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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-04-04

Gayboy Have drink with me?
Hardhead- Certainly. Here's to you.
Gayboy-Ahl That's good.
Hardhead--F rate. Order anoth-
er round if you like. belong to the
Antitreating league and have promised
not to treat, bat there is nothing in the
rules about accepting treats. Order
right along, old boy. You pay, and
I'll drink. New York Weekly.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-04-04

The huge vaults of the United States
treasury are quite inadequate to with
stand the snartness Of the modern bur
glar. 1t is the faithful treasury guards
and policemen who keep the country's
money safe.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-04-04

A great prize is to be won by some-
body. Its amount is $50, 900, and it will
be paid by the Metropolitan Traction
company of New York city to the in
ventor who can devise way to make
street cars run cheaper than by the ca
BILE, without horses, without any over
head wires and without tracks or wires
anywhere that cannot be crossed with
perfect safety by one walking along the
street. The motive power is of course
expected to be electricity, either in the
storage battery or underground conduit.
The difficulty to be overcome is that of
insulation. Now, there never was yet
an obstacle that could not be overcome
or got around by the ingenuity of the
human intellect. That is what this life
is for-to overcome obstacles and gain
development thereby. 1t is certain that
the early years of the twentieth century
will see just such motive power as the
Metropolitan Street Railway company Of
New York city are after. Many compet-
itors for the $50, 900 have already applied,
and one or two individuals are sure they
have found the right thing. The offer,
however. is still open.
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What a Word VIII Do. ,

Byron reminds us that a word is
enough TO rouse mankind to mutual
slaughter. Yes, there is power in a word
Marathon, for instance, Waterloo, Get
tysburgh, Appomattox. Great battles
these, but what great battle is going
on in many sick and suffering body.
In yours, perhaps. Take courage. You
can win. Call to your aid DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t acts pow
erfully upon the liver, cleanses the sys-
tenn of all blood-taints and impurities;
cures all humOrs from common Blotck
or Eruption to the worst Scrofula, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores" Scaly or Rough
Skin, in short, all diseases caused by
bad blood. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly
heal under its benign influence. Espec-
tally potent in curing letter, Eczema,
Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes,
Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Hip
joint Disease, "White Swellings" and
Enlarged Glands.
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Legend of the Pansy.

A-pretty fable about the pansy Is cur
rent among French and German children.
The flower has five petals and five sepals.
In most pansies, especially Of the earlier
and less highly developed varieties, two Of
tho petals are plain In color, and three are
gay. The two plain petals have single
sepal, two of the gay petals have sepal
each, and the third, which is tho largest
OF all, has two sepals.
The fable is that the pansy represents a
family, consisting Of husband and wife
and four daughters, two of the latter being
stepchildren of tho wife. The plain petals
are the stepchildren, with only one chair;
tho two small, gay petals are the daugh-
tiers, with chair each, and the largo gay
petal is the wife, with two chairs
To find the father one must strip away
the petals until the stamens and pistils are
bare. They have q fanciful resemblance
to an old man, with flannel wrap about
his neck, his shoulders appraised, and his
feet in bath tub, The story is probably
ct French origin, because tho French call
tho pansy the stepmother. - Household
Magazine.
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-Four Big Successes.

Having the needed merit to more than
make good all the advertising claimed
for them, the following four remedies
have reached a phenomenal sale: DR..
Kings New Discovery, for consumption,
Coughs and Colds, each bottle guaran-
teed-Electric Bitters, the great remedy
for Liver, Stomach and Kidneys.-Buck-
LENS Arnica Salve, the best in the world,
and DR.. Kings New Life Pills, which
are perfect pill. All these remedies
are guaranteed to do just what is claim
ed for them, and the dealer whose name
is attached herewith will be glad to tell
you more of them. Sold at G. D. Glib
sons Drug Store.
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Marvellous Results,

