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CHOPIN PLAYED.
And Under the circumstances 1t Was Music
to BE Remembered.


to BE Remembered.
Mrs. Anne Thackeray Richie tells q
pretty story of a famous player and com
poser whom she calls My Musician. She
was living in Paris with her grandmother,
and one day, to her positive fright, was
taken to drive by Scotch lady, a spinster,
tall and thin, one of three sisters, for all
of whom her grandmother had great
regard "She spoke to me, l believe"
says Mrs. RitChie, "but my heart was in
my mouth hardly dared listen to what
she said" The carriage turned into side
street and presently stopped at a door.
Miss X. got out, carefully handling a
heavy basket, and telling tlO little girl to
follow, began climbing the shiny stairs.
She rang bell and the door was opened
by slight delicate looking man with
long hair, bright eyes and a thin, hooked
nose.
Miss X. put down her basket caught
both his hands in hers shook them gently,
and began to scold him in an atfectionate,
reproving way for having come to the door.
He laughed said he had guessed who it
was, and motioned the two to enter. In
the room was no furniture except an up
Miss X. inquired after his health Had
he slept? He shook his head Had he
eaten? He shrugged his shoulders and
pointed to the piano. He had been com
posing something; would Miss X. like to
hear it?
She would, certainly, but it would tire
him. 1t could not be good for him.
He smiled again. shook back his long
hair and sat down. And then tho music
began, and tho room was filled with con-
tinuous sound, he looking over his shout
der now and then to see if his hearers were
liking it.
"Tho lady sat absorbed" says Mrs.
Richie, land as 1 looked at her / saw
tears in her eyes-great, clear tears rolling
down her checks, while the music poured
ON and ON.
II can't, alas, recall that music! 1
would give anything to remember it now
but the truth is, was so interested in the
people that l scarcely listened. When he
stopped at last and looked round the lady
started up.
"'YOu mustn't play any more, she
said. No moro, no more it's too beauti-
ful'-and she praised him and thanked
him in tender, motherly, plying sort of
way, and then hurriedly sad we must go,
but rs we took leave she added, almost in
a whisper, with humble, apologizing
look:
4 have brought you some of that jelly,
and my sister sent some of the wine that
You fancied the other day. Pray, pray try
to take "a little
"He shook his head, seeming more
ycxod than grateful, but she put him back
softly, closed the door upon him and the
offending basket and hastened away. As
we were coming down stairs she wiped her
eyes again.
by this time had got to understand
the plain, tall, grim, warm hearted wom-
an. All my silly terrors were gone. She
looked hard at me as we drove away.
Never forget that you have heard
Chopin play, she said with emotion, for
soon no one will hear him play any
more "
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CURIOUS FISH.
Keep Their Eggs In Their Mouths-Their
Natural Pockets.

Keep Their Eggs In Their Mouths-Their
Natural Pockets.
In the sea Of Galilce-or Lake Tiberias,
as it is also callcd-thcre is a strange fish
named the Chromis simonis, which is more
careful OF its young than fish generally
arc The male takes the eggs in his mouth
and keeps them in his natural side peck
cts, where they are regularly Matched and
remain until able to shift for themselves.
BY this ingenious arrangement the brood
is comparatively guarded against its nat
ural enemies. 1t is easily fed, too, but it is
puzzle how the little ones escape being
eaten alive a month ago, says traveller
writing 30 n religious contemporary,
found in my net a number of these fish
without eyes.
Others of the species, when lifted them
up, dropped a number of little fishes out
of their mouths, which swan away hasti,
ly. The natives explained the phenomenon.
Tho blind chrOmis is the victim of sea
hawks. When these birds have eaten their
fill, they begin to look out for tidbits.
After catching a fish they hit its forehead
with their sharp beak, knocking out the
middle part, in which their eyes are set.
The bony structure is dropped into the
water but the eyes are eaten by the birds
with great relish. Strangely enough, the
fish generally survive this rough troat-
mont. The wound heals up quickly in wa
ter, and they continue to ply the lake for
food as if nothing had happs~'d.---P Pail
Mall Gazette
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Pianos.

