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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30

/. In the spring women need Paine's
celery compound.
The average American woman,
says a we'll known writer, wears
herself out twenty years before her
time. She begins the wearing out
process as child, staying up at night
until the whole family retires and
keeps it up as growing girl, stay
ing awake until ten or eleven
O'Clock, when she should be asleep
by nine and as woman she has SO
many things to do and to keep up
with that she positively hasn't min
ute to rest.
By and by her cheeks grow thin
and haggard languor takes the place
of her old-time high spirits; she has
a generally worn-out air; her nerves
are gnawed by pain, and sleepless-
ness makes fearful inroads upon her
health.
Her physician tells her simply
that her nervous system is exhausted,
and that help must come by feeding
the brain and entire nervous tract,
richly, rapidly, and completely. 1t
is the experience of the most careful
medical men in this country that
nothing proves SO uniformly success
full as Paine's celery compound in
cases of brain-weariness, nervous
inability, failure of vital force, dys-
pepsia, sleeplessness, and for restor-
ing health and vigor to the brain and
body when exhausted by overwork
or dissipation.
Every such weary, nervous, thin
blooded person should take Paine's
celery compound. 1t makes sucf
people well.
Paine's celery compound improves
the general health by making new
ruddy blood and refreshing the
nerves.
1t teammates the languid body
and vitalizes the important organs SC
that they work in harmony witt
each other.
The accomplished editor of the
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30
Mrs. Charles E. Chase Dead.

The body of Mrs. Charles E. Chase
reached Bellows Falls at II O'Clock
Tuesday night. The funeral was held
in the Methodist church yesterday
at O'Clock, and the remains taken to
Walpole for interment, Rev. j. E. Mar
amore officiating. The choir of the
Methodist church furnished the music
Mrs. Chase died in Jersey city at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Francis
Brown. Mrs. Chase and her husband
Charles E., were among the oldest resi-.
dents in this town. Their golden we'd
ding was celebrated in the old home
near Guilds Mills. Mr.. Chase was one
o. the founders of the Methodist church
in this place. Mrs. Chase was in bel
9lst year, and leaves several relatives
in this vicinity.
For IA years Mrs. Chase had made
her home with her daughter, Mrs. J
F. Pease in Syracuse, n. Y, and had
been in Jersey City but two weeks be-
fore her death. Mrs. Brown, with
whom she was living, is also very Sc.
riously ill.
There were present at the funeral
from out of town Mr.. and Mrs. G.. E
Chase of Boston, Mass, Mrs. n. C
Harris of Schuylerville, n. Y, and
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Pease of Syracuse
N Y
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30

Miss Middle Shedd is sick with lung
trouble.
Fred Jefts returned to Middle Falls,
N. ", Monday.
Miss Tillie Tinson of Brooklyn, N.
Y, is the guest of N. III. Farr.
Harry Alexander of Boston spent
Sunday with his parents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. w. Fletcher of Ches-
ter spent Wednesday in town.
E. S. Harris of Bennington, United
States Marshal; was in town Tuesday.
Postmaster Henry w. Stocker and
wife of Windsor were in town Satur-
day.
Frederick H. Kimball is the local
correspondent for the Springfield Union
and Boston Globe.
Chauncey Adams and Arthur Das-
comb of Dartmouth college were in
town Memorial day.
Miss Hattie Ladd and w. HI. Custer,
a travelling man, will be united in mar
riage June 5, at the Methodist parson-
age.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Butterfield
stopped in town last week. They were
en- route from Washington, d. c., to
Derby Line.
Dayton Switzer of st. Adams has
accepted the place in Central Vermont
division office vacated by Harry Carder,
/, who has accepted a similar position on
the Fitchburg road.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30

