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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
WEST BRATTLEBoRo LOCALS.
tReceived too late for last week. issue. ,

tReceiyed too late for last weeks i,,ue.)
The school Taught 10y Miss Sarah
McVeigh in district No IL closed a
successful term last Friday with
school exercises, consisting Of singing,
number exercises. composition. srell-
ing ard recitations. \ large number of
the parents and friends we're present.
Ice cream. cake and lemonade. were
served for refreshments.
Mss Carrie Clark is at Saxtons River
for two weeas. Among the guests
Ht Mrs II J Clara's are Huntington
p Much and Mrs IA r Much of Hart
ford. Cunu VI isses l. + and J o Brew
ster of BrunSlcn and Mr. and Mrs C. r
Otis. YunSrr y Y come next week also
Mr. amt Mrs Dewey of Boston Miss L
j Curtis has returned 10 Boston after
a five weeas' sOjourn.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
VI CARRIAGES.

In stratton. July 81, by Rev o. H. Palmer,
James McCray and Miss Mary \. RUSSELL both
of West Dover.
In Peru, July ), oy the Rev Geo. o. Bruce,
Allen slade and Mrs. Cora twilliams) Norton,
both of Winhall.
In Brattleboro, july :, by Rev. Thomas Gull
Jesse c. Ayes of Watertown, " Y, and Miss
Ina Freeman of Brattleboro.
In saNtons River, July :, by Rev. J. A. Leach,
Geo II. Marks and Miss Anna Bailey of Sax
tons River
In Bratteboro, July u, by Rev FIR Cunning.
ham. Charles Cassidy aud Nora C;unc.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17

Dist. Com. Howe OF the Sons OF Veterans
has appointed V. |. Boyden his adutant and
Alison Harris quartermaster.
The grand lodge of Vermont on Thursday
morning purchased the property at the head Of
Church stree. In Burlington for the site of the
Masonic temple. The deed wa. therefore,
drawn transferring the land frOia Miss Mary
Connolly to the grand lodge of Masons of Yer
mont for the sum of 1880, of which $l0 900
was pledged from the Masonic fund and 81 800
was raiseL by subscription. II is expected that
work upon the foundation of the temple will be.
gin mt once.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
THE REFoRMER: HRArTLEBoRo VT. FRIDAY. JULY N 1896

standard? No. There Is not d bank In New
England but what will call In every loan that J
Is possible to collect. What VIII be the ehcc
here?
Does anyone suppose that such monetary
system would not drive away capital ana does
not everyone know that we are debtor people;
That this nation Is comparatively young and
financially dependent upon the oider nations
of Europe?
Again II IL Is bimetallism the people want, the
only way to bring 1t about Is by treaty. should
this government undertake II alone II would be-
come the dumping ground OF all the surplus sill
yer OF the world. When other commercial ma
lions Of the world, including Englands mints In
India, were open to the free coinage of silver
we could not even then maintain its parity with
! gold, how In Heavens name can we hope TO do
II now standing alone among the enlightened
nations of the carthy
/ Discuss who are the creditor class and who
the debtor class.
In the discussion of thls.grcat question so Vi.
tai 10 every interest we must not lose sight OF
this important fact, that II the free coinage OF
silver will result, AS the silvertes claim, In the
material advance of values, that is, IL will take
more OF that kind OF money to buy things, the
history OF the past shows conclusively that the
last thing TO advance is the wages of the labor
or. When under a military necessity during
the war of the rebellion our government had 10
drift away from sound financial basis, the ~.
hatiOn OF Its money inflated values ana there
was no class OF people in the United States
that suffered so seriously AS the man who sup
ported his family by his toiling hand. Wages
were the last thingtto advance. Such has always
been thc::casc In every country on earth
There never was q time In the history of this
country when days work would buy the
amount of materialsfor consumption by the fam
ily that il Will today. The great trouble is the
iaborer cannot lind employment. II we adopt
q system that will initiate prices and still adhere
TO our present tariff system so that the laborer
of the number of days I'm the week, there will be
period OF the worst destitutiOn and hunger In
the households of these laborers that this coun'
try ever experienced.
The unlimited coinage Of free silver is q deadly
blow, outside of the silver mines, to every toll
ing hand in this country. The SPECTATORS in
silver mines and silver bullion and all sharp
nnanciers will grow richer and cnmass fortunes
while the poor viii grow poorer and entail sor
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17