Somebody has aroused to the fact that
pianos, of all furniture, remain the same
dreary, stiff, coffin finished pieces they
have always been. The upright has few
possibilities, though not what it should
have, but the grand is still hopeless Why
piano makers, exolaims this apostle of re-
form, continue to use the same old and ug-
ly models, with great knobs and senseless
twistings and horrid posts for legs, is a
mystery, when graceful case of polished
light wood, with slender iegs arranged in
clusters, and plain panels, would find
eager buyers. Such a piano in wood to
match the flnishings Of the room, oak, ma
pie, cherry would be harmonious and in
conspicuous. 1t could be treated more
deliberately with really graceful carvings
or inlays Of other woods, and, If an up
right, the back could be made beautiful
by carved wood latticework. New York
Times
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Choosing a Novel.

A writer lets out a secret regarding the
way in which young women read novels:
1t was in the tramear, that place in
which the experiences aresvariod enough
to make man cosmopolitan if he will
study them. Two girls are talking of what
they read.
"Oh, choose novel easily enough,
one said II go to the circulating library
and look at the last chapters. If find the
rain softly and sadly dropping over one or
two lonely graves, l don't take it, but if
the morning sun is glimmering over bri-
dial robes of white satin, know it is all
right and take it, and start to buy sweets
to eat while l read, it. London Stand
ard
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PETER STuYvEsANT.
His Experience with the Nine Men of New
Amsterdam.
Adams

His Experience with the Nine Men of New
Amsterdam.
Wh5n Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New
Amsterdam as the director general he
strutted about like a peacock, "as if he
were the car of Muscovy," as a chronicler
puts it. He was called "PegIeg Pete,
from his wooden leg with its silver bands
or "hard koppig Piet'-Peter the hard
headed =
Stuyvesant bad strict orders to give the
people a share in the government of the
town. So he called an election of IS men
by the settlers in Manhattan, Breuckelyn,
Amersfoort and Pavonia, and of the 8 he
selected nine, who were the first represent
atives of popular government in these
parts. And a hard enough time they had
of it with hard koppig Piet.
The nine grappled with the liquor prob
lem. almost one full fourth part of the
town of New Amsterdam" was devoted to
saloons, which sold liquor to visiting In
dians and made Of the little town sort of
hell on earth. Then, as later, white men
also sold firearms to the Indians as well as
liquor. One of the nine did this. Even
the agent of the Rensselaer,, the PATRON
of Albany, did so until Stuyvesant sent
troops to persuade him otherwise But
Stuyvesant did the same thing himself in
spite of prohibition by the home govern
ment
When the nine quarreled with Stuyvesant
about taxes there was trouble. They cleo
tioncered from house to house against
Stuyvesant, and he retaliated by throwing
their secretary, Adriaen van der Donck,
into Jail. The nine sent an appeal to Hol-
land, and good and wise was it in its
terms, They asked:
First.-Abdication of power by the
Dutch company in favor of the states gen
cral.
Second-A public school with at least
two good. masters.
Third.-For godly, honorable and in
tolligent rulers, because covetous gov
ernOr makes poor subjects.
The states general fairly tried to remedy
matters, but Stuyvesant was too far away
to restrain. He drove the nine out Of
their official pew in church, arrested Van
Dincklagen his vice director, prosecuted
the LuUherans and the Quakers stirred up
Indian Instructions and in general con-
Quoted himself like the obstinate old man
he was.
Popular government began indeed with
the nine but it took more than 100 years
and two revolutions to establish it thor
oughly.-New York Recorder
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Pointed.

1t is said there is a voter living near
Hagerstown known as Old Uncle Zeb. He
does not decide who to vote for until he
has met the representatives of each candi-
date and had conference A local Hurst
politician met Old Uncle Zeb one day and
said: "Well, Uncle Zeb, who are you going
to vote for?'' 81 dunno, 1 dunno" the
old man replied ~ need double bar
relied shotgun mighty bad. calc'late to
do lot of hunting this winter 1 dunno
who I'll vote fer. baltimore News.
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| WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE.

was looking long while for intentions
For a clew to the history Of the past for my
self and for these chants and now have
found IL.
1t is not in those PACED fables in the libraries;
them l neither accept not reject
1t is no more in the legends than in all else.
1t is III the present; it is this earth today;
1t is in democracy, the purport and aim Of all
the past;
1t is the life Of one man or one woman today,
the average man of today;
1t is in languages, social CUSTOMS iteratures,
arts,
1t is in the broad show Of artificial things
ships, machinery, politics, creeds, mod
ern improvements and the interchange of
nations,
All for the modern, all for the average man of
today.
Walt Whitman.
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Where did I get This Dreadful Z
Cough ?

