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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Chase Furniture Co.

dom. by his metnod1cal habits, COM
bined with unwearied industry, he &C.
cumulated a large fortune. For a great
many years the landlord of every inn
in Cornwall or Devon that he visited
knew the exact day and hour he would
arrive. A short time before he died, at
the advanced age of so, gentleman
who was making a journey through
Cornwall put up at a small inn at Port
Isaac for his dinner. He looked over
the bill of fare and found nothing to
his liking. He had. however, seen a fine
duck roasting on the fire. "Iu have
that, " said he.
"You cannot, sir, replied the land
lord. cit is for Mr.. Scott of Exeter"
81 know Mr.. Scott very well, ]" re-
piled the traveller. "He is not in your
house"
VERY sorry" said the landlord,
'but six months ago, when he was last
here, he ordered the duck to be ready
for him this day exactly at o'clock. +"
And to the amazement of the travel
er, who CHANGED to look from the win
dow, the old gentleman was at that
moment entering the inn yard about
five minutes before the appointed time
-Harper's Round Table.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Thackeray on Tennyson-1s41.

Thackeray wrote: alfred Tennyson,
if he can't make you like him, will
make you admire him. He seems to me
to have the cachet of great man His
conversation is often delightful,
think; full of breadth, manliness and
humor He reads all sorts Of things
swallows them and digests them like a
great poetical boa constructor, as he is
Now, l hope, Mrs Proctor, you will
recolleot that if your humble servant
sneers at small geniuses he has, on the
contrary, huge respect for big ones.
Perhaps it is Alfred Tennyson's great
big yellow face and growing voice that
have made an impression on me, Man
illness and simplicity of manner go a
great way with me, fancy. Mrs.
Richie i'll "Thaokeray Sketch Books u
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
The Pine Street Grade.

Engineer Nash of the electric road has
completed his survey of Pine street and
his plan showing the grading necessary to
insure FIVE per cent grade was placed in
the town clerks Office yesterday This
shows that the proposed grading which be-
gins at Henry street and continues to West
street would extend over about 1900 feet !:
The cut at the top of the terrace hill would
be about $50 feet long and about II feet
deep at the crest West street is about 60
feet higher than Henry street extension.
The proposed grade v uld call for rise
of A. feet at E p. Kid ier's south line, 6
feet at j HI. Byrnes' )uth line, rs feet
at j. Z. Brosuabal's 50 III line, and feet
opposite Burt p ace.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04


halted at tho creek said the wounded
there were hill in the same way. Con-
spicuous officers were cut down while
the slope of the hill, and
companion of Major Forse, First cav
airy, said that his friend was killed by
la sharpshooter while accommodating
between "Kettle Hilp' and San Juan
blockhouse at time when there was no
trench fire over that ground. There was
a lapse of about three hours between
the arrival of some commands at the
creek and the final charge to the crest
Meanwhile there were lulls in the Span
ish volleying, but still popping of Maui
sers in the air and victims falling
1t was so evident that fatal shots
were coming from the rear into the
troops on the slope that officers were
sent back to look to it, but the troops
| in the rear were not firing. A soldier of
the Thirty-fourth Michigan, A. h
9anser, noted down at the time the fol-
lowing experiences at hunting down
| sharpshooters, whom he classes ''guer-
rillas'' Under date of July 3, 5 p. M,
he wrote in his diary as follows; cat
6 a. m. all of our detail were at San
Juan as ordered, and already teamsters
and the hospital corps had been fired
upon, chiefly from the south shore,
where retreat into Santiago was open
to the guerrillas. Two small squads
secuted up river to Ell Caney, one down
| The thickets ON the road to Skaters
headquarters, while the rest, IA regu-
lars and four volunteers from the Thirty
| fourth, took an old bride path through
| the lowlands for long detour to the
| foothills of Ell Poso to round up those
prowlers as our western scouts put
IL had hot days work in more
ways than one.
| "Crouching and creeping through the
open country in Indian file, our leaders
surprised a strapping young negro
armed with brass bullet ammunition.
A dubbed rifle, tough vine and a
Young sapling did quick and silent exc
cution. Here we separated into four
squads, ranging over mile of the river
bottom, and by noon their work was
thoroughly done. Our squad comprised
Scout Wallis of the rough riders, two
| colored fighters and silent sergeant of
the Fifteenth.
ave were in the river bottom proper
and advanced with the usual precau-
ton and examined every path, tree or
cover. The cool and even CHEEKY daring
of these old rangers nerved one to every
task, but yet this mornings experience
still haunts my mind. In the very first
cluster of mangrove trees Wallis detect
ed four guerrillas who were marking
our lines in reckless security. Every
| now and then they fired and banded
one another while we crept within easy
range. Each picked his man. and all
fred together. The reports were follow
ed by a plunging through the limbs,
dull thud of two more shots, more
crashing and tumbling, and then we
pushed quickly on. leaving the thou
sand land crabs with their prey. for eur
fire might attract the enemy in force
so near were we to their right flank.
..Nor did we escape notice. for every
now and then a spiteful 'whir-r-r
showed we were detected. but at close
quarters we had all the advantage of
| the daring bushYhackers- in-the trees.
aud our comrades far 70 orr right We're
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Death of Mrs. Sarah A. Barber.
Lincoln, VT, March 2, '99.

