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and another until twelve boxes had been con.
sumed.
Just six months from the time the first
box had been taken | was cured man, and
with the consumption of the last pill went out
my blessing to DR.. Williams Pink pills for
Pale People and to the management which is
spreading its efficacy throughout the world
relieving suffering humanity from the chains
of disease. This Is no fairy tale, but Il true
story prompted i'm the fullness Of grateful
heart, and given for the benefit of those who
may lie similarly afflicted
This is TO certify that the article published
in the Vernon Times of December II, concern
ing my cure of rheumatism by the use of Dr.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People is true
and published with my sanction.
ADAM SAIM.
Subscribed and sworn to before me.
GEO. l.. BOWERS, Notary Pubiic.
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impoverished blood. He had skilled medi-
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derived benefit until he commenced to
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me:,n>t 'imparlihg those elements that purify,
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THE FtDMeR SELLER.

ffyrtle and Byzantine
or The old love am. Inc newt
And The colun,bine
With IFS cap and bells for fcllyi
And the iitfodii for The hopes of YOUTH
And the rue for melancholy!
But of all the blossoms that blow,
Fair gallants all, charge you to win, IL -
may,
This gentle quest,
Who dreams apart in her wimple Of purple
and gray,
Like the Blessed Virgin, with meek head bend
ing low
Upon her breast.
For the orange flower
We may buy as We will, but the violet Of the
wood
Is the love Of maidennood,
And he that hath worn 1t but once, though
but for all2hour,
He shall never again, though he wander by
many stream
No, never again shall he meet with a flower
that shall seem
So sweet and pure, and forever in after years,
At the thought of its bloom or the fragrance
Of it's breath,
The past shall arise, ..#....
And his eyes shall be dim with tears, ~.
And his soul shall be Tar in the gardens Of
paradise,
Though ne stsnd in the shamhles of DEATH
William Young
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-03-16

Why was ST. Barbara chosen to be
the patron saintess of all gunners2 1t is
one of those things which are to be
known and which one ought to know,
but does not. Meanwhile there is the
fact that she does intercede for all gun
ners by land or sea- In the old French
navy the Ste. Barbe was the gun
room. and the name may be found with
that meaning attached to it in all die
tionaries. Moreover, in France she is
the saint not only of gunners. but Of all
fire brigades The sapeurs pompiers,
who, for some mysterious reason. are o
regular chopping block for jokes. hold
their holiday on the day of her feast
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-03-16
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Items of local interest taken from the columns
OF The Press, thirty years ago.]
Marcel. 10, 1899.

Thomas Horton has bought the house
In this village owned by Chas. Smith
lately owned by fl. II. Harris.
John A. Foster of this town took prizes
at the recent examination at Woodstock
academy, for the best explanative OF
square root and for the best composition.
James r. Sibley, Of Springfield, former
~ OF this village, has bought lot on
East Main street, next to Bakers cabinet
warehouses, and expects to build resi-
dence upon it during the coming season.
A velocipid. race for a purse OF $50
comes off at the town house, next Wed
nesday evening, distance one mie. Edgar
j. Brown and Frank A. Wakefield will be
the competitors. Columns velncipede
school Is now located at Staffordvi.le.
MARRIAGES.. In Springfield, March is,
1869, John b. Hatch of Union, and Mrs.
Almeda Reuby of Springfield.
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though ]: must
tell about it. A
year ago / was.
taken very sick.
Doctorseould 60
me NO good only
to deaden the
pain which I
had almost con-
stantly. I got
sersae of ! your
Compound and
took num heffl;M.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1899-03-16
Knew Her Business.

Lady wish to get birthday pres
ent for my husband
Shopwalker = How long have you
been married. madam?
Ten years
Bargain counter to the right, mad
am Boston Traveller
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Some Advice.

