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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

THE Retormer of Brattleboro is very
much of an anachronism, if there is any
thing in name. Inspired by para
graph from the St. Adams Messenger
respecting Vermont's system of repre-
sentation in the legislature, and it's
fruits as they appear in the election of
the judges of the supreme court, among
whom no democrat is found, the Re
former falls to berating Vermont for
adhering to system of representation
adapted only to the conditions of
another century," and brings out for a
reburnishing its rusty old slogan about
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-01-23
HIS GOOD.
How Tom Fitch of Nevada Used to 'Taise
the Wind"

How Tom Fitch of Nevada Used to 'Haise
the Wind"
Tom Fitch of Nevada was q bright
fellow and one of the best writers and
stump speakers of tho west, but he was
thriftless, and when he got hard up
would resort to almost any means to
get a stake.
One day he wrote a scathing speech
denouncing Sharon, then president Of
the Bank of California and afterward
United States senator from Nevada. In
it he charged Sharon with almost every
crime known to the decalogue or the
statutes. He put the manuscript in a
large envelope and walked into the
Bank of California.
"Here," he said to the cashier, hand
ing the package through the window,
there are some securities which l offer
as collateral ON a loan. Please hand
them to Mr.. Sharon in person, and l
will wait for his answer"
Mr.. Sharon was in his private office.
Breaking the seal of the envelope, he
found the speech and read it through,
together with o note from Fitch, in
forming him that unless he was paid
So, 900 he would deliver that speech in
every town in the state. In o few min
utes the cashier, on Mr. Sharon's order,
reported that the collateral was all
right and paid the happy Fitch the de-
sired amount.
Three months afterward, having gone
through the money in speculation and
dissipation. Mr.. Fitch made his appear
ance with another speech, this time of
a very complimentary character, which
he promised to deliver at ever conven-
lent opportunity, for the same amount.
That, too, proved good collateral, and
the story would have never come to
light if Fitch had not, in a moment of
drunken frankness, told it himself
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-01-23
CROMWELL AND HIS HORSES.
An Accident HI BefeIl the Protector
While Driving In Hyde Park.

An Accident That BefeII the Protector
While Driving In Hyde Park.
G. H. Firth, in an article ON Oliver
Cromwell's association with horses, says
in Macmillan's Magazines:
GAS Cromwell rose in power and rank
his love of horses began to be more con-
s~picuous. When he started from Lon
don in 1919 TO reconquer Ireland, he
went forth in that state and equipage as
the like hath hardly been seen himself
in a coach with six gallant Flanders
mares, reddish gray" In 1855, when
the Spanish ambassador took his leave
of the lord protector, Cromwell sent
him "his OWN coach OF six white
horses" to convey him to and from
Whitehall. Certain it is, adds the
narrator, that none of the English
kings had ever any such"
The protector was not much Of d
whip, however. In 1854 the Count CT
Oldenburg sent Cromwell a present of
six horses, and the protectors anxiety
to make trial of their quality led to his
we'll known adventure III Hyde park.
On Friday, Sept. 80, he went with Sec
rotary Thurloe and some of his gentlo-
men to take air in the park, ordered the
six horses to be harnessed to his coach,
put Thurloe inside Of it and undertook
to drive himself. His highness, +" said
a letter from the Dutch ambassador,
''drove pretty handsomely for some
time, but at last, provoking those horses
too much with the whip, they grew un-
ruly, whereby his highness was flung
out of the coach box upon the ground.
His foot getting hold in the tackling,
he was carried away a good while in
that posture, but at last he got his foot
clear, and so came to escape. He was
presently brought home, and let blood,
and after some rest taken is now we'll
again. The secretary, being hurt on his
ankle with leaping out of the coach,
hath been forced to keep his chamber
hitherto and been unfit for any bust
ness"
The royalist Scroggs. afterward chief
Justice, writing Of this incident, hoped
that the next fall would be from a cart
limiting at the gallows. AS to Crom-
wells views on the burning question of
horse racing, it is difficult to arrive at
q positive conclusion. His constant aim
was to possess as many good horses as
he could afford. Whether he entered
his horses for races CT had the satisfac-
ton Of owning q winner history does
not say.
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It Comes High to Be Rich.

