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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
RIGHT UP TO DATE.
(BenSonS Plaster Is Pains Master.)

These are days of records and of the beat.
Sng of records. Benson's Porous Plaster, fol-
quickness of action and thoroughness OF
cure, has no records to beat except its own,
Benson's Plaster, always the best, always
the leader, is to-day better than eoer. 1t
sticks to the skin but never sticks in its
tracks. 1t marches on.
The people not only want to be cured
but cured quicbly-and Benson's Plaster
does it. Coughs, colds, lumbago, asthma,
bronchitis, liver and kidney complaints,
and other ills approachable by an external
remedy, yield to Benson's as ice does to heat.
Neither Belladonna, Strengthening or
Capsicum plasters are to be compared with
Benson's. People who have once tested
the merits of Benson's Plaster have no use
for any other external remedy.
More than 5000 physicians and drug
gists (and thousand times as many non
professional persons) have called Benson's
Plasters one of the few G. home remedies
that can be trusted.
Fifty-fve highest awards have been made
to it in competition with the best known
plasters of Europe and America. Better
proof Of it's merits is inconceivable. Be
sure to get the genuine.
For sale by all druggists, or we will pre-
pay postage on any number ordered in the
United States, on receipt of 25s. EACH
Seabury & johnson, Mfg. Chemists, NY.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
BLIND POSTMASTER BAXTER.
ne Also Runs General supply Store
and Goes After the Cows at
Milking Time.

The little village of Lexington, on
Clear lake, LIE Sueur county, Mimi,
claims it has the only blind postmas-
ter in Minnesota, and probably the
only one in the United States, says
the Minneapolis Tribune.
For more than 80 years Hiram BaX-
ter has served the people of the vii
lage and surrounding country to their
entire satisfaction, and nearly all OF
this time he has been blind. He also
mas small general store and an inn,
Where he keeps the traveller who
needs meal or nights lodging. He
mas a wonderful memory and can al
ways tell if there is paper or let
ter for anyone who calls. His wife or
his son calls the names when the mail
is distributed and a letter may lie
IN the office for two weeks, but when
the proper person calls he remem-
oers it. He can put his hand on any
one of the 100 boxes and give the
name of the owner.
In the store he has more accu-
rate knowledge of where everything
IS than person who can see. 1t
makes no difference what you ask for,
he can put his hand on it if it is in
stock, and he will measure ten yards
of calico or gallon of oil with equal
facility, and will not make mistake
in weighing a nickel's worth of candy
or a dollars worth of sugar. His
hearing has been cultivated until he
knews every one of his regular Gus
toners by their voice, and when one
of them calls out: ''Any mail for me 2
he answers yes or no with as much as
surance as if he saw them. In money
matters he favors coin and can count
1t almost as rapidly as person with
good sight.
He keeps several cows and cares fol
them himself. Each cow wears bell
and by this means he finds and drives
them up from a large woodland pas
sure. They seem to realize that he j:
different from other people, and nc
matter how much he runs against OIL
'tumbles over them they never move
He is wonderful example of what &
naR can do in business way who has
.ost his sight.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
THE DECAY OF COQUETRY.
IL Proven by the Languid Interes,
Women Take in Fans
Nowadays.

