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PIrH AND POINT.

Why, always thought that it waS
paresis that caused a person to dye his
hair" said Will1ins.-Harper's Bazaar.
- read in a medical article the
other day said HawIey, shat paFesis
was often caused by dyeing the hair"
Mr.. Perseatslzi-''Vellyi if dat girl
preaks dot gFeckery any raOre, deduct
it from her wages" Mrs Persentskf-
'Should L scharge broaa on t?''--
Puck.
Customer There are onSsT two oys.~
tiers in this stew WaiteF-"That'ss
stew bad" Custemer-"And neither
of them is good" Waiter-''-Taat's too
bad. Phfladelphia' Record.
Comforting .-A-"Why so down
cast, doctor?D D-"A patient whom
began to treat yesterday has just died"
A-"Oh, don't worry shout that5 he
might have died anyway. Flicgsnde
Blaetter.
! -Calinaux and Guibolard, whoaare
sof the same age, concluded to betson
their longevity. Il shall go to your
funeral" Il shall go to yours" What
is your bet?" "A champagne suppez"
lie Figaro.
(, II WONDER" said the man who had
been out for the evening, -''why some
bright women marry such insignificant
lhusbands?" ''William," she said, adj
miringly, ''you are really too modest;.
you nearly do yourslf an injustice" -
Washington Star.
-Hicks-''I see they've arrestedd
young Geevus for pilfcring nuts and |.
apples off the street peddlers' stands.
It'll go hard with him, won't it?''
Wicks-'I don't know; it looks like a
clear ease of heredity. His father was
a policeman, you know. The fact will
be urged in extenuation. "G-Boston
Transcript.
Papa" (She l1nelt beside,the de-
jected figure and fondly kissed the
dropping head.) Papa, can / not
keep the wolf from the door with my
singing?" He was without hope, al
though he smiled. My child" he
sighed, your singing would keep al
most anything from the door, but the
wolf is pretty nervy."- Detroit News
TT~ibune
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He Knew 1t Was True.

"Ah," said Mr.. Ayteful as he sat
smoking his after-dinner cigar, there
is nothing in all of ife's blessings com
parable to a good wife. / know this
to be true" 4
His martial partner came and stood
behind his chair and laid both hands
softly on his shoulders.
Eyes. know it to be true continued
Mr.. Ayteful, for Mr.. Simmonson told
me so. and I never knew him to tell a
lie in his life
1t was ONLY one hand this time tina,
the sharer of his joys and SORROWS iai6
on his ear, and not so softly at that
Indianapolis journal.
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THE STUDY OF BACKS.
A Mans Face May Deceive, But His Back
Is Said to Tell 1t All.

A Mans Face May deceive, But His Back
Is Said to Tell Tt All.
There is much fascination in study
ing palmistry or phrenology or physi-
ognomy, but we doubt if many persons
have ever attempted to study the backs
of men and women. In the Common
wealth Erving Winslow has an article
upon this subject, which is fanciful
if not profound. Most people will be
inclined to doubt the foundation of
such statement as this: In large
assembly one would hardly go wrong
in q majority of cases, in gathering
up a general idea from the backs of
those before him of the actual tone
Of thoughts and words, as well as OF
temperament and disposition" Where
does the skill and experience of the
tailor show, if not in making the
back of the wealthy rum-seller's coat
greatly resemble that of the college
president?
Continuing, the writer says that en-
gagements have been predicted, trag-
edies in affairs prognosticated, coming
events of the most various and some
times complicated kinds foreshadowed
| by speaking backs" The reader longs
for instances to freshen his memory
upon this point. Net there is much
OF interest in this article, and a possible
study of much novelty is suggested
by it These few words will suffice to
give an idea of the range of observation
covered in this entertaining article:
so as we stand or sit behind our
| friends. with an obServant eve, we catch
them off their guard, and often unwill-
ingly play the eavesdropper. The
study of physiognomy has been so en-
crossing that bodily expression re-
ceives little attention except from
specialists. AS the face only is eX-
posed, this is natural enough, and,
were mankind simple and pure, it's
| features and their modulatiOns would
certainly convey the most concentrated
| indications of character and emotion.
When we cover it with a mask, how
ever, the person, and especially the
back, being forgotten by its possessor,
though concealed by clothing, exposes
the truth more fully than the coun-
tenance. Think of the vain backs, with
their conscious wriggle, the high shout
ders of conceit, the briding neck OF
pride, the dishonest cringe; and the
bending of reverence, the droop of cour-
tcsy, and the bowling of modesty, the in
clinings of affection, the distortions
of labor and of pain. boston Journal
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VINE DROPS SILVER FOR GOLD.
Transformation of o Utah Mine to Sui,
the Market.


