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VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES.


Hubby Made Sacrifice on tho Altar Of
Affection Through IA Porter's Error
lie had just returned from Manches-
ter, wheree he had been called upon ur-
gent business. The honeymoon was
scarcely over, and, besides, il was his
first absence from her side since they
were made one. The three days OF his
absence seemed TO both like three long
years; but now he had returned, and
she was in his arms once more. Prom
Use after promise had been renewed
and vows of eternal fidelity exchanged.
And you will never drink she
murmured.
Dearest, you know | have never done
So he replied in injured tones.
sand you will never gamble, either,
will you, dear?" she asked.
Precious, | have never gamblcd
"And you will never, never use to-
bacco again, my idol?'
"Neyer, never again, my deaf since
you wish it So"
And she believed him in her WON
ans way, and "all was merry as a mar
riage bell"
But he mentioned his portmnnieau,
and little struggle ensued. lie WON"
go and get his portmanteau, he said
No, no; he was tired; she would getn'
No, no
But yes, yes. Was she going TO ieS
him walk across the room for a Nasty
old portmanteau, and he was so tlreu'
How could he think her so cruel? no.
indeer! She would go and get it nel'
self, and open it for him, too, ana So
there.
When she said $50 there he kne"
there was nothing else for him but ~
submit gracefully, and he submitted
But, alas for what followed!
She opened the bag! What was
In 1t? One long empty flask, one mesl'
sehaum pipe, one pack of playing caius
new; three packs, ditto, old; II"
racing tickets, sundries.
That was all
One of those scenes which "baiHe a"
description followed, but finally NV
porter came up and explained lha' p'
had sent up the wrong portmanteauc IT,,
Both are slowly recovering
Bits.
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LITTLE ARMCHAIR.
Nobody sits in the little armchair:

Nobody sits In the little armchair:
It stands In corner dim:
But white-haired mother gazing there,
And yearningly thinking of him.
Sees through the dust of the long ago
The bloom of her boys sweet face.
As he rocks so merrily TO and fro.
With a laugh that cheers the place.
Sometimes he holds a book in his hand,
Sometimes his little shcool slate;
And the lesson is hard to understand.
And the figures hard TO mate;
But she sees the nod OF his fathers head,
So proud OF the little son,
And she hears the word SO often said:
mo fear for our little one"
They were wonderful days. the dear, sweet
days
When a child with sunny hair
Was hers TO scold, TO kiss. and to praise.
At her knee In the little chair.
She lost him back in the busy years
When the great world caught the man.
And he strobe away. past hopes and fears,
To his place In the battles van.
But now and then In a wistful dream,
Like picture out of date.
She sees head with a golden CLEAN
Bent over pencil and slate;
And she lives again the happy day.
The day Of her young life's spring.
When the small armchair stood just In the
way,
The center of everything.
N. Y. World.
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GREAT STORMS.
Havoc Perpetrated by Them In the United
States and Abroad.

states ana ABROAD.
Great storms, such as that which has
wrought havoc in st. Louis, are of fire.
Guent occurrence in the tropics, and
occur from time to time in all parts of
the temperate zones, though it is rarely
that their path crosses large towns.
People who attribute their occurrence
in the Northern United States to the
cutting down of the forests are hope
lessly addicted to theorzing. Jonathan
Carver, who passed through Wisconsin
before the woodman's AK had broken
the solitudes of the forests primeval,
graphically described an impressive
scene which he witnessed on the Chip
pewa river. While ascending that
stream in a canoe in the year 1907
he came to a wood "three-quarters
Of mile in length and in depth more
than the eye could reach, where ''every
tree, many of which were more than
six feet in circumference, was lying
fiat upon the ground, torn up by the
roots, the work of some extraordinary
hurricane"
During the period Of white settlement
numerous hurricanes have visited this
state, especially in the southern coun-
ties, where considerable loss of life and
property has been suffered from this
cause. Everyone remembers the calam-
ity Mt Hazel Green. The visitation at
Racine is also wildly remembered,
Neighboring states have suffered
worse than Wisconsin. At Rochester,
Mimi, in August, 1888, a storm wrecked
100 houses and wounded as many peo-
pie, while 10 of the inhabitants were
killed. outright. There were many
deaths and large loss of property in
Indianapolis in September, 1875, due to
cyclonic storm, which also wrought
devastation at Galveston, Tex. Even
in peaceful England, within the present
century, storms have occurred which
have wrecked substantial houses and
Killed people in their beds.
The desolation wrought at ST. Louis,
II not exaggerated in the reports, ex-
ceeds anything ever effected by d storm
within the borders of the United States.
But i'm other lands there have been sim
liar visitations beside which that at
st. Louis seems mild. A cyclone which
ravaged the region of Calcutta in Dc
tober, 1864, wrecked 100 ships, caused
the water in the Hoogly to rise 80 feet
and involved the destruction of 10000
human lives. Two years later, in the
same month, another cycionic storm I'M
rooted 10000 houses, laid waste the
crops in lower Bengal and caused the
death by drowning and otherwise of
10000 people. 1t was followed by an
outbreak of the cholera, in which Is
600 died. In the cyclone in southeastern
Bengal in 1876 215,0oo people persisted,
and Calcutta narrowly escaped.-Mil-
waukee Wisconsin.
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H..

