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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
Local and State.

The Blue Store sign has been var
nished anew.
G. w. Butterfield has put new soda
fountain into his restaurant.
| Mrs. Preston H. Hadley gives a
heart party this afternoon to number
of lady friends.
Two of the wagons run in connection
with Bowtell & Crosier's bakery have
been given handsome coats of paint.
A good number of local wheelmen
went to Walpole Sunday and enjoyed
the advantages of the racing track
there.
c. B. Carpenter is nursing a sprained
wrist. Alstead, the top of a house, and
the force of gravity are to blame for the
trouble.
Mrs. Lucy P. Flagg, mother of Mrs.
n. III. Pierce on School street, died on
Monday. The body was taken to Fitz-
william for interment.
Parties who claim to know say that
S. S. Washer left town owing about
$500, and that he left assets good for
$1,000 of the Indebtedness.
Two days in New York is what the
Fitchburg railroad excursion ticket will
allow. Call on ticket agent at station
for flyer giving particulars.
The five year old daughter of Mrs.
Pinney, who lives in the edge of West
minister, was severely scalded on the
breast with hot water recently.
The parishioners in st. Peters parish
in North Walpole are arranging grand
Fourth of July picnic to be held at
Minis Row. Quite an elaborate pro-
gram is being arranged.
Mrs. A. L. Davis, who died May 6,
left husband, one child, father,
mother and one sister to mourn her
loss. She was born in Putney and was
buried in Oak Hill cemetery.
A game of ball was played Saturday
in Kings field between the nine from
the 9th grade of the High school and a
picked nine from Charlestown. The
score was 36 to in favor of the 9th
grade.
Reduction extraordinary. Think of
it. To New York and return for $4 via
the Fitchburg railroad and Norwich
Line steamer City of Worcester. Tick
cts good going on LAO and $50 p. M
trains June Is. Returning from New
York at $50 P. M. June II.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Truax are at
Highgate Springs where they have a
summer cottage. Mr.. TruaX went yes
terday and Mrs. Truax to-day. They
will remain until some time in August.
Bert Truax will run the business of w.
A. Truax & Co. meanwhile.
The Y. P. c. U. of the Universalist
church will give a lawn party at the
residence of E. A. Prouty on School
street, Tuesday evening next, June IS.
Exner's orchestra will be present and
enliven the occasion with fine music.
Ice cream, cake, ETC., for sale.
If the rat fiend who is wont to appear
on the square with trap full of the
beasts and pack of hungry dogs with
unwelcome regularity, will give the car
cases decent burial after the sport (?)
is over, he will lower the price of disin-
fectants and confer favor on a long
suffering community.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
MAILS AND posToFFlCEs.

MAILS AND POSTOFFICES.
OFFICE HOURS: a. M. to p. m. Sunday,
$50 q. m, to 1880 a. IN.
ALFRED DOW, T.. NJ.
MAILS TO AND FROM
Boston--Close ut SIS u. m, lis, $3.50 and pm
Arrive at 1l.55 a. M, $50 and 1855 p. m.
New York-Close at SIS a. M, l.l5, 1885, 6.35
and SIP. m. Arrive at ll.55 a. m, 249, 0.30
and 1875 p. m,
Rutland Way-Close at n.40 n. m, and 6,35
p. IN. Arrive ut S.25 Il. IN. and LII p. IN.
sullivan Way-Close at ll.40 a. M, 6.l5 and
SIP. m. Arrive at 440., and $50 am, l.2O I'm,
south Acworth, Drewsville, Alstead and
Langdon, N. H.-Close Mt 10 m. Arrive at
q. m.
Townshend, Grafton, Cambridgeport, West,
minister West and Athens-Close ut II m.
Arrive at ii n. IN.
Saxton's River-Close at $50 and 10 M, 4.l5
and 100 p. IN. Arrive at $40 and IL q. m.
and lilo p. m.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
BROOKLINE.