No matter; the great quesaion is, How
shall get rid of it ? Use the Pineola
Balsam, a soothing combination of the
remedies nature has put in the pine and
other balsamic trees. 1t cures the in
Illumination and tickling in the throat
and if taken in time will prevent the
spread of the disease to the lungs.
Ely's Pineola Balsam is strongly recon.
mended in cases of asthma. Twenty
five cents is the price. Tell the neigh
bors about it.
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A CHALLENGE.

Poets are silent, sir, you sayY
But bark ye, would ask you, pray,
Doth any seed bear flower or fruit
Without a growing timer The root
Must first push out in silence; then
GAS Aaron's rod blooms poets peni"
Thoughts are his seeds-so soft they stir,
Still in the dark held prisoner,
He scarce dare draw his breath for fear
The embryo's lost. How should he steer.
Thought laden, then mid gaping mirth,
While all his branchlets strive for birth2
Have patience with the tortuous root
That tolls in darkness ere a shoot
May rise to gladden. watchful eye
Or merge in earth's fertility.
A poets verse, as light as airP
All, sir, it's root is otherwherel
From "Idyls of Love and Life, Edith C.
Adams.
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Professor Hajak of Vienna has declared
that smokers are less liable to diphtheria
and other throat diseases than nonsmokers
in the ratio of l to 2S. The learned d..
Schiff also gives us to understand that
smoking is always positively forbidden in
meteorological laboratories, because it is
known to hinder the development Of the
bacteria.
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Business and Theology.

Tho congregation of church in Scot
land finding itself unable to pay the sala-
ry Of its minister, soap firm offered to
pay $500 year for five years, on condi-
ton that it advertisement be hung in
front of the gallery of the church. The
offer was accepted. And now the congre-
CATION can learn how to be morally and
physically clean at the same time.-New
York Tribune.
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Making a Felt Hat,

A felt hat is made by pneumatic proc
sss. a conical cup perforated with holes
Is provided. The air beneath is exhausted,
and by curious device the felt is forced
evenly to all parts Of the outside of the re-
ceivor and thus by the strong pressure and
rush of the air is thrown upon the frame
and distributed, thus forming the basis
for the hat
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A Postal Card Scheme.

In the course of time large manufact-
uring or wholesale house accumulates a
quantity of postal cards that have never
been used, but that have printed addresses
ON them. There is now firm which
makes Il business of collecting these
They cover the addresses first with ink,
then bronze this over and if required will
print new addresses on the bronzlng and
return them at the not price of about half
n cent each on large lots. The other half
rent is saved the customer Chicago
ttrihunp
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A Turhnn Of High Degree.

A green tu;ban throughout all Islam is
sign that the weGrer is a descendant of
he prophet. Many persons who have the
Eight to This mark Of honor are now in
low iiro, ana traveller in Constantinople
or Cairo may have his baggage carried to
his motel by II genuine descendant of the
fcuHa2r OF Mohammcdanism - Atlanta
C-lNiniinn.
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Relate the SYstoin.

81 have found Hoods Pills to be the
best OF any that have ever taken. They
do not grip or leave week feeling in
the stomach. / have taken five bottles
and they have regulated my liver and
bowels" Mrs. Sarah a. b. Irish, Ben
nington, Vt.
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Red nose, weeping eyes and bad
cough. The worst Of the combination is
the cough. Cure that with Adnmson's
Botanic Cough Balsam. A few days
will do il. Better not wait A cough
grows.
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A Successful Run.

