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that an abscess, caused by some very se- were strain, had formed. This was taken away, and Mir. Cahoon came out all right. He is now feeling much better, and, if nothing new sets in, he will be back here in about three weeks. J. W. Harrison called on him at the hospital last Sunday, and says that he is feeling quite comfort able.
 Moose Meadow.
 MT. Cleveland has moved from Woods place to the house located by Wm. Ruby on the Lillibridge farm. School No. has opened with Miss Pierson as teacher. She is boarding at N. l.. Sargent's.
 The sociable held last Thursday even- tended and we'll enjoyed.
 Many attended the services at the Con- gregational church last Sunday, to hear Rev. Oscar Bissell, a former pastor. MT. Bissell preached 8 very stirring sermon, with all of his old time zeal and enthusiasm. He may supply the pulpit again in the near future.
 Harvey Barrett is home sick with the German measles and others expect to be.
 Mrs. Calvin Rider is quite i'll with the grip.
 Next Sunday Rev. O. G. Terry will de- Church, and will also be present at the evening service. It is expected that con- ference will appoint him to labor at Quarryville.
 Mrs. R. A. Eddy, who was stricken with paralytic shock on March 1st, is gaining slowly. She has recovered her speech, but the left side of the body is paralyzed. pr. Converse, who is in attend ance, has applied an electric battery with no marked results. Mrs. Eddy has the sympathy of the entire community, and much hope is expressed for her recovery.
 James Callander has retur ned home, bringing him a new turnout. WALES. The election Monday resulted in the following choice of officers Moderator, W. A. Lyon; clerk, O. T. Royce; treas urer, w. A. Lyons selectmen and over seers of the poor, O. P. Royce, J. H.Lou- don, G. M. Stewart; assessors, O. P. Royce, G. M. Gale, I. H. Walker; school committee for three years, Mary A. Con- verse; auditors, G. s. Rogers, w. E. Needham library trustees for three years, Rev. G. W. Davis two years, Miss Anna Burley; one year, Miss Mary A. Converse. Appropriations Town officers, $2OO; schools, 1900, also dog fund; library, 100; paupers, 700; high ways and bridges, TOO; snowpaths, 50; :; prosecuting illegal liquor sellers. 100; miscellaneous, 500; total, 355O. Liquor license Yes, 54 no. 63.
 It costs no more to SOW good seeds than 1t does to SOW old and worthless stock. How foolish is the person who fails to get the best to start with. No doubt you have often thought of this when our
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NOTICE.-An persons liable to pay IN taxes in the town Of Wilmington are hereby notified that have warrant to levy and col tneH AdAitary and poll tax, made from the town h1t f fe96, payable April 5th, 1897, and for the pufpose of collecting same will be at the se- leoFMen,s office in South Wilmington, Friday, Aprf gth, 1897, from o'clock p. m. to p. m., and at the Town Clerks ofnce, on Wilmington Hill, Saturday, April 10th, from o'clock D. m. to 3.S0 p. m. All military and poll taxes must be paid before June 1st, 1897. Legal fees and addt- uons will be made to those who neglect this no- Gce. D. c. DIMOCK, Collector.
 Wilmington, Conn.,, March 10th, 1897. 3w
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If it is not on it's way to the dressmaker's, high time that it was. All Springfield looks here for its dress goods, and we do not disappoint them. We have:
 Fifty sorts at 25c.
 Two Hundred at 374c.
 Hundred and fifty at soc.
 Hundred and fifty at 75c.
 One hundred at $1.
 One hundred at $1.25.
 Fifty at $1. .5O.
 Twenty-Five at $2. And fine imported French dress patterns, very exclusive things, S1o, 12.5o, IS, 18, etc.
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FORBES & WALLACE, Main, Vernon and Pynchon streets,
 Springfield, Mass.
Grating Wax.

If you want to grow oranges on apple trees, or turnips on potato vines, use our Grating Wax-only 15c. a stick.
 LATHROP'S DRUG STORE.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14
SEA NDAL MONGERS OR BACK
5 BIT1ERS.