Horace Holden of New York spent
sunday with his brother. l. + Holden
The Misses Holhpook left yesterday for
Quincy, Mass. to visit their cousin Mrs
Fred Holbrook.-Mrs Lila A ROYCE lest
Wednesday for visit in Boston, Mass.
Mrs Merton Doolittle left Saturday for
Bondville to visit her mother.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17

After the speech making "a start was
made for the reorganization Of the
club. Col. Haskins moving that the
chair appoint committee of five to
report list of officers and Mr.. Martin
selected for the purpose, Col. Has
kins, Col. Hooker, 0. ID. Estabrook,
+ +. Gleason and l.. ID. Adams.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
The Death or Mrs. Chas. W. stwart.

| Mrs. Chas. w. Stewart died Wednesday eve
ming ut her home Birge ST., after an illness OF
| four months, during which time she was severe
| yet patient sufferer; intact she has not been wei
| For the past ten or twelve years.
Mrs. Stewart was born In So. Londonderry In
| 1888, her maiden name Icing Sarah Jane Temple.
She was the daughter Of Samuel and Louise
Temple. Most of her girlho0d was spent In her
native town, and In 1868 she married Chas. w.
Stewart the ceremony being performed by Rev.
Moses Adams nc Weston. In 1868 they came 10
BrattieborO to live and have made their home
here ever since. Besides her husband and a
daughter, Miss Izetta stewart. she leaves five
sisters and three brothers. one of her sisters,
Mrs. q. J. Thompson of Windhall, being with
her during the last days of her illness. The
funeral will be held this afternoon at 1 O'Clock,
Rev. A. j. Hough officiating In the absence of
Rev. i. ID. Temple.
Mrs. Stewart was Il charter member of the
Rebekahs and Knights and Ladies of Honor
where she will be sadly missed as she was a
prominent and esteemed member Of both SO.
cetics. She was a woman of beautiful charac
ter, with q sweet and lovely disposition, ever
ready to render kindly acts TO those about her,
who in turn did all In their power TO reciproeate
her kindness by showering upon her kindly re
memberances In this her last sickness. During
her long seige of suffering she was never heard
to complain but was resigned TO her death and
even made all preparations for her funeral,
and her death came at last calmly and peace.
fuliy
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17

John Baker is soon to move into
Mrs Harriet Perham'ss house. d +
C ushing, jr, 'of Boston 10 at home for
IA few days. Mrs Whitney Of South
Londonderry has moved into the house
owned by Williams 4 Co; her son is
to have employment in the upper
soapstone mill. Mr. Chadwick has
gone to Landgrove to work in a saw
mill for few months. DIR Higgins
of Cambridgeport, Mass. ha been in
town few days this week. Roscoe
Marsh and family visited friends in
Jamaica last Wednesday.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17
sick Ones.

Fred Cain is III with the chicken poN Mis-
Mary Kennedy is on the sick list--Mrs. s. e
Brigham is sick with quinsy sore throat.
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Mosquitoes

Lightning bugs and mosquitoes have been
scorching and buzzing around Staten Island
during the past week. According to IN old
superstition among the fishermen, the early
arrival of lightning bugs is a sure sign of a
grand season for weakish. The connection
between the fish and the bugs has never
been clearly established; but there are some
queer facts about mosquitoes which the
islanders are aware OF, and which might
we'll puzzle the learned.
The genuine native mosquito, hat is to
say, the happy little chap that was born and
raised on the island, Is not a bad fellow. He
seldom attacks a farmer, and never bothers
a clammer; but he goes for the city man
furiously. This may seem strange, but it Is
a we'll known fact. Staten Island mosque
toes, like w~atchdogs. bite strangers only.
1t may be that the well-tanned hides Of
the natives Of A~quahonga are distasteful to
mosquitoes, and that their preference is for
the pale face from the city. But here again
this theory gets a setback by q change Of
the wind. When a warm southwest breeze
continues for some little time clouds of New
Jersey gallinippers invade the island and
attack natives and visitors alike, sparing
neither age nor sex. In such trying times
prayers are offered up for a breeze from the
sea, and when that comes the invaders re-
treat to their home in the distant marshes.
OF what use are mosquitoes. and why
did Skipper NOAH take any Of them on
board his craft , are questions that rave
often been asked. The preachers tell us
that Providence placed them in malarious
localities to keep away settlers, and some
doctors contend that they are the best
friends we have in the world. because they
make war on microbes. They are the
scavengers of the air.
This being the case, let us welcome them
and be happy. Long may they sing!
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ENGLISH ROSE VS..
Report OF the National Society as to the
Exhibitions of Last Year.