Oakland, ILL.,, Ledger, portrait of
whose wife is given above, says in
his own paper, editorially:
"Our leading druggist, DR.. w. G.
Gregory, informs us that his sales of
Paine's celery compound have been
wonderful in fact, he states that he
has in six months sold more celery
compound than all other medicines
combined. There has been con-
slant demand for it.
zone of the noticeable cures that
this medicine has made is the case of
Mr.. Phil Clinard, who last spring
was Republican candidate for coun-
ty treasurer. Mr.. Clinard's nerves
were all unstrung; he had no appe-
tite and was all rundown. He COM
menced using Paine's celery COM
pound, and to-day there is not a
more well and vigorous citizen in
this whole community than Mr..
Clinard. Another case that comes
closer is that of the wife of the editor
of the Ledger. Every one in Oak
land knows that Mrs. Yeargin was
confined to her bed for three whole
months with neuralgia. At times
her pains were awful, SO much SO
that her hands would clinch and it
took the united strength of two per-
sons to straighten out her fingers.
DR.. Carney, the family physician,
treated her for months, but all he
could do was to alleviate the pains,
not effecting a cure. Along last
winter she commenced using Paine's
celery compound.
"She commenced to gain in flesh
at once. Her pain all went away;
her vitality increased weekly, and to-
day there is not more healthy
woman in town than she. Her
neighbors all marvel at her complete
recovery, and ask her the cause, and
she has no hesitancy in saying that
it is all due to Paine's celery COM
pound. This is given voluntarily in
the hopes that others who are
afflicted may be profted by using
this great medicine, which to-day is
without peer in the land"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30
What about Fourth of July d?

1t has now been two or three years
since Bellows Falls had good, old
fashioned Fourth of July celebration.
Some are of the opinion that it is about
time to have another. If there are a
sufficient number of this way of think
ing, and they '.get hustle on" there
may be another celebration this year,
II course eclipsing all its predecessors.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-05-30
Bellows Falls Locals.

Mountain pinks are out in great pro-
fusion.
Last Sunday Rev. J. Ellsworth Full
lerton preached in the Baptist church.
The merry-go-round will remain on
the Island house grounds through this
week.
Rev. Ellsworth Fullerton will preach
in Bartonsville next Wednesday at
7.30P.M NJ.
E. G. Osgood made an address in
Rutland last week, at Y. P. S. G. E..
convention.
The regular meeting of E. H. Slough
ton corps No. will be held Saturday
evening at 7.30 O'Clock.
A "Boston rally' with an excellent
program will be held in the Congrega-
tional church tonight.
| The knights of Pythias will hold
public memorial services for James E.
Fitzgerald Sunday in Odd Fellows
hall at 2 P. M.
Oliver D. Ellison and Alice G..
Streeter, both of Bellows Falls, were
married May %, Rev. J. Ellsworth Full
lerton officiating
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Bailey drove
down from their home in Claremont,
Sunday and spent few days with
their daughter, Mrs. Frank G. Flint.
George Andrews and F. G. Winnie
Wiser made a fishing excursion into
New Hampshire Tuesday and caught
over 200 trout, probably the largest
string brought to town this season.
d. E. Ladd will not run Towns hotel
after June l. He and Mrs. Ladd will
take carriage drive to Burlington,
leaving next Monday probably. 1t is
understood that g. w. Towns will
assume control of the hotel, retaining
Mr.. Matthews as clerk.
Prof. Chaplin asked his Vergil class
the other day, who the American high
flyer is. This is a puzzler. AT present
Mrs. Lease Of hypnotic fame, who
claims grasshopper Kansas as her DOM
icile, is soaring as near the zenith as
any of her sex at least.
| G. HI. Williams is having fine pict-
ure of the four pines and the scenery
in that vicinity, the work of Photog-
rapher Blake, enlarged for the. purpose
of having it framed and hung in the
window at his place of business on
Westminster street. The picture will
be about "a by IS inches, and is a
beauty.
The high school boys have an ath-
letic meet with the Springfield boys at
Springfield tomorrow. The events
will be five jumps, four runs, hammer,
shot, bicycle and team races. Bacon,
WEIGH, McKinnon, McDuffee, Edison,
Pierce, Diggins, Shaughnessey, Burr,
Mandigo, Savage, Campbell, and King
comprise the make up of the local team
| Wyman Flint is making very extern
sive improvements in the interior of his
! |
) tire ground floor is being newly frescoed,
papered, etc.; the decorations and deco
rators for both ceiling and walls are
from the well-known firm of Walberg's
in Boston. The paper is made eXclu.
sively to order, and is beautiful in de.
sign.
, Misses Lena Cooper, Marcia Sawyer,
} Mrs. H. c. Elliott, Mrs. Hattie Smith,
j. f. O'Brien, II. G. Elliott, G.. l.. Bar
Der and w. S. Wilder went to Park
Hill, N. H., Tuesday evening and gave
a concert in the Congregational church
for the benefit of the church. This
church is one of the oldest in the state
having been built in 1747. The visiting
party are loud in their praises of the
Inequalities extended.
Ey See 18th page for additional Local
NS"s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27