There IS danger, indeed. a very real
danger, that fans large or small, of
lot, lace or feathers, will presently
pass into the limbo of things useless
md unreverenced, says the Washing.
son Star. This undoubtedly is an evil
1ence of the decay of coquetry, none
The less do women appear to have put
their fans by and seem neither to know
DOR to care what the fashion in these
pretty trifies may be.
There is a languid interest taken in
sans of medium size. of gauze and
painted with scenes from the Aerthu-
rian legends. Some of these are ex-
ceeaiAgly beautiful, for by judicious
use of gold thread and spangles the
splendors Of Guinevere's wedding
gown, the glitter of the tourney and
the bravery of Tristan's Launeelet's
fne armor is rendered very realistic.
There are few fans imported from
Paris that create admiring attention.
These are not very large ner very small
and stheir sticks are of dark brown
shell. Upon the sticks lace spider
webs are drawn. In the center of the
web sits wondreus gold spider,
watching, with cruel, bright, ruby or
emerald eyes, the charming antics OF
= plump cupid, half gold, half lace,
who has fallen into his spidership's
fairy trap.
Cheap paper fans, stretched on sticks
of gilded wood, show clever dashing
colorful sketches from Henry ", from
L'Aiglon and other popular plays of
the season, and, when a fan is carried
at all, it must not be suspended from
the waist. shoulder or throat by
rope of pearls or ribbon. Such was
the pretty fashion two seasons ago.
Now it is the mode for a diner or dancer
to hold her fan in her hand, and man
ipulate it with view to artfuly dis
playing its intrinsic value and artistic
| charms.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
Twice Proven.

From the Vindicator, Rutherfordton, NJ
The editor of the Vindicator has had oc-
casion to test the efficacy of Chamberlain
Pain Balm twice with the most remarkable
results in each case. First, with rheuma-
tism in the shoulder from which he SUI
fered excruciating pain for ten days when
was relieved with two applications of Pam
Balm, rubbing the parts afflicted and real
izing instant benefit and entire relief in
very short time. Second, in rheumatism
in thigh joint, almost Frustrating him with
severe pain, which was relieved by two ap-
plications, rubbing with the liniment on re-
firing at night, and getting up free from
pain. For sale by Andrews Drug Store
III. III. Davis.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
FRANCE NOT DEGENERATE.
Max O'Reu Denies the Charge
That His Country Is Retro
grading.

In spite of what may have been
written to the contrary, France has,
ever since the disaster of 1870, quiet
~ and steadily regenerated herself,
and succeeded in organizing an army
which the greatest German military
authorities declare to be the most
formidable and the best armed in Eu-
rope; and l will add this, in justice
to France, that she has not gathered
together and trained that army of
100000 men to attack anyone, but
to protect herself, says Max O'Rell
IN the London Mail.
The Germans know all this, and
strain every nerve to remain at peace
with us, seeking our friendship more
and more every day. That army in
the hands of Napoleon III. might
be danger to Europe, but not in the
hands of a nation now mistress of her
iestinies, who would use it only if
compelled to do so for the defense
If her honor or her territory. De-
generation, forsooth! Let me assure
you that there is no degenration, ex-
,ept in the Imagination of a few
writer's in search of the sensational.
The France of this century, the
France of Gay-Lussac, Lavoisier, Al
tred de Musset, Lamartine, Victor
Hugo, Ernest Renan, Pasteur, that
France. greater than ever in all the
arts of peace, now more formidable
than ever in the art of war, is well
worth kind word and an act of
courtesy at the hands of the great
EnuliSh uoanIa
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
The Address He Got.

A Russian gentleman tells a funny
story of his first encounter with the
English language.
The day after his arrival in London
he made call on a friend in Park
lane, and on leaving the premises in
scribed in his notebook what he sup
posed to be the correct address.
The next day, desiring to go to the
sane place again, he called cabman
and pointed to the address that he had
written down. The cabman looked
him over. laughed, cracked the whip,
and drove away without him.
This experience being repeated with
two or three other cabmen, the Rus
sian turned Indignantly to the police,
with no better results. One officer
would laugh, another would tap his
head and make a motion initiating the
revolution of a wheel
Finally the poor foreigner gave it up,
and, with a great deal of difficulty,
recalling the landmarks which he had
observed the day before. found his way
to his friends house. Once there, and
in company with one who could under.
stand him, he delivered himself of a
hot condemnation of the cabmen and
the police of London for their imperti-
hence and discourtesy.
His friend asked for a look at the
mirth provoking address, and the
mystery was solved. This was the
entry:
Ring the bell"
The Russian had with great care
copied, character for character, the
legend of the gatepost, supposing that
It indicated the house and street,
Parsons.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
A Good Cough Medicine for Children.