Any one acquainted with the living
expenses Of persons who esteem them
selves fairly comfortable finds a signif-
cant moral in the commands laid upon
the rich by their physicians. Not only
is the wealthy patient hidden to substi-
tute costly table waters and even i'm
ported champagne for ordinary drinks,
but every detail Of his life seems regu-
lated with a view to spending the most
money for his needs. The whole world
is ransacked for food that his weak
stomach can digest, for clothing SANTA
rily suitable for his body. The infants
OF the rich are required to drink milk
at 30 cents a quart and to wear tiny
garments that exceed the cost of plain
adult clothing. 1t may very we'll be
that a child under 2 years old, fed and
clothed according to a Doctors prescrip.
tions, may cost more per annum than
the living expense of a wholesomely
clothed, fed and housed dult.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-01-23

He wore a long overcoat and o large,
dropping ohrysanthemum. Ho was about
II years old, and he was dropping worse
than the chrysanthemum. A friend
younger looking than himself helped him
ON the car, which was the one that runs
after midnight and is sometimes called in
vulgar parlanoe the ''bum car" He need
ed the help. II 1t had not been for the
support Of his companion, he would hege
been likely to fall in almost any direction.
He sunk into a seat In the farther corner
Of the car after feebly and pitifully beg
ging his friend to pay his fare and tell the
conductor where TO put him of. He bur-
led his flushed face In his hands and look
ed miserable. He felt SO.
He's pretty full for a starter, +" remark
cd somebody.
Shame to see a young fellow like that
In such a condition, " commented another.
Mean crowd Of fellows be must have
been out with to get him so drunk and let
him go home alone, - suggested a third.
"Oh, / don't believe he needs pity. He
probably has gone to work deliberately to
try to learn to be tough" said the severe
man down by the stove.
The unfortunate raised bis head lust n
tri1e and in q voice that was almost a sob
replied:
You follows think I'm drunk, but I'm
not. 1t was just a cigar-r-r. Oh-h-h-hl'
And with that he subsidized again into
silence n misery. -Bpffalo Express.
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MILTON AND GLADSTONE.
The British Statesman Challenges the Poe
as "a Translator of Horace.

The British Statesman Challenges the Poet
as a Translator of Horace.
This is Milton's rendering of Horace,
book l, ode 8 (Quis graotlus Puer):
What slender youth, believed with liquid odors,
Courts thee on roses In some pleasant cave,
Pyrrha2 For whom bind'st thou
In wreaths thy golden hair,
Plain in thy neathess? Oh, how oft shall he
On faith md changed gods complain, and seas
Dug h with black winds and storms
Unwonted shall admired
Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold,
Who always vacant, always amiable
Hopes thee, of flattering gales
Unmindful. Hapless they
To whom thou untried seem'st fairi Me in my
vow'd
Picture the sacred wall declares to have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
To the stern god Of sea.
MIR. Gladstone, at the age of 85, thus
renders these beautiful lines:
What scented STRIPPING, Pyrrha, woes thee now
In pleasant g~rotto, all with roses fair?
For whom those auburn tresses bindest thou
With simple carer
Full oft shall he thine altered faith bewail,
His altered gods, and his unwonted gaze
Shall watch the waters darkening to the gale
In wild amaze.
Who now believing gloats ON golden charms,
Who hopes thee ever void, and ever kind,
Nor knows thy ~changeful heart nor the alarms
OF changeful wind.
For me let N%eptune's temple wall declare
How safe escaped in votive offering,
My dripping garments own, suspended thore,
Him ocean king.
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Beatty's Pianos and Organs,
Hon. Daniel r. Beatty, the great Or

- W
gan and Piano man of Washington N. j.,
is buster than ever. In 1870 Nj. Beatty
left home a penniless pillow boy, and by
his indomitable will he has worked his
way up 80 as to sell SO far, nearly 100 900
of Beatty's Pianos and Organs since 1870.
Nothing seems to ~dishearten him obsta-
cles lay in his way that would have
wrecked ar ordinary man forever; he
turns to an advertisement and m out
of it brighter than ever. His instru-
ments are in use everywhere. We are
informed that during the next ten years
he intends to sell zoe, 900 more of bis
make. That means a business of $20,-
000, 900, if we average them at 500 each.
it is already the largest business of tho
kind in existence. Read his advertise
ments
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-01-23