The National Rose Society of England. of
which the Very Rev. the Dean Of Rochester Is
President. and the Princess Of Wales Is
patroness. has just issued is annual report. in
It the committee for 1898 express much pleasure
at the steady and satisfactory progress of the
society during the year. and state that tho
southern show, held at Gloucester on June Of.
was undoubtedly tho largest rose show that has
ever been held in the provinces so early in the
season. The Crystal Palace. or metropolitan,
exhibition. the report says, was, owing to tho
dry and forcing weather which preceded 1t, less
extensive than usual. the first Towering of many
roses In the more forward districts being over
before the date OF the show. The exhibition at
Derby WAS. on the contrary, the largest north.
ern show, with the exception of that at B!r-
mingham in 1890, that the society ever hold.
The attendance was disappointing. however. on
ing been fixed for the same day.
The report further says that on the return
of the President of the society from an Ameri-
can tour. several leading American horticulture
lists and rosarlans. at his suggestion, were elect
ed honorary foreign members OF the society as
n recognition of the friendly Keeling existing
between the rosnriRns Of both countries,
The Treasurer's report II most gratifying. tho
report says, and shows, after all ex penditures,
q balance of about S225 to carry over into 1898.
The report concludes with an account OF the
arrangements made for exhibitions in 1896.
The southern show will be held at Reading on
June "a, In conjunction with the heading Hor-
ticultural Society; the metropolitan show at
the Crystal Palace on July 4. and the northern
show at INVERSION, In connection with tho
North Lonsdale Rose Society, on July Is.
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IL Is reported from Rockport, Ind, that
the Hon. CLIFFORD ABBOTT. ono Of tho most
eminent and meritorious Of the ls. 796H poets
OF that poetic State, has received 100 bushels Of
potatoes for a book of his poems. For a second
book he could have had 100 bushals. but with
the mutable mind Of the true son OF song no re-
fused. "A poet" he said. cannot 1.-Two on pota-
toes alone" That 10 not certain. In fact any
judicious person who was cultivating poets
would probably feed a poet intended for tho
rural, bucolic. and pastoral line on potatoes eX-
clusively. Even for dialect poets hot potatoes
would DO found excellent aud sufficient. or
course Mr.. ABBOTT may now be meditating
something In the TyrtRan vein, war songs,
battle and murder, and 30 on, in which case
rare beef and Welsh rarebit should be his diet.
If he means to pursue didactic verse. mutton
and turnips are his meat. II he means to strike
the lovelorn Tyre. caramelsa and mush and milk
will be advisable. For the production Of q de-
cadent or symbolist paretic style. old cheese,
dbsinthe frdppF, and bro!led lobster with milk
will be- conducive.
The subject OF the diet of poets has never re-
ceived the care which 1t deserves. In the course
of time poets will be confined In reservations,
where their habits and diet will be studied and
regulated by experts, and no poet will be allowed
to eat or drink anything which is not calculated
for the line of goods he seeks to produce.
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THE SUN, FRIDAY, MAY 90, 1895

" RELIGIOUS edince will have 10 TO also. A
more suitable hall for him could be erected
elsewhere, for the congregations he draw,
by reason OF his notoriety are too numerous
for his church. and It's ecclesiastical architec.
ture Is not congruous with It's present uses.
These improvements are likely TO be fol-
lowed by a similar Transformation extend
ing from Twenty-third street TO the Fourth
avenue tunnel, n consequently property
throughout that stretch has increased
largely in value. Above the tunnel IN Park
avenue, two churches, one Baptist and ono
Presbyterian, ave been replaced by ex-
pensive residences.
Fourth avenue, therefore. once noted for
its stately and important churches, Is des-
tined to lose them altogether within n very
few years, with the single exception Of
Calvary, at Twenty-second street. There
are no indications OF the removal of that
edifice, or Of any decline In the prosperity Of
the parish.
Generally, the demand for real estate in
New York Is not now as active as 1t has
been, but the sales lately made, including
some large and important pieces OF prop
erty, show that prices are tending to adj
vance still further. Extensive projects for
improvement are under way in downtown
property, one OF them being for a c%apaoious
hotel, and several for large and lofty office
buildings on and Of which the cost per
square foot Is so great that It cannot be
made profitable with buildings of n
other nature.
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seis,ene Wow or Mile. Cousae,.

