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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
MRS. NATION, SALOON wREcKeR.
Her Latest Job at Topeka, Kansas.

Her Latest Job at Topeka, Kansas.
Mrs. Carrie Nation and three follow
ers wrecked the finest saloon in To-
peka, Kansas Tuesday morning. Mrs.
Nation and her wreckers, each armed
with Ratchet sailed forth at day
break. They forced their way past
negro, who guarded the door of the
Senate" as the saloon was known,
and in less than ten minutes had
strewn the floor with broken mirrors,
bottles, slot machines and splintered
bar fixtures. The negro fired a shot
of warning into the ceiling, but it had
no effect. Presently a policeman
stalked leisurely into the room and
said:
We'll, sister Nation, guess well
have to arrest you again"
Mrs. Nation mad just smashed the
last bottle and was ready to go. She
was taken to the police station and
released without bond.
After Mrs. Nation and her followers
had departed from the wrecked Sen.
ate,' and the place had been reopened
for business by the proprietor, the
crowd in the saloon became so large
that It required four bartenders to wait
OiA tllClhs nt NlOMu dlOulu lHG Ddl
demanded souvenirs, and the bartend
ers gathered up bits of glass from the
broken mirror, giving away a small
piece with every glass of beer A
man stationed at the front door cried
Souvenirs with each and every glass
of beer!"
Mrs. Nation was again arrested at
night on a warrant sworn out by Kel
ly & Lytle, who owned the Senate
saloon. She was charged with ma
licious destruction of property. Hell
bond was placed at 800 and she was
released till Saturday when her hear
ing will take place. Mrs. Nation ad
dressed her recruits and sympathizers
at the Christian church Tuesday night
The church was crowded to the doors
and the saloon destroyer was given al
ovation
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
Saving 400 Lives.

1t is "A beautiful story told by Lafaca-
do Hearn of an old man whose great
deed belongs TO Japanese history. He
was Hama guchi and his farmhouse
sttod on the verge Of small plateau
overlooking the bay; The plateau,
hemmed in on three sides by thickly
wooded SUBMITS: and from the outer
verge the land sloped down to the sea.
Below were ninety ,thatched dwellings
and a temple; these composed the vii
one autumn evening Hamaguchi Co
hei was looking down from his balcony
on the preparations for some merry-mak-
ing in the hamlet below. All the, vii
layers were out; and he would have
gone with them, had he not been feeling
less strong than usual
Suddenly there came an earthquake
shock. not a very strong one; but Hama
guchi. who had felt many before this
thought there was something odd in its
ION" spongy motion. As the quaking
sea; and there he saw the, strangest
POSSIBLE sight: it seemed to be running
away from the land
Apparently. the whole village had no.
ticed 1t; for the people stood still in won
derment. Only Hamaguchi drew any
conclusions form the phenomenon, and
called his little grandson, lad of ten,
the only one of the family left with
"Tada! Quick. Light me torch"
The child kindled pine torch; and the
old man hurried with it 10 the fields,
where hundreds of rice-sacks stood ready
lighted them in haste; and they caught
like finder. sending skyward masses of
cloudy whirl. Tada. astonished and ter
ing aea and i@ calling, Why? Why? why?S w
thought only Of four hundred lives in
peril. He watched for the people, and
in a moment only they came swarming
And stili the sea was fleeing toward
the horizon. The first party of succor
arrived,-a score of agile young peasants,
but Hamagucni stretching out both
his arms, stopped them.
Let it burn, lads!" he commanded.
Let il be! | want the whole village
The whole village came. mothers and
children. last of all, drawn by concern
Grandfather is mad. am afraid of
him. sobbed little Tada. He set fire to
the rice soE on bo s saw him do III
the child tells the truth, | set fire to It.
Are all the people hereY
we cannot understand this thing"
"See!" cried the old man, at the top of
his vioce, pointing TO the open. Say If
1t was the returning sea, towering like
cliff. and coursing swifter than the
| kite. There was shock. heavier than
tihnuer' as tnS coloSshl sMSh siiptc 'lS
shore, with foam-burst like blaze of
sheet-lightning.
Then a white horror of sea raved over
the village itself, 1t drew back, roaring,
| and tearing out the land as il went.
| Twice, thrice five times, IL struck and
| ebbed. each time with lesser surges; and
| then 1t returned to it's ancient bed, and
| stayed there, although still raging. OF
all the homes about the bay, nothing re-
maine,. but two straw roofs. tossing
| madly i'm the offing. All lips were dumb
until Hamaguchi observed gently
THAT was why / set fire to the rice"
He was now poor as the poorest in all
the village, but he had saved four hun
| dred lives
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
chas. H. Hoyt's Will to Be Contested