their laborers from being incapacitated by
its use. Licensed opium means many Of
the laborers being frequently disabled from
working, The planter Is an influential
man and has much weight in legislation
If he says no opium, it will generally be
under the ban of the law. Self-interest is
apt to go further than philanthrophy in
the banning of vices. 1t is quite improba-
BILE that this enslaving vice will be here
made again a source of government reve-
nue.. 1t would soon become very democrat
izins to the Japar ese laborers, class who
have far less self-control than the Chinese,
Gus labor. The Japanese are brighter and
more versatile put lack the Chinese
strength and persistence. And yet consid-
cradle numbers of Chiramen fall very
wretched victims to the opium appetite
The peculiar emaciation of their forms is
often seen on the streets.
1t is quite certain that the present con-
sumption OF opium under prohibitory law
Is not one-fourth probably not one-tenth
what it would be If the drug were licensed.
Nine years ago Kalakaua was able to OBJ
tain from a Chinaman for the exclusive
monopoly Of opium under $4,000 license
an additional private solatium of $4,000
This was in addition to the heavy duties
upon the drug. OF course small army Of
agents would have to be employed to ere
ate among young and old that deadly ap-
petite which would make them profitable
customers to recoup the licensees immense
expenditure. This was the noted All kee
bribery case, In which the king pocketed
the $4,000 and then assigned the license to
Chun Fong. who paid only $4,000 bonus,
but took care to secure delivery of the
goods first Poor All Kee died of misery
and chagrin at losing his money for moth
ing to the jolly monarch. Kalakaua had
also set up a god and had had All Kee
instructed to sacrifice pig to his divinity.
as deity constitute another story.
KAMEH Amelia,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
A Profitable Yankee Notion.
From the Chicago Times H erald.


AS an example of how a remunerative
speciality In hardware forced itself on a
receptive and appreciative Yankee, the fol-
lowing incident will be of interest:
Among manufacturers small castings are
often put in revolving cylinders with pick
ers or stars made Of cast iron, having
usually six points, the extremes of which
are about an inch apart.
They also familiar to toy dealers
and children az 'jackstones." The pickers,
together with small castings, are put into
the tUmbiing barrels, that any particles
OF sand adhering may be removed and a
better finish given to the castings.
A large and well-kHown New England
concern which, in addition to the other
lines, manufactures screw wrenches large
~, formerly used peculiarly shaped NAL
leable iron ferrule, with irregular openings
at the four sides and circular openings
al the two ends weighing about an ounce.
Some of these ferrules CHANGED to be a
part of the contents in one of the tumbling
barrels
When the barrel was opened the attend
ant noticed what to him seemed almost in
credible, that the picker, with all its
prongs, was inside the ferruie, the opening
OF which was comparatively small. The OBJ
servant mechanic logically concluded that
as It had got in. it could be got out again.
Inc phenomenon was brought to the at
tention of parties who decided to apply
the idea In puzzle. and the result has
been that the original manufacturers are
row making the two parts under contract
In ton lots. while the first order is said to
have netted profit to the promoters of
el,itO. This is known en- the streets as the
Trilby puzzle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
Beaten and Whipped by Snake.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Homer Rodgers of Ocala, Fla, who is
about twelve years old, was bitten and
whipped by a snake last night The boys
father has sort of private 300" and
among his collection are several large
snakes Of the white Oak" variety. These
snakes are said to be non poisonous and
Mr.. Rodgers has allowed them to run at
will. Last night, as Homer was entering
the front gate, he was struck several yio-
lent blows in the face by some object that
dashed out in the dark. Then the bow
felt something Irvine itself about his arm
and begin to lash him fiercely The bow
ran into the house, screaming with pain
and fright, and found monster white
Oak snake wrapped about his arm, The
snake was striking the boy in the face
with its fangs and lashing him about the
body with its tall Mrs. Rodgers pulled
the snake away from the boy and killed If
The boy had been bitten in several places
about the face and neck, and the wounds
were bleeding freely. His arm was black
and blue where the snake had twined it.
self, and the lashes of the reptiles tail
had striped his body. Today the boys face
is horribly swollen, but the doctors saw
he will recover unless blood poisoning sets
ill., The snake was coiled on one Of the
gate posts and sprang on the boy as he
passed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
Grading Commenced for the Epis-
copal Cathedral.
IMPOSING GROUP OF BUILDINGS
The Hearst School for Girls to Be
First Erected.
1T WILL BE PU HE'D

