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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-01
The Colonial Carnival

Monday and Tuesday evenings Of this
week the public in large numbers enjoyed
the novel entertainment for " hieh mem
bers of Fern Reoeksh lodge had for some
time been making elaborate Preparations
The plan was TO hold a Colonial carniya
that would portraysthe manners and dress
OF our patriotic ancestry, their skill and
lack OF conveniencvs indispensa bic in this
day and generation.
Booths were srranged at one side of the
hail for the display OF heiriooms in the
way of treasured blue and white ware and
crockery of every description. pewter
dishes, spinning wheels, household uten :
sils and curios, besides needlework, tor
toise shell combs ard sundry indications
of possible frivolity of our grandmothers.
Among these last was a specimen of the
stays worn century ago, and which
might have done duty in tue punishment
of old time criminals instead OF resorting
to the stocks and piilory. In OF her booth his
homemade candy, pop corn and refresh.
ments were dispensed.
Each evenings entertainment began
with grand march by members of the
lodge, who made an impressive appear
anee attired in unique old-time costumes
Monday evening, the pathetic story OF
The Mistletoe Boughn was told in song
by Miss lnez Abbott, while being clever
ly illustrated by tableaux. "OUr Fore
fathers" also appeared in tableau form.
Music was furnished by the Grange or
cheslTa, male quartet-composed of A.
{. Bailey, I Salisbury, Willard Hayes
and H. Bell-and a solo by Mrs F. G.
Winch. Impromptu selections by several
daTkies were also well received. Very
pleasing features were the skillfully exc
cuted Suwanee River and tam BOURNE
drills by ten Young ladies in costume. The
fan drill of Tuesday evening was an equal
" creditable performance, being given
W grace and precision. The drills
were all directed by Miss Bessie Kent.
Toe ladies' participating in the tam
BOURNE drill were Misses Carrie and Fan
ny Draper, Louise Hastings, Winnie
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WANTED. FOR SALE, ETC.

For pleasing smoke, try the Golden
Wedding cigar, 10c.
For SALE:-Dry soft wood for. summer;
also good hard wood. G. j. PRINCE.
Good secondhand Buckeye moving ma
chine for sale. 3w j. B.~WELLs.
For sALE.-The Drake place near the
Hale Flint farm. u. Il. CUSHMAN.
To RENT:-Nice tenement for small fam
lily at No. IS, Randolph Ave. @. l.. MARTIN.
WANTED.-Good COW not over four years
old. ENQUIRE at MANN q ALIENS.
FOR SALE:-New York Champion horse
rake. The best at very lowest price.
f. j. PRINCE, So. Randolph.
For 10 days only, nice tomato plants, Soc
a doz.; astors, poe.
2w A. M. GILBERT, Florist.
For SALE.-Secondhand Waverly biey-
Gle in good running order at go.
f. w. PA RsoNs.
| have for sale, as usual, harrows, all
kinds of agricultural implements, Milburn
and Osborne wag ons. HEBER I. HOLMAN.
For SALE:-Walter A. Wood mowers,
rakes and tedders, Babcock milk testers,
cultivators, etc, lower than ever. Am
bound to sell. II Il. L. BASS.
Canaries for sale:-Sweet singers, raised
from imported birds. Price from = to 80.
Sent by express. MRS. q. Z. G. WHEATON,
Box zoos, Barre, VT.
Nice, cosy cottage dwelling house, eight
rooms, for sale or rent. Nice piazza, gar
den, fruit, etc. Location first class.
Cheap. Enquire of c. NJ. HOWARD.
The famous Worcester Buckeye Mower
and the Worcester Horse Rake, with re
pairs for each, are sold in Randolph by
Elliott Cushman and at Randolph Center
by Geo. II. Temple. Call and see the new
'97 models. These machines are sold on
their merits. 3w
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North Randolph.

Dan Sargent was on the sick list last
week.
Chester Gore Miller was in Felchville
last week.
Marion Huntington is having her barn
clapboarded.
Dix J. Camp has purchased another pair
OF large horses
Miss Myra Whiting is at home from
Goddard seminary.
Frank Blodgett was quite seriously hurt
last week in bicycle collision.
The Ladies' Aid society meets with Mrs
Mrs. c. w. Taft Wednesday, July Z.
Mabel Tracy has been staying with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Durkee.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Huntington OF Bar
re visited at W. II. Richardson's Friday.
Louise Parmenter returned from Wa
terbury Saturday, where she has been Wis.
iting friends.
Mrs. Parmalee and little daughter, Alyce,
from Massachusetts are visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ID. ID. Moulton.
"Last summer one of our grandchildren
was sick with a severe bowel trouble
says Mrs. II. q. Gregory o; Fredericks-
town, Mo. "Onr doctors remedy failed,
then we tried Chamb erlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy, which gave
very speedy relief" For sale by Il. e.
Evans q Co., Randolph, and G. NJ. Miller,
Bethel.
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Teacher,s Examinations.

