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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-12

kAMANSA AND WESTERN r. II.
and Christopher streets.
VESTIDULED TRAINS. PULLMAN BUFFET
CARS, PINTSCH LlGHT.
500 A. M.-BINGHAMrON NAH. Stops at principal
1890 A.: M:mCcaM Can. BUFFALO SCRANTON.
BINGHAMroN. OWEGo. ITHACA EI.MIRA
UTICA RICHFIEI.D SPRINGS SYRACUSE and
OSWEiO EXPRESS. Pullman Palace Cars. Connect
ing at Bunalo with trains fos Chicago and points
West.
100 r. VI. CDaiy)chicago ind Buffalo vestibuled FIX
press for SCRANTON. WILKESBARRE and Ell
MIRA. Pullman Buffet Parlor Car Elmira.
arriving at 4;l3 p m next day
OUrH EXPRESS. Pullman Buffet Parlor car
700 r. VI. tDaily)-Chcago and Buffalo yestbued Linn
tied Express for SCRANTON. BlNGHAMTON FL
MIRA BUFFALO Through Buffet Sleeping Car
York 10 Chicago. Dining Car west OF Runalo
$500 T. VI. CDaily).-Buralo Express Pullman Sleepers
FOR SCRANTON. BfNGfiAMTON EI.MIRA BATI
MT: MORRIS and BUFFALO arriving in Buffalo
0,3O T. NJ Dnny)-BUFFALO. SCRANTON BING-
HAMTON, OWEGO, ITHACA EI.MIRA SYRIA
CUSE. RICHFlELD SPRINGS and OSWEsiO PIX
PRESS Pullman Buffet Sleepers.
TICKETS AND PULLMAN ACCOMMODATIONS at
Henry Gaze 4 Sons u.imted). ll3 Broadway. IA Park
Place, 420 Broadway and 9t2 Broadway. Tickets al
ferry stations ia ith-ave. 18th West l25th-
st. "a COumbus-aye. NewY York. 33s and 1876 Fulton st
and LOG Broadway Brooklyn. Time tables giving full
informltio . all stations.
WESTCoTT EXPRESS COMPANY will call for and
check baggage from hotel residence destination
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CENTRAL RAILROAD OF new JERSEY

Anthracite coal used exclusively.
-Four tracks. electro Pneumatic" signals
Stations New York. TO; Of Liberty s.
and South Ferry, Whi,ehall-st
Trains leave foot Of I.berty-st.
on and after June -. 1895.
Fo. Easton. Bethlehem. Allentown Mauch Chunk a.
400. 7:l5; $40 A. 81 d2ioo NJ to Eastosl, 100 as
q 90 e Easton) A. NJ. 1900. $50. 600 p NJ.
For Wilkesbarre. Pittston and Scranton. 400 90
NJ 80 p. NJ. sundays. go A. NJ
QiO0 II 80 10 Reading \. NJ: las, 49, 500 SIS
600 10 Reading) P. NJ. ,2l5 night Sundays 4ao III
70 Readng) A. NJ. 100. l:ij $50. 600 P. ~ I'll
FOR sunbury Lewisbu-g and WILLIAMSON, a. 400 -
e.io A. NJ 1870 las 600 p. 81. 1913 night. sanesA
4:3o a. NJ. leo. Las. 600 p NJ. 1915 night,
ALL RAIL ROUTE.
FOR LONG BRANCH. OCEAN GROVE &c.
For Red Bank Long Branch. Ashury Park, Ocean jrort
and noinfs south % Point Pleasant. $50. $50 800 A
NJ LOO Saturdays only. Il 80 Red Bank only. ?ia
2 70 353 "a 30 Red Bank only 49, $50 5:l5 500 "a.
hurry Park and Ocean Grove. 9;lj A NJ, 30 400 P
For Atlantic Highlands. 4:3O $3.50. $50 1000 A. u
$50 1870 6:15 p. NJ sundays. 300 \. NJ, 400 p
For Lakewood Toms River. Rarnegat Park and Baru-
cat 4 40 80 A NJ 30 40 F. " sundays. els AZ
For Atlantic city, Vineland and Bridgeton iSo T.
Fer Monmouth Beach seabrigh, and Hshissa,
Nayesnk 80 $50. 1000 A. VI, 2f5. 40 els Px
SANDY HOOK ROUTE.
FOR LONG BRANCH. OCEAN GROVE. &c
From Pier : y r., foot % Rector -,
For Atlantic Highlands. Highlands 81 Nayesink w
Long Branch. 4:3o. $500. II 90 A NJ. Zoo 20? IS
40 $50 p NJ Sundays. $50 \. NJ. 100 p. "
For Elberon. Asbury Park. Ocean Grove. and po-s
south Point Pleasant. 100 100 a NJ go ssi.-
at Interaken for Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. -
a. NJ. 100 p 81.
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financial nlcetings.

