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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
EAST ACwoRTH.

w. o. Kemp was at Gilsum Saturday.
Mrs Clarence Neal took a trip to Gilsum
Saturday.
Rev. Mr.. Parker organized Sunday school
in this place last Sunday.
Mrs. Orne and three children, of Revere,
Mass, are visiting at Silas Gees.
Guy Cook of Gilsum, who has been visiting
at C. HI. Meals, returned home Saturday.
Mrs. Hiram Ames of Worcester and Miss
Ala Frinney of Gardner are the guests of
Mrs. Kemp.
Mrs. Jenny Trumbull and daughter of Pot
ter Place were at o. d. Kemp's Saturday and
returned home Monday. Winnie Kemp, who
has been spending her vacation with them,
returned to her home Saturday.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
Crosier B. BoWteIl
TELEPHONE 1852.
Stands at the Head.

Aug. J. Bogel, the leading druggist of
Shreveport, La, says: sDr. Kings New
Discovery is the only thing that cures. my
cough, and it is the best seller have" j.
F. Campbell, merchant of Stafford. Ariz.,
writes: aDr. Kings New Discovery is all
that is claimed for it; it never fails, and is a
sure cure for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. cannot say enough for its merits"
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is not an experiment. 1t
has been tried for a quarter of a century, and
to-day stands at the head. 1t never disap-
.oints Free trial bottles at j. F. Pierce S
Drug Store.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1896.
Bellows Falls Locals.
CAUCUS.

The Republican voters of the town OF
Rockingham are notified to meet at Town
hall, Bellows Falls, Saturday, August 10,
1896, at P. NJ, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a town representative and justice
ticket. (Signed)
j. H. BLAKLEY,
b. CANNON, JR.,
+. l.. WALKER, Town Committee.
FOSTER B. LOCKE,
N. L. DIvoLL,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
EAST wEsTMORELAND.

Cora Fuller is on the sick list.
Bessie Fuller is at George Patterns for
few weeks.
WE. Brown and Florence go to visit
friends in Massachusetts, this week.
Rev. L. F. Shepardson and wife expect to
start for Marthas Vineyard next Monday for
a short vacation.
Little yinton, only child of Oren and Lee
wanna Carpenter, died Monday night, July
u, of grip and brain trouble, aged IL months.
The bereaved parents have the sympathy OF
the community.
There was goose party at the farm of MIR.
Bowker. We counted 81 visitors but were
sorry that the Birds on Paradise Hill were
unable to get there, also from Glazier farm,
Maplewood.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
CHESTERFIELD.

The second annual Holiness camp meeting
will begin Wednesday evening, August 10,
and close August 80, at Spafford lake. The
pastor will be assisted by Evangelsts III. n.
Brown, Rev. III. f. Reynolds and others.
Preparations are being made for a wonderful
meeting. Everybody is invited.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
WEsTMORELAND DEPOT.

The army worm seems to be quiet in this
vicinity just now.
Miss Stella WILDER of Walpole is visiting
friends in this vicinity.
Some from this way took in the excursion
to Nantasket Friday of last week.
Mrs. G. S. Aldrich and daughter Lizzie
have gone to Grafton to spend week with
her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bacon and daughter
Blanche of Bellows Falls visited friends here
the last of the week.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Northern and eastern beef cattle-The
supply was heavier this week than for
some time past. The demand was a
shade more active, and no change was
noted in prices from a week ago.
Mich cows and springers-The supply
was light, the demand moved slow.
Veal calves-The supply was light and
the demand active. If there is change
in values it is in favor of the buying
interests, quality considered.
Sheep and lambs-The quality of the
offerings was poor, and values showed
no change from the quotations of a week
ago.
Swine-The quotations run from 4hQ
41lc per Id, dressed weight, and So 40 per
cwt live weight. Light hogs bring NC
per lib more than heavy ones.
Western beef cattle--All We're con-
signed to home slaughterers and there
were no sales.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-08-08
Durham Brothers,
Real Estate and Personal
Property For Sale.

