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Grand Opening at Troy.

On Tuesday, October 9th, the popular
dry goods house, G. V. S. Quackenbush
& Company, will make their annual fall
and winter opening of the latest fashions
in all kinds of dry goods. The display
of cloaks, capes and fur trimmed gar
ments will be worth visit to see. The
garments are exceedingly attractive and
dressy, Coats are tight fitting and from
40 to A inches long in wide range of
fine rich fabrics The capes are long and
wide, and cloth materials and handsome
furs will vie with each other for popular
favor. Their dress goods are of the or.
binary run this fall and consist mostly of
rough materials, which are all the rage,
with lot of exclusive imported silk and
wool goods that cannot be got elsewhere.
In silks they will show many novelties,
including the "Broche Rainbow effects,
and they will offer great inducements
in black silks purchased at the recent
auctions in New York New laces, dress
trimmings, feather boas, lace Jokes and
fur scarfs will attract notice. Then in
all substantial goods, such as blankets,
winter hosiery, carpets, curtains, boys
clothing, fannels and heavy underwear
the assortment will be full and prices
marked to meet the times. They extend
a cordial invitation to all who read this
notice to attend. They promise to en-
terrain and interest you with their fine
exhibition on Tuesday, October 9th, at
G. V. S. Qusckenbush & Co.'s, Troy,
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Nnerer+oee Of the Encampment.


Mrs. Eliza F. Cutting, who attended
the recent National Convention OF the
Wolnens Relief Corps at Pittsburg,
Pa, has received one of the badges given
to the delegates and department officers,
bv the Citizens Executive Board of
Pittsburg. The badge, which is round,
contains on its face raised medallion
of the horse and the unicorn, surround
ed by rays of the sun. Extending part
way around from the bottom is wreath
of olive. On the pin Is the oaage OF the
Order with the monogram wv. II. O."
Across the pin is the inscription: "26th
Natl EGo' pint, Sept. 1884"
The badge is made from 12-pounder
muzzle loading cannon. The alloy was
80 per cent. copper and 10 per cent. tin.
Its weight was l, 1855 pounds and it was
cast in Springfield, Mass, in 1872. In
December 1860, this cannon, along with
a number of others that were stored in
the Allegheny Arsenal in Pittsburg, was
ordered to be shipped South. After
they were taken to the wharf to be load
ed on steamer, public excitement be-
gan to be so great that they were taken
back to the arsenal, where they remain
ed, Last November Congress, by a
unanimous vote, donated to the Citizens
Executive Committee one of these can
non, to be made into souvenir badges.
On Washington's birthday, February
22nd, 1894, this cannon was taken from
the arsenal, and later melted and work
ed into these souvenir badges. Mrs.
Cutting is one of the Vice-presidents of
the Department of Vermont. The badge
hangs on yellow satin ribbon on which
are the letters "W. r. c."
The Vermont State delegates were
presented with handsome silver badge.
1t is made in the form of a Greek cross,
in the circular centre being the coat-ot-
arms of Vermont. 1t is hung to RIB
bon on which are the letters wv. K:
c." in silver On the pin is the word
''Vermont." None but Department
Officers present received one of the first
described badges.
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LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Unless predictions are idle, some start
| ling changes will be made in most of the
various state commissions, including the
railroad commissioners and supervisors
of the insane. .H
There is likely to be some influence
brought to bear upon Gov-elect Wood
bury in regard to the appointment of
members of the State Board of Dental
Examiners Some difficulty was occas-
stoned two years ago by the admission
of younger men to this dignity, and the
strife between young and old may be in
evidence here. DR.. Thomas Mound of
Rutland and DR.. Geo. +. Cheney of st.
Johnsbnry are said to be anxious to SUI
persede DR.. George o. Webster of st. AL
bans. The general sympathy is with Dr.
Webster, as fair sample of Vermonts
enterprising young professional men.
George Edison of st. Adams is an as
pirant for the position of State GeolO-
gist and Curator of State Cabinet, and
has many requisites for the position.
1t is very probable that an application
will be made to the coming Legislature
for city charter for Montpelier. The
thickly settled part of the adjacent town
of Berlin will doubtless come into the
new corporation if Montpelier should in
deed become city. The inhabitants of
that part of Berlin are practically unan-
imous in favor of annexation, although,
il would materially increase their taxes.
There have been minors af1oat to the
effect that one or two of the Judges con-
templated retiring from the Bench, but
so far as can be learned these reports are
without foundation. The reelection of
all the Judges consequently seems as
sured.
The Office of State Superintendent of
Education is one of the most important
offices in the State. The present incum-
bent, Mason S. Stone, was elected by the
Legislature in 1892. He has made an eff
ticient Superintendent. Mr.. Stone is a
candidate for election.
There are about 100 offices and subor-
dinate positions to be filed by election
or appointment under the new Admins
tration. This includes seven officers of
the Senate and House, to be elected by
these bodies, and l6 to be appointed, in
Guiding Messengers; also 13 other State
House employees. There are IA State Of
| fees to be filled by election of the two
houses in joint assembly.
Gov. Woodbury. has some 80 appoint
ments at his disposal, not including
members of his staff. Sergeant-at-Arms
Phinney has the selection of dozen or
more State House employees, for which
| places there are usually several hundred
applicants. For the four positions of
Doorkeepers of the Senate and House,
over 40 applications have been filed up to
the present time.
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any medicine.