From letter written by the Rev. J..
Gunderman of Dimondale, Mich, we
are PERMITTED to make this extract: II
have no hesitation in recommending Dr.
Kings New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvellous in the case of my
wife. While l was pastor at the Baptist
church at Rives Junction, she was
brought down with pneumonia, succeed
ing la Grippe. Terrible paroxysms of
coughing would last hours with little in
terruption, and it seemed as if she could
not survive them. A friend recommend
ed DR.. Kings New Discovery; it was
quick in its work and highly satisfac-
tory in results" Trial bottles free at
c. D. Gibson's Drug Store. Regular
size SOC. and S1.00.
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INDIAN PILGRIMAGES.
The Manner OF Travel and Procuring Pro-
visiOns-The Beggars' Paradise.

oCBbhAb h4duAbCs
These Indian pilgrimages are mostly
undertaken In the cold weather. because
the river is then shallow and slow, and
nobody gets drowned unless he is more
than usually perverse. Also when the river
Is low great tracts Of sand are dry on ell
ther side Of the water, and on these the
pilgrims can conveniently camp. Accord
ingly, each year, about the middle of De-
cember there flock to Birman fully 200,-
600 persons.
These are not all pilgrims pure and
simple because even the most religious
pilgrim requires to be fed and clothed.
He needs all manner Of tinsel trumperies
to deck his children, his wife and his gods.
Besides, he must have plenty Of sweet
meats, dreadful mawkish compounds of
butter and milk and sugar, favored with
spice-he needs these to make merry with,
when all the additions are happily over
for the year and every god has been prop
erly propltlated. Further, he wants no
end Of oil to keep his little lamps (reli-
gious and domestic) going.
1t Is curious to note how kerosene and
matches are used in the remotest Indian
village. In order to provide him with
which cannot now remember, perfect
army Of grainsellets, leather workers, wa
ter carriers, jewellers, and, in short, men
of every trade that has the remotest hope
of making anything out Of the pilgrims,
all crowd to the spot. Round the edge Of
this vast heterogeneous mass there hangs
long fringe Of beggars. At the head Of
this fringe are Brahmans. These boldly
claim and obtain charity as right. Next
come those who beg merely because that
is easier than working and less danger
Gus than stealing. After them come a
host of decrepit, blind, diseased and de-
formed folk whose dreadful sores and pit
liable malfornations earn them as good or
q better living than the ablebodied and
industrious are often able to obtain.
Last Of all come the lepers, and these
indeed are miserable objects Often have
dropped q coin into hand that was a
mere stump, all the fingers having de-
cayed away. All these are willingly fed
and supported by the pilgrims and trad
ers, for India Is q country where charity
is carried far over the verge Of imbecility.
To give to the lazy loafer or the fat Brah-
man Is quite as meritorious as to help the
sick but Industrious artisan or to add q
triding comfort to cheer the wretched lep-
or or helpless cripple. No questions are
asked. You noed but squat by the roadside
in some frequented place, spread filthy
cloth in front of you and hold out hand
to passersby to insure a maintenance for
life. Charity is not given to relieve dis
tress in Others, but to smooth the donors
path to heaven Century.
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UNOBSCURED VISION.
A-.Cheap Way to Mend Eyeglasses Under
Certain circumstances.

AsiCheap way 60 Dlenu Eyeglasses OuucE
Certain circumstances.
4 queer little incident which had some
thing of the uncanny about 1t and at the
same time q dash of the humorous oo-
CURED in the Office of prominent con-
Germ while the writer was waiting to see
the head of the house on business. A gen
tlanan of the very respectable class entered
and took seat. He wore an expensive
I air of gold trimmed speotacles, across the
right glass Of which were pasted two pieces
Of paper in the form Of an L. OF course
this attracted my attention at once, and 1
wondered what it meant, as the paper
must have entirely obscured the vision Of
the aforesaid right optic.
Presently another gentleman, an 40
q;mintance of him Of the gold spectacles,
al 80 came into the Office. He nodded a
good morning, and then, his eyes catch
ing sight of the strips Of paper on tho
glass of his friend, no asked him what on
earth they were for.
"Oh, broke my glasses" was the re-
I ~, land this is the cheapest way could
find of mendiDg them. You know times
are hard, and we have to save every cont
we can"
'That seems like false economy though, !"
responded the friend. II should think
that it would ruin your right eye, for, Of
course, you cannot see out of it with that
pasteboard over it."
''It is very true that cannot sec with
the right eye, but the paper does not harm
it. See here" and the gentleman took
eff his glasses, reached into his pocket and
took out his buttonhook. This he insert
ed deity in his right eye, gave 1t turn
and out dropped glass eye.
"You see thepaper can't hurt that, he
added, land while can't see out Of the
eye 1t does not obscure my vision"
The argument was plain, and whilo its
seemed paradox1cal my curiosity, as that
of the friend, was satisaed-St. Louis Re-
public.
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Hood Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself,
in strictly medicinal sense, in three i'm
portant particulars, viz: First, in the
combination of remedial agents used
are mixed nt tbS in the p PROCESS 'h by
which the active curative properties OF
the preparation are secured. These
three important points make Hoods
SarsaparIlla peculiar in its medicinal
merit, as it accomplishes cures hitherto
unknown.
But it is not what Hoods Sarsaparilla
does, that tells the story. What Hoods
Sarsaparilla has doue for others is rea.
son for confidence that it is the medicine
for you.
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usaItIn lime.

