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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-03
VERMONT RAILROAD.
New London Division.
Taking effect Dee. a., 1895.



GOING SOUTH.
| Trains leave Drattlcboro as follows
| 5.Si ant, for Springfield and New Ynrk.
$40 am. for Millcrs Fails, Palmer and New Lon
don. Connecting at Mi.lers Falls with Fitch
burg X. r.. ut Palmer with Boston n Albany
Il. r., az Willimantic with New England X. a.,
az New London with y. Y. y. III. and II. r. u.
a .a5 a. m, for Springfield and New York.
1870 m. for Millers Fails and stations Firth
burg u. r.. Palmer ami stations ou Boston
Albany Y. L., and for New London.
, 2.l3 pm. mail train for Springfield.
42J D. IN , for Mixers Falls and stations on Fitch
burg u. r., Palmer and New London and New
York via Norwich Line.
I. 50 pm. for Springfield and New YORK
GOING NOgTH.
Trains arrive at Bratticboro as foil,~-;
He's a M, from New York via Norwich Line,
New London, Palmer and Millcr- Falls.
II &c a. M. from Springfield.
los PM, from New London. Palmer and Miilers
Falls.
206 pm, from Springfield and Neu York.
$40 pm, from New York and springfield.
..t0 pm , iron New London. Palmer and NillcrS
Pals
l0.as IN, from New York and Springfield.
SSSubject 20 change without notice.
II. MACkESZIE, Supf., Ner London.
s.W. CUMMINGS, q. Y. A. 81 sihsns.
y a. soiTIiAIb, -. T. a., New London
civ
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-03
Natures
Cure
UeHrrs /yom head 10 /aS.

Puritana differs from all other medicines
as day differs from night. 1t cures dis
ease by naturalizing and vitalizing the
Power Producer of the human system.
To any man, woman, or child, who viii
take it as directed, it will practically give
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

tude offered to bring the white man to
a mine that had been worked by the
Mission fathers hundred years be-
fore. They started, but as they went
the worth OF the service he had re-
ceived seemed less to the Indian and
the service he was rendering seemed
more, and at last he refused to pro-
coed unless he was paid pony and a
gun. The miner promised, but the In
dian demanded his price in advance.
and they returned to the edge of civili-
cation, got the pony and the gun and
started again.
The prospector returned with the
usual specimens. but without the Sc
cret. The Indian had left him one
night, and had returned twentyfour
hours later with the gold-bearing rock
and silver crucifix with Spanish in
scription. He brought these to show
that he knew where the old-time priests
had got their gold, but he had suf-
fered another change of heart, and
now gave back the horse and gun and
refused to show the mine. Why?
They don't ask Indians for reasons. 1t
might have been that he saw a white
deer; snake, quail and a crow may
have been on the trail together, or 1t
may have been, and probably was
Just Iniun cussedness.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

rest. the fresh hope or the patience
which only God can give us. People
used to tell me that when sorrow came
should find my faith faulty because it
had no name, but they were wrong, for
when the heavy loss of my dear, gifted
sister found me too feeble to do any
thing but suffer passively, l still had
the sustaining sense of love that never
failed, even when I could not see
why this lovely life should end
when it was happiest. AS a
poor, proud. struggling girl I held to
the belief that if l deserved success it
would surely come so long as my am
bition was not for selfish ends, but for
my dear family, and it did come, far
more fully than / ever hoped or
dreamed, though youth, health and
many hopes went to earn it. Now, when
might enjoy rest, pleasure and travel
l am still tied by new duties to my
baby, and give up my dreams, sure that
something better will be given me in
time. Freedom was always my longing
but l have never had 1t, so l am still
trying to feel that this is the discipline
l need, and when l am ready the lib.
erty will come"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