1t is announced in the New York
newspapers that the will of Charles
H. Hoyt, author and playwright, will
not be admitted to probate until after
a bitter legal battle. This was decid-
ed Tuesday, when legal objections to
the probate of the instrument were
filed with the surrogate of the county
of New York The contestants are
Joseph B. Hoyt of Nashua, N. H., and
Ella M. Green of Concord, N. H., cous-
ms of Mr.. Hoyt.
Mr.. Hoyt left a will bearing the date
of Oct. Is, 1898, which was offered for
probate by Frank Mckee, the business
partner of Mr.. Hoyt. Mr.. Mckee was
made one of the executors of the will.
The question of jurisdiction is male
one of the principal points of conten-
ton under the objections fled The
petitioners say that for many years
before his death Mr.. Hoyt was not 4
resident of the State of New York, but
of New Hampshire.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
A MID-WlNTER DAY.
Sympathetic Description by the Late
Rowland &. Robinson.

Rowland Il. Robinson wrote of "Jau-
uary Days: In these mid-winter
days. how mutiled is the earth in its
immaculate raiment, so disguised in
Wilderness that familiar places are
strange; rough hoilows smoothed to
mere andulations, dcceuful To the eye
and feet. and level fields so piled with
heaps and ridges that their owner
scarcely recognizes them. The howell
is as regally rooted as the palace, the
rudest fence is a hedge of pearl, finer
than wall of marble, and the mean.
est wayside weed is white flower of
fairyland. The WOODS, which frost
and November winds stripped of their
leafy thatch, are rooted again, now
with an arabesque of alabaster more
delicate than the green canopy that
summer unfolded, and all the floor is
set in noiseless pavement, traced with
shifting pattern of blue shadows
In these silent aisles the echoes are
smothered at their birth.
Fox and hound wallow through the
snow a crumbling furrow that obliter-
ates the identity of either trail, yet
there are tracks that tell as plain as
written words who made them. Here
have fallen lightly as snowflakes. the
broad pads of the hare white as the
snow he trod; there the parallel
tracks of another winter masker, the
weasel, and those of the squirrel,
linking tree to tree. The leaps of a
tiny woodmouse are lightly marked
upon the feathery surface to where
there is the imprint of a light. swift
pinion on either side, and the little
story of his wandering ends-on Grim
son blood drop the period that mark
ed the finis. In the blue shadow
at the bottom of that winding furrow
are the dainty footprints of a grouse,
and you wonder why he, so strong
of wing, should choose to wade labor
iOusly the clogging snow even in his
briefest trip, rather than make his
easy way through the unresisting air.
Suddenly. as if a mine had been
sprung where your next footsteps
should fall and with almost as startling,
though harmless effect, another of his
wild tribe bursts upward through the
unmarked white floor and goes whir-
ring and gathering away, scattering
in powdery ruin the maze of delicate
tracery the snowfall wrought; and
vanishes, leaving only an aerial path
way of naked twigs to mark his i'm
| petuous passage.
"In the twilight of an evergreen
thicket sits a great horned owl like a
hermit in his cell in pious contempla-
ton of his own holiness and the
worlds wickedness.
"Out in the fields you may find the
white robeu brother of this gray friar,
pilgrim from the far north brooding
in the very face of the sun, on some
stack or outlying barn, but he will not
suffer you to come near MIN.
Marsh and channel are scarcely
distinguisnable now but by the white
domes of the muskrat's winter homes
and here and there sprawling thick
ct or button bush, for the rank growth
of weeds is beaten fiat, and the deep
snow covers and channel ice in one
unbrOken sheet"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES.

