Old World is generally a
matter OF arrangement: is conducted more
or less financially, on the basis of what is
called common-sense. Marriage usually
results in the New World from personal al
tinity, from some intense form of emotion
allsm, Independent of material conditions
or tayoring circumstances. We Ameri-
cans are more romantic, connubially, than
any people under the sun. We are grad
ually growing less so as the republic ages.
but We are still inclined to consult our
feelings rather than our reason in choos-
ing mates.
Romance is an excellent thing in matri-
mony, but it may be carried too far in de-
termining the question. When it sur
wives matrimony, and is found to be a large
ingredient in its composition after wears of
continuance, it is as beautiful as it is COM
mendable. 1t is greatly enjoyed by the
married, and warmly admired by their in
Inmates. But, as a rule, the less dominant
romance is in making match, the larger
is Its influence after sobrety has set in
Young persons will seldom believe this,
however, and they have to learn it there
fore by painful experience. They declare
that they love, and love is, in their partial
opinion, sufficient warrant for any coniu-
gal enterprise, even in the face of the most
adverse fortune. Where love is, faith and
hope are, and to the three combined every
thing desired is possible, and most things
certain. They are in a state of ecstasy,
and the hard world is moulded and mellow
ed by their enraptured vision.
They obstinately refu.e to accept as true
the assurance that wedlock must depend
for its outcome on prosaic facts and figures ::
that it belongs as much to arithmetic as TO
sentiment: that love itself may not always
Withstand pinching penury and the trials
ii begets. Those who will tell them so
are pronounced doubters and cynics, and
their warnings pass like the breeze. Alas
how many couples have discovered, when
too late, what terrible prophets those
doubters and cynics have proved to be.
They would not heed when they should
have needed, and the time has passed for
regrets and contritions.
But there are always new couples as
confident and as obdurate as the old, and
there will be while the years go on. Such
couples are convinced beyond refutation
that hearts and pulses that leap together
are an earnest of the future, and solid
ground for cooperative housekeeping
HdrPer'S Bazdr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26

Christ wants infinitely more than sci
saved because of right opinions, or lost be
cause of wrong ones. Christ gave us one
rule for judging all churches and creeds
and confessions: "By their fruits we shall
know them" The best defense of Chris.
tianity is the embodiment of Christianity
in human life. The translation of the
Bible most needed is its translation into
the activities of college, business and pro.
fessional life. Truth dynamic and fruitful
is the only truth worth defending. Let us
in school and church, in the home and the
nation, set up the pillars of truth; but let
us carve them into all shapes of human
usefulness and joy.
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.OMNIIssIONERN. Nnr1cE

-, Isl ATE OF ALMON BAITOT~
II Ing Undersigned having been appointed Inv tho
non IFooate Court for the District of NIarjborn
ljs sioI ~ ; 70 receive, examine and iust an
tlls aiu demands of all persons against The a.
Sate Oh Anon Baou late of Halifax in said distrIct
DECEASED and all claims exhibited in offsat tbar,
, 49, hereby give notice that we will meet for the
Pu, P1Se aforesaid, at the dwelling house Of tbe
late Aimon Balou. on the last Saturday of Me
fr TofG ana the last Saturday of March. nexr
SAID 10 ciorH NJ until O'Clock P NJ each Of
daN Of 3et,S al,u ,u4t SIN months from the fifth
say go "a Oh October A d. 1894, is the time limited NV
claims TO us for examination and altnvSav,nl lhelr
Dated at Halifax, this nth iaT 70 ~ ~
4. d. 1884 '''' uaS OF October,
MILTON POWERS
A. l. W. SUMNER Commissioners
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26
MISCELLANY.
Indinn Summer.

These are the days when birds come back
A very few. q bird or two
To. take a backward look.
These are the days when the skies put on
The old. old sophistries Of June
A blue and gold mistake.
Oh fraud that cannot cheat the bee,
Almost thy FEASIBILITY
Induces my Eelief,
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear,
And softly through the altered air
Hurries a tmid leaf
Oh, sacrament Of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze
Permit child to join,
Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy cunsecrated bread to break,
Taste thine immortal wine.
Emily Dickinson
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26
Learn to DO Well.

Learning to do well is like learning tc
swim. You wade into the water but not
far for fear you will drown. You try &c
swim, but sink. You try again and do a
little better. You swallow good deal OF
water II gets into your ears and eyes and
nose, but you keep on splashing, and finally
can swim. So you must keep Oh doing
well until you learn how and it has become
a habit. \ habit is something which VT
have. That is what the word means, Ii
often becomes something which has us
- Christian Lcdder.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26

II is of vital Importance that it should be I'M
derstood by persons whose kidneys are inactive,
that thls condition OF things is finally nductive
of d state of the organs where life hangs in the
ia ance Brights disease, diabetes, albumuuria
are ali diseases of a very obstinate character IN
their mature stage, az d all have fatal tendency
Ihty often battle the most practsed medical
sklli, ana The most approved remedies of materia
medica. But opposed at the outset-that is TO
say, when the kidneys begin 10 discharge their
functions iuactively-with Hostetters Stomach
Blters, the dangerous tendency is checked.
Very useful, also, is this household medicine for
those ailments OF common occurrence cOustipa-
uon' blhousness dyspepsia and nervousness 1t
Is a safeguard against malaria ana averts chronic
rhtum atlsm.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-10-26
The Liz Of All ntIiginn.

\ spontaneous, glad, willing spirit of love
and reverence, of trust and devotion-this
is the life of all religion, as it is every
where the life of all noble sentiments. of
all worthy action, as it constitutes the
sacreduess of the child's obedience, the
glory of the patriots sacrifice, the inspira-
ton of heroism and labor like that of Paul
mot counting the cost.-Dr. Chnpin.
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