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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
VERMONT ACADEMY.

Arthur Benton will not return to Vermont
Academy.
Frank Locke '96, is making short visit to
Saxtons River.
The trustees of Vermont Academy held a
meeting during the recess.
j. b. Porter '96, is a candidate for the base
ball team at U. V. M.
Frank Ufford '96, has returned and will
take {. post graduate course.
A slight fire occurred in Farnsworth hall
caused by an exploded lamp. Hardly any
damage was done.
Charles McEntre, who was expected to re-
turn the coming term, will be unable to re-
turn until next year.
An interesting article with illustrations OF
Vermont Academy appeared in the January
number of the Vermonter.
Charles Cox, Vermont Academy's well
known short stop, has received good offer
to enter college and play on its base ball lteam.
Miss Cummings, who was obliged to leave
school on account of ill health, has returned
much improved, to the great pleasure of the
students.
Perley Holmes 81, who entered the Uni
versity of Vermont in the academic depart
ment, will change into the medical depart
ment at its opening.
Under the new regulations the daily routine
of school duties began Tuesday, january 3.
This certainly is great Improvement over
the old system where nearly the whole first
week was spent in getting ready. 1t deserves
great commendation.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Gen, Grout a Clear Field.

The Weekly observes that the politica
atmosphere on the east side is considerably
cleared by the wiping off of Charles Prouty
from the slate of state political future pos
sibiiities, and the situation-in the minds oi
sundry statesmen-is much simpllfied. Now
the Weekly predicts that it will be further
simplifed by the eradication from the slate
of Hon. w. p. Dillingham;, to whom will
come nice, cosy consular or ministerial
appointment by the grace OF President
Mckinley and the suggestion of Senator
Proctor. Congressman Grout has the ex
tremely good fortune to be favored b,
Senator Proctor, and in this way who will
there be left on the east side to confess
the senatorial succession with Gen. Grout
With Prouty gone and Dillingham; going
what is there left to disturb the peace o
mind of the General?-Harris' Weekly.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Irishnlen and Caricature.

''Celticus" has written to this office and
requested that the following extract from
Donahoe's Magazine be reproduced:
1t is high time that the people OF the
Iri hIrace in America resented the hbels
published al nauseism in caricature groups
as s'Hogan's Alley" and "McFadden's
Flat Humor is thing quite apart from
such monstrosities of the pencil and its H.
cense is carried altogether too far and with
1t is not in the Hibernian nature to OBJ
ject to reasonable jocularity even though
it be at the expense of the race. A people
of traditiohally sunny temperament,
whose faces are more accus omed to the
smile than the trown, whose appreciation
of the humorous phases Of life is proven
bial, cannot be charged with super-sensi-
tiveness in the matter OF being the target Of
caricature whether it be on the stage or
in the press; but there is, limit which de-
cency prescribes and beyond which alleged
humor of pen or pencil has no right to go,
and which has been passed in the carica-
ture denominations to which reference has
been made. Prejudice through ignorance
or intent will no doubt continue to malign
Irish character. Some minds are so warped
by an inheritance of unreasonable and un-
reasoning antipathy to anything Irish that,
as Sidney Smith said in regard to the nee
essity ofinoculating jocularity into Scotch
man, nothing short of a surgical operation
would seem sufficient to implant an idea Of
fairness into such heads. With these peo-
pie we have nothing to do and for them we
have nothirg but pity. What we do OBJ
ject to is any countenance on the part of
those of Irish blood to cartoons or other
libels on Irish character which cater to such
prejudice and contribute to its perpetua-
ton.
The last sentence hits the nail squarely
on the head. 1t is Irishmen themselves
who are countenancing sickening caricature
and silly joking at the expense of their own
nationality. Many Of these so-called hu-
morous illusions are the productions of
Irishmen themselves, who perhaps have a
keener sense of the ridiculous than any
people. There is question, however.
whether Irishmen, Jews, negroes, and
backwoods Yankees do not come in for an
portion of abuse.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
ACwORrH.