One or two evenings after this I was
crossing Howard avenue when Iheard
a voice-Barker's voice. but with an un-
familiar nasal twang about it-halloo
ing at me: Look out, there!"
Involuntarily l started. There was
al uneanniness about it-a weird and
unnatural emphasis. 1t was q voice
pregnant with the ring of authority,
and as stepped quickly to one side
there shot by me vision of gray golf
stockings, sweater and cycling cap with
which was pretty well acquainted. So
he had actually rugged up his wheel
with a monograph Darling into a
nearby bicycle agency, hired a wheel
in feverish haste and sped up the avenue
in pursuit of the tieeting figure in gray.
In the dim distance l could hear the
howl of the fiendish thing as it sped on
through the night, and as spun over
the asphalt with the speed of the wind
the space between us lessened and |
began to catch the medley of shouts
that were pouring forth from the vicin-
fly of Barker's handle-bars He had evil
IDENTIFY loaded il with a variety of ex-
pressions suitable for all sorts of
emergencies. and the thing was spit
ting them out with an intelligence that
bordered on the marvellous.
''Would you be so kind. miss" 1t said
with the accent CT Chesterfield, as a
woman OF the fat AMI forty persuasion
stepped in the way. as IN turn to the
right little2 Aw. thanksl"
And the woman smiled al Barker.
and thought he was such polite young
man A few rods further on small boy
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is there any particularly nervous
complaint connected with your profess
SION! asked the Cheerful Idiot of the
ilileman. There is the tennis arm. the
nlcyele face and the baseball arm. and
! thought there might be sometime
oil the sort among your gunners."
No said the rifeman: "notbinn -.
the sort" u
II Is very queer said the Cheerful
Idiot. thoughtiully. 81 didn't supposc
You eonid hit the target without taking
Journal Vim
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darted across the street beneath the
Pickering rays of the electric light.
Hi, there!" yelled the photograph.
get move on you now-yi! vi! VI"
whereupon the boy was convinced he
was being pursued by lunatic and fed
down side street.
Barker" said l solemnly, pushing
my wheel up alongside of him by ire
mendous effort, you had better take
that thing off.
why. how do you do ?" said he; take
it off! "Why?'
Because ! am morally certain" said
/, that it's a violation of ordinance No.
men comes along and that thing bowls
at him you'll go to jail
But Barker evidently thought that
was all nonsense. He didn't care if it
violated the whole council series from
A to lizard. He had got bold Of an ele-
giant thing, and was going to stick to it,
and | was a gay sort of a man to recon-
mend it to him and then advise him to
give it up. All this time the monograph
was talking in tone of deep disgust to
heavy individual who was pedaling
along in leisurely way just in front of
us, and who must have been stone deaf
or he would certainly have clambered
down and punched Barker's head.
Then | was initiated into the mys-
teries of the thing, and saw how, by
pushing a small attachment down so
that it rubbed on the front wheel, the
mechanism of the photograph was
made to revolye, and it shouted out
whatever was in it until the clamp was
released. Barker said he had talked
into it half a day, and it was evidently
well supplied with a vocabulary.
By the time we got to the club--for
we belong to club, both of us-Barker
was in state of hilarious delight, and
half of the dogs, children and old ladies
in town were on the verge of frenzy.
OF course, all the other fellows in the
club had to learn all about it, and Bar
ker pushed his machine around on the
sidewalk and made the photograph
curse them and all their relatives to the
tenth generation, which seemed to af-
ford them the most unbounded pleas
ure.
As fitting conclusion TO the even
ing's entertainment we all went up
stairs, and | regret to say that Barker,
after placing the photograph carefully
on table beside him, got as drunk as a
lord, and talked and sang and shouted
in very seandalous and disgraceful
way.
After it was AL over | took him home
and put him TO bed, and while doing