p,ovrnENcE g. sTONINGTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF the H,ocAn r0,'lel
y, tho Providence & Stonngton Steamship Company
,,, IN. Of the IreasurcrS Agent OF tle
New York New Haven Hartford Railroad c9 yono
i,ro,denca Il L. on Wednesday, september IL ls9s az
10 90 o'clock noon for the election OF Directors 20 au-
Lriz the Directors sell lease the Companys prop
ert and assets discretion. and for sucn other
business as may properly be submitted
The pols will close at 1918 =. NJ on the day OF the
meeting. W /. HEhpf@Hi' ''VS'''"i''
Now York Sept 10 1898.
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& OHIO 10, I'm r. F" :

Leave New-York WhltehaH 4efh''"'
foot OF Liberty Street. -. SUNDAYS. Ia,
c,ca ;D9 y 30 a. trf % sssGpy and IA,
riTrsauRG :. 80 ,,I nm from from OSl's
'i 70 nlSns ~ 81 LOUIS 1000 w. slceDSr
NEW ORLEANS. Ass p M 'thf'uS"
ROYAL BLUE TRAINS. r,xops
- puu'ADrIpHIA. wAsHrNGToNs., BOO 100 p ri
t755, 1000 DINER, 'liSo a. :, =" epner) .S.5S p ."
80 10 * ninb NORFOLK, .ii3o a. m,sch Light. d.
trains are Is s% Gi &c. Msa' y: 81
hall terminal. Baggage checked i''H'
to destination.
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NEWyORK DAuY TRIBUNE MONDAY SEPTfMDHn u
SOUTHERN BOULEVARD.

The Southern Boulevard Railroad reports io'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-12

BANK EXCHANGES AND STOCK SALES.
The bank exchanges OF the New-York Clear
ing House and the stocks sold at the New-York
Stock Exchange last week and for the same
week of the preceding two years compare
follows:
Sept, ~ o. Sept. H. 90. Sept 10. '9s
Exchanges $3.50 rs 370 $6y2 .03l S67007T
Number shares sold s59ls 2.65e.45s Alps $50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-12

Sept. Actual sales SEPT 9sSp' shares
ii. High Low ~. 90 n,a
1891 est est. 1 mai ioro,
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RAILROAD EARNINGS.

.Ex dividend. Nominal. with interest.
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OUTSIDE SECURITY MARKET.