Every town and every community
most unfortunately have their social
vipers, but as their malifc tongues
are always wagging and their pestli-
entail attributes are soon known to
the people 1t would seem that 10y
socially os~tracisiBg them they would
soon have no one to listen to their idle
and mischievous tales. But human
nature, at least, is too prone to give
ear to gossip. through curiosity II not
pr iudice, to the party against whom
an accusation is brought. There are
two varieties of scandalmongers, hrst
the whisperers, who never make a
direct charge against a person Aloud
but use hints and iEnuendoes that
suggest to the nearer something very
dreadful. The most venial faults are
tortured into moral d~epravity by lnsl-
dious suggestions never dreamed OF
by the victim of this willy criticism.
They will not vouch for the truth OF
the report but they fear it may be
all too true" With very solemn faces
they expires their regret and sorrow
that such should be the case, while III
their hearts they arc exceedingly re-
ieiced that to them has been given
the first opportunity of publishing the
scandal or suspicion to the world.
These "whisperers' Of vile imputa-
lions. are more dangerous than out
spoken back biters, because they
strike from a cover aud under the
semblance of a well-wisher, when IN
fact, they are assassins numbering
regulations in the dark. Pretending
to be reformers Of morals, they bes-
mirch and injure the reputation OF
persons as good or better than them
selves; protesting to disbelIeve the
malicious suspicion which they circu-
late, they gloat upon the prospect OF
bringing such names into disrepute.
God save society from such hypocrltl
cal whisperers!
Then we have the regular scandal
mongers or tack- biters who pride
themselves upon the humber IT scan
dals they collect and the diligence
with which they scatter them around.
They glory in defamation aud olt-
strip the newspapers in giving the
latest gossips to the world, because
they manufacture it to order. No
character is too lofty, no reputation
too pure. to escape the villainous i'm
parchment OF your professional scan
dal-monger, When we hear a mar
or woman speaking evil OF a neighbor,
or always imputing wrong motives to
others, we should be warned to keep
clear of their association.-Crowley
Signal.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14

In noticing the business status Of
the country. Dun's Review saws
anent the rise in the price OF wheat:
The advance in wheat was not due
70 the government estimate, which
was followed by a decline. but to
foreign advicss and considerable buy
ing for export. Demand is already
felt from Australia, South Africa,
Brazil aud even Argentina, while the
promise for European CROPS is not
considered bright. The dis osition
Of farmers to keep back wheat for
higher prices may affect the outward
movement, but Atlantic exports dur
ing July. -four included. have peen
BIS, 443 bushels against 2, 953. SIT
last year, although in the same weeks
4, $50, 315 bushels of corn went out
against 1, 574, 072 last year,
If the advices from abroad be cor
rect, and we see no reason for doubt
ing them. there is a fine prospect for
the price of wheat to hold up and our
farmers will profit by the scarcity Of
wheat abroad.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14
HAND NE DOWN PHILOSOPHY

All people have troubles, for all
people have tongues.
Tobacco is the worst cnloring there
is for whiskers.
Dead beats make dead times. with
Or without free coinage.
We never knew kicking to bring a
man anything but trouble.
The man who drinks it straight sell
dom votes a straight ticket.
A rolling stone gathers no NOSE;
the preambulating hobo gathers it all.
The person who rides a hobby long
can't afford to ride anything else.
About the only thing il poor man
accumulates these time is a large
family.
There are too many onlsns and
garlic lie after marriage and not
enough before.
Any girls spring love can be won
with an ordinary team and Il newly
painted buggy.
The sweetest remembrance of
childhood is the memory that you
didn't have to keep clean.
There is n thing that can be said
In favor of the devil; that he does
not cater to classes; but treats all
alike.
We have observed that there are
always some buttons gone from the
clothing of husbands of women who
are the most active in societies
From Blue Fly Buyer.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14
THE AMERICAN AND POLITI-
CLANS.

The gentleman who edits, with
considerable ability, The Daily Amer
ican. one of the brightest and best
managed country dailies in the State,
has conceived Il great dislike for all
politicians and wants it distinctly
understood that 20 such need apply
for his support as a delegate to the
constitutional convention.
We do not understand what The
American means by politicians. In
che common and popular inteipreta-
ton of the word, every man who has
been elected to any public office is a
politician. Successful office seekers
belong to the class. and the defeated,
Office hungry fellows who have been
turned down by the people, belong to
the "pure and undefiled," eve though
they have committed the foulest Of
political crimes.
According to The American, We
presume George Washington, Henry
Clay, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lin
coin, Z. S. Grant and all the other
leading public men of America wonld,
il living, be included among those the
VlItuOttS tUuludt WOuIu Cd6I Oul
The American nan evidently does
not know that there are several kinds
of politicians. The ward heelers and
strikers are always Objectionable, and
if this is the class that the Calcasieu
man wishes to exclude, he is on the
right track. But if he wishes to bar
every man who has eve served as a
public official and evidently all srch
are politicians according to his theory
then, if his idea prevails, we can ex-
peet to have as delegates to the con-
%vention, a mass of discordant and in
efficient lawmakers, who knows as
much about law making as The Amer
lean man knows what he is trying TO
say on the subject of delegates.
The South believes that only the
best and ablest men should be elected
as delegates to the proposed conven-
ton, but we submit that the best tai
ent and brains of the State are not
confined to any particular class. Ones
occupation or business should not be
accepted asa test of his fitness or
capacity as a member of the said con-
vention.
NO one will deny that among the
politicians are our brainiest meI. That
because Of their intellectually. their
ability, their popularity. they have
been honored IN the past with public
trusts aud that il they are politicians,
as seems TO be the case according to
The American. they are such because
the people by their votes have made
politicians OF them.
There is as much sense in bowling
against the politician, az classed BY
The American. as delegates to the
convention, as there would be in in
weighing against the lawyer. merchant
or farmer as delegates.
Without reference to their occupa
fion or calling, we should elect true
and tried men of moral worth with the
capacity to frame a new organic law
for the State, and we hope that after
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14