Mrs. Sarah A. Barry, widow of l.. G.
Barber. died at IL o'clock Wednesday
night at her home on Atkinson street from
the effects of shock, which Frustrated her
Tuesday morning and from which she
never regained consciousness.
Mrs Barber, who was "a years old, was
born in Cambridgeport and had always
lived in the town of Rockingham, being for
over 80 years a resident of this village, to
which she removed with her two children
from the Barber farm in Saxtons River
after the death OF her husband in 1869.
In her childhood she used to attend the
'Old Church" in Rockingham, making the
journey from Cambridgeport on horseback,
and during her married lite was an active
member of the gational church in
Saxtons River, which was the first pastor
ate of her husbands brother, Rev. A. D.
Barber, who, at SO years of age, comes
from Oberlin, O., to be present at the
funeral.
Mrs. Barber left one son, G. L. Barber
of Bellows Falls, the death of her daughter,
Mary A. Barber, taking place about sever
years ago.
The funeral will be held at o'clock this
afternoon at the house, the officiating
clergymen being Rev. George F. Chaplin
of Saxtons River, assisted by Rev. j. H.
Reid of Bellows Falls.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
THE WESTMINSTER DEBT.
Willis V. Farr Offers Pointed Sug-
gestlOnS to Tax Payers.

To the Editor of the TINES:
| read with interest the article which ap-
peared in your paper of February % rela-
tive to the bonding of the town of West
Minister. l regret that the conditions are
such that there should be any debt to bond
for. 1t has been an admirable feature in
our towns history that our forefathers paid
as they went. 1t was not many years ago
that the town was out of debt and had the
custom of holding the town officials respon-
sible ter any and all expenditures in exces'
of the money appropriated been enforced
the town would have been out of debt to-
day. 1t was not many years ago that
Westminster built an expensive bridge
across the Saxtons River, the north APP
proach to which was partly in Rockingham,
at an expense OF some $1,000, $500 o.
which and the interest on the whole amount
the town proposed to pay each year and
the rate of taxation was increased to meet
the same. But instead of the debt dimin-
ishing $500 per year it has increased and
the money has been spent for other pur-
poses than to lquidate the debt. Or if the
$500 was paid, it was paid with borrowed
money and a-larger debt contracted.
II the town continues to do business as
it has for the past few years and bond as
Mr.. Wright suggests on July l, 1900, its
treasurer would borrow $500, to pay the
$1,000 due and the interest at four per cent
on the $4,000. On July /, 1901, the
treasurer would borrow $3.50 to pay the
second thousand and Interest on the nine
teen thousand at four per cent, also the in
terest on the $500 at per cent and SC
on until at the expiration of the 20 years
the town would be called on to bond for
more than 40, eco to refund the bonds Of
1899 and outstanding Indebtedness of the
town.
am and always have been willing to pay
my portion of the debt at once with
the understanding that the town should
never contract another debt. The time
has come to call halt in town expendi-
lures and pay what is owed, though Gun
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
A Rad Dream.

It is not likely that any English
speaking people understand SO keen and
punctilious devotion to the niceties Of
language as that which characterizes the
French grammarians. We may help
ourselves to understand it perhaps by
reading a story told of M. Lamany.
One night lately he awoke and sprang
out of bed with wild cry. His wife
came running He was in alarm and
despair.
"Why, what is the matterf" she
gasped.
81 dreamed" said the professor.
"Oh, 1 had horrible, a heartrending
dream. "
''What was it2"
81 dreamed / was talking, and dis
tinctly heard myself utter sentence
which had grammatical error in it.
Youths Companion.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
The Boy and the Hare.