MISS Myra Chatterton returned to Brook
lyn, N. T., last Saturday.
Miss Alice Anderson of Windham spent a
few days in town last week.
Miss Bessie Mitchell united with the Con-
gregational church last Sunday by profession
of faith.
Rufus j. Carey went to Lowell, Mass, on
Monday to- attend the funeral of his sister,
Mrs. Angeline Gee.
hsss- Sarah Potter, now teacher in Boston,
spe%a few days at the old homestead during
the holiday season.
There were about lao present at the annual
dinner at the vestry Of the church last Friday
and It proved a very social gathering.
There was a skating party numbering l6
on the ice of the No. 3 mill pond of E. S.
Chaiterton last Friday evening.
Orlando d. Kemp has several horses sick
with what DR.. Barnard of Claremont pro-
nounces form of epizootic. One of them
has died.
The little son of F. C. Parker died on
Tuesday morning. The sympathy of the
entire community goes out to the bereaved
parents in this their second attliction of this
kind.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Windsor County Court.
DECEMBER TERN, 1896.

Hon. LovELAND MUNsoN, Presiding Judge.
Hon. CHAs. H. MAXHAM, ..;s.. 1.,a,.oa
Hon. HENRY j. PARKER, A''i''"h' 'u'so''
II. A. STAFFORD, Sheriff.
JAMES G. HARVEY, States attorney.
j. ii. MIMMs, Reporter.
j. X. PEMBER, Clerk.
John w. Armstrong had his day in
court on the 31st inst. on his conviction for
selling intoxicating liquor at Norwich, he
was fined 500 and costs. He then
pleaded guilty to an indictment for an as
eault upon Mr.. Leslie Boardman and was
fined $25 90 and costs.
The case of state VS.. Slack and Clough
which began on the 30th occupied the at
tention OF the court and jury up to the
close of the session on Saturday, the 2nd.
The state had completed its opening testi-
mony and the defence had put upon the
stand four witnesses. The charge is that
at Norwich on the tenth day of September
1896, the respondents assaulted Syrian
peddler, named John Esses and robbed
him of $50. Esses claims that he car
speak English, only very imperfectly and
so the agency of an interpreter was used
to get his story before the jury. Thi:
process was rather slow and unsatisfactory
During the progress OF trial it is not ad
visible to give the details of testimony
but wait the results. The respondents art
making a vigorous defence and strictly
maintain their innocence, and claim they
can show that they were in place a mile
or more distant from the scene of the al
legged robbery at the time it occurred if i
ever did occur. The peddler claims tt
have bBen robbed about o'clock in tn
afternoon on public and much travelled
highway and in place not screened b,
trees or bushes and in full view of tw'
houses and open fields on either side.
The respondents claim that the ''rob
berry" is scheme to extort money from
them The attorneys are j. G.. Harvey
states attorney; and w. w. Stickney TO
the state; Gilbert A. Davis and Davi'
Pingree for Frank B. Slack; William
Batchelder for Romeo Clough. This cas-
will be resumed on the 4th and probabl,
will occupy four days more. Other crimi
nal causes are to follow.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
CHESTER.

Judge Henry was in Bennington Tuesday.
Henry Wheldon of Ludlow spent Sunday
in town.
Will Lowe of Bellows Falls was guest at
Charles Ladd's Friday.
Regular meeting of Mizpah chapter, No.
40, O. e. S., last evening.
Remember the lyceum this evening at the
high school room.
Rev. Mr.. Hopkins occupied the pulpit of
the Baptist church Sunday.
Miss Abby Lee has gone to Springfield to
visit her sister, Mrs. Amsden.
Mr.. Hayes of Brattleboro has been visiting
his daughter, Mrs. G. w. Ray.
Norman Hazeltine has rented his home for
another year to the present occupant.
DR.. Rays little son, Maynard, has been Ill
for several days, but is improving.
The Congregational and Baptist churches
are observing the week of prayer.
Rev. and Mrs. E. j. Beach have gone to
their former home in Harrison, n. J.
Miss Lucy Ladd of Bellows Falls has been
spending few days at her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Pollard gave dinner
party to about 20 of their friends New Years
night.
| of her sister, Mrs. George Waldron, the past
week.
Misses Sue Hadley and julie Greenleaf re-
! turned Tuesday to Bishop Hopkins hall in
Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Parker returned from
| their trip Monday morning and are boarding
az the Fullerton.
| Fred Wiley has returned to Norwich Uni.
versity after spending the Christmas vacation
| at his home here.
| Please give news items or renewals for the
TIMES either to correspondent or leave with
A. n. Chandler.
One of the members of the theatre company
that has been in town the past week is quite
ill of appendicitis at Hotel Chester.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06