II understand that you had great run
in Plunkville," said the actors friend.
1--WE did, replied Orris Stuffykness; cit
was II blocks, on me troth, from the thea
ter to the station, and two constables and
a landlord were after us every step of the
ay."-Washington Star.
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Never go to bed with cold or damp feet
Never omit regular bathing, for unless the
skin is in active condition the cold will
close the pores and favor congestion and
other diseases.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-27

One principal reason why men are SO
often useless is that they divide and shift
their attention among multiplicity of
objects and pursuits.
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
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Never blister burn or irritate. Quick
est acting, most effective plaster ever
prepared. Hop Plasters-cost You little
20 try them. Sold everywhere.
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To make the hair grow . natural cOlCr,
prevent badness. and keep the SC, lp
healthy, Halls Hair Remover was invent
ed, and has proved itself successful
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One hundred tlousaud Armenians
massacred or driven from home, and
still no Christian hand is raised to inter
fere l-Journal.
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BE not familiar with the idea of wrong,
for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly
act.-TheodDre Parker.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-12-27

In Wales it is believed that if any one
kills wren he will fall down and break a
bone before the end of the year.
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Dunraven is here, and he seems to
have brought his blarsted British wealth
or with him.
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Hoods Pills cure sick headache, bill
iOusness.
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Free Library Block,
r EBANON SPRINGS r. r,
G.. 3. SIBLEY.

T EDANON SPRINGS r. II.
II WIN. V. REYNOLDS Receiver.
Change of time in effect July ST. 1895.
LEAVE BENNINGTON.
S:25 a, m. For Petersburgh junction, North
Adams and Boston aud AL points
East and West on the Fitchburg
Railroad. Also. on all points on
Lebanon Springs Railroad.
LILO p. m. For Petershnrgh Junction No.
Adams and Boston.
5;45 p. m. For Petersourgh Junction, VIII
Jamestown ana North Adams and
all points on Lebanon Springs
rrrOad.
ARRIVAL OF TRAINS At BENNINGTON.
ll;35 a. m. From Troy, .HooSick Falls. Will
Jamestown, North Adams and all
points east on Fitchburg railroad
aud all points on Lebanon
Springs railroad,
$50 %. m. From Troy, Houslck Falls and
points west on FGchburg X R..
also from points last 10 Boston.
6;O3 ., m. From North Adams Williams
town, tioston and ali points cast
on Fichhurg railroad. Also
from all points on Lebanon
Springs railroad.
+. D. BENNETT, Superintendent.
Joseph CHILDS. General PASSENGER Agent
UITCuBURG RAILRoAD-Hoosac Tunnel
L Route. On and after Dec. l4th. 1895, trains
viii run follows:
LEAVE BENNINGTON VIA BENNINGTON & RUTLAND
RAILWAY.
Leave bennington 3, arrive Troy al 20 4 IN
New York 20 IN, HOOSiCk Falls & 81, North
Adams So, Greenfield IL O2 a m, Fitchburg 49,
Boston 10 = IA, INTERCHANGEABLE 10 Saratoga
90 I'm.
Leave Bennington II 10 m, arrive in Troy 2 IL
New York 90. Hooscll Fails 30, North Adams
2 %. Greenfield 81, Fitchburg 30, Boston 7 y
pm.
Leave BENNINGTON 31i p. M. arrive in Troy
4.25, New York 10 p. M
Leave Bennington IS arrive Troy 55 Hoo
sick Fails H. %crth Adams 200, INTERCHANGEABLE
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.SB- If a merchant will take care of
his space, change his copy, keep 1t fresh,
and put interesting matter into it, it will
be read as assiduously and as regularly as
the spiciest bit of gossip. AS it gets
readers, so will the dealer get custom
ers. 92t2.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-17
FINANCIAL And COMMERCIAL
Quotations OF Staple Products in the
Leading Markets
Stocks and Bonds-New York Financial
Review, Received Daily by Pullen, Crock
NEW YORK. Jan.1e