or cold, not from recognized disease.
and not from violence, comes to men
where the ribbon of salt, winter even
than the white sand, runs down to the
sinkhole, $50 feet below the sea.
Death Valley is only strip itself
eight to sixteen miles wide, but the
man who could walk across 1t at It's
worst has never been born. with the
fierce sunlight blazing down, being cast
back from the sand, so that even in the
shadow the thermometer registers
nearly 14O degrees, with the air full OF
salt and the sand giving under MS
tread. he'd die half way. You can't
drink water enough to Stake your
thirst, and travellers are found dead
with canteens of water beside them.
The only fresh water in the valley
comes from the gloomiest feature OF
all, the spotted, strange-stained fu-
neral Mountain. The single employe
of a borax enterprise has managed 10
make alfalfa grow on little plot-the
only green place in Death Valley. BACK
from this there are hills as white as
-four mountains, covered as cleanly ~
borax as II it had fallen like snow.
Around the base of the Funeral
Mountain curves the Amargosa river.
Nobody has ever seen water flowing
upon the surface of this river bed, but
the ghost of a great river, miles wide,
is there between great perpendicular
banks, hundreds of feet high. Nobody
has followed the river bed to its source
or traced it to it's disappearance. Some
where down under the bed the water
flows, the scientists say. but whether
lit is a yard or a mile down even they
do not know. Even when the skies
crack and let the cloudbursts through.
no water runs over the Amargosa
river sands. The thirsty earth can
drink it up faster than it can fall.
Death Valley Is beautiful, but the
man who explores it and the uncanny
mountains about it comes back. II he
comes at all, gaunt and wasted. In his
blistered eyes are the images OF the
mirror-like sea Of SALT the blur Of the
blazing sun, the heaped-up mounds
that tell where somebody has found 8
dead man and put him out of sight
the bleached skeleton, not whittier thar
! the earth on which 1t lies, and not thu
} gay colors Of the Funeral peaks, thu
picturesque rounded tops Of the Mont
Blanco, the quaint crags Of the deat
rivers clifi-banks.
About the valley lives almost ever.
venomous thing that crawls in tn
> west. Rattlesnakes. tarantulas. cent?
pedes, scorpions. even ella monsters:
those hideous slow lizards that ever
scientist says are harmless and ever,
frontiersman says are deadly.
The valley never lacks for victims
. There Is gold there--gold enough to
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
LOUISA NJ. ALCOTT'S CREED.
Was Taught That The Love of Good.
ness Was the Love of God"

In a number Of letters written at
long and short intervals from 1872 to
1886 by Louisa NJ. Alcott, to five little
girls in Allegheny county, Pa, the au-
thor of Little Women most charming
ly and frankly discloses her extraordl-
nary nature, and the missives. edited
by Edward w. Box. are given to the
public in Ladies' Home Journal. In
one of the tenderest of these letters, IN
voked by the sad information Of the
death of one of the sisters. MISS Alcott
wrote her Borrowing correspondent:
81 will tell you my experience
and as it has stood the test OF youth ana
age, health and sickness, JOY and sor-
row, poverty and wealth, l feel that IL
is genuine. and seem to get more nght,
warmth and help as l go on learning
more of it year by year. My parents
never bound us to any church, pu'
taught us that the love of goodness was
the love of God. the cheerful dong Oh
duty made life happy, and that the
love OF ones neighbOr in its widest
sense was the best help for ones sell.
Their lives showed us how lovely TINS
simple faith was, how much honor
gratitude and affection it brought them,
and what sweet memory they left be-
hind, for. though father still lives, MS
life is over, as far as thought or use
fulness are possible. Theodore parker
and Ralph Waldo Emerson did much to
helm me to see that one can shape lire
best by trying to build up strong and
noble character. through good BOOKS,
wise peoples society, an interest IN all
reforms that help the world, and
cheerful acceptance of whatever is in
evitahle; seeing beautiful compensa-
ton in what often seems great sacrl-
flee, sorrow or loss, and believing al
ways that wise. loving and just Father
cares for us, sees our weakness and Is
near to help if We call. Have you read
Emerson? He is called pantheist or
believer in nature instead Of GOD. he
was truly Christian, and saw God in
nature, finding strength and comfort
in the same sweet influences of the
great Mother as we'll as the Father OF
all. too believe this, and when tired,
sad or tempted find my best comfort In
the woods, the sky, the healing solitude
that let's my poor, weary soul find the
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

