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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

A year old child OF Douglas Forester
and wife that has been i'll all winter,
died Monday
March weather! The thermometer
Monday morning was at zero, Tuesday
morning it was seven below, and We'd
nesday morning at zero.
Will S. Allen and Fred Rano have
taken one of David Eddy's sugar lots
to carry on tins spring. They have
1900 buckets.
The young mems musical club Will
give an entertainment and sugar eat at
the town hall Friday evening, March
9th.
Miss Lizzie Amsden has gone to
work at Orange, Mass. Miss Leila
Howard of Bellows Falls is visiting
friends and relatives here. &C. n. Wy
Lnan and wife are visiting friends at
Manchester and vicinity. C. W.
Fifield of Putney was here over Sunday
at Alvin Frosts He got the two FIRST
fingers of his right hand too near a
buzz saw Mrs. will Phelps is very
sick C. w. Holton is a little better.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

Through a mistake at the Reformer
office the West Townshend news APP
peared last week under the head OF
Nottingham.
". 4. Lawrence has completed his
logging Job having drawn one 100, 900
feet of logs 10 Dea w. II. Taft's mill.
The Junior Endeavorers have chosen
the following officers for the next six
months: Pres. Florence Kidder: Vice
Pres. Lottic Whipple: Sec, Lottie
Barrett.
The sugar makers are all ready TO
make sugar. INIT are waiting for good
weather.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27
LOCAL
ABOUT THE COUNTY

NnNIhsb"m'
Next Sunday is to be foreign mis-
sionary day at the Baptist church
Elmer Reed of Wilmington was in
town Monday. Archie Fowler OF
North Adams, Mass, is stopping at
home few days. Horace Wing of
North Adams, Mass, is visiting re'a.
tives in town. Al BRAN Chase IS laid
up again with his old complaint. =,
John Powplaski reioices in the arrival
II II little l'olander. Byron Boyd Wis
tied few days with his COUSIN, Rob
bic Chase. Tom Storms has gone to
Newfane to have his hands treated
that he froze some time ago Miss
Craven of Jacksonville exchanged
with Elder McKen lie last Sunday. -
Carrie Wheeler and children went to
Boston Monday and will be sone for
a few weeks.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

No sugar made,yet although few
buckets have been set.
Mr.. Tompkins,, who lives on the old
Jerry Weatherhead place, suffered a
paralytic shock on Tuesday from which
he is not expected to rally. John Gale
was in Rutland and Middlebury the
first of the week on business. Mrs. X.
Orcutt is still confined to the bed.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27
NtlliaIlisyilIe.

About 40 couples attended the dance
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dix and daughter of
Whitinoham have been visiting at S.
p. Fairbanks. Mrs p X. White and
Aaron have gone TO Willimantic,
Conn, for two weeks stay. Mrs.
G. Lamb has been very sick. C. b.
Lamb of Greenfield and Mrs. n. l..
Staples of Brattleboro are at G. X.
Stedman's helping care for her. Hast
ings Williams, one of the Barre schol.
ars. is home for short vacation.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

"Success is the reward of merit, "
not of assumption. Popular appreci-
alton is what tells in the long run.
For fifty years, people have been us
sDg Ayers Sarsaparilla, and to-day it
is the blood purifier most in favor
with the public Ayers Sarsaparilla
a.aares
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

Children never object to taking Adj
amson's Cough Balsam. 1t is pleas
ant to the taste, always relieves the
soreness Of the lungs at once and make
restful sleep at night possible when ali
other remedies fail.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-27