Il would advise the young man.
said the corn fed philosopher. "to form
his friendships among men older than
himself By the time he is at middle
age they will all DE dead and can't bor
row his money indianapolis Jour
nal
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somebody hogs 10 got the cholerer, he
added, with an attempt Mt sarcasm
4 mo, street. Josiah White. the post
master, was speaking.
Worse than hog cholerer, he con-
tinued. '.At least, Tom Harvey thinks
20. His pretty darter has eloped with
some young teller from the city. and
they've been married at the county
seat.
Pixies breath left him. For second
he was entirely unnerved.
How do you know she's eloped 2" he
managed to ask.
why, her daddy's jest passed
through town. going like wilddre to
head EN- off at the county seat, but
there amt much chance he II git there
in time. The postmaster looked at
Pike curiously as he spoke. His CON-
panions were likewise puzzled to know
what caused the color to leave the
bachelor s cheeks
Pike broke the awkward pause that
followed the postmaster's last remark.
81 must be gettin home.'' he said
GOOD day to you all. !"
He turned and walked abruptly away
from the group and entered the drug
store.
'.Mr. Smart, don't believe I can
use these here drops.
The apothecary mechanically received
the package from Pike. He asked no
questions. but enlptied the candy into
the iarsand returned the dime. The
bachelor left the establishment without
word. He went direct to Smith 8
store.
Needn't to mind about that suit. y
he said to the proprietor 1--WE con-
cluded don't want it.
Esau is dead. but George Pike still
lives in solitude on his farm Near Hill
Top Although the incidents OF the
story narrated in the foregoing para
graphs occurred 30 years ago, the old
bachelor secret has never escaped his
lips. Even at this late day old residents
of Hill Top occasionally ask each other
81 wonder what caused George Pike
to act so peculiarike on the day that
Harvey girl eloped ?''-St. Louis Re-
public
The Power of Adaptation.
Lord Seaforth. who was born deaf
| and dumb, was one day to dine with
/ Lord Melville. Just before the company
arrived Lady Melville sent into the
drawing room lady of her acquaint
ance who could talk with her fingers
| that she might receive Lord Seaforth
Presently Lord Guilforth entered the
room, and the lady, taking him fol
| Lord Seaforth, began to ply her finger:
| nimbly Lord Guilforth did the same
They had been carrying on the CONVEX
| sation in this manner for ten minute!
OF more when Lacy Melville joined
them Her friend said, We'll. ! have
been TALKING away to this dumb man.
| ''Dumb! exclaimed Lord Guilforth
BLESS me. | thought You were dnmbi
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LETTER TO MRs. P1MKRAM NO. s4,3esl
Slam SO grateful to you for what
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound has done for me thatsI feel NJ,
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Enxl.. .. dis Es.gaish.

Here is an example Of the quaint mis-
use of wor.is. the confusion of pronouns
being. not many years ago, whatever
may be the case now, quite common
among the country people of Hamp-
shire. ''lf her won't go along O we. us
won't 80 along o she. London
Chronicle.
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tensive use OF 1t for whooping cough has
shown that 1t robe that disease of all dam
gerous consequences.
8. .Seld by E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs /,
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The Christian era was not introduced
"a basis of reckoning time until the
sixth century
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The well known saying. ''Westmini
ster abbey or glorious victory. attrib-
nted to Nelson when he boarded the
San Josef at the battle of Cape Vim
cent. seems to point to the hero's own
wishes as to an abbey grave But for
some unknown reason, when the end
came at the famous battle at Trafalgar
1sO5), Nelson was buried at st. Paul's
and the abbey authorities. finding
crowds going there to gaze on his last
resting place. had an effigy made of
him and set it up near Kempenfelt's
monument in order to attract people
back to Westminster with the desired
result
The figure now stands in the Islip
Chantry chapel with the other funeral
efigies. and is very lifelike and good
representation of the great man 1t is
figure for which Nelson sat, in all the
clothes except the coat he actually wore
Maclise who borrowed the hat for his
picture of the Death of Nelson, found
the marks of the eye patch on the inner
lining and the stamp of the period in
the crown. Pail Mall MAGAZINE
have been afflicted with rheumatism
for fourteen years. and nothing seemed
to give any relief. l was able to be
around all the time, but constantly suf-
fering | had tried everything could
hear OF. and at last was told to try Cham
berlain's Pain Balm, which l did, and
was Immediately relieved and IN short
time cured. am happy to say that 1t
has not since returred.-JosH EDGAR,
Germantown, Cal.
For sale by E. Taft, Stafford Springs :;
III. f. Cady, Stafford.
The political term dark horse orig
mated from the habit IF jockeys paint
entering h III IN race nnder fictitious
name and TINS winning
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scientifically Correct.

