Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-12-28
CURRENT EVENTS.

days after that date before "lo99" cesies
to flow from the end of treacherous pens
to the serious embarrassment OF individuals
with fresh set of iron-clad resolutions
which oblige them to choke in speeches.
rage.
Ii has been noticed that the fur collar
cites which women delight to wear this
winter are clasped with the heads OF al
most all the smaller animals known except
the mouse, the dealers possibly having an
inkling that no matter how much a slave to
fashion woman might be, she would GER
tainly rebel at having the heads of couple
of mice tucked under her chin.
A Newark saloon keeper has opened a
recruiting station for cats and proposes to
send an army of FIVE hundred of them to
the Philippines to catch the rats in the store
houses at Manila and the other towns on
the islands. Wouldn't it be as well to let
the store houses go for the present and or
der the feline brigade to join the searching
party in northern Luzon, since the game
IN that region seems to be too small for the
American soldiers? Amy self-respecting
cat would have brought Aguinaldo in long
ago.
A st. Louis woman became so absorbed
in her Christmas shopping last week that
she lost her eighteen-months-old baby in a
big department store and never missed the
child until she was ready to start for home
with an armful of bundles. After dill
gent search throughout the store the baby
was found asleep in waste basket that
b ad been taken from an upper floor to the
cellar and was about to be emptied into a
wagon and carted off to the river. The
only safe thing to do for woman who is
obliged to take baby on shopping tour,
is to label the infant 1890 Marked Down
from 75c," and then there will be no dam
ger of her failing to pick up such bar
gain IS that.
Mr.. Beecham of St. Helens, Eng, pro-
prietor and manufacturer of the famous
Beecham's Pills, has made a bid of 1925
for the original manuscript of Rudyard
Kipling's poem, "The Absent-Minded
Beggar," which is being sold for the bene-
ct of the wives and children of the British
Reservists who have been ordered to South
Africa Mr.. Beecham is described as
very public-spirlted man, who is not seek
ing for testimonials for advertising pur-
poses, though, through his munifcences
md large manufacturing industry, many
people in England besides the soldiers
families have been greatly benefited, in
directly at least, by Beecham's Pills.
The Duke of Marlborough, who married
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, is a member of
The Orfordshire Yeomanry with the COM
mission of lieutenant, and has volunteered
for service in South Africa with $50 men
a nd horses. Of course it is very noble of
the duke to be willing to go to South
Africa, but even more noble of the $50
men whose services he takes the credit of
offering the government; for in the event
of His Grace interfering with the progress
of Boer bullet, Consuelo and the chill
dren, it is imagined, will have something
to fall back upon besides pension.
Secretary Hitchcock and Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Jones have determined
to loan no more Indians for exhibition pur-
poses and have unequivocally refused sew
eral requests of that nature. This means
that Yankee fakir can no longer borrow
a few Indians from some reservation to
pose as mighty medicine men while he
peddles buffalo salve and vegetable rem
edies on the strength of their reputed med
ical knowledge. This wisdom no regular
ly graduated physician can hope to acquire
since it is not taught at the medical col
leges. Why some progressive institution
OF the kind does not endow chair of In
dian science for copper-colored professor
with an eagle-feather head dress, it is diff
ficult to imagine, when so many people
have such profound faith in the Red Mans
simple, untutored treatment of chronic dis
eases. There is popular superstition
that Indians have an instructive knowledge
of medical science VIII Oh enables them to
concoct marvellous life-giving elixirs from
roots and herbs by secret process known
only to the medicine men, who dispose of
their precious mixtures to the palefaces
through glib-tongues fakirs, while they
brighten the microbes of disease away from
the tents OF their own tribe by making a
heap big noise. Even bogus Indian doc
tors can do an immense business any
where, such is the faith of the people, if