The town of Mercur, formerly called
Lewiston. which is about four hours
ide by rail from Salt Lake City, is now
he center of the coming great gold
mining camp of Utah. 1t is situated
N what is known as the Camp Floyd
mining district, and though about two
Years have elasped since the revival of
he camp, the town now claims 135 fam
lies. Formerly it was known as 4 sill
rer camp, but to-day it is as gold camp
that it must be considered, and as a
gold camp possessing features pecul
arly its own, which distinguish it in
marked degree from all other gold
sections known, in that gold contained
n it's ores seems to be absolutely free
from all association with silver and
practically 999 fine.
The extent of the area covered by the
Mercur belt is as yet unknown, but posi-
tive developments of great value have
oeen made upon it at distance of from
i've and one-half to six miles from one
another. The ore bodies appear to lie
lpon the planes of contact of the lime
stone along which places the mineral
ized water undoubtedly found access
to the limestone upon and III which the
pres are found. They carry very
high percentage of silica, which by
process or replacement has taken the
place of the lime in the beds, deposit
ing at the same time with it the other
mineral constituents, such as gold
mercury, arsenic, iron and gypsum.
On the average the gold contents of the
ore are not high, the values running
rom trace to one or two dollars per
ION upon the surface to from seven to
twelve dollars at more or less in
creased depth. 1t is, however, the fact
IF their being found in such large guam
titles, combined with light mining and
milling cost, and their ready sus-
ceptibility to the action of weak solu-
ton of cyanide of potassium, that rem
lers the future of this camp SO promis-
ng. There are at present but three
companies whose mines are equipped
with mills in operation.
The chief obstacle to the entire sec
ton is the comparative scarcity of
water, but this difficulty Will soon be
obviated by the piping Of water from
|
miles, into the camp for both domestic
and milling purposes. The line will
have theoretical capacity sufficient
for the treatment of $500 tons of ore
per day. This work is now in process
Of construction and demonstrates the
confidence that capital in this section
has in the permanency and future great
ness of the camp.-Detroit Free Press.
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Young Tim had morbid borrow OF
poverty and overwork, and that story
haunted him all day. 1t shone through
his dismal forebodings like the moon
through a mist; it seemed almost too
GOOD to be true. He dined alone that
evening at restaurant in the Strand;
ard, passing a news agents on his way
back into the Temple, he noticed some
matrimonial journals in the window.
and went in and bought one. lie was
somewhat relieved on entering his
chambers to find that Ted McrroNk
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TIDES SAVE MILLIONS.
DO Work for New York That Costs Balti-
more Money.

DO Work for New York That Costs BaIti-
more Money.
New York is blessed in a peculiar
way twice a day by the rising and
falling of the tide. By cleaning our
docks and slips the tide saves the city
millions of dollars every year. 1t car
ries away countless tons of floating
refuse and purifies the sewage of thou
sands of pipes whose ends, projecting
beyond the wharves, discharge into the
river and harbor.
Low lying seaboard cities, such as
Baltimore, for instance, are not so
fortunate in this respect as New York,
and when one reads of the neveF-ending
struggle against refuse in the harbors
of other cities he appreciates in new
degree one more advantage of the
metropolis.
To keep clean the water in the docks
requires a big force of men in Balti-
more, where early every morning
SQUADS of men in boats and scows sail
around the harbor, skimming from the
surface of the water the refuse that
has accumulated in the "a hours previ-
Gus. From five to fifteen car loads of
watermelon
Dieces of wood and bits of cotton are
gathered daily just now
The skimming force gets to work
lust before sunrise and finishes its work
before the real traffic along the shore
front begins. The men are armed with
long-handIed scoop-nets, with which
the gather every floating thing that
is out of place. It must be that Balti-
more inhabitants make a point of sit
ting on the wharves when they eat
watermeIons. else how could Is car
| loads OF rinds accumulate in 24 hours
Baltimore skimming gangs scoop up,
too. considerable refuse that is thrown
| overheard by steamers and other boats
! that sail in the harbor.
| Around New York's water front ref
| use is dumped overheard from boats,
ships and ocean liners in prodigious
quantities The stuff floats around for
a few hours, but after sn ebb of the
/ tide the water is clear and pure. II
is fresh from the ocean. Cor the fall OF
| the tide at New York-from four tc
six feet-is SO great that the whole bod.
| CT water around the city is changeS
| twice a day.-N. y. Recorder.
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Napoleon.s Religious Impressions.