II have no hesitancy in recommending
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy" says F. P
Moran, well-known and popular baker, Of
Petersburg, Va. eve have given it to oul
children when troubled with bad coughs
also whooping cough, and it has always
mended to me by a druggist as the best
cough medicine for children as it contained
no opium or other harmful drug" Sold by
Andrews Drug Store, H, H, Davis,
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

the center. The man evidently had a
history. The presence of so many Wv,
too marks leads to the inference that ne
may have been sailor Grand Recofu.
err Woodbury. has failed, in the shor'
time he has had so far, to find any y j.
Warren in the records of New lamll,,
shire. But if the man went on boalu
with his mind made up to suicide incos-
nito, he may have assumed name
whose initials correspondent with the let
ters tattoed on his arm.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
Prof. M. B. Franklin,
YOUR FAITHFUL AND TRUSTED
o p T &c / A NJ

can be consulted free of charge at his
ef6ce in the Gray block, Bellows Falls,
VT, every Thursday from 10 a. M to
8 p. m. If your eyes trouble you at
the age Of twenty and you trust them
to peddlars and travelling house-to-
house opticians, what condition do
you expect to find them in at the age
of fifty? 1t is a fact that not one-half
of the people who wear glasses are
wearing the right glasses simply be-
cause they do not realize the necessity
of having them fitted by specialist
that uses up-to-date methods. We
have all the latest improved optical instru-
Complicated opea eprorg and Roa ana
have to pay us any "humbug' prices for
glasses, either. Try us and see!
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

NASAL CATARRH quickly yields to treat
ment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agree
ably aromatic. 1t is received through the
nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole sur
face over which it diffuses itself A rem
edy for Nasal Catarrh which is drying or
exciting to the diseased membrane should
not be used. Cream Balm is recognized as
a specific Pice so cents at druggists or by
mail. A cold in the head Immediately dis
appears when Cream Balm is used. Ely
Brothers, 81 Warren Street, New York.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
A Peculiar Custom,

At Coventry it used to be the custom
to eat what were called Gods cakes
on New Years day. They were OF a
triangular shape, about half an inch
thick and filed with kind OF mince-
meath. Y. Herald
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

Like Oliver Twist, children ask for more
when given One Minute Cough Cure.
Mothers endorse it highly for Group. 1t
quickly cures all coughs and colds and
every throat and lung trouble. 1t is a
specific for grippe and asthma and has long
been well known remedy for whooping
cough. Pierce's Pharmacy.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
j. M. RYDER, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.

SO Saxtons River Street Bellows Falls, vt
Natural bone setter. Chronic and private
diseases specisltv. 81 years practice. Of
flee hours to IL; / to s. Telephone connec-
ton. Take car to corner West and Saxtons
River Streets.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
A Glorious Bar.

Some welcome IT, day OF fun, x.
And sing of January /.
But give me January :,
When all the hideous noise Is through
IVA shiugton Star
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

A Call That Kills.
A kind of New Years call that kills
Is: Call, and settle UP your billae"
Harlem Life.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
F. G. WILKINSON, D. v. s..
Veterinary Physician and Surgeon.

Treats all di .eases of demonstrated animals.
Surgical operations and dentistry specially.
Orders by mail, telegraph or telephone
promptly attended to. Telephone connec-
ton. Rockingham Hotel, Bellows Falls, VT.
All operations at owners risk.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
COMMON PROPERTY.