An event Of great Importance occurred
this morning when actual work upon the
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral foundation
began at the imposing and beautiful site in
the most eligible portion of the District
west of the Geological Park and between
Woodley and Klingle roads. 1t will be re-
membered that Mrs. Hearst of California
donated $175,OOO some time ago for the
erection Of structure to be known as
Hearst School for Girls. stipulation OF
the deed of gift provided that work upon
the excavation and grading of the site OF
the building should be commenced in Au-
gust and finished before frost. The
building committee of the cathedral
foundation consists of Rev. DR.. George
William Douglass, Colonel John NJ.
Wilson, U.S.A., and Col. A. T. Britton. DR..
Douglass is in Europe and Col. Wilson is
absent from the city, and consequently:
Col. Britton, perceiving the necessity OF
meeting Mrs. Hearst's requirements. took
the responsibility of acting in the matter
Accordingly he called for bids and a
number of responses were made. the low
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
A NOTED PUBLISHER DEAD.
Henry o. HouEhtOn Passes Away n,
His Summer Home.

His Summer Home.
Henry o. Houghton. head of the pub
fishing house of Houghton, Miffln & Co.
of Boston, died suddenly at his summer
residence, in North Andover, Sunday, of
heart disease. A son. associated with him
in business, and three daughters survive
him.
Henry o. Houghton was born at Sutton,
VT, April 80, 1928 He learned the prin-
ter's trade in the Office of the Burlington
Free Press. Later he fitted himself for
college, and was graduated at the Uni
versity of Vermont, paying his own way
by hard work. He went to Boston at
the age of twenty-three and entered the
employ of the Boston Evening Traveller,
In the triple capacity of typesetter, proof
reader and reporter.
In 1919 he purchased the interest of Mr..
Freeman of the firm of Freeman & Bolles,
then among the leading printers of Bos-
ton, and soon afterward the new firm of
Bolles & Houghton began the printing bus
mess at Cambridge In 1852 Mr. Bolles
withdrew from the firm, and the title be-
came H. o. Houghton & Co. The business
was removed to its present site on the
banks of the Charles river. where the
Riverside Press assumed its name The
great book press has become famous the
world over for the excellence of it's typog-
raphy and presswork.
In 1875 occurred the consolidation Of the
firms Of H. O. Houghton & Co.. the pro-
prietors of the Riverside Press; Hurd &
Houghton, and James B. Osgood & Co.
Through this alliance came privileges
covering the works of Longfellow. Whit
tier, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Thoreau,
Hawthorne and Whipple to say nothing
of others equally valuable. In 1889 the
valuable copyrights. plates and stock of
all the numerous miscellaneous publica-
lions Of Ticknor & Co. were purchased.
The relations of Mr.. Houghton with au-
thors have been delightfully."- intimate and
pleasant. He was one Of the leading adj
vocates Of the International copyright law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
SOCIAL STATUS OF THE ACTOR.
Marked Changes Which Have Taken
Place Since Shakespenre's Time.

