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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
The Story of
Try OF
Puriitana.

Prof. Dixi Crosby, NJ. d., IL. d.,
who for thirty-two years was at the
Lead of Dartmouth Medical College,
belonged to the famous Crosby family
of physicians, which for several gencr-
ations has furnished more distin-
guished medical men than any other
family in America. His father was
DIR. Asa Crosby, of Dartmouth, who
procured the charter of the State
medical society, of which he was for
thirty years conspicuous member;
one brother, DR.. Josiah Crosby, in
vented the invalid bed and the method
of making extensions of fractured
limbs by adhesive strips; another
brother, DR.. Thos. r. Crosby, was
chief surgeon in Columbian College
Hospital during the war, and later
professor of animal and vegetable
physiology at Dartmouth College;
while DR.. Dixi Crosby himself was
the inventor and discovercr of various
important improvements in medicine
and surgery, including a new and
unique mode of reducing metacarpo-
phalangeal dislocation, opening of alb
sceSS dU nlp-JOlnU, etc., etc.
At the early age of twenty-four his
extraordinary skill and success in over
coming disease had already attracted
the attention of medical men through
out the world, and won for him the
highest honors. His greatest achieve
ment was the discovery of an original
method for perfecting and compound
ing in permanent form what has be-
come known as his "prize formula"
and which, under the name of Puri-
tana, is legally protected.
The foundation of this remarkable |
medical discovery consists of simple
New England roots and herbs, and The |
original family recipe for it has de-
scended to the long line of Crosby |,
from their Puritan ancas- |
tors. Its peculiar vegetable compost
ton rendered it necessary to brew it |
whenever needed in the early days of |
its history, and after the scattering of I
the Puritan families to remote local. .
ties, where the necessary ingredients
were not to be found, many attempts
were made to put it up in permanent
nm, all of which failed until DR.. Dixi
Crosby discovered means and methods,
the result of which is: Natures Cure
in the laboratory of
Common Sense.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
A DANDELION.

q, golden hear, a cleaning in the grass
ON fair morn o. Nav,
stoop to touch you softly as pass
Along the common way.
Ihlnklhg of one blue sky and white .cloud ldav
men, Tree from yeNing care
pulled and curled your stems in childish MIA
Ana wove them in her hair -
Or breathed across your phantom seed sphere
with wonder and delight
10 see you, spirit like. rise in the air
Ana vanish out OF sight.
bS,ieNing while watched your shining flight.
me bfooding, blessed Power,
Mysterious and silent as the Iiyht
Would bring You back, flower.
An, sweet child trust that bides through sun and
shower, wa '''e Al S"" an"
IN wisdom all unskiled;
a,tSf long storms will come fateful hour
when 1t shall be fUlGlled
chilled, ' i' "''
, Bloom In the wayside grass
The hover comes back and with beart s,r.,,o:,,
thrilled
We bless IL as We pass.
-lAnnie l. Muzuy
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
YOUNG CORPORAL JIM.
Twas down IN the valley in sixtyf four,
Just one wear ere the uar w9s n'.4r