With the advance of wears Napoleon's
earlier religious Impressions always
vague, had degenerated into q mild and
tolerant deism; less than fortnight
after Austerlitz he 8ound time to rep
rimand sharply a member of the in
stitate for printing atheistic books;
bat the orthodox faith of western
Christendom, with its attendant NOR
atty. was for him. after all. only an
important social phenomenon of which
atheism would be destructive.-Prof
". NJ. Sloane. IN Century.
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What Peter Did.

Peter is the name OF theatrical man
ager who engaged vocalist by the
name of Cooke to give three concerts.
The hall was well filed on the first
night, and as Cookies ability as vocal
ist was not very great, there We're still
more vacant benches when Cooke sang
for the second time. There was nobody
present on the third night except dead
heads. much to the disgust OF the man
ager. Peter, who suffered great pecun-
iary loss However, among the dead
heads was local reporter who had {
great fund of wit; SO next day Peter
was eonsoled by reading in the morning
paper, that when Cooke crew for th'
third time Peter went out and wept bit
terlyI-Texas Siftings.
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HnfnrrirahIe.

But Jon ought to forgive his pulling
your nose. He was SO intoxicated he
didn't know what he was doing"
Didn't know what he was doingi
Do you mean to tell me that when g
ran hunts around for ten minutes until
ne finds the tongs and pulls my nose
with them that he doesn't know whs
he is doing ?.'-Iadianapolis Journal
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Level Headed.

Notes-I tell you those Italians are
level-headed people,
Coats-That so?
Sure. How the dickens could they
carry their bundles as they do Ii thcs
weren't? --N. Y. World.
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In a Precarious Condition.

Deacon Dyer guess Brother Good
leigh is not feeling we'll.
Deacon Wyle-What makes you thinl
SO?
Deacon DIE did not go to sleep dul
ing the services this morning. PUCK.
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The desire to be beloved is ever
restless and unsatisied, but the lore
that flows out upon offers IS q perpetu-
al well-spring from OF high. = {, M
Child.
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THE KENT FAMILY.

Hon. Henry o. Kent of Lancaster,
N. H., has presented this town with an
interesting relic of its earliest days
the desk and case of drawers made by
his ancestor, Col. Jacob Kent, from
boards which he hewed out with an
axe, in which to keep the town, church
and county records. 1t is a very sub
stantial affair, as it we'll may be to have
withstood the daily use of one hundred
and thirty years. To this Mr.. Kent
has affixed silver plate giving its his
tory, and stating that it is presented to
the town of Newbury by the descen-
dants of Col. Jacob Kent. 1t is fitting
that this desk should be preserved in
the town clerks office, not only as a re-
minder of our day of small things, but
to keep in remembrance man promi-
nent in the civic, military and religious
life of this town.
John Kent, ancestor of this family,
came to New England in 1858, and set
led on farm of $50 acres, near New
buryport, Mass. 1t is still held in the
family and is called Kent's island. being
surrounded by the river and certain
branches or estuaries of the sea. The
descendants of John Kent are numer-
GUS, and each generation has produced
men eminent in public life, especially
at the bar and upon the bench. Chan
cellar James Kent of New York, Gov.
Edward Kent, of Maine, and Hon.
Moody Kent OF Concord, n. H., are
of this family.
Col. Jacob Kent was born June II.
1870, and was among the early settlers
of Plaistow, n H., where he was
school-master; served several terms in
the old French war, and was ieuten-
ant in Capt. John Hazen's company.
COTS regiment, in which Jacob Bailey
was Lieutenant Colonel, and Timothy
Bedell, also a Lieutenant. After the
surrender Of Montreal in 100, Hazen,
Bailey, Bedell and Kent returned home
throughthe Connecticut valley and were
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WELLS RIVER.