The Methodist church is to be painted
this week.
Fred n. Ford has gone to Mortified,
Mass, to work during his vacation.
Children's day was observed at the
Baptist church with appropriate exer-
cises last Sunday.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13

When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Kiss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
PERSONAL PROPERTY

One pair grey horses, two 3-year-old colts,
five cows, two 3-year- old heifers Coming in
this summer), one pair extra fine year1ing
steers, one calf nine months old, lot of
household goods, two lumber wagons, one
sled, three sleighs, one covered carriage, one
express wagon. one threshing machine. q
quantity of oats and ye,one grind stone,one
penters tools, shoemakers and blacksmiths
tools, hoes shovels, forks, chains one hand
cider mill three sets pulley blocks and ropes,
lot OF hard and soft wood lumber, one farm
ers kettle, one breast plate harness, one
work harness.
TERMS AT SALE.
C.. p. gibson.
FRED I. LANE, Admr. Auctioneer
Rockingham, VT, June 8, 1895.
The timber upon the real estate is valua-
BILE lot and should attract the attention OF
lumber dealers
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
BiIiousness, Indigestion, Headache.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
ARE YOU THE MAN !?

We want an energetic man to solicit orders
for FINE MERCHANT TAILORING. An ad :
mirable and complete line of samples, at
prices that will command the trade. Best
workmanship and perfect fit guaranteed.
Liberal allowance to an earnest and capable
man. Address S. j. B., l1l-1l3 Blocker st !,
New York. 1t
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
Administrators SALE.
OF
REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
AT
PUBLIC AUCTION.
At the late residence of JOHN LORD de-
ceased about one mile east of Saxtons River
village on
Thursday, June p, 1895
Commencing at 8 o'clock sharp.
REAL ESTATE

Consists of the homestead containing about
pasture with a large amount of standing
wood and timber and there Is also plenty OF
fruit upon the premises.
The Lowell Pasture" so called, containing
about 70 acres, 10 acres of which is covered
with heavy growth of hard wood timber.
The "Divoll PASTURE so called. containing
about 66 acres.
wood lot adjoining the homestead con-
tanning IL acres covered with q heavy and
valuable growth of hard wood timber.
The premises in the rear of the Baptist
church in Saxtons River village now occu-
pied by W. w. Cory and Others
The tenement house formerly owned by
Patrick Marlborough situated near the
wooden factory In Saxtons River village.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-06-13
WANTED,

Good, wide awake Agents to sell for Fall
delivery for the Fonth1ll Nurseries of Can
ada. Good pay and regular and constant
employment to the right man. No drones
need apply. We have over 700 acres under
stock, every department fully equipped. Adj.
dress Stone & Wellington, Temple Building,
Montreal, Canada j. w. Beall, Manager.
Mention this paper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
egro fiddler called

seen now 5egro fiddler called
put the figus voice that could be
heard half mile away. Tired of
dancing, tho goung people played kiss
ing games and games of forfeits, but
the frolic invariably ended with the
Virginia reel.
Fancy quilts such as the Rocky
mountain, the Irish chain, and others
made up of thousands of pieces cut
after certain patterns, requiring
months and months of tedious work to
get them together, We're never put up
at cuttings, but were reserved for ex-
perts. The palmer quilts, such as the
log cabin, the long bar and the block,
were the regulation quilting stock.
People often quilted by the light of
tallow candles, and in the back woods
by torch light. So this form of amuse-
ment was not confined to fashiona BILE
folks. In some communities it was re-
quired that the quilts be finished, that
is, hemmed and bound, but this was
not usually the case. The only help
that men ever gave at these social
functions was in rolling the quilts and
lacking the frames again, though they
were always conspicuous figures, and
the cuttings where there were no men
were considered very dull affairs. N
Y. ASun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
BITS AND BREVITIES.

AMERICA has 24O, 900 saloons and 8, OoO,-
900 Christian workers.
The devil agrees with the moderate
drinker who says he can drink or let it
alone. Rams Horn.
WE need y revival, no doubt. A re-
vival of courage such as moved the tea
party in Boston years age, -1ndepend-
ent Citizen.
The home must come to the rescue
One-fourth of the drunkards form the
habit of drinking from the use of alco-
hol in cooking.
The liquor dealers in Lynn, Mass.
have received orders to at once remove
all screens from their windows under
penalty of FORGETTING their licenses.
ONE OF the greatest obstacles in the
way of the Temperance reform is the
use of wine and brandy on the tables
of the well-to-do. Drinking is sin,
not in degree, but in itself.
The digestive troubles attributed to
tobacco more often owe their origin to
alcohol, the boon companion of nico-
tine, for few inVeterate smokers oh
serve an exemplary sobgiety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
Ulster Will.
Some Sharp and Shrewd Sayings About
the Clergy.