Ss.'S HH'oI ~ TUuLlu I nU1 LII
BELLOWS FALLS PEOPLE MAY PROFIT
BY LOCAL EXPERIENCE.
Grateful people will talk.
Tell their experience for the public good
Bellows Falls citizens praise Doan's Kid
ney Pills.
Kidney sufferers appreciate this.
They find relief for every kidney ILL.,
Read what this citizen says:
extension, says: 81 was troubled little
more than year with severe pain over
my left kidney. 1t bothered me more after
hard days work around the house or if l
over exerted myself, walking or stood long.
/ saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised and
so well recommended that sent to An
drews' Drug Store and got box. They
relieved the pain in my back and 1 have
not felt it to amount to anything,since."
Sold for 30 cents per box. For sale by all
dealers. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, n.
Y, sole agents for the United States Re
member the name-Doan's-an take no
other.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
BAKER JUNK CO.,
No. AZ George Street.

Highest cash prices paid for Old Rubber and
Metals. Agents wanted.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07
Mrs. Knapp tells of her Great Gratitude

DBAR Mrs PINKHAM Il have received
Vegetable Compound and Sanative After
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

other.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-14

ent of money for capturing them You
are surely the bravest man or boy in all
Siam"
Then Mr.. Kash-Kash took me by the
hand and there were tears in his eyes.
as he said:
"Goo-Goo. it was well for me that
found you. Had you not been a brave
and watchful guard those robbers would
have taken all my money and perhaps
my life as well. Here is purse which
you must accept"
The money in the purse amounted to
about 800 in American money, and as I
had only done my duty L did not want to
accept it. Mr.. Kash-Kash forced me to.
however, and he wished me to SAY that
/ would stay with him for many years
to come. There was great deal of talk
about my killing one robber and captur-
ing four others, and presently this talk
reached the ears of the King of Bang
kok. and he sent for me to appear before
him. Although I was so big and strong
I felt afraid of facing a King and being
questioned, and 1 was thinking of run
ming away and hiding in the woods, when
Mr.. Kash-Kash said to me:
"Of course you will go, Goo-Goo. It
is a great honor to be called before the
King. He has heard of you as a giant
and a brave boy, and he wants to see
and question you. have no doubt that
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-14

away from the station, would frighten
'em out O. their boots. And yet he's got
inside his hat the business card o this
gentleman-Mr. Dick Boyle, travelling for
the big Arm o. Fletcher & Co., of Chi
cago"-he interpolated, rising suddenly TO
the formal nights of polite introduction,
so it sorter looks ez eff any skelpin' was
TO be done it might be the other way
round, hal hal''
Miss Cantire accepted the introduction
and the joke with polite but cool alb
straction and climbed lightly into the
box seat. The coach plunged forward
into the dust. which Instantly rose around
It, and made it thereafter a mere cloud
In the distance. Some of that dust for
a moment overlook and hid the Indian,
walking stolidly in its track, but he
emerged from II at an angle. with q
quickened pace and a peculiar hating
trot. Yet that trot was so well sus-
tanned that in an hour he had reached
a fringe of rocks and low bushes hiiher-
TO invisible through the irregularities OF
the apparently level plain, into which he
plunged and disappeared
The fringe which received him was
really the rim of depression quite con-
cealed from the surface OF the plain which
Il followed for some miles through a
tangled trough-like bottom OF low trees
dhN uHutIDlsnf Inc lnQldns tfOtUnk sun
doggedly on, paused only TO examine a
trail, the smooth, inward-toed track OF
mocassins. The thicket grew more dense
and difficult as he went on, yet he SEEM
ed 20 glide through It's density and dark
ness-an obscurty that now seemed to
be stirred by other moving objects. dim
ly seen, and as uncertain and intangible
as sunlit leaves thrilled by the wind. yet
bearing n strange resemblance to human
ngures! The woods and underbrush were
full Of them; all moving on as he had
moved, IN a line parallel with the vanish
Ing coach. Sometimes through the OPEN
ings barred painted limb. a crest Of
feathers, or strip OF gaudy blanket was
visible, but nothing more. And yet only
few hundred yards away stretched the
dusky silent plain-vacsnt OF sound or
motion
Meanwhile the Sage Wood and Pine
Barren stage coach. profoundly obilv-
iout-afier The manner % Oh human To-.
yenti0n-of everything but 80 regular
function. toiled dustlly out u the higher
plain and began the Eratefu descent q
wooded canyon. which WIS.,. In fact. fhe
eliminating poi1t Of rho oppression 1uft
described aionE which tho fhsd0Ny
proorrfl0n We slowly advancing hardly
mile i1 tle rear an1 nank ~ enc BE-.
hf1o Nlrf julie Canflre. Nho f8d Fee
- the o1at sollfgs ~ fns plain "a.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-14