Mrs. Samuel Wolcott, aged 70, wild
ow of Rev. DR.. Samuel .Wolcott and
mother of Senator o. Il. Wolcott of
Colorado, died in Longmeadow Tues
day morning. She was native OF
Oxford, Mass.
The farm of Lemuel S. Graves in
Whately will be the scene of the first
attempt in Franklin county to grow
tobacco under cheese cloth. Mr..
Graves will nave as a partner in
the enterprise Mr.. Lichenburg, the
New York tobacco dealer, who has
been a large buyer of the local crop.
They will cover an acre of ground
with the cloth.
The death of Fred s. Anterior, son
of A. S. Anterior of Bernardston,
which occurred Tuesday of appended
tbs, after an illness of only a week,
brings sorrow to many hearts. He
had been for nearly two years a clerk
for r. l.. Crowell & Son, and his work
has brought him in touch with the
general public, with whom he had
been great favorite.
Joseph Wells of Bernaruston, who
is mentally deranged, was arrested
in Greenfield by Deputy Sheriff w.
II. Ward, who saw that if allowed his
liberty Wells would injure himself or
someone else. Wells showed fight,
and the sheriff called on f. l.. Burn
ham to assist BY the combined eff
forts of the two Wells was placed in
the lookup without much further trou-
BILE. He was brought before Judge
Thompson, who committed him to the
Northampton asylum. Wells is a
well-known character in Bernardston
For some time his mind has not been
what it should be, and the selectmen
asked the probate court to appoint a
guardian over him.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
STRATTON.

Miss Lille NJ. Burbee closed the
winter term of school in No. on Jan.
80, having taught the whole year In
this school successfully.
Jesse E. Jones has received word
of an increase of pension amounting
to SIS per month, dating from March
21st. last, making his pension hereaf-
ter SIT per month
William j. Brown, who died from ty
phoid fever on the 9th at West ia
maica, aged %, was the oldest son OF
Mrs. George Brown now of West ia
maica. He had worked during the
fall and winter at B. l.. Perry's. He
was sick only three weeks. The
funeral was held at the schoolhouse in
West Jamaica Jan. 30. The burial
was in Stratton, Rev. o. II. Palmer
oficiating. Much sympathy is felt
for Mrs. Brown and the rest of the
family.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
Famine in China.

The famine which is now said to -
wasting two great provinces Of China
comes at a time when the Chinese
government is paralyzed by the com
plications with foreign powers and is
least able to undertake measures Of
relief. The two provinces suffering
from famine are Shansi and Shensi.
forming the northern central part of
the Empire. The population OF
Shansi is 100000 and of Shensi 9
000, 900. The court of the empress
dowager is in Shensl province. and
her presence with $4,000 soldiers and
followers, aggravates the bad condi-
tions on account of the constant extra
demand for supplies from a poverty
stricken province. The present fam
inc is due to drought and crop fail
ures for three successive years in both
provinces.
The people were on the verge OF
famine when the present winter came,
and the bitter cold adds to the prevail
ing misery. Fuel Is scarce. and the
people are burning woodwork from the
houses. There is no systematic re
lief, and it is estimated that two
thirds of the population are without
sufficient food or the means o: pro
curing it. The horrors of a Chinese
famine are almost inconceivable Ia
Western peoples. The methods OF
intercommunication and of Transports
ton are so defective and slow that
though another part of China may
have an abundance of food, it is impos
sible to send supplies in time to pre-
vent wholesale starvation in the fam
inc stricken districts. 1t is estimated
that in 18I7-7S, during the famine fol
lowing the Yellow river flood, million
people starved to death.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

Dr. r. C. Flower, the mining specu-
lator. who was alleged to have swim
died investors in New York to the
amount of over 81 100000, says he
will return to New York and explain
matters.
The Dominion government has prac.
tically taken steps to buy the tele-
graph systems of Canada, extend them
enormously, and operate them in con-
nection with the post Office depart
ment 1t is seriously proposed to fol-
low a similar course with the tele-
phone. and municipalities will be IL
censed, as in Britain, to operate the
system within their own areas.
The promoters of the Jeffries-
Rubin prize fight, who expected TO
arrange a contest in Cincinnati, have
struck a tartar in Gov. Nash, who says
the fight will not take place If the
entire National Guard of Ohio has to
be brought to Cincinnati: The STATE
emergency board has authorized hirn
to eXpend $4,000 If needed to stop
the fight.
J. p. Morgan. the New York banker
whose name has been linked with sew
eral gigantic enterprises recently. is
now said to be at work with his asso
ciates to effect a colossal combination
to control the steel market of Amer
lea. The amalgamatlon of the Car
| negie company, the Federal Steel com
pany. American Steel and Wire com
pany, and other organizations is eX
pected One report states that Mr.
! Carnegie wishes TO retire to pTivat.
life. He is said to hold "a per cent
of the $3.50 1000. 600 stock of the com
pany bearing his name. The tota
capitalization to be interested in III,
steel combination is estimated a
81 900 100000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
Valuable AIamnac Free.