SOhe sharp anu SHTe"u EtDOuL
the Clergy.
Some of the ministers of Ulster have
possessed a large supply of genuine
Irish wit, and many stories are told of
their bright sayings and doings.
Those who have seen an Irish jaunt-
ing car know that the passengers sit
on opposite sides, and that it is mat
ter of considerable Importance, both to
the springs of the vehicle and to the
horse which draws it, that the car
should be as evenly balanced as posi-
BILE. One Ulster minister always asked
clerical brethren seriously. before seat
ing two of them in the jaunting car:
Now which of you is the heavier
preacher"
At one time the Presbyterians of
Ulster We're discussing the ignorance
and stupidity of one of their number,
whose blunders were constantly get
ting other people, as well as himself,
into trouble.
And what a notion he has in his
head now" exclaimed one of the eld-
ers in dismay.
His headr echoed one of the minis
tiers, "He has no head. What you call
head is only topknot that his Maker
put there to keep him from travelling
OUT
In one case a minister who had
very strong will usurped the functions
of sessions and committee, much to the
displeasure of his parishioners. One
Sunday morning, as this minister was
trotting up to the meeting house on
his little pony, one of his elders said to
another:
Its fine wee pony the minister
rides"
Yes, responded the other, medi-
tatively; land it's a strang one, too.
1t can carry minister, session and COM
mittee without turnin' hair
Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05

"'Amen!' She said it,.too; how she could
can not tell.
1 promised square to cherish her, then made
her home hell;
hadn't said lovin' word to her for many
day;
swore at her that mornin' before I went
away.
/" Amen She kissed the boy an tucked him
into bed.
Then laid her face on the piller close to his
curly head;
heard sob and some stiied words-Iten you
l got a scare;
seemed to see the bottomless pit yawn for me
right there!
Il skunk out O. the house an into the garden
patch
With God on their side them helpless ones
was good deal more n my match
Down there among the cabbage an the squashes
dropped on my knee
An begged the merciful Lord to have mercy on
me.
There's somethin' up above us that pulls
when we hitch on;
1t drawed me out O. the mud an mire when
was nigh clean gone;
An tell We what It's fellerS, IL I've turned out
middlin' fair,
Ills all along O that boy o. mine namin' me in
his prayer"
Mary Frances Butts,sin Demorests Maya
zine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
extravaganza Spirits" and he added.
Pray leave off wine"

extravagant Spirits" and he added.
Pray leave off wine"
For ninety-nine out of every hundred
persons 1t would probably be happy
and blessed thing if by way of expert
ment, as Lenten self-denal for their
own sake and also to have more to give
to others, they abstain these forty days
from every form of Intoxicating drink.
This applies even to the weather.
classes, in which the temptations TO
drunkenness are infinitesimal COM
pared with those among the working
classes, and am sure there is not a
single man or woman, boy or girl,
among the working classes, who in the
existing state of society would not
have tenfold better chance of a hap
py' prosperous and self-respecting life
by becoming total abstainer. To
multltudes total abstinence would
make all the difference between
health and disease, self-respect and
self-loathing, noble manhood and a
doom worse than the gallows; between
home that is bright and clean and a
lair of filth and squalor; between do
nestle happiness and the fire of hell
bursting upwards from the hearth; he
tween the life of a human being wish
Gods image upon him, and the life of
a pig with his nose in the swine
trough; between honor and upright
ness, and the dirty slovenliness and
terrible torture OF the drunkard's
shame; between childhood and bright
ness, youth of strength, manhood
of honor, an age of peace, and child
hood that is cankered, a boyhood
that is polluted, manhood that wears
the hangdog look of infamy, and the
workhouse deathbed, and the pauper
grave. To all those who are young, l,
as an elder, would say: Take your
choice between what would certainly
be for most of you the difference be-
tween the river of the water of life,
pure as crystal, and the blasting cup
which the visage quite transforms of
him who drinks, and the inglorious
likeness of a beast fixes instead, I'M
molding reasons image self-charac-
tered in the face. Take your choice,
and be sure that we who have become
total abstainers for your sal1es have
done so only because st. Paul says:
We that are strong ought to bear the
intirmities of the weak, and not to
please ourselves All things are law
full for me'-yes, but not all things are
expedient. '"-Archdeacon Farrar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
AN AWE UL JOKE.
Story Showing the Sad Fruitage of an In
herited Taste for Rum.