many fortunes. and year after year
men seek it, even where the sun scorch-
es and sets them mad.
The gold has been found. not once.
but many times. This frightful place
has more tales of lost mines than any
other. The Pegleg, the Breyfogle. the
Mansfield claim. the Lost Padre mine,
and many more have tempted pros
pectors back to the pit of glarlng al
kali. These are real mines. In South
ern California towns they will snow
you ore brought back by the original
discoverer, rock all a-glitter with the
precious points. but in the whole list
no one has rewarded its finder. The
pegleg discoverer, the first and "ich-
est of all, could never find his way
back to the boulder that jutted through
the white cap of borax and revealed
the wealth below. He tried again and
again, until he could no longer find
credit for the -four and bacon he must
have TO live on while he searched. He
left his ore specimens and his map to
another man. who has kept up the
search for twenty years and hasn't
found it yet
Old Breyfogle trailed his way out Of
the desert with more rich rock. He
told Of a cave in a canyon where he
crawled to find shelter from a cloud
burst, and found the richest rock that
was ever brought out Of the gold coun-
try. He showed the rock when he
| came out, and started back to his mine
with mules laden with water and pro-
| visions OF course, he was followed
His find was too big to be left to one
! man. but old Dreyfogle knew the
mountains and the men who prospect
among them, and he doubled on his
! trail, made false starts, and at last
shook the followers off the scent and
vanished. He never came back. Man
mules, water barrels, tools, provisions
all disappeared. This was genera
ton ago, but in that country there are
yet men clambering among the dead
canyons, looking for cave with 6
roof studded with gold. 1t is the same
story, with few variations, all
through.
The Lost Padre mine is the only one
with radically different legend. Thu
tale came from the Indians. An ole
Piute came over from the Nevada side
and was rescued from death from
thirst by prospector, and in his graft
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
SIFTlNCS.

Faithful to the last-the good shoe
maker.
The secret of prolonging life is not
to abridge it.
II a policeman does not preserve
order he gets into pickle.
How hard the man who paints tries
to bring the conversation around to ar
lists.
Speaking about ornithO1ogy, did you
know that larks were bred from swal-
lows?
A man sleeping where good preaching
is going on must be good sort of a Ier-
son.
A Texas cowboy who was defendant
in breach Of promise suit. said he was
lass-sued.
A Dakota farmer proposes to cure So
cialism by having the socialists take
land. But they won't. They take beer.
What this country needs most is a
practical scientist who can invent an
attachable steering apparatus for cy-
clones.
Don't worry. keep your head cool.
your feet warm. look out for east winds
the rheumatism and dyspepsia and do
your level best to die Of old age.
A queer case is reported from Den.
| yer. Col. A man got drunk. stole his
own trunk and hid it. He complained
Of the theft. the property was recovered
and he was made the prosecuting wit
ness. The judge being Quandry how
to treat so novel case. decided that the
thief was not accountable for his act.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

he lay there dead, and nearby stood
his pack animal. With food in the al
forjas.
The men who live with the simmer
OF the white sand in their eyes would
be surprised to hear people casting
ABOUT for reason for this mans death.
why, he died OF the desert" any OF
the horax men would tell you. which
being interpreted into the language Of
men who live in cities, means that his
heart broke from the loneliness, the
hopelessness, the horrid silence, and
he put his face in the alkali and
sripped the sand and died.
This may seem absurd to the man
who does not know what silence is.
a boat in the middle of the ocean in
the dead calm is a roaring noise mill
when compared to the stiffness in
Death Valley. In the boat if you move
you rock and the water splashes, and
when you touch the boat it gives a
live sound. In the desert you can hear
the breathing Of your straying horse a
quarter OF mile away, and when he
snorts in the night you start up and
feel the air tremble. If you walk your
footballs are muiiled in the velvet
sands, there is no chirp of insect, or
cry Of bird. Even the vultures keep
off the desert.
or course, everybody does not die OF
| the desert. any more than everybody
in city dies during an epidemic, but
death that is not from hunger, thirst
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
ONE WAS A TRAMP
Pathetic Little Scene at Dying %
Side.