K. BRONZE DECUssIs. XI. IRON MANILA
FROM W. AFRICA. XII. CHINESE CASH
XIII. COPPER AS.
to stamped metallic money. Weights in
the form of sheep indicate that sheep
were in Biblical times the unit Of
value in Palestine.
Iron was used as money in Sparta.
Pieces of bent iron ready for the black
smith pass rs money in west Africa
and elsewhere.
Cash Or "sapeks' or ''le" is the
only native coin and the only legal
tender of China as well as the principal
money Of small accounts. Cash consists
of round disks of kind of brass with a
square hole in the center. The evolution
of cash is interesting. About 200 B. G.
the Chinese were still using bronze
currency representing knives 2-5
inches long, with a hole in one end Of
the handle By 500 A. D. the knives
were Z 1-5 inches long and the hole or
ring was larger. Later the handle dis
appeared and the ring was attached to
the blade, which was increased in thick
ness to give the same weight as former
of and the ring was pierced with a
square hole for the string. Thus trans
formed the original and cumbersome
knife money became comparatively
convenient currency, though the value
has deprecated greatly, partly because
of reduced size and inferior quality of
| metal used.
Cash is the basis of all price compu
tations in China. Considerable sum
may be paid in gold or silver, but the,
are treated as merchandise and are
bought and sold by weight without a
government stamp to guarantee weight
and fineness.
The as was brass coin used in Italy
until after 900 A. ID.
| g INTERNATIONAL TRADE. - When
trade became International, there was
still greater need for the most accurate
and reliable counters of value possible.
Real coinage began when governments
first guaranteed weight and tineness
with an official stamp. A great part
of this immense gain to commerce
and civilization wS lost when, after
awhile, monarchs began to abuse this
coming privilege and to break faith
with their subjects by stamping light
weight or otherwise debased coins as
genuine. Such coins would continue in
use, but would soon depreciate in value.
Figure 4 represents one of the earli-
sst silver coins. 1t was struck in Rome
about 800 b. @.
Gold was coined in Rome in goo B. C.
Figure 10 shows the gold solidus OF
Julian ii. The solidus weighed foul
scruples from 312 A. ID. TO 145S and
formed the basis of more modern Euro
pean coins The form, coined in Flor
snce in the fourteenth century, We
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Rum, Pauperism and Crime.

A careful perusal of the following from
1.-The Youths Companion" may be ofinter-
est to those who pose as the friends of tenn
perance and yet ask that the saloons be IL
censed.
The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
OF Labor, acting under the instructions OF
the legislature, has made an investigation
Of the relation of the liquor traffic to pau
perism, crime and insanity. The method
adopted was that of direct inquiry of the
state institutions, and of all persons passing
through the courts of the state for year.
The results of the investigation make a
suggestive and important volume. As to
the insane, so far as could be ascertained,
seven out of every ten had Incorporate
parents and one out of every four was be-
lieved to have been made insane by his own
Incorporate habits.
OF all the paupers in the state institu.
tions, three out of every four were addicted
to the use of liquor; and nearly one-hall
had incorporate parents.
Of all the arrests for crime during the
year, two-thirds were for drunkenness
Taking into account all kinds of crime, il
about eight and one-half cases in every ter
the incorporate habits of the offender let
to condition which induced the crime
and, excluding minors, &c of every 10(
persons convicted OF crime were addicted
to the use of liquor.
Massachusetts has local-option law
under which the cities and towns vote an
nually upon the licensing of saloons. One
branch OF the bureaus investigation wa.
directed TO ascertaining the relative amoun
of drunkenness in places where the saloons
were closed and in those where they wer,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
HONESTY THE BEST POLICY.
why President Hayes In 1878 Vetoed the
Standard Silver Dollar Coinage Act.