Story Showing the Sad Fruitage of an In
herited Taste for Rum.
sad story showing how the drink
curse is hereditary is told by Dr. f.
Horton, of England, in the Christian
Herald:
A bright little girl joined a Juvenile
temperance society, and was very ear
nest in getting her young friends to
join. But her browning achievement
on which she had set her heart, was
getting her father to sign the pledge
He was confirmed tippler, but he
loved his child, and to please her he
signed. The man went away and broke
the pledge, but the little maid would
not be discouraged, and in few weeks
she induced him to sign again, and this
time he kept it.
When this child grew to be a girl of
seventeen, she was one day invited to
tea by some of her friends, who
thought her a fanatic on the subject
of intemperance, and had concocted a
plot to have a joke on her. When the
first cup of tea was passed around and
she had tasted it, she burst into laugh
ter, which was almost maniacal. They
asked her how she liked it. She said,
Very much" do you know what
was in it?'' they said No" she an
swered, but whatever it was l will
have some more"
They had put rum in the tea, and
the girl took some more, and that night
she was carried home drunk, and from
that night she never could be kept
from the drink. She wandered away
20 Portsmouth, and there she ultimate
ly died an outcast on the street The
little maid had saved her father, but
the virus of the fathers sin was in the
child's blood, and she persisted through
that faint.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
"Say Your Grace, Boy."

The duke of Hamilton's barriers
hunt during the season in this neigh
borhood and the meet" is welcome
relief from the monotony of rural life.
On one of these occasions, not long
ago, when the duke himself was pres
ent, the services of bright Suffolk
youth were requisitioned to hold his
grace's horse. The duke addressed
some kindly remark to the boy, who
promptly replied; Eyes, sirr' "Why
don't you say Your grace'?p interposed
one of the attendant horsemen: Say
'Your grace boy! Whereupon the
youngster reverently put his hands to-
gether, and audibly recited the words:
'For what we are about to receive"
etc. Not 50 bad for silly Suffolk! 1t
need scarcely be said that he presently
had due cause for thankfulness. Con
tleman's Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
THE VOICE OF TIE BIBLE.
A Strong, Conclusive Argument In Favor
of Total Abstinence.

A Strong, Conclusive Argument In Favor
of Total Abstinence.
Let none pretend that Scripture does
not warn us of the peril and curse of
drink. Scripture lays down principles;
1T leaves it to the manhood and in
tegrity of the wise and good to apply
those principles in their details Let
no man commit the awful blasphemv
Of making Christ the minister of sin by
pretending to find from His Word any
sanction for the existing conditions of
our prevalent drink system with its
horrors and enormities. Remember,
in days when Scripture was written
they had none of the Supplying and
maddening, the soul-clogging and
body destroying compounds which
are sold among us in every
street, and yet for one word in
Scripture which permits wine |
will quote you a score on the other
side, like that of the proverbs: "Whv
hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath
contentious? who hath complaining?
who hath wounds without cause? who
aatb redness of eyes? Look not thou
upon the wine when it is red, when it
goeth down smoothly; at the last it
biteth like serpent, and stingeth like
a basilisk." You sneer at total alb
otainers from the enormous altitude of
your worldly superiority, but the
scripture gives them its heartiest ap-
probation God commanded His proph-
cts to pronounce on the Rechabites
conspicuous blessing because they alb
stained from wine. jeremiah speaks
Of the health and happiness of
The Nazarites as the flower of
the youth of Jerusalem for their
strength and their beauty Samson
was total abstainer, whose drink was
only from the living brook, and was
che strongest man time records. John
The Baptist, whom Christ calls the
greatest among those born of women,
was also a total abstainer So were
many Of the most eminent Christian
thinkers. Total abstainers never dream
Of priding themselves on so common
place and simple a sclf-denial under
taken for the love of others; but 10 not
you pride yourselves on the excessive
ly cheap and easy virtue of indul cling
in what you like? We are all perfect
ly free in this matter to follow what
we regard as the call of God and the
guidance of our consciences Do
not believe, as men will try to
make you believe, that total
abstainers are all sour fanatics who
would fain eclipse the gaiety of ma
tions Some of the brightest spirits |
have known were total abstainers.
Sidney Smith is not usually regarded
rs a morose faddist, yet when he be-
came total abstainer, as far back as
$50, he wrote to his daughter. who
was anxious about his health: MANY
thanks for your kind anxiety about my
health. Not only was | never better,
but never half so well. | sleep like a
baby or plowboy. If wake no need
less terrors, no black visions of life,
but pleasing hopes and pleasing recol-
lcctions. l can now make greater ex-
er;ions without fatigue, my under
standing is improved, only one evil en-
sues from my total abstinence: / am in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05