The village of Wells River is
located in the northeastern cor
ner of the township of Newbury,
directly opposite the village of
Woodsville, n. H., and its many
advantages of position have made
it one of the most important rail-
road centers in northern Yer
mont, while the abundant water
power available and the excellent
facilities for transportation COM
bine to make it one of the most
advantageous locations for man
ufacturing in this section.
The village of Wells River may
be said to have been born when
this nation was, for Chamberlain
settled here the year that the
Declaration of independence was
issued. The original owner was
Gov. Benning Wentworth of New
Hampshire, he having reserved
500 acres in the northeast corner
of Newbury for himself.
Chamberlain agreed to build a
mill and to pay one dollar per
acre for a whole or a portion of
the tract and built the mill, but
paid nothing, and when the land
was taxed he bid it off at auction
for the amount of the taxes, and
subsequently paid the widow of
the Gov. 500 for a warranty
deed. He took up his permanent
residence with his family in 1878.
At that time large part of the
site of the present village was
marshy and the entire tract was
covered by dense growth of
ground hemlock and infested by
wild beasts, the only advantage
of the locality being the excellent
opportunity for the capture of
salmon on the bar at Wells River.
Settlement went on, but slowly,
and up to the beginning of the
present century Wells River was
a mere hamlet of ten buildings
without school house, store or
professional man of any kind.
The first traders in the village
were t. & p. Preston who began
the sale of goods in the south
room of Bowers tavern in 1901,
and Wells River became quite a
trade center, as the rapids above
the narrows prevented the boats
which then transported all the
goods used along the Connecticut
from ascending further. The
first bridge over the Connecticut
was built in 1905, at what is now
called 1.-The ferry" The paper
mill was erected in 1908 as was
also the first school house. Lo-
Gated at the confluence of the
Wells River with the Connecticut
the site of the village is excep-
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SO pleased with the Coos meadow tina
they determined to return and settl
here, which they all did, Jacob Ken
came in the next year and helped la,
out the town, and removed his family
here in November, 1868. He LOCATED
at first on what is now part of Mr.
Greer's farm, but soon removed to the
farm on which he spent the rest of his
life, and which remained in the family
until the death of his grandson, the late
Col. Jacob Kent, third of the name
and title, in 1886. He commanded
a regiment in the Revolutionary war
and was present at the surrender Of
Burgoyne. He was assistant Judge of
the court of Common Pleas, County
clerk, Judge of Probate 17S6-'94, and
Commissioner in I777, to receive the
estates of those who had joined the
enemy. He was selectman six years,
representative three years, town clerk
1864 90, and was one of the original
members of the Congregational church,
its first clerk, and one Of its deacons as
long as he lived.
Col. Kent was thus identified with
the early history of Newbury, and to
his large experience and fine shaping
hand, we owe many of our Institutions.
He died Dec. 10, 1872.
His first wife, who died before he
came here, was Abigail Bailey she left
a daughter who never lived in New
bury and his second was Mary White,
of the family once very numerous in
this valley. She long survived her hus-
band dying in 1884, in her o8th year,
the last of those who settled in New
bury and Haverhill before 1864. 1t
was from her unimpaired memory in
1891, that Rev. Clark Perry derived
most of the details of the early settle
ment of the town, which he used in pre-
pairing an historical address in that
year, which formed the greater part of
what is said about Newbury by Rev.
Grant Powers in "Historica Sketches
of the Coos County" They had sons,
Col. Jacob Jr., who remained on the
homestead, John, who removed to Ly-
man and was grandfather of Col. H. O.
Kent, who won his military title, like his
ancestor, by honorable service in the
war, and Joseph, whose farm John Heath
now owns and daughters, Mary who
married DR.. Stebbins of Bradford, and
Elizabeth, who became Mrs. Dunbar.
The Kents contributed their full
share toward that tangled web of re-
lationship SO perplexing to students of
our town history, but although numer-
Gus elsewhere, no descendant of Col.
Jacob Kent the pioneer, is now living
in Newbury.
So families rise, flourish for time,
are scattered and disappear.
F, P. w.