SOC. A livery stable running Is
horses the year around with carriages,
sleighs, whips, robes, blankets, etc., in
a town of 5000 population. Price right.
5O7. A 1876 acre farm suitably divid-
ed in tillage and pasture lands, II miles
from Bellows Falls with good build
ings. Price $1,000.
Sill. A two tenement house in Bel
lows Falls renting for $14 month,
good location, size of lot 5Ox11l for
$1,000. This is a bargain.
Sis. Soapstone Quarry in Grafton:
VT, with cottage house and barn and
Saving Mill for same at Cambridge
port, together with house and barn.
This is one of the best quarries in Yer
mont and mill is in first-class running
order. A chance of life time for some
good live business man. Price $1,000.
These are only few of our bargains.
For full particulars or insurance of any
kind, Mileage Books and Steamship
Tickets call on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02

Then she walked up to the bar, de-
posted the bundle thereon and started
to leave the place. ...
The barroom was full of men at the
time. When the woman entered they
became quiet and then astonished, as
she laid the bundle on the bar very
gently.
AS she started to leave the place one
of the walters stepped forward and
stopped her. At the same time there
was movement in the bundle, and a
baby's head peeped out of the folds of
cloth. The baby looked about at the
garish furniture with wide, staring
eyes and began to cry.
The effect was electrical. All the men
crowded up and tried to quiet the child,
which refused to be quoted. Even the
bartenders Joined in the effort to amuse
the youngster.
THE baby wanted to see his father"
Mrs. Leught explained TO the crowd,
$50 I brought him TO the only place
where his father can be found. He can
take care of the boy now, because I've
got to go to work to make living for
myself and child"
That settled it with the crowd. Leught
was hauled out of the back room, and al
most before he knew what had hap
pened was walking down the street be-
side his wife, with the child in his arms.
lie got his former position back few
days later, and hasn't been in the saloon
since,-N. Y. World.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

New Zeal-nd exported $4,44S,000
worth of gold last year Threequar-
ters of it came from the west coast and
Otago. g.. .-. ... '... -.....-...5
Paper which cannot be destroyed
by fire has been discovered by a French
man. \ specimen has, it is stated, been
subjected to a severe test-that of ex-
posure in a potter's furnace for 4S
hours, and came out without injury.
The largest collection of ornitho-
logical specimens in the world is that
in the British museum, which contains
100000 specimens. The late Henry See
bohm, the well-known naturalist, be-
aueathed his collection of 1900 birds
to the same institution.
A close estimate of the crop of
oranges in southern California this
season, made by the president of the
Southern California Fruit exchange,
puts it at 5000 car loads, or 100000
boxes. This IS an increase of about
100000 boxes over last season.
Coal mining is paying one party
of miners in the Yukon country better
'iA'ih 5Oiu mining pau tISlII' y lIlu OL
excellent coal was made recently in the
Forty-Mile creek district, and, with
wood at SIP and $14 a cord, the coal
mine is an excellent pay streak.
Photographs of Perrines comet,
which was visible during the last VIM
ter, show that it had two tails, one
straight and the other curved sharply
backward. According to the views of
the Russian astronomer, Bredechin.
the straight tail probably consisted of
atoms of hydrogen and the curved tail
of atoms of iron
A company has been organized in
New York city for the manufacture of
nonilluminating fuel gas and has an
application for permission to lay mains
in the streets. The company says it
car supply nonilluminating fuel gas at
so cents per 1000 feet, with such re-
duced rates to factories as will make
it cheaper fuel than coal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
Got His Answer,

Nothing could abate the conductors
urbanity. Since leaving the last sta
ton the nervous passenger had asked
his usual 80 questions, to every one
of which the patient conductor had
given the soft answer that turns away
creditor. But the nervous passenger
came back yet once more. TEL me,
conductor he cried, in his thin wire
edge voice, docs this car. go on
through?' AT that moment the bot
tom of the bridge fell out and in two
skips the train piled up in the ravine.
They combed what they could find of
the nervous passenger out of the wreck
and spread it on the embankment His
lips moved silently. Leaning down.
the conductor whispered in his ear. at
does he said, softly. A smile played
1pon the nervous mans countenance
and was gone. He never spoke again.
That was one satisfaction. - n. Y.
World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS LIENS.
One hundred new words are annus