this he informed me in a maudlin and
disconnected way that he was going
out riding the next evening with the
two Cutter girls, daughters of old man
Coupon Cutter, one of the directors in
the bank, and he wished would happen
to drop around and ride with the big
one, so he could talk to the little one.
He said that l was hi, only friend, and
that he loved the little one. He did not
love her in any ordinary way, either;
but in way in which no one ever loved
before.
Now, like Barker, and he is n friend
of mine, and as matter of course it was
only common charity to help him out
in a case like that. So gave him lot
of good advice about how to doctor his
head in the morning, which he received
with a very bad grace, and promised to
be in the neighborhood of old Cutters
the next evening without fail.
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was a little late in getting off, and
had hardly got within sight of the
house on the following night when l
met the two girls and Barker coming
toward me. lie seemed to be in high
spirits, and was particularly jolly when
they met me. WANTED to ask him about
the monograph, but hesitated to do so.
He Immediately mentioned the matter
himself, however, and explained that
the youngest Miss Cutter was infatu-
ated with the thing, and had insisted
on having it put on her bicycle, and that
they all were anxiously waiting for
something TO get in the way so they
covered that Barker had represented to
them that the whole thing was his own
idea, and they had declared that he was
wonderfully ingenious.
We had gone about three blocks,
Barker and 'the little one" being in
front, and the elder Miss Cutter and my
self in the rear, when a man tried 10
cross the street in front of us.
"Hooray gimme another drink" said
the monograph in CHASTITY counter
felt of Barker's voice.
The man gazed as in establishment
and fell into the gutter, Barker's ma
chine wabbled violently, and l could see
that his nerve had crumbled, while l
felt shiver along my own spine as l
| took in the situation.
"Her golden hair was hanging down
her - h - hic - baclx!" sang the
wretched instrument in Bankers we'll
known treble. Evidently the little
one" couldn't loosen the clamp.
Drops of swea: stood on Barker's brow
and he tried to turn it off as joke.
Funny, amt it?" said he, never can
tell what. it win say"
You're a liar!" screamed the phone
graph. Come long now an pass the
whisk."
l could see the "little one" turn pale,
and the elder Miss Cutter was looking
daggers at Barker.
IRA Ia Ia, ira la la, WOW, WOW, WOW,
whoop-pee!" said the phonograph.
Say" it continued, in a confidential
whisper, I'm stuck on the-hic-pret~
tiest-hic-girl--"
Take it off" growled Barker, maxi
ing a lunge at the instrument, but his
equilibrium was gone and he fell into an
ignominious heap on the pavement.
'lIo! hol you're drunki" shriel<ed the
machine. derisively, as we darted on and
left him.
"Mr Perkins" said the elder Miss Cut
ter, dismountiug, and pointing imperi-
ously in the direction of her sisters
wheel, take that thing OIL"
| obeyed her with the utmost alacrity,
and cast il at the dark spot where It's
owner was reposing.
"Now." said the elder Miss Cutter.
take us home. sir"
And so | did, and when old man Gut
ter looked at me in an inquiriug WAY
over the tops of his eyeglasses, L felt as
guilty as n man who had robbed bank
and straugled the janitor.
They didn't ask me to come in. and so
| went off to hunt up Barker | found
him sitting on the curbstone pounding
at something with a brick.
whats that?" said /.
IL never saw q man who could ask so
many foolish questions" said he, sulli-
~, and then be climbed up on his bicy-
Gle and rode away; and now ] under
stand that the board OF directors have
become economical and cut down hir
salary.-N. y. Times-Democrat
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Sportsman-lIow big fish could I
take out with this line?
Dealer-A ten-pounder, suppose.
THAT won't do; give me one that will
hold ffty-pounder"
"You don't expect to hook ono as big
rs that?'
"Oh. no; but I like TO lie consistent
Chicago Record.
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johnnie Acquires Knowledge.