Halls Hair Remover renders the
hair lustrous and silkey. gives it an
even color, and enables women to nut
1t up in great variety of STYLES.
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It rose at least 90 feet above the sur rounding swamp, contained perhaps five acres, and was covered by a dense growth of live oak, rubber, mastic and magnolia trees, with very little under growth.
 Our adventurers estimated they were five miles from the edge of the swamp, and, naturally, supposed that theirs were the first human footsteps to tread this beautiful but inaccessible spot. What, then, was their surprise to find near the center of the island five or six ancient buildings, now rotting down, but in a fair state of preserYa- tion.
 They were all ono-story high, some with two and others with only one large room, ana were built entirely of hewed logs and rived boards of cy- press wood.
 The logs, hewed to straight edge OH four sides, were laid with the broad faces down, dove tailed together at the corners and chinled with kind of concrete which had become as hard as stone, making the walls tight and solid. The floors were made Of smaller tim
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more than mile or so; nor had any man, so far as was known, gone further
 Singletary, who was noted for his skill as B turkey hunter, had long been puzzled by the fact that turkeys flushed near the swamp would often fly straight into it, where, as far as he knew, there was neither feeding ground nor resting place. Time and again he followed as far as he dared, only to find that the tirds had gone into deeper reeesses; and he would wait in vain for their re turn. He might find the flock on the old ground a week or a mouth later. but where had they b5en in the in. terval?
 Puzzled over the matter, he argued: ''Turkeys do not go 25 or 30 miles to feed, and then return. There must be high ground not very far from the swamp to which they go to feed o. escape pursuit. If so, it may be worth Investigating. It may be a regular feeding and breeding place for turkeys; it may be stocked with bear and deer; or there may be Indian mounds and buried treasure; and 1t may not be so very hard to get to, who knows?"
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miles, in a straight line. All the afternoon they pressed on, making somewhat better progress. and at sun down reached a spot of open cypress, where the ground, though soggy. was now free from surface water. They estimated that they were about 3h miles direct from their starting place. Here they built fire and camped for the night. They determined to start at daybreak the next morning and go on until noon, unless high ground should be discovered sooner; if noth- ing was reached by noon, they would turn back.
 They were walked with the earliest g1immer of the next day by the t1um- peting of famingoes, the squawleing of herons and the believing of gators and croal1ing of frogs. As soon as it was light enough to see they started on.
 Just before noon they were rewarded by glimpse of high land ahead, which was reached at last by swimming through a few yards of deep water, beyond which the bluff banks of high hammock island came sloping down.
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WHO WE'RE THE BUILDERS2
Remarkable Structures on an
 Island in Florida Swamp.
How the Discovery Was Iade-PeriIous Exploration-A Deserted Village Diked by Five Miles of Almost I'm
 passabIe Morass.
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Southern Florida is still, to a con- siderable extent, an unexplored coun- try. Many of its immense swamps, full of rank tangled vegetation and al l.. most bottomless mud, have never yet been penetrated by white men. There are places covered by few inches of water, where pole may be thrust down 20 feet without touching anything solid; where it is impossible to sink or swim, and any animal stepping upon the treaeherous surface is drowned.
 Near q great swamp of this character lived recently a hunter named James Singletary; but though raised on it's border, he had never penetrated ii
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and L.. sen told that Gne iame and prestige they acquired through their sitters should be ample compensation. These remarks are attributed to two men, one af whom has held very high office indeed, and another of whom as- pires to it. So the artists have held meeting and solemnly vowed to charge eminent men a good round fee in ad- vance before beginning to paint them. The grievance of the knights of the brush is shared in by many New York hotel proprietors and tradesmen. Gel brities who visit New York are no- toriously slow in paying their bills Members of the United States senate are especially remiss in this respect. The consequence is a tendency to fight shy of celebrities, for they have achieved very bad name in the me- tropolis. They cannot be very well dunned, and to sue them brings down the condemnation of all "slow pay" celebrities. The great men are setting a bad example.
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 wants her rich We shall have the duke among us next summer. The competition to "bag" him will be in tense, but only our richest plutocrats need enter the race. His mother, it will be remembered, was Miss Yznaga, of New York, and his full name is Will liam Angus Droge Montagu. There seems to be no doubt that he will en- gage himself to an American heiress before returning to England, and New York society is on the qui vive. The liveliest terror is expressed that he may escape to Chicago and be 'bagged" by an heiress there. The duke resembles his mother greatly. That lady intro duced the Japanese craze into New York, and the famous Japanese picture of herself, which she presented to the then Mrs. w. K Vanderbilt, still adorns the Vanderbilt gallery She always opposed her sons American friend ships, and would never let the duke come over here. He is by no means rich, and his bride must be worth $3, 100000 at least in order to get him. We're it not for us, the British dukes would have to go to the aims house.
 DAVID WECusLER.
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egate to the convention, he is in honor bound to see that no effort is made to bring him in even as second choice. This effectually kills the Depew boom. The great after-dinner orator has been addressing himself of late to the sub ject of Mir. Morton's age. He points out that the longer a man lives the longer he is likely to live, being an excellent liver by the time he reaches 70. Mir. Morton, says Mir. Depew, is bound to the earth by ties of duty, and cannot leave it until he has served term as president. q wouldn't agree to pay Mir. Morton an annuity for good round sum. He is too healthy to make it pay.n It looks as if Mir. Depew and not Mir. Platt would be the master mind of the Morton forces when the great gather ing assemblies. The Morton feeling in Pennsylvania is attributed largely to Mir. Depew's diplomatic games.
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He often talked the matter over witt, his neighbor Joe Evans, also a skilled and resolute hunter, and at last they de- termined to make the attempt
 Accordingly, they started on bright morning; each carrying small hatehet, hunting knife, rifle, compass, a coil of rope and Q small rubber bag contain ing provisions and ammunition.
 The first half mile was easily passed. Beyond that lay unknown dangers and difficulties. Progress was slow; every step had to be cautious. They proceed ed in single file, some distance apart. and connected by rop<.knotted around their bodies, so that if the leader should step into bog, quicksand, or alliga- tors hole, the other would pull him out.
 Often for hundreds of yards, wading in water and slime knee deep, they had to cut a passage with their hatehets through the dense undergrowth. Often they came to boggy places, which could only be avoided by long detours to the right or left. Occasionally there was narrow lane of deep water where it was necessary to swim.
 Animal life w. s chiefly represented by alligators and snakes, and care had Q be used to avoid stepping into the jaws of one or being bitten by the other. Many of the "'gators" were 12 to Is feet long, and showed little fear of the strangers or disposition to yield the way; while the cotton-modth moccasin, more dreaded than rattlesnakes, be- cause equally venomous and more vi- sious, were numerous.
 At noon they rested awhile on big cypress log, and estimated that they had penetrated the swamp about 1h
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4 Good Reply.