A pleasant story of the Duke of Dew
onshire comes from Chatsworth. He
was strolling, gun in hand, through one
of his own fields near Baslow when he
started hare, which he shot, and was
going TO pick it up when a small boy
jumped out of neighboring hedge and
warned him off. Here, meester, - cried
the small boy peremptorily, ''yo' must
nae touch that .
"Why not p asked the duke, amused,
seeing that he was not recognized
"Why, it's tn dukes, answered the
boy, IAN he'll have you locked up if he
knows"
"Ohr' said his grace 'Then viii
you take charge of itH''
"Aye, that 1 viii. F." answered the boy
promptly. me fayther's keeper. -
Half an hour afterward the boy and
the hare arrived in the kitchen at Chats
worth. The duke had taken a short cut
home and had the boy brought to him
The little chap was dumb with terror
when he learned what a mistake he had
made, but the duke gave him shil-
ling piece. called him "a good lad" and
sent him away rejoicing.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Annual Village Meeting.

The annual village precinct meeting Of
North Walpole was held Thursday even
ing The following officers were chosen :
A. F. Minis, moderator; w. j. Corbett,
clerk P. E. Griffin, treasurer; james
Hennessey, j. j. Fitzgerald and John
Carroll, commissioners A. F. Minis, d.
w. O'Connor, j. w. Cahalane, auditors.
In addition to the usual appropriations for
current expenses, it was voted to expend
$1,000 in new sidewalks during the coming
year The matter OF additional electric
lights was indefni ely postponed.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

family Of IL children, four of whom are
still living In 1889 she married Henry
Evans of Rockingham and they had one
son, William Henry, who reached the age
of 25 years.
The funeral was held at 2p. NJ. ye,ter-
day, the Rev. j. H. Reid officiating, and
the body was placed in the tomb at Rock
ingham. The bearers were A. E. Lamb,
Thomas Walsh, Mr.. Mack and Roy Gam
NELL c l.. Barber, Misses Lena Cooper
and Eta Labaree and George B. Wheeler
were the singers at the service.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

above her il, the arithmetic class and
gone to the top.
"That was clever of you," said he
encouragingly. 'How was it?'
well you see, the teacher asked the
girl at the head how much was and
5, and she didn't know and said 70,
and the next girl said 9, and the next
one said II, and the next one said IA
Such silly answersl Then the teacher
asked me, and l said 10, and she told
me to go top Course it was 13."
"That was nice, said the father 81
didn't think you could add so well.
How did you know it was 1872"
"Why, [ guessed it. Nobody said
IS. Pearson s Weekly.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

effectively heard from, though We found
the 'dagoes, as the boys grimly called
them, all along the wooded bottom up
to within few yards of the trail to
San Jnan. The detail lost one man
killed and three wounded, one the jolly
colored boy of the Twenty-fourth. but
thereafter our hospitals and water car
riers were little molested, and the west
erners gloried in their work as "a well
done job, To me it is the cruel neces-
sity Of self preservation. grim wars
reality, but a day of horrors that haunt
my thoughts nevertheless. -
Soldier Ganser's designation Of the
Spanish sharpshooters is close to the
truth. They We're 'guerrillas, for it
must be taken for granted that soldiers
of the line would not risk certain death
in that way, 1t is said that some had
on civilian clothes and some the Ameri-
can uniform or close imitation of it,
Regular soldiers would know that they
forfeited their lives if caught within
the enemy's lines. General Shafter or
some one of his chief subordinates stated
that he learned that these men were
criminals released from prison to ply
their hellish business in exchange for
liberty. Men of this class had often
been used against the insurgents, and
as many of them were known to the
natives they knew that death was sure
to follow capture. Hence when the
American troops suddenly swept past
their hiding places they had no choice
but to remain concealed. Partly from
motives of cruelty and partly no doubt
out of pure hatred of the Americans and
the Cubans they determined to exact a
heavy dole for the certain death to
which they looked forward. Only in a
very few instances did these men sur
render This Occurred when the black
bread rations which they took to the
trees had given out and they were
starved into yielding.
GEORGE l.. KILMER.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
The Libe1ous "They Say"