Hoods Pills cure all liver ills, bilious.
ness, jaundice, indigestion, sick head
ache 25c
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for Ne BANNER.
AMT, ANTHONY,

Mount Anthony dear mountain peak.
Fam would modest poetspeak
In praise of thee;
For all my lifetime at thy feet
In winters snow, and summers heat,
Thou vert to me
Zen as a shrine; bow me down
And watch to see the morning crown
Thy top with light.
Or see thy form in shadow lie
Against glowing sunset sky
Fer comes the night;
And have seen the clouds come down
And wrap thee in gsuzy gown,
| OF misty gray,
While little cloudlots came to rest
A moment Lestling on thy breast,
But would not stay.
I've seen thee when the winter SHOWS
Have wrapped thee for thy long repose,
In virgin white,
Sombre and grand, and yet I've seen
Thee clothed in robes Of living green
Vivid and bright;
And have seen thee when there came
Upon thee such glow of flame
And CLEAN of gold
That have thought no fairer view
Search all the earthly limits through
Could man behold.
know that in our fair land
Rise many mountain peaks more grand,
But dear to me
Is every curve along thy crest,
And every rock upon thy breast,
Each shrub, and trae. v
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"Now good digestion wait on appetite,

says the great Shakespeare, but he did
not have in mind coated tongue or tor
pid liver, with all the symptoms of bill
iousness, so common in this country.
All this, and more, can be cured by DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a
purely vegetable compound, which re-
stores the action of the liver, gives tone
to the tagging energies of the dyspeptic
stomach, and thus enables good diges-
ton to wait on appetite, and health on
both" By druggists.
Asthma and Hay Fever cured, by a
newly discovered treatment. Address
for pamphlet, Worlds Dispensary Medi.
cal Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Manchester.

c. B. Carleton and wife are visiting in
Londonderry.
II. L. Adams is spending his vacation
in North Adams, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Wilcox of Hoosick
Falls are spending few weeks at w. A.
Adams.
j. A. Lugene and Jackson Mofiat are
spending two weeks at Lake Bomoseen.
A. Clark Whipple is at work for ]. II.
Whipple as book-keeper.
Willie Chamberlin is at work for Hi.
ram Eggleston.
There are 62 scholars at Burr and Bur-
ton Seminary.
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Dyspepsia Cured

my wife has been great sufferer with dys-
Depsia for over four years. Three bottles of
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Written for the BANNER.
OUR TEA PARTY.

We gather round the table,
Old friends and schoolmates dear,
And told our tales Of early days
With lar gh and kindly cheer.
Till one glanced round the circle,
Signing, she said, "Ah, me,
We are no longer pretty girls,
Times ravages l see"
All, yes, we bear Times ravages,
On brow, and lip, and cheek,
We feel them in our aching hearts,
And in our spirits meek.
But though no longer "preJty girls"
We're women strong and true,
Unheeding all the mischief
Times fingers still can do.
We've found in life what amply
Compensates for the bloom
That, passing with youths spring time,
Left Wisdom in its room.
Oh, friends of happy girlhood,
We're tired, and gray and old,
And thin locks wave about the heads
That once were crowned with gold.
But our hearts are true and loving,
AS In that early day
When sorrow was a mystery,
And all the months were May.
And when our tasks are ended,
And LIES rough way all trod,
We Il tell again our stories
Upon the hills of God.
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TO SLUMP OHIO.