Side.
The way-train ahead of Us had s,,..,
an open switch and been ditcbed sN
two passengers were killed outrirh.
and five or six others more or loss -
jured, says the Detroit Free d..
The killed and injured were lvina
the depot platform as our train e,s
up, and among the latter was profas
sional tramp who had been steali,a
ride. After the doctor had looked h;''
over the vagabond, who had mt w..
consciousness for moment s,,,.s It's.
family and asked:
Wall, pard, what's the verdict If -,
jury?"
You are badly hurt" was the ro,,,
Il know that. l was right i, ~
squeeze when the two cars cpm =.
gether. I'm as fiat as a pancake. VIII
l ever tramp agin?"
I'm afraid not
''Ar' my legs Off"
No; you are fatally injured, how.
ever"
THAT means I'm a goner?"
yes"
"Wall. I'd hev liked to got over ~,
and had sunthin' to talk about and hras
over. but l amt doin' no kickin' NJ
pard was on the car ahead. Was !.
hurt?"
mo; here he is.''
At that moment a ragged unkemut
and typical vagabond came forward sna
bent over the victim and asked
"Wall, Jim, they say you hev to go7s
yes"
How We fellin' over it,"
"Sorter. No use to kick. Tom"
That's right; you never was no |
kicker, nohow. Got any friendsm
mo"
Want word taken to anybody%
mo"
kin do anythin' for ye?"
The dying man gazed at him for
moment in silence and then Whispered
Tom. We ar the only pardner ever
had as knowed the Lords prayer. JEST
say it over to me-"
The old tramp pulled off his cap and
knelt down, and as the score of us I'm.
covered and bowed our heads be r.
peated the prayer word for word and
with such feeling as astonished every.
body. When he had finished he rose
up and said:
That's it, Jim, and kin do anythins
more?'
Nothing more for him." answered
the doctor, as he looked down upon tn
pale face. Your partner is dead"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
HIS HONOR'S TOOTHACHE
lie Proved to Be More Than the Dst
tist Had Bargalned For.

lie Proved to lie More Than the Dst
tist Had Bargained For.
A good story is told of Judge ". D
Greer, prominent lawyer of Paducah
says the Paducah Standard. Once dur
ing visit to St. Louis he had sever
attack of toothache. He sought den
lists Office and was met by young
man who was scrupulously neat aaal
clean. The latter bowed suavely sndI
the judge began:
Il believe you profess to be able >
extract teeth without pain?
Eyes, sir" was the reply land
don't do it I'll refund your money
The judge was seated in the opela1
ing chair and the last thing he renel
bers was the dentist inserting sni
tube in his mouth. He got dose Oh
and became unconscious. When ne 1l
to the young man was under @o
his erstwhile spotless shirt and eoll
covered with blood and his clothes 10
up almost beyond recognition. he'
desperately waving the judge ol'
ing all the while: Get out OF na
Get out of here!
He seemed very anxious 10 nave
Judge get out but he couldn't ~
duced to leave his retreat unae'
table.
why, young man, what's .ne
ter?" asked the judge, who d'uu'
derstand the situation, in surpr''@
I've done anything I'm Wiling !"
for it,"
The young man obtruded LIZ y
for a moment, glanced repros'u.
about at the demolished furnias
his own sorry plight. wavels e.,' X
moment and then exclaimed II"
get out of here!' 4,
1t seemed that the judge uuus 3
influence of the gas had cleau. =.
the establishment ana tn'
didn't get the tooth, either
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
The Negro Exodus.

The negro exodus to Liberia seems to
be assuming considerable proportions.
One hundred and fifty negroes, from
Arkansas and Oklahoma, passed
through Memphis recently for Savan-
nah, where they were 20 take ship for
Liberia. The society which is further
ing the emigration scheme ia said to
have secured the good will and CO.
operation Of the negro preachers. and
great numbers Of negroes all over the
south are saving their money and SELL
ing their little property preparatory to
going to Liberia. The fare from Sa-
vannah to Liberia is fixed at Sal.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
LABOR NOTES.