X number Of prominent literary men were at one time gathered together in well-known chophouse in New York. The conversation was, of course, brilliant, and the repartee sparkled with mirth and wit. During a Hull i'll the talk the door was slowly opened, and an old southern darlly, grizzled with age, poled his head in, and then slowly drew his body after him. A waiter immediately started to eject him, when one of the gentlemen cried out: Wait moment! Let's see what he wants" The old darky hobbled up to the table where this gentleman sat, and held out his hat. Throwing wink to his neighbors, the gentleman took the hat and, making show of placing something into it, bravely passed it on to the next gentleman, who did likewise. The hat made tour of the entire room, to the puzzled wonder of the darl1y. The last man to receive it solemnly handed it back, with very polite bow, saying: There, sir, don't you think you have something to be thankful for?" The old darl1y looked slowly round the com pany and, mechanically taking the hat, said: "Gen'men. Is indeed tanl1ful dat Is eben got de hat back" The reply was so thoroughly enjoyed by the com pany that the old darky left the place a much richer man than he had entered it.-Harper's Round Tahlc,
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m ovement for CHURCH UNION.
 church union has all along appeared very chimerical to the conservative clergy, recent events seem to indicate very near approach to it. Bishop Pot ter is the most sanguine in his eXpecta- tions, and is working very hard to bring it about. He anticipates very bene- fieial effects from the forthcoming cncyclical of Pope Leo on the subject. It is not improbable that a reply to his holiness in the spirit of his eneycliea. will be made by the American clergy. thanking him for his efforts in behalf of cause too long neglected. Bishop Potter, by the way, is one of the few American clergy, outside of the Catholis church, of whom the pope has heard. He expressed a warm admiration for him and for Phillips Brooks to party of American pilgrims in Rome some years ago. It is odd, however, that tie church union outside of New Yorl should be so very weak
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EARLIEST RAp,sHEs AND PEAS.