Marked Changes Which Have Taken
Place Since Shakespeare's Time.
From the Hartford Courant.
1t was only short time ago, as history
runs, that the actor was a desrised
mountebank, strolling vagabond who was
refused permission to set up his theater
within the city limits Of London. The
knighting of Irving points to the other ex-
IRENE and suggests the great change that
has come about in respect Of the stage
and its followers. No members of the
Erglish-speakipg community are more gen.
orally respected, as well as admired. than
distinguished actors like Irving, Booth and
jefferson. The social position Of the player
is now within his own hands, dependent, as
in other professions, upon his own personal
ability ard character. No longer is there
a bar sinister on the shield Of the smooth
faced son of Momus; indeed, so fast is
the old feeling changing that the younger
preciate 1t. Yet 1t may be found here and
there still and will no doubt survive SO
lcng as the false idea that the playhouse
is essentially a machination of the devil,
an enemy Of the church and all goodness
exists anywhere among the children of
men. There is some historical justification
for that view, the student Of the English
drama must confess, and 1t will die hard.
But the signs all show that every day
the actor class Is being recognized more
and mort as representative of a great
art and legitimate social need. Public
official recognition, such that given
Irving by the queen-something unique In
the whole annals of the English stage and
hence having an historic significance and
imports nce-does perhaps more than any,
thing else Save the well-behavior Of the
PLAYERS themselves) to confirm the modern
actors social place. Another such indi-
cation was the banquet given in London
the other day to DAILY and his troupe of
comedians, when the lord mayor of that
very town which in years agone hustled
lean actors welcome and treated them
as honored guests. How the scene would
have astonished Shakespeare, honest yeo-
man as he was. and shrewd enough to
make a comfortable fortune out of the
not too reputable trade Of play-making
and play-acting, and SO retire to his native
town, there to be quite a gentleman, for
sooth, far from the madding crowd, but
always ready to have a glass and pipe
with any Of his fellow dramatists-Ben
Jonson or whoever-ff they chose to go to
Stafford The position Of the actor since
the Elizabethan times has changed vastly
for the better. Elizabeth would have
deemed it an unseemly piece of business
to bestow knighthood upon the bard of
Avon; Victoria didn't look at it in that
way in the case of Irving. And while
the bestowal wouldn't have added one
lot or little to Shakespeare and hasn't
to Irving it is worth something recog-
milton of what they stand for and are. 1t
is interesting in this connection to notice
fessional Institutions" in THE Popular
Science Monthly groups the orator, poet
actor and dramatist together as originating
in the same social impulse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-27
HANDS GROW OLD EARLY.
Their Greatest Dexterity is Between
Thirty and Forty.

Their Greatest Dexterity is between
Thirty and Forty.
From an Exchange.
The actual amount of dexterity IN the
human hand has been measured with more
or less accuracy, and its value in mechan-
tcai employments traced from youth to age
How the hand grows old. gradually losing
fits skill, has been described by Sir James
Crchton Browne, the British labor student
who has made long course of investiga-
tons in the English rural towns The high
period of skill and endurance, this author
tty says, is from thirty to forty. the hand
after that beginning to lose its muscular
delicacy and it's suppleness.
Between the ages of seventeen ana
eighteen the hand of the boy grows into the
hand of the man, and first becomes Valu-
able from a commercial point Of view. II
workman is temperate and Industrious ana
continues to improve in his trade, MS
hands dexterity Increases until he is thirty;
After forty the muscles do not reSponu
nearly as readily and certainly to the
orders of the brain, and the quality ana
quantity of the work done begins to fall OIL
While Il man in especially fine health and
one especially deXtrous can often keep up
his high degree of skill long past the age
of forty, such a man Is an exception. Ihis
comparatively early agelnS OF the hand
is an interesting and remarkable fact, as
1t Is after forty, rule, that carefully
used brain becomes the most valuable.
Practically no British statesmen of the
highest rank are under forty; most OF them
are above fifty. and often ten years older
than that. In the trades, on the other
hand. the highest paid workmen, with
hardly an exception, are under the age or
two score.
The scale of wages In the button trade,
for example Is q good Indication of this
tendency of the hand to grow old SO
early In life At his very best, In his prime,
e skilled button-turner can make $40
ivory buttons day on his lathe. For this
he receives As shillings week, or about
s1l.25. AT forty-five years of age it Is only
the exceptional man who can make more
the workman is sixty-flve years of age he
can seldom make more than 20 shillings, or
about S. this providing that he still enjoys
sound health
OF course this Is only the case in the
trades where one hand is used continually
and systematically. A Sheffield knife
forger. for instance, strikes something like
$4,000 blows with his hammer daily. An
enormous amount of muscular and nervous
force Is required for this, and it Is no
wonder that the strain on the nerve centers
and the muscles becomes visible in a few
years. In farming or the seafaring life, or
come other vocation in which the energy is
more equally distributed over the entire
body, the hand does not lose It's cunning so
early. Oftentimes it retains It's skill until
the faculties generally commence to give
way
It's the sedentary occupation that tells,
and the only remedy for 1t is such exercise
as will divert the nerve current from the
already overtaxed hands.