We have received a copy of the new
almanac for 1901 published by the
Royal Baking Powder company. 1t is
an artistic and useful book and will
be of interest to housekeepers. A
noteworthy feature of the almanac is
a prediction of the weather for every
day of the year, by Prof. DeVoe, who
correctly prophesied the great Gal
weston cyclone and. other important
meteorological events. We are au-
thorized to say that any woman read
er of this paper can secure copy
without cost by sending a request 20
the Company, at 100 William St., New
York.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
MARpI eRAs CELEBRATIONS,
February 14th-1sth, 1901.

For these occasions tickets will be
sold February 18th to 18th inclusive,
from Washington, d. c., and all points
on the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
at rate of one fare for the round trip,
tickets good returning until March
7th, 1901, inclusive. With its new
passenger service inaugurated jan
uary 9th, the Seaboard Air Line Rail,
way is now operating the finest ana
fastest trains in the South, and trip
to the Mardi Gras on one OF these
magnificent trains via any OF thelr
many attractive routes will certainly
prove the quickest and most enjoy
able. See that your tickets read via
Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

In the case of the four men arrested
on the charge of soaring a woman to
death in a drunken fight at Hartford
Saturday night, mentioned in our Yer
mont news column, the justice, before
whom the hearing was held, dismissed
the charge of manslaughter and only
held the men in $500 bail each on a
charge of uisCurbing the peace.
Drs. c. S. Caverly of Rutland and II.
d. Holton of Brattleboro of the state
board of health, were in Burlington
Friday evening and at a meeting APP
pointed Dr.. NJ. j. Wiltse temporary
director of the state laboratory Of
hygiene to succeed DR.. j. II. Linsley,
whose i'll health will compel him to
be absent for several months. DR..
Wiltse's time will be occupied with
Office and medico-legal work and a
new assistant in the water work will
be appointed soon.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
AVOID GRIP

Use Downs Elixir freely on first
appearance of a cold. 1t will prevent
grip, pneumonia, and all dangerous
bronchial or pulmonary troubles. 1t
will cure grip in any stage. Bakers
Mandrake Bitters are natures remedy
for eXpelling all grip poisons from the
blood, regulating the bowels, strength
ening the nerves and imparting Wgor
to the system. All druggists sell and
guarantee them to do as recommend
ed or money refunded.
GEO, E, GREENE, Brattleboro, VT.
#. II. HOLDEN & CO., Brattleboro, VT.
BROOKS HOUSE PHARMACY,
1rattleboro, VI
e. II. DAVENPORT,
NJ. G. WILLIAMS. Putney. vi.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

Buying and selling stocks for Gus
toners on margin becomes rather
ticklish business under this verdict
of a jury in the superior court at Wor-
cester, holding a broker responsible
for any losses in cases where the
stock is not actually bought or sold
and delivered. If this verdict is sus'
tanned by the higher courts, it will
inevitably have an effect to revolutions
ize the business as 1t is at present
conducted Boston Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
TAX NOTICE.

HSHE NONRESIDENT pToprietors o. the town
i uf Dun mrrston in the County OF Windham
arr hereby notified that the taxes assessed ~
said town within the year next preceding this
late, remain either 10 whole o. m pArt UP I'D on
the following de- crbed lhnds In SAID Town, to
wit; A certain pirc' Of land tuated in West
Dumm rstnn village and bounded as follows, on
the west by Main street. on the north " Lyons
street. on the east by hand OF Charles II Thomp
son. a. on the south by lands OF Abner b. Bailey
aud Lucy Il. STATION Est and now owned by
Thomas j. Rolet; so much OF said land viii be
sold at public auction al the STORE or j. f. Towns
end OF West DummeTston 10 said county on the
27th day OF February next al 10 O'Clock In the
4 TenOon as shall be requisite TO discharge said
taxes with costs, unless previously paid.
8 Adm #. MILLER.
Collector OF Town Taxes.
Dated at Dnmmerston January II, 1891.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
NEW HAMPSHIRE NOTES.