Twas down in the valley in sixty.four.
! Just one year ere the war was Ger,
| That Young jim joined Us, gallant and'gay
! As fun nedged private IN old Troop
! His eyes were as big and as bright as girls,
Aud close 10 his head crept hisIshort tawny curls
! Ana iis figure was graceful and .the and slim
| As a willow that grows near the rivers brin.
| lie was only a lad not beyond eighteen,
But the tmngs that he knew and sights he had
seen
Were marvellous even to soldiers old
And though gentle In nature his spirit was bold
30 they made him corporal so gallant and gay,
And he carried the guidon in old Troop X.
twas close june morning, the east just gay
Win the fainicst gllmmer of breaking day;
Inc trumpets were sounding the reyliie,
When of 10 the north, like surging sea
tame the rattle OF muskets, the rolling of drums,
Ana 10 arms sang the trumpets, TO arms, the foe
comes
Twas the prettiest fight. sir, You ever did see,
lhouEh from where we lay low In reserve with
Troop Il
1t seemed that the JOhnnies were having their
way,
Till the General sent word for charge by Troop
h
Prepare to mount, mount" just as cooi as at
drill.
"Trot, gallon" then Charge" and we rode
for the hill.
A. the very first yoley both officers dropped.
For momont we wavered, we almost were
stopped,
When Just like flash to the front young Jim
popped,
waved the guidon on high while we ali held our
breath,
And then like hero rode straight to his death.
Did we carry the place? just you read the re.
port
That Phil Sheridan made to the point sharp and
short;
While the troops all fought WELL the event of
the day
Was the taking of Mound Hill by galioping TX, :"
And jim. yes, we found him quite close 10 the
hill,
Shot clean through the head, sir, all quiet and
still.
Fast clasping the guidon he lay on the sod,
Ills young bonny face turned straight up TO his
We buried him close to the spot where he fell
From that death-dealing shower of bullets and
she'll
We gave him headboard the best that we
could
Not much twas to look at, of implanted wood,
but one fellow, a poet, wrote this ON the board
corp JIM, who died game in his boots, and the
Lord"
= As Told by aNeteran, by Thomas H. Wilson,
L. ). Army.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

1t is faith in something and enthu
sasm for something that makes a lif
worth looking at.
| If piling up dollars is all that
man lives for, his soul shrinks witt
every dollar he makes.
The passions, like heavy bodies dowr
steep hills. once in motion, move them
selves and know no ground but the
| bottom.
We do not see as we should the pro
found, and eternal truths in the com
mon things and happenings of every
day life. Much that we call by the
mysterious name genius is only the
power to generalize the great princi-
pies that lie in simple commonpaces.
At the bottom of every leaf stem is
a cradle, ana in il is an infant germ
and the winds will rock it. ard the
birds will sing to il all summer long
and next season it will unfold. So God
is working for you and carrying for.
ward to the perfect development all
the processes of your lives. Henry
Ward Beecher.
Abraham sought all his life for a
country which he never received. But
he got something better in his un-
ayaiing search his faith was grow ing
all the while; his thoughts and hopes
were turned into spiritual things Of
which the earthly possessions he
sought were only shadows. SO it is in
the disappointment of our praying /:
what we seek We find not, but mean
while we are getting blessings Il
thousand times better. On weary paths
of earth where We toll in search of
supposed blessings, We are really ris-
ing step by step on invisible stairs,
and reaching blessings of which the
earthly illusions vera only pictures.
Rev. j. Il. Miller, d. d.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
HERE AND HEREAFTER.


Whenever any one receives Jesus as u
guest, he ought to give Him the Upper
Room. For it happens that there are
| fashions in this matter OF spiritual
hospitality and though they are al
we'll intended, they are not all equally
successful. Some receive Jesus IN the
public room where the work of life is
done, an He will not despisc their la
borious service-the anxious Marthas
of the Christian devotion. But she
could have done better for Jesus.
Some pay Him court in that austere
room where the accounts OF life are
kept and audited, and Jesus has not
come to belittle then obedience, who
are of ST. James righteous kind. But
there is something higher than law.
Some delight to see their Master in
the room that is lined with books OF
ancient learning, and Jesus hath
tender regard for the st. Pauls that
must know the mysteries OF His per-
SON Yet there is something far above
theology For some have not been con
tent to behold Jesus anywhere save in
the room which has windows to the
gray east and the golden west, and all
day long is full Of warm light, and
WUtH DtSuS. Wtdl Ittl al VOL uiuhy 'iait
less journeys, is brought within the
door, He is satisfied, as one who has
come home. This is sometimes called
st. Johns room, because he wrote
pleasantly about it and the things he
had seen from It's windows ;and no one
will gainsay that it is the upper room.
For work is good and righteousness is
good, and knowledge is good, and hui
mility is good, but best of all is love.
And all the other rooms in the soul
are gathered under love. Be sure he
vii! not fail in sacrifice who love the
Lord his conscience will be tender
that is bathed in love, an no one can
know deep mysteries who does not |
love. Love is Jesus chosen guest |
chamber, and he that has Jesus for a
guest has power, and goodness and
truth and God. Ian Macaren in
The Upper Room. -
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
OF Course il Is Wrong.