Now that the commission in Paris IN thu ean
Of Mile. Couedon has gone OF 81 half oook. and
boldly proclaimed that the young lady q posa
sessed of an evil spirit, II 10 interesting 20 read
Prof. Charles Ricketts, view OF her case In tha
Revue Sctenttfque:
If one endeavors 10 ind . rational explains
ton of this mental phenomenon" says the Pro-
lessor, three hypothesis arc presented; Gan
tho subject DO really possessed OF o divins
sptritr Have the people boon duped by q fraud,
or is the visionary simply an invalid The first
hypothesis is only admissible for the credulous,
but It is worth while remem bering. however.
that the young lady who claims to be the agent
Often gives h"1' vague and evasive a nvrers 'fA'''~
The question of fraud must be entirely cast
aside. because the pecuniary motive does NOT
brity would not be sufficient to give the
yoyante that will power which has never
forssaen her from the time Of her hrs,
apply the term deceit TOT phenomenon that one
cannot understand. We must. therefore. re-
mental affection well known to psychologists;
that Is to say. the doubling OF personality. By
hypnotism doctors know now to bring out In
stances are not rare In science of per.
sons who. without so~mnambulism. lose all
as II another mind replaced their own. Obser-
vations have also been published Of many mem
tai disassociations Some of these diseased
questions that are asked OF them. whimper like
q co9uette. swear with all the passion of .
dfq nn% n man, or preach preach like the most elo9uSnii
psychological dislocations;' that may clear up
the case OF Mile. Couedon. The voyante of the
cised neither Is she amenable To the law for OBJ
tanning money under false pretences. The
mhsfi f Hep aelI Is the be eTsSs1os si9 or her to ai ,Ss Ssi
main of fancy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-29
Tho March OF Improvement,

The refusal of an offer Of $3.50, 900, or
about $50 a quare foot, for the site of the
Presbyterian church at the corner of
Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street
affords an indication Of the rapid rise in the
value of real estate in that avenue during
recent years. The church expects to get
very much more for its property, and it Is
not likely to be disappointed.
This Is the church of which the late DIR.
HOWARD CROSBY was pastor, and its neigh
borhood was formerly considered especially
eligible for houses of worship. Fourth ave-
nue. was quiet and surrounded by the resi-
dences of people of wealth and consequence;
but in late years it has undergone a very
striking transformation. A Methodist
church near by was removed to give place
to a great Office building. A savings bank
has erected an imposing structure on
another corner. The Unitarian Church
OF All Souls at the corner of Twentieth
street. to which the late DIR. BELLOWS
gave distinction, Is now languishing as a
religious organization, and it's valuable site
must before long be covered by a large and
important secular building. The Unitarians
have not prospered in New York during the
'e'' Ahcy iepicoCh1 u religious
liberality which now has extended to Prot
estant orthodoxy so far that the reason for
their separate existence seems to have gone
very largely. The only church likely to
remain in that neighborhood is the Episco-
pal Calvary Church at the corner OF Tween
ty-irst street, lately left by the Rev. DIR.
~SArTERLEE, after a successful pastorship,
on his becoming Bishop OF Washington. o
Fourth avenue from Union square to
Twenty-third street. already notable for
new and lofty structures OF much architec-
tural pretension, Is likely to be lined
throughout with such buildings in the
course OF a very few years. Property there
was long stagnant, but it is nov in active
demand for improvements OF a costly sort.
The sale OF the Presbyterian church at
Twenty second street, it is reported, would
be followed by the erection OF a great busi.
ness structure extending to Twenty-third
street, and taking in the property on which
now stands the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION building. The Academy of Design,
on the opposite corner, was sold at a large
price to the Metropolitan Insurance Com
pany, which will ultimately extend its
marble building, at the corner Of Madi-
sou avenue, over all the block, with the ex-
ception OF the space occupied by the Presby-
terrain church whereat PARKHURsT ofici-
Stes. The probability is that that nominal
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-29