Congressman Powers who has been
characterized as ''Vermont's Mckinley, !"
has received two urgent invitations to 60
on the stump this fall. The Republican
State Committee of Ohio want him to
assist them in the campaign there and
the like committee of California desire
him in their State.
Judge Powers will probably accept the
invitation to go to Ohio, says the Free
Press, which is one of the greatest states
for stump speaking in the Union. He
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-10-02

received similar invitation from the
Ohio State Committee in in 1892, but
was prevented from accepting it, Judge
Powers, as Vermonters well know, is a
convincing and eloquent speaker, and
deals with live issues in pointed, ear
nest waV
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A Good Appetite

Always accompanies good health, and
an absence of appetite is an indication OF
something wrong. The universal testi-
mony given by those who have used
Hoods Sarsparilla, as to its merits in re.
storing the appetite, and as purifier of
of the blood, constitutes the strongest
recommendation that can be urged for
any medicine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-25
ne ANSWERED TIE QUESTION.
General Sheridan Explains What Is the
Matter With the Democratic Party.

General sheridan Explains What Is the
Matter With the Democratic Party.
Some years ago, while General George
A. Sheridan was addressing great an
dienee III Cleveland, man yelled out
to him, What is the matter with tho
Democratic party anyhow Sheridan
dropped the line Of argument he was
pursuing, turned toward the man and
replied as follows: What is the matter
with the Democratic party? l will tell
you, my friend Tho Democratic party
was born under planets that were in OPP
position. 1t lives in the objective case.
Like mule, it has no pride Of ancestry,
no hope of poster;ty. 1t never originates
anything. 1t always shines by borrowed
light. Democracy has never been joined
IN honest wedlock to q principle, but
lived for years III open adultery with a
harlot called slavery, lived with her till
she died of corruption and was buried
amid the sobs and groans of her para
mour.
1.-THE atmosphere that surrounds De-
mocracy is full of noxious vapors tina
breed moral pestilence and death. The
sun never shines through it, vice seeks
its shadow, and corruption grows lusty
under its mholy influence. Springs Of
purity are never found i'll Democracy.
Its waters are torpid, lifeless, covered
with the filth and scum With which
stagnant pools and waveless waters al
ways offend the eyes of men. The soil
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-25

competent to judge concerning her.
But there goes the whistle Of the Ala
media. 1t has to sound three times, and
then off for New Zealmldl We wait for
the second whistle and then start
Over the rolling pillows to the ladder of
the steamer, and up to our old place ON
the good ship, TO which we again trust
our lives. What a mystcry it must be to
all the innumerable creatures of the
dcepl We discuss some flying fish or see
once in a voyage a spouting whale, but
we never realize that wc are being dis
cussed by the inhabitants of an clement
filled with so much life that our captain
says when a. whale is wounded by its
captors it requires two men to keep off
the sharks while the captive is being
drawn iii. What, suppose you, the in
habitants Of oceanic think of this ship
floating above them, of the bow blowing
through, of the screw stirring the wave,
Of the passengers bending over tho rail-
ing! Every moment as we pass on by
day and night there arc thousands of
archaeological inquiries of What's
that!' What do the sea gulls flying
hundreds of miles from shore think of
as? What do the sharks think Of uss
What do the whales think? What does
the octopus think. We are as great
mysteries to them rs they are to us.
r. De Witt TALMAGE
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concerning tho islands of the Pacific,
declared that the only movement toward
civilization that amounted to anything
in these islands had been made by the
church; gospel, not gumpowder; life.
not death; bibles, not bullets.
The only movement that at this time
has full swing III Samoa is trade gin .
That maddens and imbrutes and has
given to Samoa the unsavory and I'M
just title of the hell of the Pacific.
The foreign gin is helped in its work
by domestic drink called 'kava II
is prepared III the following delicious
wayl There is a plant called Piper ne
thisticum, from the root Of which the
kava is made. A young Samoan woman
moved to one of the FIJI islands, but
got tired and resolved to return to her
patiye islands Before starting home
ward she saw rat, which seemed weak
and thin, eat the root of this plant,
when the rat Immediately became strong
and vigorous, and she concluded that
the best thing she could do for her ma
tive land was to take this root to her
people that it might make them strong
and vigorous too. As the root of it
made the rat strong and vigorous, why
not the same result be produced in the
human race? So she cultivated in Sa-
moa the Piper methisticum, from which
the kava is made. Girls and old men
WING have nothing else to do prepare this
kava by the following process: They
take the root and chew it until the juice
fills their month; then they discharge it
from the mouth into bowl More root
is put into the mouth and the liquid
disposed of in the sam6 way. II has be-
come popular drink. It Is ordered on
all occasions-at the opening and clos
ing of all socialities, before and after
all styles of business II is kava here
and kava there and kava everywhere,
And it Is cleaner than most Of the
drinks of other countries and has in it
no logwood strychnine or nux vomica,
but pure and simple expectoration.
| consider it as an improvement on
most strong drinks. 1t is said to be a
most delicious drunk. Almost all visit
sFs Ivy this kaya and see what it tastes
like and what are Its effects, but as I
have great faith in the testimony OF
others ! did not taste it believing all
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American Water Works Associ-
ntiOn.