| In order to reduce our state expenses,
| it would seem to be necessary for the
! House of Representatives to have a
committee on appropriations which
shall be such in fact as well as in name
and which shall report detailed bill,
as does the similar committee in the
National House.
The Appropriation bill as in the
National House give every appropria-
ton in detail, down TO the smallest
item one of the bills covers many
ages, and from its perusa one can
see the exact cost of even the most
insignificant service rendered the gov
eminent.
In our state on the contrary. the
House committee on appropriations
deals only with lump sums and the bill
for the support of the government"
makes less than one page of large type.
In the last legislature, for instance,
the bill in question appropriates a
lump, sum OF $3.50, 600 for the year 1894
80 and S425, 600 for 1866, for the
purpose of paying such demands
against the state as may be allowed by
the Auditor of Accounts.
This appropriation covers all the
running expenses of the state except
the cost of the legislature and of the
penal institutions and the in terest ac-
count.
AS practical matter, the only linn
itation resting upon the various depart
ments of the state government is the
approval or disapproval of the auditor
and to less extent of the governor
As a rule everything goes of which
the Auditor approves, and thus the
appropriations are really made by the
auditor and not by the people through
their representatives in the General !
This system-or rather no.system-
is radically wrong and new departure |
should be made by the Legislature
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to 3
days. Its action upon the system is
remarkable and mysterious. 1t re-
moves at ence the cause and the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits; 70 cents,
Sold by Geo. +. Green, druggist,
Brattleboro.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

As the strength of a building de
Ponds upon the solidity of its founda.
ton, SO health depends upon the con-
dition of the blood. To expel impuri-
ties and to cause the vital fluid to be-
come vigorous and life. giving, Ayers
the most powerful and
effective medicine in use.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

The best way to avoid scalp diseas-
es, hair falling out. and premature
badness is to use the best preventive
known for that purpose. Halls Hair
Remover
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

Computed reserve (Actuaries' per cent
Sl0,255, O9.24
Extra reserve on Life Rate Endowment
Policy, Sj9,570.36
Losses, endowments, surrender values
and dividends in process of pay
ment, Sl,ta5.l IL
Surplus a per cent basis) l,442,7 1850
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

iE,-thf-NNf bE1AhihfNl-
The undersigned, Insurance Commissioners,
hereby certify that pursuant to law, they have
this day made the customary annual examination
Of the affairs of the National Life Insurance Com
Hny of Montpelier, Vermont, and have verified
Its schedule of assets, by the production and
scented therein, and find them to agree with the
respective items of the Company's annual state
ment, for the year ending December 81, 1885
Dated at Montpelier, this 9TH day of Jan. ls.s.
(Signed) CHAUNCEI W. BRowNELL Sec. OF state,
HENRY r. FIELD, State Treasurer.
Insurance Commissioners Of Vermont
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD.
New London Division.
Taking effect Dec. -, 1895.
GOING SOUTH.
VOL. Xxx. NO. a.,