The county examiner and superintend
ent OF schools have arranged for the sum
mer examination OF teachers as follows:
Bradford, July 26 and 81.
Chelsea, July rs and 20.
Randolph, Aug. 10 and II.
Williamstown, Aug. is and 10.
All persons wishing to teach the fall
term OF school in this county are expected
to attend one of these examinations. Ex-
amlnations begin at $3.50 O'Clock a. m.
FRED &. PRIcHARD, County Examiner.
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BLADDER
TROUBLES

are inconvenient during the day and
destroy rest at night. They make life
a misery instead of blessing. They
affect many persons after they reach
the age of 40, and are usually accom-
panied by decay of vital power.
They can be
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-01
Dr. Flower,s FamiIy Bitters.

Rev. DIR. Oliver Swoop, Columbus, o ,
SAYS: "Dr. r. c. Flowers Family Bitters
is the greatest appetizer and food assimi'
lator in the world. | was permanently
cured in two weeks by Family Bitters OF
chronic indigestion OF five years stand
ing" Price 81. For sale by T.. e. Evans,
Randolph, and all leading druggists.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-01

Will Clifford and wife are home again.
Mr.. Hinsley and family went on the ex-
cursion to Plattsburgh.
Mrs. Wallace Peavey and daughter,
Luna, have been spending a week with
friends in RoXbury.
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SSlle
ANNxp
sS7ESS

OF good gloves tried-and wear
tested brands. Glove purchasing and tbo
pocket book were never closer than they are
how at this store.
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A Boon to suffering Humanity.

And it is your own fault II you suffer
with Rheumatism, Liver and Kidney
trou bles, for thousands recommend DR..
Glidden's Rheumatic cure. 1t has no
equal for removing the cause OF bilious
ness and constipation. Try 1t. For sale
by II. G. Morton, Randolph, VT.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-07-01

Nearly all summer complaints are due
to bad blood and unhealthy bile. DIR.
Fowler's Ext. of Wild Straw berry cures
never fails. I'm
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TSpecial to the HERALD. i

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 1.-Arrived in
Kansas City on time. Weather excellent
Every body well. Most enjoyable trip.
GEO. W. MORROW.
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CURED

j haveb. eli tIounlcu lUi "a WITH KID
ney troubles. When / would desire TO
uripate, | would have an irritating pain in
the neck OF the bladder. At times the
urine would be high eolored, at other
times light colored. When bending over
1 would be subject to severe pain across
my spine. | tried several kidney cures
without effect. read about DR.. Hobbs
Sparagus Kidney Pills and bought box
/ continued using the pills three months.
They have regulated my urination. The
pain in my spine has ceased, and feel
like new man. VIM. LORD. Seabrook, NH.
The Progress., 1897-02-06
A. CAMPBELL.

1.-THE man who loaned Lincoln money to pay
his campaign expenses.
seekers, and few days after the 1nau-
guration he complained bitterly to me of
Judge Davis pertfnacity and greed in
demanding official favors. Said he:
There's Davis. With that way of max
ing man do thing, whether he wants
to or not, has made me appoint etc.
But sometimes he was in a cheerful
mood even i'll bestowing office. Once in
my presence he wrote OH card for a
waiting Office seeker note reading
thus: "To the secretary of the treasury:
The bearer. -, is an applicant for
the position Of - in the custom house
at Baltimore, and if his recon menda-
lions are satisfactory-and I recollect
them to have been good-the fact that
he is Methodist is in his favor, as they
complain of as some.''
Among the predisposing causes of this
tendency early illiteracy is the least po-
tent. The controlling causes are more
complex and recondite.
HENRY @. WHITNEY,
The Progress., 1897-02-06
Lincoln's Specific Life Work.