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barn stands alone, between the rail-
road and the river. The buildings
stood on the bluff at the top Of the
steep ascent, still called "Ingalls Hill. "
The house, a huge, imprinted structure
with vast chimneys, and frame Of OAK,
was built in 1900, and taken down
about ten years ago. The cellar of
DR.. Smiths house may still be seen in
the orchard, behind, and on much
higher ground than the site of the In
gals house, on the old, or original riv
er road, which left the present road
south of the little brook, climbed around
a spur of the mountain, kept along the
high land, and joined the present road
nearly opposite the freight depot yard
at Wells River. F.P.w.
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three floors of the dimension of 3oxf75
feet, being equipped with improved
machinery driven by water power, a IS
horse power engine also being availa-
bic. They make from l4oo to 1900
pounds of light and heavy manila pa
per per day, and are in position to fill
orders promptly, the quality of their
production being fully up to the stand
ard in every respect. The company
pays out about $4,000 for help annual
ly, and consume about 4Io cords of
wood per year, which is bought in
small lots for cash of neighboring
farmers, thus making very substantial
addition to the Circulating medium"
of this vicinity.
Mr.. H. w. Adams was born in 1895
in Concord, Mass, and has made the
manufacture of paper his life work.
The firm of Durant & Adams was one
of the first manufacturers of manila
paper as made to-day, and worked out
the process themselves. Mr.. Adams
carries his three score and ten bravely,
and is still active and robust
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scattered membership and number O.
preaching appointments.
During the present year the church
mas been called to mourn the severe
loSsot two of its most active and prom
lnent members in the death of Miss
LUCIA Rogers and Charles Leighton,
the latter peing class leader, and pres
ldent OF the Epworth League. Both
OF them were greatly respected for
their moral worth and Jealous labor in
every good work and church enter
prise.
Inc present pastor is Rev. John S
upper of the Vermont conference.
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Mar. 20, 1907, John B. Tucker, July 26, q
Dec g. 1909, Mark Cotfran ~, =
Dennis Crummy,Sept b, y.
Jan 20, 1909, Miranda Brock, 8, q
Nov. o, 1894, Wells Goodwin, Dec. IL, 8
This list corrected to January 1, IS
with additions, is as follows:
lane Waddell, b Jan. IL, 1904 Barnet
Euphemia (FairfulD Chalmers, Feb. 20
RIt 1905, Scotland.
Elvira (Morton) Knight, May 8, 1905
Concord.
Jacob w. Sulham, May 1905, Wood
stock, NJ H.
Alonzo Fleming, July 20, 1906, Ascot
P. Q.
Moses Morton Oct. 81, 1906, Bath, NH
Eleanor (Cochran) Knight, Jan. II
1903, Bradford
Judith (Brock) Atwood, Feb. 23,r8o8
Newbury.
Richard Patterson, Jan. 3, 1909, Scot
land.
William B. Stevens, April 4, 1909,
Topsham.
Mehitable Swasey, Oct. E, 1909, New
bury
Archibald Bachop, Mar. 7, 1870, Barnet.
Miriam Garter Brown, Mar IS, 1870,
Littleton, N. H.
Mary (Buchanan) Lumsden, Apr. IS,
1870, Ryegate.
Ann (Smith) Sulham, Apr. 80, 1870,
Bath, N. H.
Mary Grant Leslie, May IL, 1870,
Ryegate.
Joseph French, Jan. 9, 1870, Spring
field, N. H
Lucinda MOODY Abbott, Oct. IL,
1870, Portland, Maine.
Harriet (McAllister) Tewksbury, Feb.
6, 1877, Newbury.
Luke Temple, Sept. 6, 1871, Newbury.
Thomas Corliss, Nov. 20, 1911, "
Katherine (Thompson) Aitken,
Deer II, 1911, Scotland.
Oliver B. Rogers, Mar. %, 1912,
Eliza (Nelson) Gardner, Apr. p,
1912, Salisbury, N. H.
Mary Ann (Bai1ey) Gage, July
4, 1912, Newbury.
Lucinda (Richardson) Baldwin,
Sept. 6, 1912, Topsham.
Ema1ine (Whittaker) White,
Oct. IA, 1912, Ryegate.
Jane (Kinnard) Ross, Jan. II,
1918, Scotland.
Maria (Palmer) Wells, May IA,
1914, Brighton, Maine.
Dea. Archibald McAllister, May
IS, 1914, Newbury.
John A. Meader, June 80, 1913,
Susan .(ciiieyj Coffran, Aug. 7,
1913, Nottingham, N. II.
John Buchanan, Oct. 1, 1913,
Ryegate.
Mary (Wi1son) Brock, Oct. 10,
1918, Topsham.
John Aitken, Dec. 3, 1913, Scot
land.
Thomas Johnson, Mar. %, 1914,
NeWDuTy.
David Eastman, April 2, 1914,
Newbury.
Mary (Prescott) Tucker, July 10,
1914, Vershire.
Benjamin Sanders, Aug. l, 1914.
Abel F. Sargent, Aug. %, 1914,
Tunbridge.
Susan (Corliss) Eastman, Oct.
81, 1914, Newbury.
John Weed, Aug. 81, 1914, Tops
ham.
Phillip c. Tewksbury, March
F'-a 1914, Newbury.
John Miller, Aug. 7, 1914, Rye
gate.
VIM. Marshall, 1914, Groton,
VT.
1t will be observed that the
number has been kept more than
good, Mary Grant Leslie died
since January first.