The American tires of its senseless
TRADES against the politician. it Will
JOIN in the good work.-lberville
South.
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! ] GODS
gestion, bad taste, coated 49,.
tongue, sick headache, in
somnia, etc. Hoods Pills
cure constipation and all its

results. easily and thoroughly. &c. All druggists.
Prepared by c.. 1. Hood s. Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sa-saparila.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14
TAKE NOTICE,

We call the attention of
justices of the peace elect of
this and adjoining parishes
that we are prepared to fur
nish them all needed forms
in their line of business on
short notice and at reasona-
BILE prices. Write or call and
see for yourselves.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14

fully half the sickness in the world. Il
retains the digested food too long in the bowels
and produces biliousness, torpid liver, indi-
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14

<Castosia isso well adapted to children that
Irscommend it as superior toany prescription
Known to me-" n. A. ARczER, NJ. D.,
III So. oxferd St., Brooklyn, n. Y.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14

7 use Of 'Castoria Ii 50 universal and
frs merits 10 well known that IL seems q work
Of s~upsrerogation to endorse it. Few are the
Intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy rsaoh.r
Carlos MARzTN, D. D.,
New York City.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-13

kind. They were noisy and obstreperous
40 doubt, but that was small excuse for
such wholesale slaughter as the sheriffs
were guilty of.
The effect of the affair on the strike not
only in Pennsylvania, but in other states
where it is going on, is going to be to
prolong it, and we fear, change its
character for the worse. Heretofore it has
been remarkable for the absence of
violence, but this affair is sure to make
the miners bitter. 1t is going to give the
demagogue a lot of usfeul capital, too,
and render his harangues far more effect
i've than they have been. Furthermore,
it is going to strengthen public sympathy
for the strikers. Already thousands of
miners who were at work have gone out
on account of this affair, and it would
not be surprising if thousands of others
should follow, and that the strike which
appeared to be on the eve of settlement
should take on new vigor Eand be-
come even more general and widesdread.
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THE LAr1MER AFFAIR.

There appears to be no doubt that the
shooting of the miners at Latimer was
utterly unjustifable. The miners We're
marching in the highway, and there is no
evidence that they were engaged in any
act that was either morally or legally
lawless. But even had they been trans
crossing the law no such wholesale
slaughter could bessjustified on the ground
necessity, and that is the only ground on
which justification is possible The truth
probably is that the sheriff and his
deputies lost their heads and blazed away
unfortunately. Nor did they stop their
shooting after the miners had turned and
were fleeing, for many of the miners were
shot in the back. Recourse to the bullet
is only justiiable as a last resort, but in
this case it Immediately followed the read
ing of the riot act to men who were not
engaged in rioting. We are aware that
the sheriff claims that he was assaulted,
but his appearance immediately after the
affair did not corroborate his assertion.
A man who had been beaten as he alleges
he was would have shown some signs of
1t on his person, but he showed none.
The probability is that this part of his
story was an after thought, worked I'D to
Justify what after he had recovered from
his fright and saw the terrible slaughter
he had caused he knew could not he
justified without showing that the miners
were the aggressors and that he and his
deputies had fired in self defense.
Primarily the massacre, for that 1t was,
was due to the placing of deadly weapons
in the hands of an undisciplined force,
liable to be seized with sudden panic.
When the riots occurred in Chicago a far
more dangerous and determined body of
men than these miners were subdued
without the loss of a single life by United
States troops simply because the latter
were disciplined to obey implicitly their
officers, and the officers We're also dis.
ciplined SO as to be able to restrain them
selves. A cool commander at the head of
disciplined force at Latimer would,
without doubt, have stopped the march
ing without the loss Of a single life That
the miners did not intend to fight is
shown by the fact that they had not pre-
pared themselves to tight. There is no
evidence that they fired single shot or
that they carried deadly weapons of any
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-13
A Fox's Home on the Roof of a Boston
HOTEL.