and when it came time to go to bed that
night he said to me:
100000. you must sleep with one eye
open tonight. l do not like the looks
of the stranger. and I fear me that he
may have others with him and that they
will seek to rob the house before morn
ing
II shall be on the watch and you need
fear nothing" / replied, and when
went to bed took care to see that my
sharp sword was close at hand.
At 2 o'clock in the morning a sound
woke me up, and after listening a min
ute, ! made sure that some one was cut
ting away the lock on the front door.
l got up and took my sword in hand, and
l did not have long to wait. In a few
minutes the door was opened and FIVE
men came stealing softly in. They were
a band of robbers, and they had thought
to find me asleep at my post. Had they
done so they would have killed me and
then robbed the house. They might even
have killed the whole family, for they
were a desperate lot. AS they stood in
the hall for a moment, I heard them
whispering together and wondering where
! was and they were about to, search
around when I uttered shout and at
tracted them. A giant with gold sword
In his hand Is a match for four or FIVE
men. and 1 soon proved Il. They rushed
In on me as soon as they heard my voice,
but ] was so strong that / beat their
swords and knives down and soon had
four of them at my feet. The nth man
lost his courage and ran away. and
threw down my sword and ran after him.
II he thought he could outrun me be-
cause I was big and fat. he soon discov-
cred his mistake. / caught up with him
very soon. and picking him up by the
heels swung him around my head and
smashed him sgainst a tree. When re-
turned 70 the house Mr.. Kash-Kash and
all the family were up and had the lamps
lighted, and 81 was not a pleasant sight
to see those four bodies on the floor.
One OF the robbers was dead, but the
others were only wounded We bound
Up their wounds and gave them water
TO drink. and then I went Tor the police.
When they came they took the living
and the dead away The man had pmr-
sued and oycrtaken was badly hurt. but
they said he would live through g. When
te police hsd taken away ihe men they
aaid 20 me.
"oo-ooo. % you know what you have
done tonight These men are desperate
robbers, and s0u viii recelge a bls DFss.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-14
WATCH YOUR KIDNEYS
They Indicate Good or Bad Health
Free Advice Given About the Kid
neys.

Kidney complaints usually commence
with cold chills. especially in the back and
loins, followed with fever and pain. The
pain extends TO she bladder, loins and
thighs. The urine becomes highly coll
ored or extremely light. 1t sometimes
looks red or blood-like. with a brick-dust
sediment after standing; or II may be
stringy or milky and filled with albumen
the most vital element OF the body. When
these conditions are allowed to continue
they result In one or more OF the follow
ing diseases; Backache, Weak Back,
Rheumatism. Gout, Diabetes, Brights
Disease. Gravel. Irritation OF the Bladder.
Scalding OF the Urine. Swelling OF the
Ankles Dropsy or some other form OF
Kidney or Urinary Trouble. Watch the
kidneys for these diseases and symptoms
and take stuart's Gin and Buchu. IL in
stantiy goes 20 the seat OF the trouble.
Swing power. life and yieor 70 the Kid
neys, relieving all the symptoms and
making a perfect cure after all else fails.
Women. men and children can take this
remedy wish safety and pleasure stuaft's
Gin nnc Buchu made especially for sleE.
weak Kinney ana cures rheumatism. Try
ihis Frund old cure Druggists. Or By
sKprsfs. prepaid. q, Fres advice Flyen
q bout fhe kidnsyf stuart DTuE CO.. "A
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