One often thinks of his life as cut off,
but no great man since Caesar has seen
his life work ended as did Lincoln. Ma
poleon died upon desert rock, but not
until Austerlitz and Wagram had be-
come memories, and the dust of the en-
pire even as all dust. Cromwell knew
that England had not at heart materially
altered. Washington did not know that
he had created one Of the great, perhaps
the greatest, empires to be known to
man. But Lincoln had specific task to
do-to save his country and to make it
ireland on that fateful I4th of April
he knew that he had accomplished both
things.
There are those who would say that
chance put this man where he was to
do this work. To the thoughtful mind
it was not chance, however, but design,
and that the design of which all great
ness is q part War is indeed the cruci-
BILE Of the nations. 1t is the student Of
century hence who shall properly place
the civil war in American history. But,
whatever that place be. there can be no
doubt of the position IN it of the war
president. Like William the Silent. his
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plain as adding up tho weight Of th-o.

pam as adding up the weight of three
small hogs
After he was elected. being greatly
pressed from many quarters to issue an
ADDRESS to the southern people, no az
frequently declined, and In a letter ia
Mr. 11lmer OF North Carolina he in
for him. It woald ma ga unusual
as II repented for the crime of having
oeen elected and was anxious to apollo.
gize and beg forgiveness Z" To the CON-
m1ttee from the Virginia convention he
agreed on April 4, 1861, that if the con0
vent1on would adjourn without passing
an ordnance of secession he would or.
ger fore Sumter evacuated, saying, "I'n
eAvo u 1ort Tor q state any time.''
He was terribly annoyed with offico
The Progress., 1897-02-06

would come, but one other has come
you, John Pain.
He usually took pessimistic view of
anything that related to himself person
ally, but sometimes there would be
little rift in the somber cloud which
hung over his destiny. Thus he wrote
to his friend Speed, II have been quite
a man since you left" And while in
congress he wrote to Herndon, GAS you
are all SO anxious for mo to distinguish
myself have concluded to do SO before
long,
He had a felicity of statement which
was peculiarly his own and stamped
with his own individuality. Thus one
Tom Johnson. his foster brothers. SON
stole watch III Champaign, Which was
subsequently recovered, and Lincoln, in
commenting on the probabilities Of his
guilt, thus summarized the case: 1.-The
watch disappeared from where he might
have taken it. and it reappeared at
place where he might have left it,
OF a certain mean lawyer he said,
''The doctrine of the transmigration Of
souls may be true; but, if SO, when
Quirk was born no one died.
He was once bored while we were on
the cars by a we'll known Know Nothing
political leader. AS soon as he found an
opportunity he whispered to me, "That
Teller can crowd the most words into
the fewest ideas of any one ever saw. -
once wrote to retain him in case.
Ny letter came back, with his indorse-
ment on it, Count me in. -
Another we'll recognized popularity
is that his quaint sayings are generally
unliko the quaint sayings of anybody
else and bear tho Lincolnian stamp and
brand quito as unerringly rs if his sig
nature was appended thereto. Take, for
example, this mode to portray some
what involved but veritable fact, "You
may fool all Of the people some of the
time, and you may fool some of the peo-
pie all the time, but yon can't fool all
Of the people all of the time That
would at once be recognized as Lincoln's,
even though it should be found nailed
hpon the north pole Most obscure men
raised on the frontier would. on being
translated into polite society, attempt to
somewhat ohasten their language to
harmonize with the new social sphere
No SO, how ever. our hero, as witness his
first drawing room utterance after the
election. When, at the fremont House
In Chicago. Mrs. Judd called to take
Mrs. Lincoln out for a drive, Lincoln
reported thus: Chow dye, Mrs Judd,
how d'yel My wife'll be down as soon rs
she gets her trottin harness on And
~
The Progress., 1897-02-06

CHICAGO convention il June 1900
he was houespun and undramatic
throughout. Unlike most men with his
environments, he never assumed the
doubtful virtue of artificial dignity, nor
exhibited the vulgarity Of an affected
style.
At mass meeting in Springfield on
Aug. Id. 1860, he said candidly, I've
come just to see you and let you see
me. To General Grant lie wrote, "I
confess that I was wrong and you was
rfohf He once wrote. "This is "a
The Progress., 1897-02-06
THE QUAINT LINCOLN.
VIEWS OF A LAWYER WHO WAS ON
THE SAME CIRCUIT WITH HIM.