Trains leave Brattleboro as follows;
5,Sl m, for Springfield and New lorh'
$40 am, for Milers ALE. Palmer and New r ~.
don. Connecting at Mi.lers Falls win fll,l
burg X. r.. at Palmer with Boston A,9aD!
II. r., at Willimantic with New England D.
at New London with y. Y, y. Ii. ana H. Ii l.
9 % a. M, for Springfield and New l0IA ,.,.
1870 m, for Mlllers Falls and stations on fiNI
burg K. r.. Palmer and stations oil bo'0s
Albany X. r., and for New London.
2.l3 pm, mail train for Springfield.
4.25 p M, for Millers Falls and stations OF W. X.s
burg r. r., Palmer and New London anu NV
York via Norwich Line.
4.37 pm, for Springfield and New YORK
GOING NORTH,
Trains arrive at BrattIeboro as teuoN' rHs
1925 am, from New York via NorWlcA I1''
New London, Palmer and Millers FANS
IL a. m, from Springfield. ,ua.-
Los pm, from New London, Palmer 81" "'H'''
Falls.
2.06 pm, from Springfield and New lors
$40 pm, from New York and sprlnght1;, cn.,
$40 pm from New London. Palmer ana A''''
Falls
1906 pm, from New York and Springueiu
AS-Subject TO change without notice
D.MACKENZlE, Supt, New London:
S. W. CUMMINGS, q. p. A., =: Aloaus ,,,
j. A. SOUTHARD, d. ?. A., New Lopl''
ely
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

&c: of your druggist this great iseaseeonq uering dis
cnteTy tthe pneeis 81 Tor hH complete treatment con.
slsng Of one bottle Of pur ana, bottle Purituna
Pills, and one bottle of PurnR Tablets AL cnclscl in
one p2ckege q write us aht you will bless the day when
Lon heard Of l'uriiaua. Tie Purltana Compound Co.
Concord, n, Ii. '
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08

puritana is the prize formula OF |
Prof. DiXi Crosby, NJ. D., Ii. D.,
for over 80 years at the head of |
Dartmouth Medical College.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-08
Sl2,I47,75S.2I

Paid policy holders since organization,
81, I0a.deI. 30
%, 742 Policies in force, insurng s6!',723 $500
1923 Policies issued and reyivedin IS95.
insuIing l5,SiiS n53, 90
CHARLES DEWEY, Pres. GEO. W. REED,Sec.
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them his blessing and accompany them

them his blessing and accompany them
with his spirit"
The lesson of the evening was Love"
theme on which the pastor spoke with
tender feeling. He quoted Christ's epitome
of the commandments.
And, behold, certain lawyer stood up and
tempted him, saying, Master, what shall do
to inherit eternal life?"
He said unto him, ''What is written in the
law? How readest thou?"
And he. answering, said: "Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with
all thy soul and with all thy strength and with
all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself."
"These commandments Thou shalt not,
thou shalt not crate upon our inclina-
"They are not prescribed because God
hates us but because he loves US. Love is
the fulfilling of the law.
81 hope that my brethren will pardon
me" he added, ''for speaking so long on
this subject. It is great theme-very
sweet and comforting"
Brothers Dewing, Vasconcellos, Morse
and Barnard and Sister Rogers and others
were called upon for prayers.
DR.. Brown announced that two resigna-
tions had been received.
One was that of s. Szanick, who
desired to affiliate with the Third Con-
gregational Church, from which he came
to this church with g letter year ago"
A. r. Sheriff, who desired to affiliate with
the Third Church.
Rev. Mr.. Vartanian, an Armenian from
the Fresno church, offered prayer.
Four ladies applied for membership and
were favorably passed upon by the stand
ing com mmittee. Their names will be an
nounced in church next Sunday.
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MRS. DAVIDSON SILENT.
She Declines for the Present at
Least to Discuss Her Legal
Ninfnru