The Fourteenth Annual Meeting to
'e held at Minneapolis, August Fl, ~.
md %. Rate Of one fare and a third
certificate plan. has been named for
The occasion. We beg TO call your at
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Williamsport, Pa, for one Of their
vestibule leaflets showing time Of ex-
press trains and sleeping aud parlor
car rates.
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a dainty brochure has just been Is
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THIS SENATE AND CHEAP LABOR.
Free Traders Are sun cdious In the Eyes
CT the Nation.
The following historical document is
of particular interest at this time:

OF particular interest at TINS time:
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JAN. l6, 1861.
Whereas. The traffic in lahoreis transported
from China and other eastern countries, known
as the cody trade, odious to tho people Of the
United States as inhuInan and immoral; and
Whereas, i is abhorrent to the spirit of mod
ern international law and policy. which have
| substantial ~ extirpated the African slave
trade, TO permit the establishment in its place
of a mode OF ensiaving men differing from tie
former in little else than the employment Of
fraud instead of force to make its victims cap
tive; therefore
Be it resolved, That it is the duty of this gov
eminent to give effect to the moral sentiment
of the nation through all its agencies for the
purpose of preventing the further introduction
of coolies into this hemisphere or the adjacent
islands.
Ordered, That the secretary lay the foregc-
ing resolution before the president of the United
States.
Attest: J. W. FoRNEy, Secretary.
1t is equally ''the moral sentiment Of
the nation today" that the work done
by cheap labor is "as inhuman and i'm
moral as cheap labor itself Those
members of congress who vote to reduce
our existing protective tariff and there
by permit the importation of foreig
goods made by cody and other cheap
labor to compete with goods made by
American labor-al1 members Of con
gress voting for such traffic will be
tedious to the people Of the United
States and will be ''inhuman and inn
moral, " according toa resolution passed
by the United States senate on Jan. 16,
1867.
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Paid cash for furniture and implements,
$3.50; for Office books and stationary $50;
Tor FIVE tons Of coal, S25.
Oct. so.-Rec'd cash for tuition.
$1,000 Paid cash for teachers salar.
les, slsQ; paid ianltor, $50.
Nov. lo.-Paid cash for two mos. rent,
$500; Tor repairs, $50; for teachers sal
aries, $40; for ianitor services, Si5.
Dec, so. The following is due for tu-
ition, $40; due teachers. for salaries.
sis2, ---. Paid ianitor. si5; for one
months rent, $3.50. Estimated value
of furniture. $3.50.
Note Required, fnll statement Of
condition Of The business ct It's close.
Dec. 30. iSn, also thc gain or loss.
Graded on a scale Of 20.
Tine, hour.
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ilized life. What tight boots, with
agony Of corns; what piercing of the ear
lobes for diamnna rings, what Cruelty
ion of stout waists to make them of
more moderate sizel The tattooing is
only another form Of worship at the al.
tar Of fashion--no fiinehing on the part
of the tattooed; no backing out. The
work done, he who went into the bush
boy comes out man.
As we passed along the main street Of
the island we had crowd after us with
something to sell. To buy flower or a
shell was greatly to reinforce the num-
Der of the escorting party. The men are
muscular and well formed The chill.
dren are beautiful As to the women.
every nation has it's type Of female
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aries. They will
do more for the
civilization of
Samoa than all
the guns that
ever spoke from
the sides of the
worlds navies.
The captain of
our steamer, i'll
an interesting
address a few
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-25

DR.. J. NJ. Rice has written for the
September Forum an instructive arti-
Gle on the school excursion taken by
teachers and pupils Of the Anderson
Qnd.) public schools to historic places
in Virginia the first excursion Of the
kind, with definite educational pur-
pose ever taken in the United States.
DR. Rice explains in detail the esluca-
tional value of IT.
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A Quarantine as Is q Quarantine.

The main point is this: If the De-
mocracy has never been Democratic, is ii
not now too late for it to be Democra-
cized? Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Fling Out the Banner.

The Democratic campaign banner Of
the future will have a representation d
sugar certificate, with the words,
'Our trust, !" ornamentally displayed
thereon. Boston Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-25

Envelopes. in lots Of 500 to 5000.
cheap. with your card thereon, at the
Herald Office. If