A curious Judgment was pronounced
the other day by judge in court of
law at Volisso, in the Island of Scio.
An action for damages was brought by
two persons against the local railway
company for losses sustained by a col.
lision. 1t appeared that man had
lost an arm and young woman had
lost her husband. The judge-a
Greek assessed the damages thus: He
gave six thousand piasters to the man
for the loss of his arm and two thou
sand piasters to the woman for the loss
of her husband. AT this there were
loud murmurs. whereupon the judge
gave his reasons in these terms: MY
dear people, my verdict must remain,
for you will see it is a just one. Poor
Nikola has lost his arm, and nothing
on earth can restore that priceless
limb. But you Cunning to the woman),
you are still young and pretty. You
have now some money; you will easily
find another husband, who possibly
may be as good-perhaps better-than
your dead lord. That is my verdict,
my people. And so it must go forth. "
So saying, the judge left the hall. The
people cheered him, and congratulated
themselves on having such judge
London News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
SAVED BY A BAsY's PRAYER.

THAT night come home sober twas a rare
thing, you must know
AS stumbled through the kitchen-'twas about
two years ago
The bedroom door was open, an Icouldn't help
bat see
My little chap a-prayin' at his mothers knee.
- drew back in the shadder-they both looned
sorter beat
knew they didn't ever have more n half
enough to eat.
He clasped two little scrawny hands, desp'rft
white and slim,
As ii to show EN- up in Heaven how treat
ed him.
''gse purity yeler hair, that called his golden
crown
Over an cid patched nightgown aoated softly
down.
An there side OF his ragged frock lay little
shoe.
An because was his father, that was ragged,
AS stood there a-listenln, this is what I
heard him say:
Bless dear papa an bring him home to US,
pray.
Tell him how we want him an how we love
him; then,
Make poor mamma stop cryin for Jesus sake,
amen
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
What PArlA DrInks.

Paris is mainly a ine-drinking town,
but, like Marseilles and Lyons, does
not consume SO much as many of the
smaller towns; though, when examined
in detail, the provision seems to be on
sufficiently generous scale. In Paris
the annual rate per head is $40 pints
of wine, 16 of cider, II of beer, and
rather over II pints per head of spirits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
"A San Francisco photographer

A San Francisco photographer
claims to have completed device by
which every railroad ticket may be
made to bear the photograph of the
original purchaser, as preventive of
scalping. The whole process of TAX
ing the picture, developing the mega
tive, and printing the portrait on a
portion of the ticket can be done, he
says, while the purchaser is paying for
his ticket, or in one minute at the
longest The apparatus is elaborate,
but the inventor thinks that it is in
fallible, and that railway companies
ought TO be willing to pay good
price for perfect method of prevent
ing scalping by making tickets abso-
lutely non-tranSferable.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
Mixed Metaphors.

The following choice bits of journal
ism are credited to Tennessee news
paper Perhaps it is better not to
specify more particularly. 1--WE will
not enter into controversy with the
Shiny, Kissing wolf who tries to spit
venom from his forked tongue on the
editor of the ---. The way to treat
such crawling vermin is to just let
them below" Miss Jennie Harlow,
who has been visiting friends in our
midst, he returned home. We are al
ways glad to see her welcome pres
ence. She comes like ray of sun
shine to sweeten We editors cup of
gloom. Come again, Miss Jennie"
"These pension vampires are sucking
life-blood from the ship of state. The
pale hand of death stall1ed into our
midst last week, and fastened its cruel
eyes on little Mary Pulley. Youths
Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
The Beer Drunkard.

The Scientific American declares
that beer drinking in this country
produces the very lowest forms of inc
briefly, closely allied to criminal insan-
ity. The most dangerous class of
tramps and ruffians in large cities are
beer drinkers :"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-09-05
Are Total Abstainera.

The annual report of the Scottish
Baptist Total Abstinence society
states that more than 60 per cent.
of the Baptist ministers in Scotland
are total abstainers, and the theolog-
zeal students are without exception alb
StainarS