VlCLOTys
Mrs. Mary A. Davidson is very 10th to
talk of her acquittal. of DR.. Brown, or, in
fact. discuss in any way the characters of
the great scandal, the developments of
which shocked the ministerial and reli-
gious world.
The woman who has been instrumental
in causing the downfall of one of the most
eminent Congregationalist ministers in the
land has been suddenly stricken with
silence as peculiar as it is unexpected.
1t may be. possible that she has not vet
fully recovered from the abrupt ending of
this trial, due as is we'll understood to DR..
Browns unwillingness to tell Judge and
jury that fear inspired the payment of the
$500. The pastor told the ecclesiastical
council that it was fear which caused him
to pay the coin, but he was unwilling to
make the same statement in open court.
II am not in a position to talk just
now," said Mrs. Davidson last night, 'be-
cause am still subject to the advice OF
my attorney"
'sWouId you mind stating if the sudden
termination of the trial came as sur
prise2" was asked.
Now that is one of the very things do
not care to discuss now. To morrow may
be in position to talk about the case, but
for the present I must not say one word.
that the case is yet capable of rich devel-
opments and that everything will come to
the surface in due time"
Mrs. Davidson was also asked If she
would take any legal steps against DR..
Brown or others connected with the case.
The aged lady firmly but courteously said:
'Wait till tomorrow"
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give the name of the person for whom she
represented herself to be acting.
Judge Bahrs thereupon asked Mr.. Cook
whether he consented to the motion for a
dismissal. Mr.. Cook said that consistently
with his duty as an officer of the court he
could not ask for conviction.
The court thereupon instructed the jury
to render a verdict of aequittal, which they
did without leaving their seats.
After Mrs. Davidson had emerged from
the crowd of people who were offering her
their congratulations she was asked
whether she had had any previous intima-
ton of the outcome of the trial. With the
blandest of smiles she replied: 81 decline
to say anything further about the case"
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LOVE WAS THE SUBJECT.
Two designations and Four New
Members Were Received.

Contrary to expectation there were no
unusual incidents at DR.. Browns prayer
meeting last night. Two designations
were received and four names for member
ship were handed to the standing com.
mittee.
In DR.. Browns opening prayer after the
hymn 'Rock of Ages" had been sung, oc-
CURED passage which might be taken to
convey remote reference to some of the
lambs who loved not the shepherd. and
had wandered away from the fold to the
hall of the Native Sons of the Golden
West. He prayed for those whose feet
had been withdrawn and turned away from
this house of God. May the Lord give
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Professors Barnes, Flugel and
Moses to Lecture for
Rockefeller.
WILL SPEAK SO TIMES EACH.
An Innovation in Public Instruc-
tion - Advancement of Two
Great Universities.

Professor Earl Barnes of Stanford Uni
versity arrived here Yesterday. and is at
the Grand. He says there has been much
rejoicing at Stanford ever since the de-
cision giving Mrs. Stanford victory in the
suit against her. Now, however, every
thing is settling down IN the usual quiet.
steady way. He says that as a matter of
fact the decision will not cause any
changes in and about the university, at
least not for probably two years. Mrs.
Stanford will meantime be busy adjusting
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-26
Surrendered Himself.

WI. Carwell called at police headquarters
last evening and told Captain Lees he wanted
to surrender himself He said he saw a Mr..
he was looking for him. He had passed forged
check for $40 on Adams about two weeks ago.
Captain Lees telegraphed to Sheriff Cunning
ham of stockton and received a reply that Car
we'll was wanted, so he was booked en- route to
Stockton
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Struck with q Hatchet.

John Summers, grocer, 81 Brady street, was
arrested yesterday morning ard booked at the
City Prison on the charge of assault with q
deadly weapon. He was later released on
$1,000 bonds. The complaining witness is his
wife Mary. She said John was in an ugly tenn
per and struck her on the head with hatchet.
She went to the Receiving Hospital and q
wound in her scalp was dressed. AS the doc
tors thought there was possible fracture of
the skull they wanted her to remain in the
hospital, but she refused.
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Carl vogt,s Money.

The old case of Carl .vogt will again be
threshed out in the Police courts Vogt some
months ago came from Hamburg, Germany,
with $500. He claimed that Henry Wehner, q
saloon-xeeper, by fraud got the $500 from At
torney James p. Sweeney, with whom it had
been lodged pending certain information from
Germany. Wehner was arrested for obtaining
money,by false pretenses and the case was dis
m issed by Iudge C0nlan. Now he has been ar
rested on the charge OF grand larceny.
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For The Leners.

A contribution of So so for the leper fund
was received yesterday from some charitable
person. signing s. A. c..