The one term ''they say is respon-
sible for nine tenths of the lies which
repetition and familiarity finally CON
vert into seemingly bona fide evidence,
One usually hears an exciting bit of
gossip launched forth with these words,
while at the same time the speaker
adroitly shields herself by declaring that
personally she does not know it to be
true. The man or woman who thus
screens himself or herself is nothing
short of coward. Josephine Hill in
Woman 8 Home Companion.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
THE TIMES.
SATURDAY, MAR. 4, 1899.
I Mileapes to Rent at Durham Bros,

fMilesges to Rent at Durham Bros
FFor all pension business send to j. +,
Eldredge & Co., Randolph, Vt. Advice
free.
Farm for sale. Lock Box A, Ran
dolph, Vt.
TBefore the discovery of One-Minute
Cough Cure, ministers were greatly dis
turbed by coughing congregations No
excuse tor it now. Pierce's Pharmacy.
WANTEp-A competent middle, aged
woman tor general Homework, family OF
two. Address Box 272, WaNpole, n, H.
TWANTEp-At cnce girl for table work,
wages So so; also chamber girl, wages SS
Write to Connecticut Valley Lumber Co.,
Mt Tom, Mass.
''Give me liver regulator and can reg
ulate the world" said genins. The drug
gist handed him bottle of DeWitts Little
Early Risers, the famous little pills. Al
Pierce's Pharmacy.
FWANrED-Agents to sell our Lubricat
ing Oils, Greases and famous Black Zanzp
Dor Antitrust Roof Paint. Liberal con
tracts made. Commonwealth Oil Co.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
1aurrtrS.

In Cavendi.h. March l. nv Rev. J. Rear
don, viii Cherrier and Miss Margaret Percy
both of Cavendish.
In Cavpndish. March ], BY Rev d. W Ly-
~an, Fred LYMAN of Sharon, and Miss Mabel
Moves of Caverdish.
In Troy. n Y, February g. at home of
the bride bv Rev Bernard smith, Charlie
4 Msudigo Of Caver5i~h, and Miss Minnie
o Benson Of Troy, n Y.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Two LocLouts.

Editors Wife (from second story
window don't get. in this house
at any such hour of the morning as this
Editor (appealingly)-But, my dear,
was unavoidably detained at the Office.
You see. we had late news of tremen-
dous big lockout. and
Wife-All right: you've got news Of
another now (slamming down the win
dow London Answers
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

so with concealed Mauser the effect
was about as sudden and as secret as
that of an airgun. Many old soldiers
thought at first that stories of Spanish
sharpshooters remaining within the enc
my's lines must be Munchausenish.
Nothing of that kind occurred in the
civil war, although in those days sharp
shooting was carried to the point where
both sides called it unquestionable
murder.
Sharpshooters Of both the Federal and
Confederate armies often hid in the
foliage Of tall trees to ply their rifles
while the troops were closing in for
battle. Reynolds was shot at Gettys-
burg by Confederate riflemen hid in
a tree in Mcpherson woods, and with
in a few moments after the gallant
leader fell his men charged forward
and the tree was inside the lines. But
if the Johnny" was caught up the tree
he kept quiet, for his smoking Enfield
would have brought volley of Federal
bullets about his head. Many deeds of
heroism We're performed to bring down
sharpshooters who had perched them
selves in tall trees and made victims Of
conspicuous foemen all unconscious of
peril.
I put the question boldly to many vet
eran officers careful of their words as to
the Spanish sharpshooters hiding in the
American lines and continuing their
deadly work. The answers were I'M
qualified Alternatives. Sharpshooters
were traced to their eyries and dispatch
ed. Adjutant Barnum of the Tenth
cavalry, said that when he lay in the
corps hospital on July 3, miles in rear
of San Juan and the fighting lines, the
wounded were struck as they lay in
their blood under the surgeons care.
This terrified the poor fellows more
| than the armed Spaniards they had faced
in battle Skaters headquarters guard
| skirmished through the woods and shot
! some of the wretches. A very touching
story has been going the rounds to the
| effect that captain told one of his ser
| geants to take file of men to the rear
and kill some of the sharpshooters who
We're firing into the American lines on
San Juan ridge. "Get dozen of them
at least, before you come back said
| he. During the night the sergeant drag
| ged himself into the bivouac minus an
ear and five men of the squad. He said
| that he got the half dozen all right, but
the last of the lot came within an ear of
doing for him
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
For Sale.