M Modes Of Expression-Quaints Sayings
1hat Arc Unlike Those Of Amy One Else.
An Instancc OF Observation-Disclosures
oT . Contemporary.
Copyright. 1894 by the Author.J
Although he was very grave in his
own person. he loved the most bizarre
and irregular wits. - Roger North.
dfe OF Lord Guilford.
While, as n rule, Mr.. Lincoln en-
pl0yed direct and unem bellisbed Ian.
sulge to convey his thoughts and was
terto and emphatic (though without
preOedent) in style, there nevertheless
frequently OCCURS In his speeches, writ
lngs and random sayings q queintness
Of oppression derived from no model
and strictly sui juris. while not infre-
Quently IL requires quite an effort to
grOpe through the intricaoies Of express
Gicn to the involved idea. think, how
ever. that the idea was strongly enforced
and deeply impressed on the mind by
means Of the search and analysis re.
squired.
DESTROYS to inform me that state.
ment made in the Chicago Times Of
Juno "a. 1858. was false. he resorted to
thfs verbosity and involution of Ian.
Suage In order to EN- body the idea-viz:
Your letter inclosing the attack of The
Times upon me was received. Give
youfseif no concern about my voting
against tho supplies unless you aro with
ont faith that q lilo can be successfully
Gcontradicted. There is not word Of
truth In the charge, - etc. Here the lat
ter short sentence contained the entire
simple idea, albeit the long and involved
preamble tended to fasten it firmly in
the mind
IN his early youth he had a similar
propensity. In 1887. when he was 90
pears old. he made village lyceum
speech. which he desired to introduce by
: preface substantially thus, 1--WE live
IN tho nineteenth century," but instead
ok stAting II In that sufficient mode he
yelled Is In this pomp Of language, "In
rho grent journal OF things happening
Uuder the sun we, the American people,
and our account running under date OF
Mo nineteenth century Of the Christian
ora. Usually he did not stray beyond
tho severity and strict sobriety OF lam
.guag6. He not only did not indulge in
shypcrOole ns n rule, but he habitually
mintmixed his expressions below their
proper standard and bases Of facts, a.
In the same sophomorical speech last
quoted from may be found this extrava-
gnnce Of statements. "All the armies Of
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DOSVoh'J
Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with
all the treasures of the earth Except our
own) in their military chest, with
Napoleon for commander, could not,
by force, take a drink from the Ohio
nor make track OH the Blue ridge in
trial of q thousand years.
In his use of comparisons or illustra-
lions he was sometimes addicted to ex-
travagance Of language and figures Of
speech, as in letter Of instructions to
General Hooker about the needful dis
position of his army, where he says,
I'm one word, would not take any
risk Of being entangled upon the river,
like al OK jumped half over fence and
liable to be torn by dogs in front and
rear, without fair chance to go one
way or kick the other" The mind that
could devise SO bold comparison must
have been possessed of wonderful ex-
uberance of fancy. In similar vein and
with equal ardor of imagination he en-
joins Grant. while the latter was in the
Wilderness, to hold OH with a bulldog
grip and chew and choke as much as
possible.
One could hardly suppose that he ex-
pected to be taken seriously in his IA
often quoted-thus: ''It turned me blind
feated and Lovejoy nominated, but after
much anxious reflection really believe
1t Is best to let it stand" OF course this
extreme way of putting it, made in the
freedom of epistolary correspondence,
was not intended to be understood lit
orally, nor yet was the following extract
N Jnffcr xyVsif fnV, fO M;coM
Owen just after he had settled in
to church yet and probably shall not be
Ooon. stay away because I am con-
scions should not know how to behave
myself Consistency is a jewel indeed.
for the author of such gross exaggera-
lions, in his "'lost speech of May 80,
1866, said. 1--WE must not prom Use what
we ought not, lest we be called on to
perform what we cannot. There is no
efflorescence OF language there. Here is
another bold figure, taken from the same
great speech, which rang out like a
shrill trumpet blast, startling all within
hearing: 1.-The battle of freedom Is to
be fought out on principle. Slavery is
violation of the eternal right, but as sure
as God reigns and school children read
that black, foul lie can never be conse-
Grated into Gods hallowed truth"
In necessary references to himself
there is needless disparagement as
we'll as garnish Of grotesque humor.
In letter to Jesse w. Fell, inclosing
his biography, he says, '"There is not
much of it, for the reason, I suppose,
that there is not much of me,'' and at
the foot OF this brief biography, after
describing his person generally, he can
not refrain from adding, although he
was aware that it was to be exhibited
to strangers and probably published,
mo other marks or brands recollected,"
after the manner of describing an ami
NAL.
Self disparagement could scarcely go
farther than the following, the full
force Of which is quite puzzle to the
understanding: II read sort of lecture
to three different audiences, = - but I
did SO under circumstances which made
The Progress., 1897-02-06
M Modes Of Exprcssion-Quaint Sayings
1hat Arc Unlike Those Of Any One Else.
An Instance OF Observation-Disclosures
of . Contemporary.