Father, what is deadlock aSN.a
Johnnie Chaffie, who had read ahout'"
proceedings Of the city council
Mr.. Chaftie believes in ansW,'ps
promptly all questions proceeding ii, ,-'
his offspring, so he replied immedi0's';
~ deadlock, my son, is what lo..
mothers back hair is made OF. '--IeA''
Sitter.
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IF women have not finer sensibilities
than men," asked the defender of her
sex, "then why is that that men laugh
and women weep 1T a wedding?"
Because they are not the ones who
are getting married." answered the
coarse, heartless man. - indianapolis
journal.
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What They Say.

What a shock we get when an es.
Unable man turns out TO be a scoun.
drel."
res especially as nine out OF ten
persons who knew him always saw
tney thought he had a mean expres.
sion."-Chicago Record.
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"Iiow are You coming on with YO'
tragedy?" .,,.5
"Better than I expected. I've N"
off all the principal characters 60 49,,
two. and they are not on spe"A"
terms. Texas Sitter.
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i he acacia has for long time been
regarded in the east as the emblem %
concealed love. The notion is purely
aneiful' for there is nothing about the
plant TO suggest the idea.
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Pathetic Crlticlsm.

And was he really goodF
"For a man of his bretensions' no'
1t was not infrequently that tue ~
nges spoke thus one - another "A
ing their last missionary and wonu'' -.
how long his place would renal"
cant.-Detroit Tribune.
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"Old Guzzler drew his last breath yes
terday."
WAS il his own breathe"
'Certainly-why?"
'No wonder he died" Truth.
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Love makes its record in deeper
oolors as we grow out of childhood into
manhood; as the emperors signed their
names in green ink when under age, but
when OF age in professionalism.
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The patent Office Of Great Britain
does not require models.
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dement,.
URSDAY, MAY IA, 1SY
den County court. Preparations began for
the trial in the ordinary way, but negotia-
lions were opened for a special reference,
and finally stipulation was signed as fol-
lows -
s.This agreement entered into this goth day
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A. said rather not testify.

A. said rather not testify.
@. Do you remember whether he said any
thing as to whether the lawyers on the other
side claimed that you were not bound to APP
pear unless you wanted to? A. don't know
that that was said, except l believe he said
he had some communication from Mr. Prouty
on the other side.
o. In which Mr.. Prouty claimed that no
witness could be compelled to come here?
A. As understood it. Mr.. Prouty allowed it
covered this point; if ! didn't want to come
1 wouldn't have to on account OF that paper.
@. When you have been in Burlington, on
these occasions under review, did you have
any other places where you could get intoxi-
eating liquor! A. Certainly we got it In
other places.
@. And in barrooms-I am not particular
Il am not asking about particular places, ,
but il there was any? A. Yes, | suppose
you would call them barrooms.
Q. Where yon got it by the glass: A. Yes,
sir.
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ruary. 1886, between Urban "A.
/ do Vor Of ho fret ,orf ur,d f1.o

| bury OF Burlington, IN the county OF Ch1tten-
den, Vermont, of the first part, and the
Herald and Globe association. corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the
/ state of Vermont and located at the city of
Rutland. Vermont, of the second part, wit
nesseth -
''That the said parties hereby agree to sub
| NIT TO the arbitration and award of one or
three judges Of the Supreme court of the
state of Vermont (the number TO be deter
/ mined and the selection to be made by the
! party of the first part the case now pending
/ in the Chittenden County court asd entitled
Urban A. Woodbury. vs.. the Herald and
| Globe association, to be heard and deler-
mined by said judge or judges upon the law
and evidence and upon the pleadines now
/ filed In said cause.
ssThe publication of the award by said
judge or judges and compliance with the
terms thereof by the parties shall act as
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men. that his Instructions to his manapers