why President Hayes In 1878 Vetoed the
Standard Silver Dollar Coinage Act.
President Hayes believed that our ma
tional honor could not be too jealously
guarded In this he differed radically
from our 16 to 1 statesmen, who are
anxious not only to see our government
repudiate one-half of its debts, but to
see one-half of all debts repudiated. 1t
might be well for these hasty statesmen
to ponder some of Hayes reasons for
vetoing the act (passed over his head)
to coin and make legal tender silver dol
lars worth, i'll gold, only 80 or 80 cents.
He said that 1.-THE right to pay duties in
silver or in silver certificates for silver
deposits will, when they are issued in
sufficient amount to circulate, put an
end to the receipt of revenue in gold,
and thus compel the payment Of silver
for both the principal and interest of the
public debt. ~
He said that nearly 5000, 600, 900 of
the funded debt then outstanding was
issued since 1878, "when gold alone was
the coin for which the bones were sold,
and gold alone was the coin in which
both parties to the contract understood
that the bonds would be paid. These
bonds,'' he continues, ''entered into the
markets of the world. They were paid
for in gold when silver had greatly de-
preciated and when no one would have
bought them if it had been understood
that they would be paid in silver. -
He believed that. in the Judgment of
- 10, t,>f1N 1N,,I fo1f \,
not to guarantee that pre-existing debts
should be paid in as good money as was
legal tender when these debts were con-
tracted-in other words, that the govern
ment should not legalize the breaking OF
contracts. 1.-The standard Of value, - he
said, should not be changed without
the consent of both parties to the con-
tract. National promises should be kept
with unflinching fidelity. There is no
power to compel nation to pay its
debts. Its credit depends on its honor.
The nation owes what it has led or al
lowed its creditors to expect? cannot
approve a bill which in my Judgment
authorizes the violation of sacred obli-
cations The obligation Of the public
faith transcends all questions of profit
| or public advantage. Its unquestionable
maintenance is the dictate as well of the
highest expediency as of the most neces-
sary duty and should ever be carefully
guarded by the executive, by congress
| and by the people.
He closed his message by saying that
"it is my firm conviction that if the
country is to be benefited by silver
coinage it can be done only by the issue
Of silver dollars of full value, which
will defraud no man. A currency worth
less than it purports to be worth will in
/ the end defraud not only creditors, but
all who are engaged in legitimate bust
ness, and none more surely than those
who are dependent on their daily labor
for their daily bread"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
CAMBRIDGEPORT.

Mrs. William Bolewine and her two chill
dren went last Wednesday to join her hus-
band in their new home at Woburn, Mass,
where he has charge of the electric plant Of
that city. ANON.
. A quiet wedding occurred last Sunday even
ing at Clark Torrey's, the home of the bride,
when Felix H. Patnode and Miss Rose M.
Torrey were united in the bonds of matri-
mony by Rev. f. d. Goodrich They will
reside in Cambridgeport where Mr.. Patnode
owns a pleasant home.
A very pleasant surprise party was held at
the residence of Nelson Pierce last Friday
evening. About so guests were present, in
Guiding some from Bellows Falls and Saxtons
River, who joined in the festivities of the
occasion with the friends and neighbors as
sembled. Light refreshments were served,
interesting games made Il pleasant pastime I;
a recitation by Miss Edith Alice Goodrich was
enthusiastically received and a general good
time was enjoyed by all present.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06

XIV. RoMANo-CAMPANIAN COIN. XIV. GOLD
SOLIDUS OF JULIAN II. XVI. MEXICAN SILL
YER DOLLAR. XVII ENGLISH GOLD SOW
EREIGN.
trinsic worth. 1t has needed no special
legislation to sustain it, nor has the al
most unlimited special legislation in
the interest of silver and other metals
and substances been able to make them
"as good as gold'' in any modern civil
lized country. 1t has come by evolution
and will not go even by revolution. We
have passed the fishhook, wampum, to-
bacco, iron and silver stages Of civiliza-
tion and have entered the golden stage.
Each year sees some progressive country
stop experimenting with the tickle and
huctuating silver standard and declare
for the stable and world recognized gold
standard of value. Possibly we may, by
foolish legislation make silver legal
tender for awhile and drive gold out
of circulation, but our commercial in
terests will continue to use gold, and
soon all interests will be glad to drop
Mexico and China and to return to the
society of civilized nations.
BYRON w. HOLT.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Commissioners Notice.