Two fine farms-one of about 125 acres,
two miles from Vermont Academy on the
Rockingham road; the other of about 81
acres, adjoining Vermont Academy prop
erty. Both are we'll watered. For price
AZ terms apply to F. B. Locke, Saxton'
River, Vermont.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

lIH their smoke
less powder and
long range Maui
sers the Span
iards in Cuba
W ere a Bile to
show the Aneri-
cans new tricks
at S h a T pshoot-
ing. On the days
when the Span
ish m a r k S m e n
put in their best
work there was
a continual pop
ping of rifles on
both sides, and
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
For Sale.

A well established restaurant business,
regular and transient, with front store and
home bakery connected; 20 regular board
ers, 20 furnished rooms on the line Of the
Springfield electric railway. Address 9.
H. Stlckney, Springfield, Vt.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
The Peoples CObbler

is still hard at work. Nothing succeeds
like success and the Peoples Cobbler is
certainly success. Ladies' frst-class
Klondike half-sole, 35c mems, 45c. Good
workmanship. thanksgiving a specially
All kinds of cobbler's stock on sale. Save
your sole by visiting the shop in the Domi-
nique Block.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Death of Mrs. s pfia Evans.

Mrs. Sophia Britt } Evans. reported
to be tie oldest pers in town, died at
her home on the Roc .ngbam road We'd
1esdsy afternoon al T sickness of one
week with pneumonia Had she lived IN
I'll next August % s. would have been 90
years of age. She VS. born in Wesimore-
land, n. H, ia -, and as-eRe OF a
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
A PunctuaI Man.

A certain Mr.. Scott of. Exeter whose
business required him to travel con-
stantly was one of the most famous
characters for punctua1ity in the king
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
Smart Little Girl.

A little girl who has just entered
school jubilantly announced TO her ia
Their that she had becten all the girls
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04
QtsS

In Westminster, Mareh l, Mrs. orsh P.
CLARK, aged 70 years, months, Il days.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

At first the camp stories about Span
ish sharpshooters inside the American
lines impressed me like those of masked
batteries and the Black Horse cavalry
after Bull Run. 1t seemed convenient
battlefield bugaboo. But soon found
that the evidence was too strong, the
explanation too clear for doubt. A staff
officer of the brigade told me that both
Wikoff and Worth We're hit in his pres
ence by sharpshooters. Then officers
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-04

True or not, this might have been
true. for there were Americans as des-
perate] ana more brave than the Span
iards. Rough Rider Perry of Capron's
company shot sharpshooter out of a
tree while Mt the creek crossing waiting
for his wound TO be dressed He located
the Spaniard by the CLEAN of his Maui
ser barrel in the sun and dropped him
in a lump at the first shot.
During the day of battle at FL Caney
the Spaniards in the church belfry and
in loopholed houses of the village made
some good shots at the Americans, and
if they were not sharpshooters then the
average Spanish soldier is crack marks
man. On July and the Americans
on San Juan hill in front of the town
suffered so much from good long range
shots that it became necessary to take
picked rihemen from the trenches and
post them where they could answer this
deadly fire Pearson 8 brigade of Kent's
division was especially exposed to this
fire.
One of Pearson's crack rifemen shot
General Linares, and, it is believed,
changed the fortunes of the day by so
doing Late in the day, on the I'd, there
was great activity noticed in the Span
ish lines in front of Pearson, and Gen
eral Kent with Hawkins and others,
went to the front trenches to recon-
hotter. A Spanish officer was seen hav-
ing following which showed that he
was a person of high rank. Several Of
Pearson's men asked the privilege of
trying their KragJ orgensens upon the
Spaniard, but General Kent told them
it would be waste of ammunition, the
range was so great. One of those de-
tailed as sharpshooter persisted until
Kent granted him trial. He fired and
missed, and Kent said, 81 told you so. +"
"Let me try once more, general, . said
the man, and with Kent's permission
he shot and brought down the Spaniard.
| 1t was learned afterward that Linares,
the Spanish general in chief, was
wounded on that spot and at that time,
and in consequence the sortie which
had been planned to take place that
night fell short of success. Linares could
not lead, and the charge was not carried
| home.