Actual cash bas2o7 742 rs ssOo7sOioi Inc si2oi2>
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31

ing Of central, an east al d a west room
thrown open together, and contains many
tangible souvenirs Of long ago. 1t was
tie scene in its early days ef important
Ger. monies and state receptions.
When New Year calls were fashionable,
the historic room swarmed With people
from all strata Of society who came to
greet the chief magistrate of the city. On
pedestal OF polished wood stands punch
bowl that was presented to the city on the
day when the Erie canal was opened. The
inner surface is decorated with picture
of the harbor, and around the edge are
the words in gold letters, Drink deep
you will preserve the city and encourage
canals" There are desks once used by
Washington and Thomas Jefferson, that
look plain and worn when compared with
the ornately decorated affairs now in use
A case containing flags that were carried
in the Revoluti ,nary War, the War OF
1912, and the War Of the Rebellion, is
a sacred relic that is carefully guarded
Here are busts of Henry Clay and Gov
ernor Clinton, and several pictures OF
Washington. A copy of the Declaration
OF Independence is on view, and there are
old-fashioned chairs used in the first con-
gress of the United States. Portraits of
all the governors, with the exception Of
De Witt Clinton, adorn the walls. The
only portrait painted by woman is that
OF John A. Dix, the artist being Anna Lee
Merritt. N. l.. HowEs.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31

hrst, or MEMBER OF the ramIiy stanos
outside the door to enter as soon az the
moment arrives.
But all this ia done with the greatest
delicacy, so as not to violate the strin-
gent laws of hospitality or offend in
the least the unlucky first foot
The lucky first footers" are friends
and wellwishers. kind man, good
man, "a sweetheart, people who spread
out their feet, those who were born feet
first, man on horseback, man with q
horse and cart. Unlucky "first footers'
are thieves. pigeontoed people, Grip.
pies, deformed or weakminded folk, a
stingy man, an immoral man, hypo-
critic, the hangman, a gravedigger or an
undertaken, midwife, all who were
suspected of dealing in witchcraft, those
whose eyebrows meet and men with
red hair.
There is always great rivalry among
the young men for the honor of first
footing the home of the reigning belle
Excitement runs high when four or five
athletic young men reach such house
before the hour has struck. 1t is the
wise youth who incites his companions
to bout at wrestling to decide the dil
puted question, and himself steps owe,
the threshold on the stroke of the houl
while the others roll and tumble out IN
front.-New York Herald.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
NEW YEARS IN ROME.
How the King and Queen of Italy
Receive Their Guests.

Receive Their Guests.
At Rome the LIST of January assumes
additional Importance from the fact
that it is the day on which King Hum.
bert and Queen Margherita present an.
nual gifts to their relatives and to the
members of their household, and mas
much as they are both of them very
generous and seem to know by intuition
just what will give most pleasure to the
recipients the festival at the court Of
the Quirinal is characterized by an ap.
pearance Of infinitely greater enjoyment
and happiness than obtain either at
Vienna OF at Berlin. The king and
queen stand on the dais under the
canopy in front of their chair of state in
the throneroom to receive with due for
mality the various parliamentary, mill
tary, judicial and administrative dele
cations commissioned to lay at the feet
Of their majesties the good wishes of the
various bodies which they represent.
But as soon as this is over the king
begins to stroll about the various apart
ments, and good deal of freedom and
abandon prevail until the supper hour
is announced. The royal party then
march in procession to a small supper
room and with the e,ibassadors and
their wives take their places at tab Is
adorned with that magnificent golden
plate for which the house of Savoy is SO
famous, while the remainder of the
guests rush pellmell and in very un-
dignified fashion to the Bullets, which
are literally taken by storm and quickly
devastated, as far as everything in the
nature of food or drink is concerned.
Philadelphia Press
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
JAMAICA.

The youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs Walter
Reed of Leominster, Mass, former residents
of this place, was buried in Leominster last
Friday. Their many friends here extend
sympathy.
A. P. Carpenter and wife of North Adams,
Mass, passed Christmas with her parents,
n. L. Boynton and wife.
Miss Erma Frost of Bellows Falls passed
Christmas here with her parents, Alvin Frost
and wife.
A. L. Howard, wife aud son, Bonnie, are
passing the week with friends in Boston and
vicinity.
Almon Willis and wife of Buffalo, N. r,
parents, Herbert Willis and wife.
Olive Subway, who is teaching at West
field, Mass, is passing her vacation at her
home here.
Miss Ella Willis, who has been teaching at
Grafton, is at her home ill.
Alvin Frost and wife go Saturday to pass
the remainder of the winter with their chill
dren at Bellows Falls.
O. n. Wardwell of Baldwinsville, Mass,
is passing the week with friends here.
The students from here at different schools,
who were home over Christmas are John and
Carroll Robinson and John Wolcott, from
Mt. Hermon, Mass Miss Eva Woicott from
Mortified, Mass, Miss Stella Howard from
Chicopee Falls, Mass, and Florence MI zzey
from Brattleboro.
Rev. s. H. Taylor's subj ct next Sunday
morning will be: How to have Happy
New Year"
Jud,on johnson is gaining but slowly, as
he is i'll, aside from his broken leg.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
FELcnvILLE.

Those from out of town for Christmas were
Mr.. Payne of Boston at the home of his
father, Frank Payne; Clifford Griswold from
U. V. NJ Burlington, at @. N. Hooks; Mrs
Edwin Carpenter from Woodstock at E. K.
Hewlett's; Mr.. Page and Jessie Edison of
Proctorsville at DR.. Edson's.
Little Fred Whitaker is very sick with
pneumonia.
Christmas trees were had at Dwight Ham,
monde, Mrs Kate Rice's and Orlando Sher-
wins. At the latter place 80 sat down to
dinner, IA being children.
Meetings at the Universa'ist church will
commence Monday evening, January 2, with
Rev George K. Cody in place of Rev. Mr..
Trickey of Claremont. The Christmas euter-
tainment at the Universalist church was q
in Plight was well rendered by the chill
dren and presents were distributed to all.
Monday the little ones with the pastor visited
the elderly and sick people and sang their
little cantata.
Hook & Burnham, after New Years, will
close their store evenings at 8 O'Clock except
ing Saturday evening.
There will be communion service at the
Universalist church Sunday, January l.
News was received the first of the week Of
| the death of John Stearns at his home in
Brooklyn, N. Y at the advanced age of 81
years. He was o native of Reading and a
former resident. He left . wife, son and q
daughter, who have the 81 mpathy of large
circle OF friends.
| Mr. and Mrs O. 8. Holden spent Christmas
in Chester with his mother.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Calvert Morse and Frank
Morse and family spent Christmas in Proc
torsville with Walter Morse.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
Bicycles as Baggage.

There has been test case in the Eaglish
courts on q question which is agitating
cyclists all around the world, more or less
It as brought in the Queens Bench division
against the G eat Northern Railway Com
pany con behalf OF one Britten," seeking
ito recover sixpencs Paid for the conveyar Ct
of q bicycle from Kings Cross to East Finch
ley" And after hearing and argument the
court dedided that the plaintiff could not
re cover for the reason that "a bicycle cannot
be ordinary luggage within the definition. I"
The special interest attaching to this case
is found in the fact that the attorney for the
plaintiff made his argument on the very lines
on which similar claims are based in this
country. He claimed that bicycle came
clearly within the definition of "personal
luggage" for the reason that it wa, carried
BY the traveller for his own personal conven-
Ter ce and use in connection with his urney,
and was an article such as was ordinarily
carried for that purpose. But his LordshiP,
in rendering his decision, brushed away ali
such considerations by declaring that I" the
idea Of luggage" must control; and as lug.
taken "loose, like bicycle" the wheelmsn
lost his case Boston Post.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31