Copyright. 1894 by the Author.J
Although he waa very grave in his
own person. he loved the most bizarre
and Irregular wits. - Roger North.
LIFE OF Lord Guilford.
The Progress., 1897-02-06


force Of which is quite puzzle to the
understanding: II read sort of lecture
to three different audiences, y but I
did SO under circumstances which made
1t waste of no time whatever
Apropos Of this lecture, which he
expended much time and pains on, but
which proved to be failure, saw in
paper that he had made trip to Clin-
ton to deliver it. and there was no audi
ence; SO commenced to joke him about
1t, when he ruefully said:
Don't speak of it, for it plaques me
some" But he was used to rebuffs of
this kind. In June, 1856, Herndon made
q great effort to get up ratification
meeting at Springfield, to which, how
ever, but one man came When Lincoln
arrived. he said, This meeting is larger
than 1 knew it would be, for, while 1
Knew that Herndon and I would be
here. did not know that ANYBODY else
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-04-08
DEATH OF DIR. JAS. SPICFR

AT 1916 O'Clock Monday, DR..
Jas. Spicer, eldest son of Dr. and
Mrs. J. d. Spieer, died at the
home of his parents on West Cen
ire street, in the 35 year of bis
age, after a lingering illness OF
consumption.
He was one of the brightest
young members of the medical
profession in the State and had at
tanned an eminent reputation AS a
skilled and successful surgeon.
His untimely death is greatly la
mented, and the bereaved parents
and Borrowing brothers and sisters
have the sincerest coincidence OF
hosts of friends in this city in the
sad visitation that has been sent
upon them.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-04-08
Something to Depend on.

Mr., James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones & Son, Cowden, Ill, in speak
ing of DR.. Kings New Discover, says.
that last winter his wife was attacked
with LaGrippe, and her case grew SO
serious hat physicians at Cowden and
Pana could do nothing for her. 1t
seemed to develop into Hasty consump-
ton. Having DIR. Kings New Discov-
cry in store, and selling lots of it, he
took a bottle home, and to the surprise
of all, she began to get better from the
first dose, and half dozen dollar bottles
cured her sound and we'll. DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption,
coughs and colds is guaranteed to do
Sold by J. H. Hill q Son, Druggists.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-04-08

1 carry a full line of DR.. Earle
s. Sloan's great Remedies, which are
perfectly reliable. Sloan's Liniment
cures Rheumatism, Fl. G. Shame =.
Druggist. G~oldsboro. N. c..
Charlotte Observer: Rev. S.
w. Reid, Jr., son of Maj, s. W.
of Steel Creek, who has been
preaching in two churches at
Woodruff and Wexford. in Spar
tanburg county, S. c., has been
called to the pastorate of Ebene
Ger church, in Jefferson county,
Ca, and will leave for his new
field of labor about the 1st OF
May. Mr.. Reid is one of the besl
equipped young men, mentally,
in the A. r. P. Church. He has
already made his mark, and viii
be the INSTRUMENT of much gooo
in the building up of the Masters
kingdom.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-04-08
The NEWS FROM MT. OLIVE,
Condensed Chronicling of the Events
that TranSpire in that Town
and Section
+ ends and relatives.

fr ends and relatives.
Mrs. Il. Kornegay and daugh-
ter Mable IRE right sick. Their
many friends wish them a speedy
return to health.
Mr.. John d. Switzerland has
recently handsomely fitted up a
suite of rooms in the building
lear the hotel, presumably to
lead the life OF a modern bache~
Tor, although we can't always
sometimes tell"
Oar efficient chief of police,
Mr.. Geo, F. Kornegay made a
flying trip to Goldsboro last Fri
day.
"The Danger Signal" is soon
to be rendered by the Up-to-
Date Club. which is composed
entirely of home talent. Judging
from the names that constitute
the cast of characters and taking
in consideration that we have
some of the best local amateur
talent in the State we predict an
evening of pleasure awaiting
those who enjoy mirth, tragedy,
sadness or music.
We hope some one will write
brief Locals from Dolph post
Office and from Grautham's store
section. Those are sections that
MI, Olive is much interested in
and we want them interested in
MI. Olive.
We would suggest that by
watching the advertising columns
of the ARGUS you may be able to
Judge where to go to obtain bar
gains, as those that advertise are
generally the ones that hustle,
and a man that hustles doL'v hold
for long profits for he had rath-
er sell three articles at 10 per
cent profit than to sell one at %
per cent. profit. You see he would
be the gamer by so doing.
Jas. H. Fonvielle, of Seven
Springs, was in town Tuesday.
If you are not a subscriber to
this paper and receive a sample
cupy through the p~ostofice, you
can have the pa per continued to
your address by calling on Mr..
Joht r. Smith, at his drug store
in Mt, Olive.