Jim Root, the locomotive engineer
whose heroism at Hinckley caused him
to fall into the hands of a theatrical
manager in New York city, has retired
from the stage and is home again after
playing a brief engagement at a salary
of $500 per week. :
II don't like this acting business, I"
he said. ut may be all right for young
fellows, but I'm getting too old to start
in acting. 1t keeps a man up too late
nights, and I never did like a night
run. The only thing that caught me
was the salary, and / couldn't refuse
that"
1t is understood that Mr.. Root will
return to his vocation on the st. Paul
and Duluth line. St Paul Globe.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-01-23

They had fallen In love. Mimic scenes
of affection which they had oft enacted
they were now going through In earnest.
"And now" he said, I'VE must part"
Farewell, y she murmured.
Farewell, :" he replied.
"And once again farewell"
Farewell. farewell"
"Alasl We must be severed. Fare
we'll"
Farewell, " he sighed, and she respond
ed as usual. They did not cease till the
milkman came around in the gray dawn.
1t vas a strange situation indeed, but one
that could not be averted. he was an
English actor, and she was a prima don
ma inadvertently they had commenced
farewelling and couldn't stop.-Detroit
Free Press.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
Indian Territory Town Sites.

Ex-senator Henry L. Dawes, the
chairman of the Indian commission, says
that the town site question in the Indian
Territory has become one of great i'm
portance. There are now about 300, OOO
white people in the Indian Territory
They have built up towns, but are mere
tenants at sufferance, without a particle
of title to the lands on which they built.
The Indian courts are closed against
them, as are the Indian schools to their
children, 80, 900 of whom have no other
opportunity for schooling, excepting
those whose parents are able to hire prl-
vate teachers. They have no voice in the
governments of these five nations, nor
police officer to protect them or their
property against violence.
1t will be the object of the commits
sion, first, to obtain such solution of
the town site question that those who
have built up these towns and invested
large sums in costly buildings and ex-
pensive stores and trading places may
have some title to the ground upon
which the structures stand and some
voice in their government, and, secondly,
to see that the vast and valuable terri
tory shall be held either according to
the original title, for all Indians equal
", or shall be allotted in seveIalty to
them, so that each may hold his own
share in fee.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
Lyme.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Allen of Hart
ford, Conn, were in town over Sun
day.
AT the election of officers of the Y.
p. S. g. E. for the next six months,
Mrs. S. A. Converse was elected presi-
dent, Miss Jennie F. Blood. vice-presi-
dent; Hattie A. Pushee, recording Sec
rotary P. H. A. Clafin, corresponding
secretary; Marion I'll. Fairfield, Treas
urer.
Moody Chase who has just passed his
92d birthday, although feeble, rides
out. John Stark was 70 years old up.
on the same day and drives his jobbing
team every day and is as anxious for
work as ever.
John S. Kent is not as we'll as usual.
Morning Star Grange gave special
entertainment in Church Hall to which
the public was invited. Tableaux. reci-
tations with vocal and instrumental
music filled out the evening. Grand
Master of the State Grange Mcdaniel,
Mr.. Webster of Canaan and John L..
Bridgeman of Hanover were present.
Shizno Kondo, A. NJ, of Toxic,
Japan, is to give free illustrated lec-
ture on the "Grestest Modern War"
between Japan and China, illustrated
with stereoptican, Monday evening.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04