One hundred new words are annual-
ly added to the English language.
A dealer says there is more steel
used in the manufacture of pens than
i'll all the sword and gun factories in
the world. ..........
Some workmen in Gorham (N.eH.l
carpenter shop have queer pet. II
is a handsome butterfly which stayed
il the shop all last winter and is very
tame. A
A citizen of Leeds, England, recent
ly found peculiar cowslip, The center
stalk measured over ~, inches in cir
conference. In addition to its great
thickness it was fluted and followed
on one side like a stick of rhubarb, in
stead of being round like an ordinary
cowslip plant. ...........
Many years prior to the British oc-
cupation OF Egypt some of the people
OF that country worshiped the croco-
die as god, there being nothing else
like him. They fed him on dainties,
and decked him out with jewelry. In
other parts of Egypt, however, the ma
tiyes looked upon him as devil.
Governments frequently have very
curious questions brought before them,
and few questions could be more 50
than those, for instance, which deal
with the eating habits of the people.
Thus, at one time in English history,
it was solemnly discussed, and finally
RI or TO
of food should be served at dinner.
A new insect has invaded Anderson,
Ind. that is being sought for eagerly
by farmers. 1T battles with potato
bugs and is effectual in driving the
pests from the potato vines. 1t first
made its appearance in gardens in
Jchnstown. but is now being trans
planted into gardens ali over the city
and county. 1t is a diamond-shaped
insect, with a long beak. 1t makes a
business of spearing the potato bugs
and living off their blood. 1t does no
harm to the vines. 1t is green in color.
A woman in French hospital had
hiccough which had resisted all treat
ment for four days. She was asked
to show her tongue, and it was noticed
that with the putting out of the tongue
the hiccough ceased. The same thing
has been since tried, and with sue
cess, in other cases. All that is nee
essary apparently is to strongly push
the tongue out of the mouth and hold
it so, for a minute or two. 1t is also
suggested now to try the same thing
IN sutfocative cough, as whooping
cough, and choking by irrespirable
gases.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
TEMPERANCE TIDINGS.

Total abstinence clears the head and
fills the pocket.-IndeX.
Every swing of the saloon door finds
an echo of woe in the heart of some
woman.-lndeX.. ........
Every true and timely moral reform
should be born and Manned reared and
supported by the church of Jesus Christ.
II. l.. Cuyler, d. d. ....'.'a'''..
A sure cure for the drink habit is said
to be bowl of ice water and raw
potato. Dip the potato into the ice
water and suck it whenever the desire
for drink becomes uncomfortable. Who
has tried this Union SigSal.
According to a report prepared by
Statistician Thomas j. Doran, of the
police department., there We're 22.4S0
arrests in New York city during the
year for intoXication and $3.50 arrests
for violation of the excise laws
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
FLORIDA AND ORANGE GROVES.
Where the Pursuit of a Competence Is
Far from Easy.

People do not seem to go to Florida
nowadays to grow oranges and glide
into attiuence gradually while ca
ressed by the southern sun. 1t is, in
fact, too gradual a slide, especially if
you START with pips, which require seven
years before they give you oranges.
BESIDES, it is not such smooth sailing
as that. Now and then comes biting
frost with its sequel of ''Nae victis."
For my part, | love a frosty morning
in Florida, with its rich smoky, red
eastern sky, against which the green
of the trees has so strong and incongru-
Gus an effect. But there is too much
swearing afterward for the peace of
mind of a virtuouS and sympathetic
person. Nice little groves in full bear
ing may, it is said, &c picked up cheap
after one of these calamitous nights.
1t is. however, much like buying shares
in bank that has just closed its doors.
Only the most patient. hardened ana
impecuniouS of emigrants can stand
orange growing in Florida. True. they
are lured on by the prospect of market
strawberries, new potatoes, etc, sell
well in the north. But so many other
parts of the westesn hemisphere are
at the same game and the commission
agents are so sharp that profits never
seem TO come nigh expectation. And all
the time the newcomers are hlackening
under the Florida sun, enjoying little
fevers quite harmless, they are tolG).
settling down as best they may to the
society of the voluble mosquitoes and
realizing only TOO solidEy that there
are disappointments and privations
enough to be suffered in this belauded
land of perpetual sunshine. The pur-
suit Of a competence is, in fact, no
easier in Florida than elsewhere
Cornhill Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
Stub Ends of Thoughts.