There is still some noise in the world, but
on the whole the general impression left By the
last few weeks is ono of almost mournful
silence. Major MUM contributes a good deal of
It. but he Is by no means responsible for
the whole OF It, Whore are the letters
notified with ALTERATION which used to
crowd the mail bags and the newspapers :
Whore are tho half-hourly communication
on everything from agriculture to zoology
which used to be sent out from Washington for
tho edifcation OF the public7 Where are the
warnings. reproofs. remonstrances, appeals, the
masterpieces of sarcasm, tho a.
trenchant as o hoo, the whole vast apparatus Of
opistolary art7 Has the Hon. JULIUS STERLING
MORTON got writer's cramp. or what ia the mat
ter with him that tho chain OF silence binds the
once unresting pen and voiosf
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-29

The Drys at Pittsburgh have been having
somewhat impassioned meeting. and there is
danger lest the dulcet voice Of Mrs. uoA
and the world shading mustachios Of tho Hon.
JEAN PIERRE SINJUN should divert attention
from a movement truly great and palpitatinR
with reform. For 1t Is no disrespectt to the Drys
to say that even the most comprehensive and
"broadest gauge" reformers among them have
something to learn from the new party,
founded in Tonawanda. and nobly represented
at Pittsburgh by tho Hon. DAN'LS wooER and
at least a half dozen other statesmen. 1t 10
the aim Of the Hon. DAN'L SwooER to unite all
the reformers, Wholesale, retail. jobbing. and
miscellaneous, Into ono grand conRlomeration
Of reform. The Drys seem unequal as yet to
that great argument; but the Hon. DAN'L Swo-
GER broods and waits. His time will strike,
and arouse tho world.
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The Song OF tho Siren.

Tho appeals now directed to the Hon
THOMAS BRACKET REED by the numerout
pewspaper organs Of the Hon. WILLIAM
MCKINLEY form instructive and sometimes
amusing reading.
We get a new view Of the dignity and
significance Of the Office Of Vice-Presiden
of the United States.
II IL not a mausoleum. 1t Is not a pigeon
hole. It is not a shelf. 10 is not q cellar
stairway. 1t is not a long farewell to great
ness and the hope OF greaterness.
On the contrary, the Office Of Vice-Presi-
dent, rightly understood, and occupied by
tho right person, is one of the most desirable
stations for high craftsmanship, energetic
patriotism, and profound acquaintance with
the rules OF parliamentary law. to be found
anywhere on earth. 1t is a ladder reaching
upward, n brevet of further promotion, an
engagement ring, q certificate Of indebted
ness payable in 1900 or in 1904.
II the Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED
needs instruction as to the true functions
n inherent possibilities Of the Vice-Presi-
Dental Office, he is getting 1t in liberal
quantities just ut present.
LET us unite" say the MCKINLEY men,
"to make the Vice Presidency the dignihed,
influential, and important post which the
fathers of the republic intended it to be; q
post hardly secondary to, and almost Co
equal with, that of the Chief Magistrate
himself"
Well, that is an interesting idea. There
Is no law against giving the Vice-President
tho other end of the table at Cabinet meet
ings and a place and a hardly secondary
part in all Executive councils.
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Thin ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Investigator
at Odds.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Str Your es-
tsemed correspondent Investigator is enti-
tied to a literary copyright on his discovery that
Mime. Bernhardt's habit of wearing no sta IS
conceals her rotundity of outline when she
dresses In old fashioned or flowing garments"
do not know what Investigator " means by
old-fashioned. but stays or oorsets, since their
first introduction as an article OF feminine ap-
parel. have been used to repress and not to re-
veal what your correspondent calls "rotundity
or outline" A thin woman does not wear cor
sets because she does not need to. A stout
woman wears them on the stage rs well as Off
In order to appear thin. for the benefit which IL
derived from the use of cursets Is the symmetri-
cal contraction OF the figure which they secure
and which cannot be Obtained in any other way.
1t Ia, perhaps, n rather delicate matter TO be the
subject of u controversy between two masculine
persons IN a newspaper, but, ! take IT.. there Is
no offence in saying that the reason why sarah
Bernhard does not wear Parisienne corsels-
she Is much too patriotic to wear corsets OF any
but French make ls because she Is thin and
does not require this artificial aid to symmetry,
either In what your correspondent calls old
fashioned dresses" or in flowing garments"
| have seen Nine. Bernhardt in the various
characters In which she has appeared since her
first appearance in the United States on Nov. y.
1880. a. AdriennS LscOuITeur at Booths Theatre,
but have no recollection OF ever seeing her la an
old fashioned dress. OBSERVER.
NEW YORK, May 20.