|
(From the Boston Evening Transcript.
| High up on the roof of the Boston Tav-
ern, a hundred feet and more from the
pavement lives little gray fox that has
spent Enearly her whole life with the
smoke of the chimneys blowing about her
and the roar from the streets of the city
filing her ears day and night. Taken as
a cub from her native woods of Maine,
she has grown up with the slated roof of
the tavern as her world, and with Tom,
the..porter, who takes care of her, as her
only companion.
Originally there were two of the cubs
They were taken by gentleman who
was on fishing expedition on the Bon
ME River last June and sent as present
to one of the guests in the hotel, who,
not caring about keeping them gave them
to Mr.. Clark, the proprietor of the tavern
Mr.. Clark had place made for them
on the roof, where there is plenty of
room to run about, but short time after
they came one of them became frightened,
jumped from the parapet, and was killed.
The other, taking warning by the fate of
her comrade, was Mor careful, and has
gradually become moderately tame. She
will eat from the hand of the porter, and
when he is alone will come to him when
she is called, although she will not allow
him to handle her at all. The moment
any strangers appear on the roof, how
ever, she is uff to the furthest corner,
and will keep the whole width Of the roof
between herself and them as long as they
remain in sight.
Her lot is not an unpleasant one for an
animal in captivity, for she has the whole
roof to range over and Is seldom dis
turbed. The roof has only slight slope;
1t is smooth slated surface, surrounded
by high parapet and broken by numer-
GUS chimneys and by the light well and
sklyights, which rise in the centre of it.
The fox has the run of the whole of it
and explores every part, people in til Q
nearby buildings being sometimes start
led by the sight of fox running about
on the roof of a hotel in the heart of the
city. In one corner she has box filled
with earth, where she crawls when she
wants to go to sleep, scooping out a
round hole with her.paws, and nesting
down into it, curled up in little ball
Tom feeds her on chickens and lettuce SO
that she has no need to complain of her
fare She is fond of mint, delighting to
roll insit and scratch in it with her paws,
although she does not eat it. She has
been and is an object of a good deal of in
terest to the guests of the hotel, but, as
has been said, she does not reciprocate
any attention shown her, crouching be-
hind some chimney or skylight, and
watching the visitor with bright eyes and
with ears pricked up until he goes down
again.
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CURRENT COMMENT.
THE PATTEN LODGE RESOLUTIONS
oath Times.)

we have purposely refrained from any
expression of opinion upon the hearing
in the Supreme Judicial court, which has
SO lately absorbed the attention of the
public, in the belief that whatever we
said would be misunderstood and miscon.
Strued on account of the past relations OF
the Times and Mr.. Patten.
When, however, a representative body
Of an order like the knights of Pythias,
adopts resolutions of the character OF
those reported to have been adopted by
Patten Lodge of this city, concerning not
only one of the parties interested, but the
judge, who decided the case, we feel that
we are justified in noticing it,
We do not believe that the order Of
knights of Pythias was formed for the
purpose to which Patten Lodge has ap.
piled it, nor do we believe an order can
thrive, which upholds such methods. We
shall be surprised if the Grand Lodge
fails to administer a proper rebuke. In
justice to the members of Patten Lodge,
who did not participate in this hasty and
unwise action, be it said that only a
bakers dozen were present at the meet
ing.
We have no doubt that Judge White
house was actuated by conscientious
and painstaking regard for the right in
making his decision. His upright,
judicial conduct as the Judge of the Ken
I6USC OOuuty 1upcEIOT COuIU ttAl DIS
Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court of Maine, judicial career extend
ing over nearly twenty years, and his
high standing in private life, might well
cause even intense partizans to hesitate in
such wholesale denuneiation.
We fancy that he cares little for either
praise or blame regarding his judicial de-
cisions, but rather rests them upon his
own consciousness OF right.
1t appears to us that the decree of Judge
Whitehouse is an eminently fair and
proper one. If there are those who do not
agree with us in this we can at least meet
upon the common ground that such an
attack as Patten Lodge has made should
be visited with the strong condemnation
of all law abiding and order loving citi-
zens. Mr.. Patten requests the Times to
state that he is not a member of Patten
Lodge, nor has he been for several years.
A gentleman who has held a high office
in one of the leading orders of this state
recently stated that such action in any
lodge in his order would result in their
extinction at once.