The editor urges all readers to grow she earliest vegetables. They pay Well, Salzer's Seeds are bred to earli- ness, they growand produce every time. None so early, so fine as Salzer's. Try his radishes, cahbages. peas, beets, cu- rumbers, lettuce, corn, etc.l Money in 1t for you. salzer is the largest grower of vegetables, farm seeds, grasses, clov- FITS, potatoes, etc.
 IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND to the John A. Salzer Seed Co, La Crosse, Wis.,, with 1oc postage, you will get sample package of Early Bird Rad ish (ready in. 16 daysl and their great catalog. Catalog alone hc postage. tK)
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 brothers dined with her en famille It is very important to the Belmonts to have no discussion in the family at the present time, because Perry Bel mont is anxious to make the run for governor of New York and he will need all the influence he can muster. Perry Belmont presented to his sister in-law the famous medallion of the dey of Algiers, given to his immortal grandfather by that potentate himself. August has placed his racing stable at the couples disposal, and they will often be at his stud when the European tour is over. While abroad the Belmonts will be for a. time the guests of Am bassador Bayard. It was q peculiar piece of gaucherie, however, to announce that Mrs. Belmont, as mother of the duchess of Marlborough, will be pre- sented to Queen Victoria. Under no circumstances can divorced women be presented to her majesty. 1t is an nounced that the Fifth avenue palace to be built by O. H. P. Belmont will cost fully $1,oo0,oo0. This fact shows how greatly his wealth has increased during the past ten years.
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bers, hewed to about four inches in thickness, and showed the wear, seem ingly, of several generations of con- stant use. In each building there were loop holes, but whether for guns or bows and arrows could not be told; and there were pegs and shelves on which to hang or place household arti- cles.
 Evidently the work had not been done by Indians. By whom, then, and what had become of the builders? Sin gletary and Evans staid two days, seeking in vain for some solution, and then returned. The news of their dis coyery awakened great interest, but no one was found who could throw any light on the subject.
 In the absence of certain knowledge, there are eonjectures some of which at least seem plausible.
 All trace of a Spanish colony on the southern gulf coast of Florida, ante dating the foundation of St. Augustine, was lost, and what became of them has never been known. They may have been the builders.
 In the early part of the century many negro slaves, escaping from owners in Georgia and the Carolinas, took refuge with the Indians in Florida; and q party of these, under an able and reso- lute leader, may have been driven to the swamp to escape pursuers, and discov- ering the islands, may have built these houses. Here, at least, they could be free.
 Or the builders may have been refu. gees from justice, or from religious persecution-vho knows?
 k. G. ROBINSON.
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among us with an object similar to that of his aristo- cratic brother of
 M arl b O T O ugh. This new aristo- cratt is none other than the young and single duke of Manchester. This youthful person will not be 20 un- til next year, but he wants anAmer- icaO wife and he
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 to do nothing to create pro- British sentiment in the United States. It is very odd, accord ing to European diplomats, that Sir Julian does nothing to make his coun- try popular in America. Our own Bay ard is always saying sweet things to the English and keeping them ina good humor. But when diplomatic tangle arises, To! all America jumps on John Bull. The Spectator of London has been pitching into Sir Julian as the "stewed cat of diplomacy moving weak ly at the moon, with no voice that his American cousins will hear. According ly it is proposed to replace him by brilliant member of the British diplo= matic establishment-a man who can talk like Chauncey M.eDepew and be generally effective. Sir Julian is no tall6er, and he has not succeeded in do- ing anything in particular except ne- gotiate one or two advantageous treat- ies. He is no society man, either; he is, in short, blank. Much interest is expressed in the personality of the man who replaces him. Sir Julian, however, does not want to go and will do his best to remain. But he will have to spruce up bit.
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that the BelInOuUS are incensed at
 their kinsman for having mar ri c d the lady who was
 Mrs. Vanderbilt. T h e B e l m O Il t brothers are so annoyed by the cir cul a tion of these stories they went out of their way to prove their falsitv. Bef O e t h e B e l m O n ts
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i Il t 0 an agree nent that reflects very seriously up- on some celeb
 rites of national
 eminence in this country. It seems that not a few great men have a habit of sitting to famous portrait painters in New York and then forpettinp to pay
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brought the clergy Of all denomina- tions together, ana greatly accelerated the movementin ia
 vor ofchureh union. To employ the pie tllresque phrases of Bishop Potter, the very chure h steeples appear te embrace each other.
 dt Il O u t h eI
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him as New York s choice for t h e presidency II e went to the length of having it pri- vately intimated to his friends that as he is a Morton man it would be indelicate in him to counten a n c e any attempt to boom himself. Afr. Depew added that
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c Q Il corning Sir Julian Pa u II c e : fote, the British am bassador, that is important, if
 true. It seems that he has given dissatisfaction to the British for eign office in a W a y t h a t W a 8 made conspicuous during the Vene-
 zuelan affair. That sc, Lo -Oo,,,1 okla
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SELF-coNTRoL is promoted by humility Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. II keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility Is the antidote to this evil.-Mrs. Sigorney
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LAM entirely cured of hemorrhage of lungs by Piso's Cure for Consumption.-LoUisA LINDAMAN, Bethany, Mo, Jan. 5, '94.
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FoR relieving THROAT DISEASES AND CoUGBs, use stBrol0n'S Bronchial 1foches. /"
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 Another Duke