Catarrh starts in the nasal passages,
affecting eyes, ears and throat, and is in
fact, the great enemy of the mucous
membrane. Neglected colds in the head
almost invariably precede catarrh, caus-
ing an excessive flow of mucus, and il
the mucus discharge becomes interrupt
ed the disagreeable results of catarrh
will follow, such as bad breath severe
pain across forehead and about the eyes,
a roaring and buzzing sound in the ears
and oftentimes a very offensive dis
charge. Ely's Cream balm is the &C.
knowledged cure for these troubles.
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Hood,s pills cure all Liver Ills, BlnOusnesa
NEWSPAPER ENGLISH.
LS1sPlain, and Orators Often Use 1t to A8-
vantage.

tSISI>1ain, and Orators Often Use 1t TO Adj
vantage.
mo statesman who Is worth his salt
Stn be hampered by tradition" said Lord
Rosebery in a recent speech. And the say
Ing is n good one in itself. Traditions are
useful only when they help. They arc q
good deal worse than worthless when they
hamper.
But Lord Rosebery's saying is chiefly
remarkable as an illustration Of the fact
shat he is not hampered by the traditions
Of stilted English oratory. Worth his
SALT" is breezy colloquialism which ex-
presses in three words what could not
have been so we'll expressed In three SEN
fences of the finest oratorical English.
The fine oratorical English In which our
grandfathers delighted seems insufferably
stilted to us Of this generation. We de-
mapd plain English, and the man who
wishes to reach the largest number Of peo-
pie will use the plainest Of plain English.
The newspapers, which have hand in
nearly everything, have dono this. They
have shown the advantage of speaking In
intelligible Language. They are con-
dmned by college professors for using col
loquiahsms, vulgarisms If you please such
as this with which Lord Rosebery enforces
his meaning. But what the newspaper
tries to do is to make itself Ineligible to
the largest number of people In the short
est time and smallest space. Very often
fine English is effective, but oftener still
colloquialism will ring the bell where the
English Of Addison would not strike the
outer rim Of the target.
The orators are finding this out and con-
forming to 1t. Something is lost perhaps,
but mora is gained, for 1t means another
step away from the exclusiveness of an in
tellectual aristocraoy. Another conces-
sion to the intellectual needs Of the masses,
the despised Toms, Dicks and Harrys, over
whose heads the orators Of our classical
period fired the resonant salvos of their
heavy artillery. York World.
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e. EstabrOok.
Fitchburg Railroad,
HoOsAC TUNNEL ROUTE