The telephone ~ takes eyerybody's
word. .e, ...., ...,tt ,....,... .. ......
The five o'clock tea is the grub that
makes the butterfly of fashion. '"
1t is usually hard for a man who
stretches the truth to get out of the
way of the recoil. ....5 ..... ...
The June bug makes more noise than
wasp, but he does not command as
much respect.
ParadoXical as it may seem, it is
a fact that the more mumm a man gets
the more loquacious he grows. ..a
True to the nature of the beast, many
a man who, in his time, has cast sleeps
eyes at a pretty girl, has afterwards
mad the wool pulled over them.-Up
to Date.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
The Illusion DisnnlIed.

An elderly Russian princess; much adj
dicted to gambling, and very supersti.
tious, was one day engaged in her ia
vorite pastime when gentleman of
genial aspect, but horribly deformed.
came and sat down beside her. How
lucky! thought the good lady. In this
persuasion, and with the assurance com.
mon to persons of high rank, She began
to stroke the protuberance of the lunch.
back whilst increasing the amount OF
her stakes. in the course of half an
hour she lost $4,000 francs, yet she did
not complain, being firmly convinced
that she would recover the whole
amount before very long. But suddenly
the hunchback stopped playing and as
he stood up, he looked as tall rs a grena,
der. He thrust his hand up his back
and withdrew-the hump. The latter
was nothing more or less than a huge
felt wide-awaile that the wearer had
slowed away under his coat to save him
self the trouble of leaving it in tn:
cIoakroom. The supposed hunchbacil
was as straight as a pikestaff, The
princess flew into a passion, called him
a swindler and an impo5tor, and it re-
quired the united efforts of all her
friends topacify her.-El Diiuvio.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
CONCERNING PRIDE.
Pride of Intelligence, Pride of Appear
ance and Many Other Sorts.


ance and Many Other Sorts.
have been engaged upon a serious
problem lately, but one which is seem
ingly so simple that everyone should
be able to solve it. | have been trying
to define pride. What is pride, any
how? There are so many things that
we call pride which cannot possibly
pass muster as the real article. Again,
we have been taught all our lives that
nothing that is false can be real. and
yet we are day by day brought in con-
tact with an existing condition which
we denominate false pride. Here is
a paradox, surely. There is pride of
birth, pride of being, pride of in
telligence, and pride of thou
sand of other things of about
equal Importance, but the grouping of
them all brings me back to the original
question:: What is pride? To be proud
one must have something to be proud
of, and hence pride is appreciation,
and it is only when that sense of APP
probation is well directed that it pos
seSses the ring of quality. When men
and women neglect duties through
some mistaken sentiment of possible
criticism. or of probable self-humilia-
ton, real or fancied, the sentiment
which actuates them, or rather which
stands in the way of their activity, is
not pride; it is conceit. | do not be-
lieve that pride can be qualified. 1t
seems to me that it must be as individual
as mountain, or a tree, and that its en-
istence is dependent solely upon the
honest worth of the person in whom it
dwells.
My observation has given me the
conviction that no matter how seriously
men and women of the world deceive
Others they invariably deceive them
selves more. and the cause of this is
too frequently through the mistaken
notion of pride. We never deceive
others until we first deceive ourselves.
1t would not appear necessary to mis-
represent anything to a second or
third person, if it were not that we
want to convince ourselves that the
misrepresentation is the result of some
thing which we should have accom-
plished, or which we may yet do, and
here we are influenced by that quality
of conceit which breads criticism and
which is willing to humiliate itself for
word or two of praise. 1t is always
self-deceptiOn first.-N. y, Recorder.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
Gay Mackintoshes.

Mackintoshes are now classed among
the summer novelties. The latest i'm
portations are wonderful to behold One
which is particularly light in weight
is brilliant scarlet in color, striped
with black lines and fecked with gold.
Another is a large green and bP,e plaid
conspicuous enough to attract atten-
ton wherever it may be worn. These
mackintoshes have the long English
cape and are made without sleeves
Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
TEMPERANCE.
REFORMED BY A BABY.