NEW LYNN,
Intense dulIness robbed tho market today
of much Significance. The weakness of
Chicago gas was continued and the short
interest appears to Lave been we'll ellni-
mated on this weeks break. Covering went
on in spasnodie way in the general list on
the advioes from " ashington insisting that
the prospects remained good for the early
passage OF the bill to legaliZe pooling. There
was no influence from the news from
France, although the crisis there deserves
watching for serious complications in the
European markets would sympathetlcally
affect our interests to some extent. Nor
was the street disturbed by the question
of gold exports. it being too early yet for
heavy withdrawals for Saturdays French
steamer The shipment of SS00,000 to
London by today's English steamer Is the
first export in that direction in many
months. Sterling exchange rules so firm
that il is considered certain that large ex-
ports will be made to Paris at the end of
the week. Should these expectations of a
continued flow of the yellow metal to
Europe be realized it would not be long be-
fore the administration would be brought
face to face with the necessity of another
issue of government bonds. 1t is daily be-
coming more apparent that no currency
legislation may be looked for from the
present session OF Congress and it seems to
US that this situation is. more important in
determining the final course of values, than
the passage of pooling measure which,
while good in itself will not furnish the
railways with the traffic ended to sustain
the present dividend paying basis. There is
an absolute lack of public interest in specu-
lation and we still are inclined to believe
that prudent policy forbids purchases on
rallies that are apparently merely due to
short covering.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-17
Portland & Worcester Line
PORTLAND & ROCHESTER, +. R.
STATION FOOT OF PkEBLE STREET /.

On and after Sunday October 20, 1894
Passenger trains win Leave Portland:
For Worcester, Clinton, Aver junction.
Nashua, Windham and Erping at 7.3O a.
IN. and 1890 p. IN.
For Manchester, Concord, and points North
at 7.2o a. IN. and 2.30 y. III.
For Rochester, Springvale. Alfred. Water
boro and saco River at 7.30 a. M, 1890 and
4.25 d. m.
For aorham at 7.30 and 9.45 a. NJ, 1880,
300 4.25, and $40 .. M.
For VVestbrOok, Cumberland Mills, West
brook junction and Woodford's at 7.30,
9.45 a. H.. 1890. SOC, 4.25. and
go p. m.
For Forest Avenue Deering), 6.2Op. m.
The 1890 p. IN. train from Portland connects
at Aver function with "Hoosae Tunnel
Route" for the West and at Union Station,
Worcester, for Providence and New York,
via "Provtdence Line" for Norwich and
New York, via Norwich Line" with Boston
g. Albany X. r. for the West, and with the
New York All Rail via Springfield"
Trains arrive at Portland from Worcester
at 1.3O p. H.; from Rochester at $50 a. me
130 and 5.50p. m.; from German
at GAO, $50 and 1o.5U u. NJ. 100.
4.15. and 900 p. N.
For through Tickets to all points West and
South, apply TO +. II. COLLINS. Ticket
Agent, Portland. Me.
j. W. PETERS, Supt.
1883 dtf
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New York Stock Mining.
Try Tpiegrapb,)
Boston Produce Market.

BOSTON. Jan. I6. IS95.-The following are
to-uav's 1uoEatlons of Provisions. Produce. etc
Pork-Long and short cuts and heavy backs
at % so: light packs $14 90: lean LENDS l6 90:
fresh ribs Sc; sausageS.
Hams at 91a 9101sc; smoked shoulders 2 "a
Bacon at @10c; corned and fresh shoulders
7c.
Lard-tierces at 7ssc y fb with pals s1sg
@8s*c y fb.
Hogs-Choice city dressed 61sc y tb; coun-
try do SAC.
Bntter-25@oe for best fresh made creamy;
fair to good at 22024c; fresh diaries 2l92212 ;
imitation 1Sc; ladle 15@16.
Cheese-Northern, best, at IL @11M GIVES
tern l01s@11c.
Eggs-Siich. 22@23c: Western at 22c: hem
nery choice. 26a2Sc: Eastern 22@23c
Poulry-Fowls, Northn, at 12@14c; chickens,
Northern choice. 13415c fowls, Western at 10
@11c; chickens ll@l2c: Northern Turkeys at
06@O0c; western do at.1 0@1 L; choice ducks IL
@l2c.
Beans-Pea 1 7oaa1 So medium at So@1 10:
yellow eyes at 1922 20: red kidneys at 2 O5
az Is; medium and pea. foreign 659l IS.
Hay-Best $1A 50@$15 SO; lower grades at
$1OG14 90: rye Straw $1l 5o@12 90.
Potatoes-Aroostook hebrons -G60c " bush:
do rose 53@b6c; N Fl hebrons at : (955; do
white stock 536B5c.: Dakota red oo@5o.
Apples-Baldwins 2 00@2 sos Greetings at
2 0odS2 SO; No Is 26@1 so.