Bonnie Wood II, son of Luoius
Wood baggage master in Peterboro,
shot himself through the head Mon
day with a 32-calibre revolver, infict-
ing a fatal wound. He had taken a
bunch of keys belonging to his broth
err, and it is supposed that he feared
his father would punish him, and
when his father entered the house,
in his fright, he snatched up the re
volver and shot himself.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
The congressman Are All Right.

Under the provision of the anti
canteen clause in the Army bill it is
announced that the hotels at West
Point and Fortress Monroe, which are
on military reservations, will have to
close their bars. Perhaps, If this
had ben anticipated the law would not
have been enacted so easily, The ma
tional capitol is not a military reserva-
ton. and the canteens of the Senate
and House will not be disturbed
Philadelphia Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08
Queen Victoria's Funeral.

The funeral of Queen Victoria in
London last Saturday was marked by
every circumstance of splendid pomp
and stately grandeur that the re-
sources of the royal establishment
could afford. Never before has SOW
ereign been attended to her tomb
by such a gathering of royal mourn
ers. The streets of the great city
swarmed with people who stood for
hours in the wet, chilly atmosphere
waiting for the stately and sorrowful
pageant to pass. The procession was
made up almost entirely of royalty.
the army and navy. Three thousand
picked soldiers and sailors, represent
ing every ranch of the service, form
ed the advance escort Following
the ancient royal precedent. the cas-
ket of the Queen was borne on a little
kakhi colored gun carriage which, eX
cept for its rubber tires used by tn
Queens own command, was just as If
in actual use in the field. The rest
for the coffin was just over the gun
Immediately behind walked King Ed
ward VII, Emperor William of Ger
many, and the Duke of Connaught
The funeral services in the royal
chapel were conducted by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. The body re
posed in the chapel over Sunday an
on Monday it was removed to the rov
al mausoleum at Frogmore. where tn.
last honors were paIu and the bod'
of the Queen was laid in its fina
resting place near that of her hua
band.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

yes" said the statesman with the
kindly eye, but the firmly set mouth
II like to read about Noah and the
ark"
what brought them to your atten-
tion?"
Nothing in particular. couldn't
avoid being struck by the manner IN
which Noah and his sons went to WORK
and carried the enterprise through
without asking a p9nhys assistance
from the government. But, OF course
those were primitive days."-lWash-
ington Star.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

A large meteor, which fell last Mon
day night in the town of Yellow
Springs, Ohio, went crashing down
through the large porch in front OF
the dormitory of Antioch college, cut
ting a hole through the roof and the
floor as clean as if chiselled out, and
buried itself seven feet deep in the
ground beneath. It was dug out and
found to be about seven inches
TIA -ough and to weigh so pounds, It
loc Ks ike a large piece of iron ore.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

Der5 OF Jne House
Of Repre- s e n ia
tiVes, in q letter
write n from
Washin g ton, D.
c., gives his en-
dorsement to the
great tarr h
remedy, Peruns,
in the following
w or d s: "Your
Peruna is one of
tn 9 be s t medi-
cines / ever tried,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

There is but single medicine which
is radical specific for catarrh. 1t 10
Peruna, which has stood half century
test. 1t has cured thousands of cases of
catarrh. Ninety times in a hundred,
those who have been cured of catarrh by
Peruna thought they had some other
disease"
The remedy to cure catarrh must be
able to reach the mucous membranes,
and this is exactly what Peruna does.
Peruna operates at the fountain head.
Peruna produces normal, clean and Wig
orous mucous membranes. Catarrh cen-
not remain in the system if Peruna ia
used according to directions.
Address The Peruna Medicine Com.
pany, Columbus, Ohio, for q free book
] on catarrh.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

WANTED-Capable reliable person In
every county to represent large company
of solid financial reputation; 1896 salary
per year, payable weekly; SO per day alb
solutely sure and all expenses straight,
bona-iide, definite salary, no commission;
salary paid each Saturday and expense
money advanced each week. STANDARD
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08

The magazines at Baku. Russia. con
tanning millions of pounds of petrO-
leum and naptha caught fire Wednes-
day and the burning nquid spread out
like lava. inundating houses. MANY
people persisted. Twenty charrel
bodies have been found and 80 people
who are alive were horribly burned.
Four hundred families lost all they
DOsseSSed
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-02-08


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getting He takes Peruns three times don't know
thankful feel toward think of
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