ttOOSAC TUNNEL MULE.
On and after Sept 18th, 1894, trains win run ~
follows
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA. BENNINGTON & RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave Bennington &c a m, arrive Troy 8 55, q
m, New York 20 p m, Hoosick Falls 81, North
Adams SO, Greenfield II O2 a m ,Fitchourg 49,
Boston 10 p Il, INTERCHANGEABLE O3, Saratoga 9 So
Leave Bennington u 40 m. arrive Troy 2 10
New York o., Aoosick Falls 81, North Adams
46, Greenfeld6 90, Fitchburg 8 "a, Boston 1015p
m.
Leave Bennington Is p. m, arrive at Troy
25, New York As.
Leave Bennington IS p M arrive Troy s So,
pm, Hoosick Falls IA, No. Adams7 90 m,
Mechanicville 6 46, p. M, Saratoga 33p. m.
Leave Bennington II Is a. m, arrive Troy 10
New York Asa m. Leave Bennington for the
north. 10 Is, 8 90 and 05 m, 2 35, 8 10p m.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT BENNINGTON.
VIA. BENNINGTON & RUTLAND RY:
100 m, from New York, Albany and Troy.
9 32a m, from New York, Albany, Troy, Hoo
sick Falls, No. Adams, Saratoga and Mechanic
vile.
303pm, from New York. Albany, and Troy,
% from New York, Albany and Troy.
63Spm, from Albany, Troy, Hoosick Falls. No,
Adams Boston, and Saratoga Arrive at Ben
nington from the north / 20, 81 IN, 10, 40
j. R. WATSON, Gent Pass. Ag't.
C. A NIMMO Boston.
Gen1 Western Passenger Agent. Troy.
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The little town of Conway, up In Frank
lin county, has got perfect right to cele-
brate itself and feel proud, when it can
boast Of having been tho native place Of
such men as the Whitney brothers, VIII
liam G. and Henry NJ, and Marshall Field
Of Chicago. Tho great cities that have
had tho benefit Of the business capacity
and enterprise of men like these appre-
ciate the same and acknowledge the OBJ
legation they ore under to the little town.
Boston Herald.
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When the Democratic State Conven-
ton points with pride' to the acts of
Governor Flower, it should not neglect
to specify his veto of the appropriation
of S25,0 for the police investigation, in
which he denounced the Lexow Commit
tee as q "iunketing expedition
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FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.

AN OLD AND WELL TRIED REMRDY.-Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for oveI
fifty years by millions of mothers for their chill
dren while teething, with perfect success. II
soothes the child, softens the gums, allays al
pain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy fol-
Diarrhea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold by
Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty
five cents bottle. Its value is incaculable. BE
sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
and take no other.
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Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The best Salve in the world for cuts.
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains.
corns and all eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25c per box,
For sale by G. D. Gibson.
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The new tariff will increase the i'm
ports, and increased importations mean
further shipments of gold to Europe.
That is the way Secretary Carlisle pro-
poses to get rid of that hateful Republi-
can gold reserve.
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Useless Expense.

In an Exeter IN. II. } town meeting the
question of building a new fence about
the burying ground was considered. Judge
jeremiah Smith opposed it. "What is II >
need, Mr.. Moderator" said he, "of new
fence about such placer Those who are
outside of it have no desire to get In, and
those who are inside cannot get out, -
Exchange
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In Siam when boy Is IA no becomes a
man. TILL then his hair on the top of his
head Is never cut, but is kept In neat lit
tie coil. On his fourteenth birthday there
is always something of a celebration. His
head Is shaved, and he Is man.
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BENNINGTON,
SPRING, 1894
ESTABROOK'S
Granite and Marble
WORKS.
MAIN STREET, DOOR WEST Or EXPIRES
AND TOWN CLERKS OFFICES.
AND TOWN CLERKS OFFICES.

To THE CITIZENS OF BENNINGTON
AND VICNITY-I am prepared 10 furnish any
thing wanted in the line Of cemetery work at at
least 10 per cent less than you can buy the same
quality OF stock or work Of any agent or outside
party, as that is the agents commission, or it
will cost party from away If they come them
selves to sell and set the work at least 40 per
cent more than it will me- as L live here and sell
and set my own work, and receive my granite in
the rough state direct from the quarries in car
load lots at low Rates. have force of cOmpe-
tent workmen to cut polish and letter the work
here in my shop; have had four car loads Of
rough granite in the past two months; am fur
nishing 10 monuments and number of markers
and tablets from Landgon's best dark Barre
granite which are to be set before Decoration
Day Call and my stock and how 1 do my
work, and if you have work to buy give me a
chance TO figure on it. have nearly fifteen hun
bred dollars worth Of marble monuments and
tablets on hand, and will sell you any of these at
a very low figure, as 1 want the y6om for granite
work. The above are facts which will prove TO
you if you will call and see
Soliciting your patronage, l am very respect
fully yours,
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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 gavethem Castorla.
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Tired. Weak. Nervous.