uot you VINO speak SO IouGly lower yOul
voice, and you who delight to Islander,
know it and disapprove stop? Why cannot
you study when you should, get up at the
right time, refrain from spending money
you should not. Whyp
There is very popular idea that on
New Years day every one is busy paving
the highway with determination for the
new, clean start, but this is a mistake.
There is most amusing, or pitiful, if you
will, army of workers all busily absorbed
In paving, but there is also large, amused
and also pitiful crowd of onlookers. They
are the old, experienced hands at the work.
They know that the roadbed is a Quick.
sand and that the best laid stones will sink
out of sight in week or at most month
and be lost. They are the blase old hands
who make no resolutions on the 1st Of
January, and who find their fun in watch
ing those who still struggle.
There is curious fact about these two
groups. The line of demarcation is not
that Of age. The class to which a man
belongs can be read only in his face and
in his voice. The workers are absorbed
and eager. They have faith that with
energy they will succeed and they have
faith in the worth of their aim. There are
many of them gray haired and feeble
handed, hut they have retained that sweet
est Of all human qualities, childlike
faith in themselves and others, and no
matter what the truth is they have be-
lief that they have succeeded in years past.
The onlookers are cynical. They have
logical, practical minds. They have re-.
viewed the past, read the future and refuse
to roll the stone up the endless hill. Poor
wise onesl There are no people SO sincere
ly to be pitied as those who cannot stand
on New Years day and make resolutions.
Do make some-not a number, but one
or two-and live up to them Just the
mere effort will sweeten you and add new
zest to life. Do not admit that you have
been thoroughly beaten.
Perhaps it will be unwise to take pet
fault and resolve against it, but most Of
US have such wide election possible that
the choice mag fall on something that we
really hate, and If we put our nineteenth
century vigor to work we may kill the
habit before the twentieth dawns.-Bos-
ton Herald
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
THE DAWNlNG OF THE YEAR

When the snowflakes of December robe
the earth in spotless white,
And the stars in dazzling beauty decorate
the wintry night.
We watch the old year vanish like a
ghost into the past,
To the music of the sleighbells and the
dirges of the blast.
We bless it for its kindness and we sigh
above it's dead,
Across the heart graves 1t has left most
solemnly we tread:
But we turn with hope and gladness as
we brush away tear
To pleasures which still hidden lie with
in the glad New Year.
When 1t dawns in all it's glory we shall
put the past away,
And. trusting in it's coming, greet its
bright, initial day.
The sun will burst in grandeur on the era
that it brings.
And loves unknown today will touch the
hearts melodious strings.
Oh, when 1t breaks upon the world may
every mist depart
And may it's bells ring joyouSly in every
human heart;
For everywhere on land and sea the mil
lions wait to cheer
The banners which in splendor wave
above the glad New Year.
1 can almost see its footsteps in the soft
and feecy snow
And hear it's wondrous anthems as its
bells swing to and fro,
For Father Time is standing 'twixt the
new year and the old,
He rings for one a parting dirge, for one
the chimes of gold.
Aye, in the crisp clear night he stands,
a smile upon his face,
And wishes joy. the while he rings, for
all the human race;
For in the sweet tones of the bells what
heart can never hear
The promises of peace that crown the
dawning Of the year?
New York Clipper.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
IN COUNTY KERRY.
The jolly Irishman Makes Merry o
New Years Day.