''And when | proposed to her she
turned all the colors of the rainbow at
once.
''How can You make such ridicu-
lous assertion
'All the colors at once. if You have
not forgotten your high school lessons.
you ought to know make white. In
dianapolis journal
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tne most recent marriage In the ne1gh'-
oornooa nad worn 1rock SUIT
II am never mad no tail coat yat' /
ne ne, remarked IN careless way. beneve
JUST si' one 10 surprise ''ne neign-
'o.s
ne round cutaway suit snat pleased
ann In every respect except price. FOUR
Teen dollars was more than ne was &C.
cnstomed 10 pay. But he again con-
quered MS economical dlsponSfon.
IL De Dack TINS way IN 9 couple Or
nouEs ana you can pave tne pundle
Feaay TOT, me. ne said 10 tns stosekeep-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
DEADLY WIRES
ARE D|SOWNED
BY EVERYBODY
One Victim Asks Aid
of the Mayor.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,

Dangling telephone and telegraph wires
will probably be made the subject of local
LEGISLATION as they win certainly be OF
local litigation after the serious accident
which befell young Darlington and John
Y. Green of the Street Department a
week ago.
Green called on the Mayor this morning
showed him his badly burned hands and
arms and asked for q reference to the
City Attorney, so that the latter might
bring suit for damages in his behalf
against the company owning the wire
which caused the accident. The Mayor
decided that he would suggest to the
Council the passage OF an ordinance
which would prevent recurrence of such
an accident by imposing heavy penalties
on companies leaving loose wires and I'M
used wires hanging down SO that they
may kill or main human beings or ami
4 would be frightened to walk across
the top of the City Hail. said the Mayor,
because of the supposedly dead wires
hanging around and which are likely at
any moment to become alive"
From limitations given out by the tele
phone company it is plain that it intends
10 disclaim responsibility for the manning
Of Darlington and Green on the ground
that the wires causing the damage were
not owned by the corporation. The wires
that burned PartngtOn and Green were
not in use at the time of the accident and
falling across the electric railroad wire at
once became charged with the deadly cur
rent Inc lelepHOhe company was notlfled
Of some loose wires near the Partington
house a few days prior to the accident
ana removed them. and it is said that en-
ployes OF the company also removed the
wires that caused the frightfUl accident
One of those associated with the company
has said that the wires formerly belonged
to some private individual and were not
the property of the telephone company,
although they were placed on its poles.
Within the next two weeks the trial OF
the damage suit of young Davoust against
the city of Alameda and the telephone com
pany Will come up in the Superior Court.
This accident was caused in the same
manner as that of Darlington and Green,
but resulted in the instant killing Of
DavOusts wife, to whom he had only
been married a few months. Upon the
result of this case viii depend TO a great
extent the future actions Of the victims
of last week
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
ALAMEDA COUNTY
NEWS BREVITIES

OAKLAND, Nov. u-Mrs. L, Latimer,
by her attorney, Fred L. Button, to-day
filed suit for a divorce from w. ]. Latt-
mer. alleging failure to provide as the
ground Of her cause Of action.
]. B. Lanktree, Edward Everett and E.
H Woolsey have appraised the estate OF
Elizabeth Metzger. deceased, at $500, rep
resented chiefly by Alameda and Oakland
realty.
The charge Of forgery against Thomas
Hussey, arrested at Alvarado several
days ago, has been changed to grand
larceny Hussey is accused of calling at
the Postoffice and securing a letter ad-
dressed to a sugar beet farmer named
Smith and which contained a check for
1915. He forged an Endorsement and tried
to pass the same.
The directors of the Kings Daughters
Home for Incurables have about decided
to lease the old Keyes residence at
Eleventh and Oak streets. At a meeting
next Monday afternoon final arrange
ments with the owners of the property
will be made.
1t is stated that mandatory for
steam-pipe coverings is about to be start
ed at Third and Grove streets. j. G.
Baker is at the head of the enterprise
and he is declared to be well experienced
in that line.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
HER SQUADS WERE
SOLD BY A BARON"