We the subscribers, being duly appointed
by the Hon. Probate Court for the Distric
OF Westminster Commissioners to receive
examine and adjust all claims and demand!
OF all persons against the estate of Fred l.
Lowell, late of Rockingham in said district
deceased. and also all claims and de
mands exhibited in offset thereto; and siA
being allowed by said Court for that purpose
we do therefore hereby give notice. that
we will attend to the business of our said
in Bellows Falls in said district on the 23d
day of January and 10Th day Of june
next, from two O'Clock until four O'Clock
NJ, on each OF said days.
EiSA Fl a f2L a. AEM 1Esi BE e, Commissioners.
L. 4. Lowell, I'd, Administrator.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06

I. BEAVER SKIN. II. FIsH-Latterly, how
HOOK. III. WAMPuM. ever, pieces of
bent wire were substituted for real
hooks. Wampum was the currency of
the more civilized Indian tribes in New
England and on Long Island. 1t con-
sisted of white beads, made from the
ends of periwinkle shell or black
beads made from a clam shell arranged
in strings or belts. 1t became the Off
cial money of New England and New
Amsterdam and lost it's place as money
between 1850 and 1900, when the
"Smart Alecks" among the whites be-
gan to debase it by leaving the beads
unpublished or unpierced or by making
them of bone, horn, glass and even of
wood. The colonists legislated much
trying to fix prices, and to save wam-
pun from declining in value, but it was
being produced too cheaply. Natural
law was against it, and it had to go.
The use Of shells as money is still
common on many tropical coasts. Their
wide use is probably due to the strong
passion, common to primitive man, for
personal ado1nment. This gives shells a
permanent value. Besides they are very
durable, comparatively light and are
convenient for small change. Whales
teeth, arrowheads, beads, tusks of ivory
and engraved stones are some of the other
money materials of this and later stages
of civilization.
The Pastoral Stage.
Man early tanned the domestic ami
mails. The sheep and the COW being the
most useful, they naturally, with their
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06

open. In the no.license cities and towns
the arrests for drunkenness, we're only
about one-fourtb, and for offences other
than drunkenness, less than one-half as
many per thousand Of the population as in
license cities and towns. In five cities
which were for part Of the year under IL
cense and part of the year under no IL
cense, the license months showed nearly
three times as many arrests for drunken
ness, on the average, as the no-license
months.
These statistics, taken as whole. seem
not only to establish close connection be-
tween the liquor traffic and crime, pauper-
ism and insanity, but to show also con-
siderable curtailment of these evils when
saloons are closed.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06

havv been used in different countries
The friends of tobacco and corn tried
hard to prevent these ''crimes against
humanity" but the copper, gold and
silver bug conspirators came out on top
in spite of special legislation in the in
terests of tobacco and corn. This was a
hard blow to our country. There is
plenty of tobacco, corn, eggs and mo-
lasses to give us all the 'pe: capita"
we could carry if the crime Of demoneti-
zation had not been committed against
them, thereby causing prices of these
and other articles, except the precious
metals, to fall precipitately. Economists
tell us that these articles ceased to be
used as money. because they lacked
some essential quality. They say that
some We're perishable; others bulky
and hard to transport; others could not
be easily divided for the purpose of
making change; others We're not uni
form in size or quality, while nearly all
lacked stability of value. But every to-
bacco, corn, molasses or egg producer
and every lover Of the weed. of omelets
or of johnny cake and sorghum knows
that they were demonetized because
they were SO plentiful that the Shy locks
could not monopolize them as easily as
they could the precious metals.
Manufacturing Stage.
The manufacturing stage is not clearly
defined, Hoes were once money in China
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Neurology for the town during the year
EAST LEMPSTER.

Mrs. A. B. Russell is quite sick again, at.
tended by DR.. Butler.
The real estate of the late Dexter Hosley
was sold at public auction last week Tuesday
night was well attended and all seemed tc
enjoy it well.
G. B. Griffith had furnace put in his
house last week. The work was done by
parties from Newport.
We are glad TO see the familiar face of Rev
A. b. Russell among us again and hope he
will continue to gain.
This band of Crusaders are expected here
from Goshen Tuesday. 1t is hoped good re-
suits will follow their work.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-01-06
Keefe'S Cash Shoe Store
Gegul ADVERTISEMENTS
Wesley Gibson Estate.
Bellows Falls. VT,

STATE OF VERMONT, By the Probate
Westminster, ss. Court for said Dis.
trict. To all persons interested in the estate
of Wesey Gibson, late of Grafton in said
District, deceased. GREETING.
Whereas, f. L. Walker has presented
to this Court an Instrument purprrt
ing to be the last Will of said deceased, for
probate You are hereby notified that this
Court will decide upon the probate of said
at the Probate Office in Bellows Falls in said
District, on the 9th day of February, A. d.
1897, when and where you may appear and
contest the same, If you see cause,
ZINA II. ALLBEE. Register.