Means impure blood, and overwork or
two much strain on brain and body. The
only way to cure is to feed the nerves OH
pure blood. Thousands of people certify
that the best blood purifier, the best
nerve tonic and strength builder is
Hoods Sarsaparilla. What it has done
for others it will also do you.-Hood's
Cures.
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Democratic tariff reform will
hereafter be associated with closed and
crippled factories, reduced wages, desc
late homes, riot and arson. 1t has been
costly lesson, but its effects will be
LASTING
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Senator Voorhees, confidently as
serts that the people are approaching
the new tariff in the proper way. Con
sidering the size of their club, we should
say they certainly were.
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The st. Louis bridge has a central span
of $50 feet, the side spans being 800 feet
each. 1t COST including the railroad tun
mel, 10000, 900. The Merchants bridR
is $3.50 feet long and cost SO, 100000.
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Maine and Vermont have nobly re-
sented the treacherous Democratic be-
trayal of their home markets for the ben
eft of Canada. The farmers and toilers
of New York will follow their patriotic
examples.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-09-21

-High.wages will only he restored
with the restoration of their cause.-the
embodiment of industrial protection in
National legislation.
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The King of Siam is rapidly recover
ing his health. This is the same inter-
esting person who has died so often in
recent news dispatches from the Orient.
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Vaccination.

Jennor learned that there Is fright and
q wrong way in which to insert the virus
in short, that the operation is a nice ex-
ercise Of medical art. He discovered that
certain oruptive diseases occurring at the
same time make the best virus imperative,
and he ascertained that there are many
circumstances that rapidly destroy the vi
tality of the virus when not properly cared
for. He left the fruits of all these obser-
vations embodied in q set Of rules Of pro-
cedure that nearly century Of experience
and medical advance has not improved up
on. OF course he could not foresee the
wonderful evolution in the methods of the
production OF the virus that now puts
such large and safe supply into the hands
of the practitioner.
We who TRANQUILITY enjoy the fruits Of
the great deliverance from the horrible
and universal plague Of smallpox see and
know so little Of 1t as not to be able to
form any just conception Of the monstrous
proportions Of the scourge when uncheck-
ed, The average death rate from it
throughout England was such that If ap-
piled to the present population 1t would
give 70, 900 per annum. In London alone
before 1904 the annual deaths were 2,018
In population Of 100000; in 1890, in
q population of 1000, 900, there was just
one death from smallpox. In tho year
1860 there was not death from 1t in Mas
sachusetts- Science Monthly.
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-"All run down. from weakening eff
fects of warm weather, you need good
tonic and blood purifier like Hoods Sar-
saparilla. Try it.
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Perhaps Col. Breckenridge will have
a little more respect for the verdict of
the Washington court, now that it has
been sustained on his appeal to his con
Btituents.
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nants~- = --Hso5 Weighing over
200 pounds. His figure was unwieldy, and
the rolled from side to side as he walked.
His hands were SO thick and ponderous
that people wondered how he could play
the harpsichord or organ at all. His face
was red and coarse, with q long nose
thick lower lip and full chin with a dim
pie in 1t, His eyes were prominent and
eyebrows very full. He was monstrous
eater and at times drank heavily. His
oonceit was stupendous, and he always
entertained the idea that there was no mu-
sic to be compared to his own. He was
boorish in manners, quick in temper and
when irritated would sometimes give ut
terance to robust oath in the German
language. His contemporaries said he
looked like porter.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
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Deans Rheumatic Pills absolutely cures
rheumatism and neuralgia. Entirely vegetable
Safe, 4V1
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-Advices from Kentucky indicate that
it was strict and cheerful obedience to
Mr.. Cleveland's admonition about telling
the truth that settled the political fate
of Breckenridge.