OAKLAND Nov lin the suit of
Eliza Schomberg against c. NJ Day,
formerly an Alameda Constable, for the
recovery of the price of several hundred
squads and pigeons sold by one Baron"
Baroteau, an eX-Deputy Constable, under
attachment, judgment for s125 and costs
was given by Judge Ogden to-day in favor
of the fair plaintiff, who gained consid-
cradle notoriety some months ago when
she caused the arrest of R. Mott, motor
man, on charge of assaulting her with
a revolver at the Office of her attorney in
the Blake & Moffitt building. The present
suit was an appeal from Justice Larue's
court, and the trial occupied several days,
requiring the testimony of numerous pig
con experts 1t appears that in January,
1897, Miss Mary Walker sued c. V. Fitch
for a feed bill An attachment issued and
was levied on 1893 pigeons and squads. and
these were sold on execution. Later Miss
Schomberg set up a claim of a half in
terest in the pigeons, suing Day for 1929,
the value she placed upon the birds.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
QUEER LEGAL TANGLE
OVER NISSEN ESTATE
Question of Whether Husband or Wife
Perished First in shipwreck
Undetermined


OAKLAND, Nov. IA petition for the
distribution of the estate of Captain Hen
ry Nissen, who with his wife and children
persisted in the wreck of the American
bark c. c. Funk off the coast of Tasmania
in August. 1895. was denied by Superior
Judge Hall to-day because of the jnsufi-
cheney of the evidence as to whether the
captain or his wife persisted first. The de-
tails of the case were fully reported in
The Call several months ago.
While the law presumes that where hus-
band and wife perish in the same calam-
ity, both being between the ages of X and
~ years, the wife succumbs first. being
deemed the weaker, an attempt is heinz
made TO show that the captain was a.
years Of age at the time of his death and
MISS Stoger, sister of the wife testified
that the latter was also 10 years of age
he question of whether the captain per-
ished first will determine whether his S4O00
estate shall be distributed to his sly
brothers and sisters, or to Mrs Nissen's
two sisters. .
The latter claim that two surviving
sailors testified before the insurance adj
Juster at Melbourne, Australia. who SIR
veyed the wreck. that after the capfain
had been swept overheard and drowned
the wife and children were seen clinginp
to the bark's rigging. To establish the
correctness of Mrs Nissen's sisters CON
tentions Judge Hall ordered commissioners
to issue to take the insurance adjuster's
deposition at Melbourne, also the deposi-
ton of Mrs. Hamm and six heirs in Penn
sylvania. 1t has been impossible to locate
the two surviving sailors, Peterson and
krug. The case will again come IN be-
fore Judge Hall on December %
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
SCORES THE GRAND JURY.
Father Caraher Declares That That
Body Is Making Itself Liable
to Arrest,

Editor of The Call-Dear Sir: My attention
has been directed to most surprising article
IN your journal Of last Friday headed: Hotel
Nymphia in Favor With the Grand Jury; Be-
Iieve It Should Remain Open" AS 1 thought
that the jury might have haen unintentionally
n,isrepresented I have waited for contradic-
tion OF the action and statements with which
thew have been credited but as no such contra
diction has appeared now feel constrained to
deal with the case.
At the outset let me state that II is my belief
that in the history of Grand Juries in this
reuubifo no such conduct is to be found as
that which is attributed 10 San Franciscos
present body, and that seldom, II ever. has
there been a greater cause for a Judge to dis
charge jury abruptly and dishonorably. The
Jurors are represented favoring the Nymphia
brothel and as taking steps to keep it open.
Are they so grossly ignorant as not 70 know
that they are sanctioning crime condemned
~, +he laws of God and OF man? Are they
So devoid of all legal knowledge as not to
knoyy that they are acting in violation OF the
statute of the Legislature which they have
syvorn not only to observe but also to preserve
9nvioIate? Are they so purbind as not 10 see
that they are abetting prostitution, which is