Mrs. Eliza Smith, who formerly re-
sided in this town but has been at Hav-
erhill for several years, is in town Wis
iting friends.
Tuesday morning Dea. G. Fl. Tillot.
sons horse ran away going towards
the bridge, but Martha Carr stopped
him.
The horse trot last Saturday was
more exciting than the week before
with nine horses to start. Parker
Wright was starter and about one hum
dred spectators were present. Tony 5.
won in three straight heats. The next
trot will be next Saturday afternoon.
Hon. Albert G.. Mann of Worcester,
Mass, is in town visiting his old home
and relatives. He was formec Or
ford boy but being successful stone
and marble worker at that place has
made a fortune.
A large share of our summer board
ers have gone to their various homes
but few still linger.
Miss Anna Brewster who has been
at the bridge so long, now the bridge
has been sold, has made arrangements
to 90 to her sisters at Lowell, and will
leave this week.
Clarence S Smith, who was married
some three weeks ago to Miss saba
Archer and has been visiting in Boston
and vicinity, has returned and will
now 60 to house keeping.
The following letter is just received
from Mrs. HI. E. Morey, an Oxford
lady:
OXFORD, ENGLAND, Sept. Is. 1895.
From the heart of rural England,
than which no country is more pic
turesque or beautiful, | send you a
line of greeting. l expected to have
sailed for home last Saturday by the
Campanie of the Cunard Line, but was
obliged to postpone my sailing for a
fortnight. | have been playing in the
German cities, London aud suburbs, L
am glad to say, with great success, and
shall probably return another year. L
sail for home on the Lucanie a week
from next Saturday. have just re-
turned from the Glonchester music
festival, the performances of which
were held in its celebrated cathedral.
1t aoas magnificent.
With compliments to yourself and
family, believe me dear sir, most sim
cerely yours,
Mrs. H. E. MoREY.
Compliments to all Oxford friends.
X. o. Carr is having his house paint
ed inside and out, John Leslie doirg
the Job. John has been doing some
good work in town this season.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
Piermont.

Married Sept. 26, at the Congrega-
tional parsonage, the home of the
bride, by Rev. W. A. Converse, Ernest
S. Underhill of Piermont and Miss
Bessie II. Converse, youngest daughter
of the officiating clergyman. NO cards.
The many friends of both wish them
long and happy married life. Fol-
lowing a bridal trip to the north part
of the state they will reside on the
back road in town.
Mrs. Myron Underhill of Worcester
has been visiting at her brothers, j.
Evans
Misses Myrtle and Maud Bean stop
ped in town last week while on their
way home from the mountains where
they have been spending the summer,
to their home in Bromfield, Mass.
Mrs. M. Ransom and Miss Mollie
Messer of Glenwood visited at Mr.
Converse's last week.
The buildings on the farm which
Levi Midway recently purchased OF L.
M. Rcbie, known as the Hill Chandler
place were destroyed by fire last Sat,
nrdav morning. The fire was caused
bv overturning a kerosene lantern.
Insured in the Piermont Mutual.
Married in Piermont Sept. 25th by
Rev. "A. Converse, Jeddie Lamon-
tangue of Piermont and Mrs. Ella
Holden.
Mrs. Joseph Hill has a beautiful
oleander with eighty blossoms all in
bloom. The color is nearly all white.
The plant has been very attractive for
some time.
BROOK ROAD.
Rev Mr.. Langford preached in the
school house in No. 10 last Friday eve
ming.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
VorShlre.

Mabel Beckwith of Post Mills is with
her aunt, Mrs. Silas Titus, and is at
tending school at the lower village.
The Advent Christian conference
which meets with the church in this
place commenced its sessions Thurs
day, Oct. Sd.
Mrs. Lackey is working for Mrs. j.
d. Cross.
Mrs. Paige has gone from Mr.. Mar
tins and is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Bowley, in Corinth. Her health has
greatly improved.
Silas Titus attended the Legislative
union at Montpelier this week.
Oscar Corse, a former resident, visit.
ed friends here recently.
Blanche Carlton of Bradford recent,
ly visited his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Oscar Carlton.
The rain of last week was very &C.
ceptable.
The bridge near the grist mill is be.
ing thoroughly repaired.
Mrs. Roswell Nation, mother of w.
A. Nation, is failing aud can live but
a short time.
Mr.. G. b. Drake, pastor of the Con-
gregational church. is away on vaca-
ton, and there will be no services at
that church for the next two Sabbaths,
Sunday school as usual.
October LIST, the ground was white
with frost, the coolest night of the sea.
son so far was Sept. S0th.
The Sabbath school concert at the
Advent chapel last Sunday night was
well attended and very interesting.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
Warren.