Eight hundred Boston brewer
ers have left the X. OF L. au' :
the A. F. Of l.. A..
The trades unionists OF Los -. -.
Cal. are boycottingg the cn'n''
japanese restaurants It'll
Switzerland, a pure dem0e IA !.
of government, has had on. ~ .s.s|
In thirty-five years, ana VI
were lockouts. 4
The bindery girls empl0yeao
Roller printing office. Canton =,
on a strike the past wen s'.,.,l1
hours, and after much arO'
girls won. III,
when they affiliated with y. ~
can Federation Of Labor ..i,t,a
the American Agents asso', .sr
a membership OF 800; no"
10000. IT,, Il
The American Federa'.SD ,or
was orranized in 1881, ana ma NV W.
membership of nearly 'v .
ia far above the high "A
the X. Of L. ,;on 4
The Central Labor u ~ t,ys
Wayne. Ind. declared md N
municipal electric plant s.m rbs
was that the lighting ma .,as iu 4
has the contract compe ~. ,,ies
' lists to withdraw from ''' ,.dj,I
| The Upholsters' union H,a ,pa
is only one month DIV ', h. q
members. q majority u ,,ilas
the city. The BARRIERS .,r,,pe :
harnessmakers are ors .sius tap'
/ union movement is m'' :
rress in that city.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
He'll.

To send sinner to endless hell 10
no more victory over sin than to cor
raj the social evil within certain plague
spots Is victory over that vice. or to
Danish all the Hawaiian lepers to Mol
okai is victory over leprosy. The
only victory over sin, as over physical
disease. is to cure it-not to shut it up
In any kind 0f neither world, there to
propagate and tester and putrefy to
the end Of infinite timc.-Rev. C. F..
Henry.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
Hottie Sciences.

OF all scientific professions once al
lied with theology, astronomy and med
icine have, perhaps. become most
hostile. 1t was u common priestly say
ing in the middle ages that where there
were three doctors there were two
atheists, and it has been aptly pointed
out that in all the starry host of heav-
en- there is not planet or star called
by the name Of saint or angel.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
The Evidence There

The last red rays OF .he setting sun
fingered longingly upon the beauties
Of paradise complete.
Adam" faltered Eve. 'am the first
girl you ever really loved?"
He looked into her liquid eyes and
sighed.
How can you doubt me?" he inur.
INJURED, somewhat reproachfully.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
IN DEATH VALLEY.
WATER WILL NOT QUENCH
THIRST THERE.
No Stiffness Like This Anywhere -
Around It's Borders Live Almost
Every Venomous Thing That Has
life.

ORD comes from
the west that Death
Valley has claimed
another victim. An
unknown man, sup
posed to be a pros
pector, was found
by some of the bor-
AK W ork g T. 5 face
down in the alkali.
1t was not from
thirst he died, but
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
THIS SHALL BE MY CHOICE.

THIS SHALL BE MY CHOICE.
crept into his heart, for he knew that
when the child had grown to manhood
he would avenge his father. So Am
phrey wrote to Ansclmus. begging that
peace might henceforth exist between
them And Anselmus was pleased and
answered, promising to give help and
protection to Amphrey II he would &C.
knowledge the emperor's sovereignty
and give security for his own word Of
faith.
Then King Amphrey called his coun-
Gil and showed them the letter Of the
emperor. and asked their help in decid-
ing what the tribute should be. After
much discussion, noble stepped forth
and said:
"Oh king, there can be but one tribute
paid to Anselmus that will keep to your
self your dignity and honor. Anselmus
has a son: you have daughter. fair and
good and noble. Let the prince and
princess become betrothed. and in time
the glory of our kingdom will be united
to the glory Of Rome"
And forthwith he wrote to Anselmus.
offering his daughter in marriage to the
baby prince. And Anselmus was glad
and the betrothal was celebrated with
pcmp and ceremony.
After a number of years had passed.
and the prince had grown to manhood.
and had proved his nobility. and valor.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

There are 197,146. APO acres of timber
lands in the southern states. and the
average yield Of these forests is 3,00O,-
900 feet per acre.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

Knows Evil when She Sees It.
A young woman Of Stockton. Kan,
who occasionally takes flyer after
shutdown in male attire. writes pieces"
for the papers ON the evil Of dancing.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09
A WONDERFUL STORY.

ENTURIES have
come a II d gon G
since Anselmus
reigned over the
Romans. He was a
Cd an d great
monarch, and he had
taken for his queen
the fair daughter OF
the king of Jerusa-
lem. They were
both loved and hon