The jolly Irishman Makes Merry ON
New Years Day.
The celebration of New Years is a
most important festival everywhere in
Ireland. but perhaps nowhere more so
than in Kerry. There it is the day of
fairs and eplechases-lazy, knowing
looking donkeys being the principal
participants in the latter-and it is the
day on which the itinerant fakir bases
all his hopes of selling lead for silver
and washed copper for "pure 10 carat
gold.''
At 6 o'clock on New Years eve the
saucepans and "piggins" in the little
matched cottages are rejecting their
gala day polish and the holly and laurel
and ivy on the window stills are doing
their best to outshine the sprigs of mis-
tletoe that brighten the old kitchen cell
ing. Wax candles Of all sizes and colors
(having soft sods Of turf for candle
sticks) adorn the upper windows Of the
house and light the way Of the traveller
along the "boreen" or through the
mountain intricacies. Pitches of bacon
are set aside; luckless chickens C"poor
crathurs'') have their heads taken off !;
broad griddle cakes and round oven
cakes are baked over the warm turf fire
with surprising rapidity, and children
are set at stoning raisins for the New
Years cake
They have pretty custom in Kerry
in connection with this. If a member
Of the family has died or has emigrated
to America or the colonies, cake is
made and stamped with the name Of
the absent one.
Midnight mass is celebrated in the
country chapels, and more picturesque
sight can hardly be conceived than
when hundreds of country men and
women, clad in their brightest and gay
est. make their way along the roads,
some on foot, some in donkey carts and
some in the jaunting cars which are the
pride of every Kerry heart.
After mass the worshipers become
jewellers, and along the road to their
homes they sing New Years carols and
beat improvised drums As they &c
members of the party knock at the doors
on the way, screaming: "Get up, lazy
bones! You've slept since last yearr'
The man of the house gets up and gives
the visitors q "dhrap O. the crathur'' OF
bowl of goats milk and holiday
cake. = and they sing his praises until
they get to the next house, but woe to
the inhospitable one who refuses them
entrance, for the peculiarities Of him
self and his wife are enlarged upon, and
every mean tale that tradition mas gath
cred about the family is rehashed and
given utterance to. = Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
NEW YEARS IN SCOTLAND.

Superstitions Regarding the Firs,
Caller of the Year.
It Is an exceptional thing for Scot
fish family to go to bed on Hogmanay.
On the contrary, they sit up waitin
for the first foot" or the one who is
the first to put his foot over the doorsill
after the clock has struck IL. Refresh
ments have been prepared and are kept
in readiness on tables decorated as elab-
orately as possible.
There are many superstitions connect
ed with first footing" The most mark
ed of these has to do with the lucki-
ness or unluckiness of first foots." 1t
is generally believed that the prosperi-
ty or adversely Of any family is due to
the first foot" of that year. So strong
is this belief that when it is known
that reputed unluoky person intends to
''first foot" q family all sorts Of schemes
are resorted to in order to prevent it. A
lucky friend is besought to get there
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
WESTON.

Christmas exercises passed off nicely both
Saturday and Monday evenings.
A. D Gilmore was out of town on bust
ness trip the first of the week, returning
Thursday.
Mrs. F. W. Bolster and Ralph returned to
Woodstock with Mr.. Bolster the first of the
week.
c. B. Sprague left Tuesday for the south,
where he plans to spend the remainder of
the winter.
Hugh Haynes OF Allentown, Pa, is spend
ing the holidays with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. M. Haynes.
s. M Hobart and George Dudley of South
Londonderry were in town one day last
week.
Charles Moore of Pawlet is visiting his sis.
ter, Mrs. Bon Bolster.
Lula Hutchins is home from Providence,
r. l., for short visit. She returns this
week.
The week of prayer will be observed by
union services next week, beginning at the
Meth dist church. Services will be he d two
evenings in succession-frst at the Metno-
dist church, then the Congregational, then at
the Baptist It is hoped there will be good
attendance at all the meetings.
The Dorcss lodge of Rebekahs attended
district meeting at Ludlow Thursday even
ing.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-12-31
BRATTLEBoRo.

The Congregational Sunday school has
prepared its usual Christmas box of clothing,
toys ar CANDY, to be sent to an Italian mis-
sion in New York city under the direction Of
Antonio Arreghi. These gifts will be dis
tributed at the Italian festival which is to be
held January 8. A sum of money has already
been sent.
A Christmas cantata was rendered at the
Methodist church Monday might. The SUM-
day school of the Unitarian church were
given supper Monday night, followed by 3
Monday night at the Univei salist church.
George N Clay and wife came from Somer-
vile Saturday evening aud will make their
home in Brattleboro. Mr.. Clay will begin
work January ! with H. e. Taylor & Son in
the interests of the National life insurance
company of Montpelier.