New York society is preparing to receive another duke. soon to arrive
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War and Clergy,

The unanimity of the pulpit in New York in the desirability of peace has
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CHIEFLY, the mold of a mans fortune is in his own hands.-Bacen.
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Pauncefote In Trouble.

The great financiers of Wall street have got hold of a piece of information
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Bel nonts and Their New
 Sister-in-Law.
A New Duke Comes to Wed Celebrities Who Will Not Pay Their Bills Depew Is Annoyed by
 Politicians.
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No misunderstanding could be great CT than the one prevailing to the effect
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Depew Disgusted.

Chauncey NJ. Depew is not 6 little annoyed by the attempts made to boom
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A TYRANT never tasteth of true friend ship, nor of perfect liberty.-Diogenes.
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Delinquent Celebrities.

The great portrait painters of New York have found it necessary to enter
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their bills. Some of the artists have aespaired of ever getting their money,
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is, he seems able
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-09
WHEELING REGISTER THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895.

adjusted? OF course the chiffon coat
NAV be high neclled as well as low, and
NAV be worn over any kind Of a bodice.
In any case the effect IS magical and the
demure tailormade girl in town all day
shopping. appears Of a sudden delicious
Is elaborated for dinner when every one
knows her bag wasn't big enough TO have
held the new dress she seems to have
donned
The coat bodice that is pictured here
carno, be well directed to such tricky
use. but it is so unusual as to advertise
it's newness, which is an advantage that
compensates for its being confined to
use with one dress. Its ripple back is
OrlamsnJed with buttons, its fronts turn
back n revers that extend into q sailor
collar. and are Of white satin embro.der-
ed with iridescent spangles with border
Ing eff blue fox. The vest is Of black
ana white striped satin and a similar
garn.tura appears on the sleeves, whose
pu1s are shirred to it a, the side, leav-
Ing the inside Of the arm plain. Satin,
spangles ana fur. appear on the collar.
ana the skirt has trimming Of black
velvet and buttons. A two toned cloth
was the dress soods as ske.cled.
FLOURETTE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-09
WOOL.

BOSTON, January S.-The American
Wool and Cotton Reported viii say TO-
morrow of the wool trade:
The sales in the three o bT ad6 ma
which 29i250O pounds have been domestic
stock and 3 7S6 500 pounds foreign A com
paratively week was to be expected are
the remarkable activity or Chris'l t.t,.
week. There has. however, been a talr
amount of business done. A fair demand
EXISTS for most kinds Of domestic and IoI-
eign wool and the market Is from eFeLty
point of view as strong as II was Oh me
last day of December ,,,.o
In Boston the sales this. week nave
amounted to 100000 pounds, OF Wh!cn
S0 pounds were domestic. The saie5
in the corresponding period OF 40 ~
. "a $50 mounds This market from ever
1,,oinf Of view is as strong as it was on the
last dav of December, 1910.