eFeIy IIstaHct, 10 UIu auu tXPeI1eHcFu HOtel
men; that bis instructions to his managers
at all times were fully in accord with the
resolution which he adopted at the outset,
and that his managers in good faith have en-
deavored to carry out those instructions. 1t
has been inevitable that during IA years un-
der review the guests, numbering hundreds
of thousands, with their variety of tastes and
habits. should in some instances bave brought
liquor with them TO the Van Ness house, and
IN other instances should have procured it to
be brought to them by others, but we expect
to satisfy you that the facts and circum-
stances regarding those transactions attached
no responsibility. either legal or moral, to
Gov. Woodbury.. z.1
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TESTIMONY GIVEN
Il
MASS OF INTER
Full TeIt OF W7txtG
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Sllpl
RANDOLPH, VT, TIE
matter because it illustrates things we have
| long been saying. 1t shows that not all rum
sellers, and not the powerful rumseIlers, are
| disreputable red-nosed men behind baIs.
Barkeepers are not usually intemperate--if
| they were they could not keep bars-and they
are as rule hardly more responsible for the
selling than are the glasses they handle.
They are poor men working for small pay.
| The real rumseller-the man who really man.
ages the business and gets the money--is
somewhere behind them, and is perhaps never
heard Of. And again, second real rumseiler
Is not infrequently behind both, Ia the person
OF the land owner who gets an exorbitant
rent because of the nature of the traffic and
the risk he runs. Hotel keepers and drug
gists are also usually rumsellers and good
citizens to boot-and still the prohibitionists
howl away about the ''rumsellerv as II be
were mysterious monster whom civilized
people never saw. Some OF the hest men. IN
every community, in Vermont aud all over
the world, are rumsellers. Burlington Is in
this respect like other towns
II is now in order for the Burlington Free
Press to retract its statements.
From the Rntlans Herald for August To-
1885,
A Letter From Gov. woodbury..
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@. Can you tell US just when those ban
quets were-give us the dates when wine
was served? A. l am not sure that / can
tell; there have been two or three in the last
few years that have not been able to at
tend. think attended the last one which
was about year ago last December.
@. Was wine served on that occasionf "A.
l believe SO; think that was one of The oc-
casions when wine was served.
@. And when there were about 150 guests,
you say? A. think so, nearly that number.
@. Can. you fix the time for any other? A.
Possibly two years ago last December. l
think three years ago last December did
not attend the banquet.
@. At the one, two years ago last Decem-
Der, was there wine served? A. If my
memory serves me right, think there was.
@. Was you on the committee of arrange
ment? A. I have been the committee at
different times, hut / think not within the
last three or four years.
@. On these two orcasions that YOU speak
of, year ago last December and two years
the table? A. l shall have to ask you to re-
peat that.
Q. How was the wine served to the guests ,
in the dining room! A. 1t was poured into
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II E1I} Z
containing whisksy and one containing
say they bought within week In the v an
Ness house in the ordinary way and without
the smallest difficulty. 1t has also one bottle
OF whiskey which the purchaser says was
bought at Lyman & Halls drug store. in the
building owned by Gov. Woodbury., within
| aweek. The purchasers of the liquor In the
hotel have signed written statements OF the
facts which the HERALD has. With the
names, room numbers, ETC., left blank, here
tsRUTLAND, VT, Aug. 2, 1895.
TO the Editor of the Herald -
81 was In Burlington. Vt, YESTERDAY and
took supper last night and breakfast this
| morning.
| ssAt 10 80 last night went to my room
| No. blank-and ordered drink of whiskey
to be sent up. The hotel porter, who took
| the order. said that it was getting rather late,
| but he said that he could get bottle of Bass
ale for me. preferred whiskey and he went
| down stairs and was gone about 10 minutes.
| He returned with a small bottle OF whskey
and some ice water. He charged me % cents
for the whiskey, which L paid him on the
| spot. ! drank portion Of the LIQUOR and the
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Yes, should say so.
@. AS rule, you and your companions, |
the travelling men, would go to those places |
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WOODBURY. AGAINST. HERALD.