E. N. Rollins of Woodville, Mass.
has been visiting his nephew, j. E
Davis.
f. G. Gleason and wife are taking
a trip to New York.
Carl Kittredge has taken to himself
better half and is keeping house over
the store.
Fred N. Clark of Tilton, formerly
clerk in the store of G. W. Cum
mings, is in town spending few days
of his honeymoon with his brother,
George Clark. Fred is fine young
man and we wish him long and happy
life.
The painter has got the passenger
and freight station painted, it is as
good station as anywhere on the line
and one the public can be proud of.
Warren is growing fast in way of sum-
mer visitors and now it will take on a
new boom in that line.
Breezy Point has closed up for the
season and they say it has been the
best for several years, the travel on
Moosllauke has been more than for any
previous year.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
These Were Made Out of Safes That Had
Been Robbed.

These Were Made Out OF safes That Had
Been Robbed.
Not long ago Star writer had occa-
sion to be in western Missouri. Just
north Of Kansas City about 10 miles
is the title town of Parkville. 1t is built
up on the two sides of valley which
opens against the broad Missouri, and
The hamlet might contain perhaps so
houses. Among other matters, however,
it shelters a seminary of considerable
local fame which teaches both boys and
girls the higher branches of an educa-
ton, but with which just now we have
nothing to do. The main street of the
village runs along the bottom of the
valley at right angles with the Missouri
river.
The Star writer was sitting in front
of one of the stores smoking a very bad
cigar of local origin and coSversing with
the merchant who had sold it. 1t was
about o'clock in the afternoon, and
many of the country people were COM
ing into town. A country girl of the re-
gion came cantering up on a bareback
horse and slid off on what, now that
The Star mans attention was called to
it, he noticed was a queer sort of horse
| block.
It was nothing more or less than an
old rusty safe of considerable size. 1t
had apparently lain there for years and
when examined disclosed a suspicious
| looking hole in one side, clearly the
work of explosives. At this point the
attention Of the investigator from the
east was called to two other safes, sim
ilarly exploded and also lying on their
sides in the street and doing duty as
horse blocks.
"How about these safes?" asked The
| Star man of the Parkville merchant.
"What story goes with them?'
"Nuthin much of story, remarked
the Parkville merchant, helping him
self to a thoughtful chew of tobacco
"Them safes have laid right thar where
YOU all see 'em since '73. They wuz
dragged out there and busted by Guam
trell and Jess and Frank James and the
Younger brothers, along with the rest of
| Quantrell's gang. They come chargin
down the street one day in June and
TUX the town in about a minute and a
half and then went fur them safes.
Money wuz mighty popular with GUAM
trell and the James boys, and they usu-
ally went arter all they heard of. "
Glow much did they get from the
safest"
81 dunno how much they got from
them on t'other side of the street, said
the Parkville man. "They hunted 3d.
800 out n mine," and here he pointed
sadly at the safe nearest to him, the one
on which the young rustic had just
alighted-
twas that safe yours?" was asked.
eyes" he answered. 81 KEEP store
then right whar I do now and jest as
l do now"
"Why haven't you removed the
safes?"
whats the use?" observed the Park
vile man. 'They amt in nobody's
way, and they do first rate fur boss
blocks. Nuther thing, we amt got no
carts nor tackle strong enough to move
'em nohow. So we jest let 'em go as
they lay, as they say in faro. Wash
| ingtOn Star.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-10-04
OrfOrdVill0,

Grace Trussell spent Sunday at her
fathers, B. f. Trussell.
Oscar Laselle and wife are living in
the Lathrop.
Edwin Franklin and mother went to
New Bedford Tuesday to visit his sis
ter, Mrs. Emerson Smith.
Hazen Pebbles family have been en-
tertaining friends the past week.
Beals & Son are building a store
house for their furniture.
Franklin Bros. raised 2530 stocks of
corn on six acres of ground.
The chicken pie supper last week was
a success, S23 being made.
Mrs. Lathrop had two sisters visit
her last week.
The church is rapidly progressing
and will be a great addition to the
place. If some of the useless old
buildings in the village could be torn
down it would add greatly to the looks
of the place.