Novel Method of a Mother to Bring Her
Worthless Husband to His Senses.
1t has remained for woman in St.
Louis to devise a simple and effective
scheme for getting her husband out OF
a barroom in which he had been spend
ing too much of his time and all his
money. She not only induced him to go
home, but to wish that he had never
been in a saloon.
The woman who did it was Mrs. Fritz
Leught, who is not only young, but
very pretty. She and Leught have been
married little over a year and have one
child, pretty curly-haired babe.
For some reason, which Leught says
now he can't explain, he got into the
habit of frequenting one of the bar
rooms in st. Louis. He got so enamored
of it he failed to go home when through
with his work in the evening, preferring
to pass all his leisure time in the bar.
room. His wife pleaded with him to
keep out of it. but without avail. He
went from bad to worse and soon lost
his position.
Matters got so bad that when she
wanted to see her husband Mrs. Leught
was obliged to go to the saloon to do
SO. That made her desperate, and she
resolved to adopt heroic measures in an
effort to bring her husband to his
senses.
So one day recently, when Leught was
in back room of the bar, young and
pretty woman, neatly dressed and carry
ing in her arms bundle, walked bold
ly into the saloon. She looked about
her calmly, as if in search of some one.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
LAST DRINK OF A GIANT
1t Was Only Barrel of Ale, But II
Killed Him.

mica film
The largest and smallest skeletons Of
humans ever preserved are kept in the
museum of the Royal College of Sur.
geOns, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
One is eight feet four inches in height
The other is less than two feet. Charles
Eyrne, the famous Irish giant, who was
more generally known as O'Brien, died
IL 1888, when he was % years old. His
capacity for liquor was in keeping with
~ huge physical proportions. SO keen
was his anguish over losing all his prop
erty-tO wit, e300-note--that he
drank a casll of ale in one day. The day
following he was dead. Byrne had a
great dread Of becoming "A dissecting
room subject. He made a bargain wi
fisherman before he died to take his
body out into the channel and throw it
overheard. ..
Hunter, the English surgeon, learned
of this arrangement, and by paying the
fishermen $500 he prevailed upon them
TIC carry out their bargain to the letter,
but to attach a rope to the body and
drag it up again after it had been i'm.
mersed. The fishermen served two mas.
ters and Hunter got the body. $685.. ..
The tiny skeleton is that of CaroliIts
Crachami, the SiCilian dwarf, who was
exhibited in Europe in the early part of
the century. The child did not grow
after birth, and before she reached her
teens she died. Her body, it is said, was
sold to a British surgeon by her parents.
Reside the giants frame stands one Of
the boots Byrne wore when he died. The
skeleton of the dwarf can be slipped
into it as easily as a pipe stem.-N. Y,
Telegram.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02
NATURAL DRINK.
1t Is Not Alcohol But Pure, Sparkling,
Life-Giving Water.

1t Is Not Alcohol But Pure, sparkling,
Life-Giving Water.
The Welsh miners who, some years
ago, were locked up for many days with
out access to solid food were sustained
because fortunately near to them, and
within their reach, was little stream
which supplied them with water. And,
in the absurd feats Of men living with
out food, we find they all take water;
when sometimes, for even 10 days, they
survive. Many calls this starvation, but
it is not really so. The water acts as
food-not, after all, a surprising fact
when we consider that the human body
including even the teeth of the sllele-
ton is made up pretty nearly Of S. parts
per cent. of water alone. a, The greatest
fact, however, derived from natural his
tory is the magnificent one that all ami
mails except man, and all plants, de-
mand, as a drink, nothing but water.
Life, strength, activity, intelligence are
sustained on this fluid alone. Nay, if
we take man, we discover that it is not
all men, women and children who use
this thing alcohol. Millions and mil
lions never touch it, and yet. as our mod
,ern experience shows us, they live Just
as well, just as industriously, Just as
actively as do they who indulge in al
cohol. Most convincingly is it. zoo, that
nswho take alcohol take it, with
water. Brandy contains half water. and
it has to be diluted with more before it
can be tolerated.; our beers and ales
contain 90 per cent. of water, our wines
over so; so that even the alcoholic pop
ulations are largely water-drinking
communities. The only drink. in a
natural sense. is water. without which
we could not live, but which many poi
son with this foreign substance, giving
no credit to the water that is their main
stay. and deluded in suppcsing that it is
the alcohol, or spirit, which they have
put into the water that renders the vital
service.-Sir B. W. Richardson.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-07-02

Mrs. Chugwater-Josiah, did you ever
notice how common it is for girls to
look like their fathers? ..r,
Mr.. .Chugwater-Of course I have.
Most of them look like their fathers.
That's why so many girls faces are
their fortunes.-Chicago Tribune.