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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
CHAPTER XXI.
THE IUCEY MAN

No one ever accused Mr.. Reginald Loss
ing of having brains; no one ever denied
that he had a luck which was monument
tai. He had name for luck which was
looked up to and marveled at, even in the
society papers.
Mr.. LOSING had no settled trade or pro-
fession. He was just lily in the way of
toll and dress, and he made very COM
Portable income at it. He dabbled In out
siders on the turf, in shares of uncharted
gold mines, in the fascinating game OF
unlimited, too, and was able to look COM
placently on the results. He went into all
these and other operations with a genial,
childish simplicity, and like the banker at
roulette there always seemed steady pull
in his favor. How it was done no one
knew. He did not know himself, and he
and all his world marveled and prophesied
that his luck would some day turn with
rush and a sweeping tide.
When he got mixed up with the Shelf
affair, it seemed as If this would be this
case.
There was something very near akin to
panic in Lloyds when the total loss of
the Port Edes was reported, and those un-
fortunates who had un6erwritten her were
anxious to dispose of their risks at any
price to any credulous man who believed
that this first report was a canard. Con-
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
DYSPEPSIA REMEDY THAT CURES.
II Mi-o-na tdoes not cure Geo. E.
Greene viii return your money.

Among all the remedies in Geo. Il.
Greene's popular drug store, there are
few that be is willing to sell on a guar
antee to refund the money if they do
not cure. Mi-o-na. the famous dys
pepsia remedy, has made so many cures
among his customers that Geo. f.
Greene says, "If this remedy does not
cure you, come back to my store and
will cheerfully return your money.
Anyone who has dyspepsia, indiges-
ton. headaches. dizzy feelings, or liver
troubles, should take advantage of this
chance to be made we'll without any
risk of spending their money to no pur
pose. Milo ma will cure will regulate
the digestion will enable anyone to
eat what he wants. If it does not do
all this, the medicine will not cost you
a cent.
Geo. E. Greene has sold hundreds of
boxes of Mi-o-na in the last few weeks
and has yet to receive the first COM
plant from any customer. Such a rec
ord is simply marvellous and speaks vol
umes for the merit of the remedy.
1t is easy enough to fill column with
the symptoms affecting those who
have dyspepsia, but there is no need of
describing their condition. What they
want is cure. And they have it in
Mi-o-na.
Do not suffer day longer with dis
ordered digestion. If Mi-o-na cures
you it costs SOC. box, and if it does
not, you have Geo. f. Greene's person
al guarantee to return your money.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06

Saws the Hardwick Gazette
The Gazette is of the opinion that
the time for discussing the saloon prop
osition from moral standpoint has,
for the present, passed. The new law
can't possibly be repealed or altered
until the next session, and it is now
up to each town to decide the question
from purely business standpoint.
Do you mean this literally? Should
not all business be conducted from Il
moral standpoint: Can there ever be
a.divorce between good morals and bust
ness? If liquor selling was thought
to be vicious from a moral viewpoint
before the local option law was passed,
can it be said to be any the lie evil
now that the law licenses it? Does the
mere passage of the law change the
moral obligation: Some of our friends
who have expressed themselves much
in the same manner as the contempt
rary. appear to be yainly laboring I'M
der the impression that they can gloss
over cold blooded expediency and
make a moral virtue of it: and thus
lull their consciences to resist. AL
bans Messenger
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
Not Satisfied With SIS a Week.

A manufacturing plant in Burlington
has closed its doors indefinitely" be
cause its employees, numbering about
half hundred men, are not satisfied
with the munifcent salary of IS per
week. The very idea of man with
perhaps family to support being
obliged to work for such an apology
for compensation seems preposterous,
yet it is an undisputed fact that such
is the case in many of our cities and
towns, But happily these cases every
day are growing less, and the capital
ist who would ride rough shod over
the workingman is beginning to see
that it is very much to his own inter
est to consider the rights and demands
of the men who do his work, and to re-
spect them. Barre Telegram
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06

sequently there was some pretty s.ool,
Gambling gone through In the space Vi
minutes, and more than one small man
got broke with surprising rapidity.
Now, Master Losing happened TO DO IN
the room as an Idle spectator and was plt
with the excitement and asked u frienu
who was a member to act for him. I'm
going to play hand in this, quoth MAS
ter LOSING.
cat that price," asked his friend. -.
"When they got to 9S guineas premium
"I suppose you know that makes you
liable for about $40 500. There's 954O,
600 underwritten. .,
"I'm good for that" said LOSING anu
an hour afterward proved himseli So as
he had to pay. TO this day many Lloyas
men who were interested In that scene
congratulate themselves on having maze
a1O, 800 salvage bya fluke out OF snip
that was totally lost.
1t began to dawn on Losing aiter tne
event that he had made fool or hlhseii
and that his luck was through, but no hao
the sense not to whine aloud, ana SO MS
friends forgot the matter in the excite
ment of other interests. LOSING did not
forget, because the bank had written 10
him that his account was oyerdrawn, anu
he had several bills which much wanted
paying. Unostentatiously he began to
look about him for means OF making
more regular and steady livelihood.
As after several months of search this
last did not seem any appreciably nearer
he was able to give full attention to let
ter he received concerning the Port Edes
and her cargo. 1t was unsigned ana bore
an American postmark. 1t ran as follows'
SIR-I hear that you are now legitimate
owner of the Port Edes and her cargo she
was picked up at sea and is now in the Ever
glades of Florida in there followed the exact
latitude and longitude). The specie Is taken
out of her. and you will find it by digging
there came elaborate cross bearings and direc
tions). II you are wise man and wish to en-
Joy what is now your own, you Will say as III
tie about it to any one as possible
The communication was, to say the
least of it, mysterious, but because Loss
ing was fool he did not see so many pos
sibilities in it as "A man with more imagi-
nation might have done. He determined
to find out how the matter lay with his
own eyes, and with that purpose journey
ed to the hotel at Point Sebastian, now
rebuilt with new magni6cence. 1t was
the winter season, and the place was
crowded, and among the crowd was Loss
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06

The Ddtr had several cocktails together.
ing's old friend Kent Williams, again at
the end Of his new quarters allowance.
The pair had several cocktails together
and some talk, and finally set off into the
Everglades under the guidance of an an
cient alligator hunter. The saga Of their
doings for the next six months does not
appear, but 1t is known that other men
Joined them. including several In the nau-
tical interest, so that there must have been
quite q colony of them out there, presutna-
bly, at some sort Of employment or other
Messrs Kcnt-Wilinms and LOSING again
return to view on board a royal mailboat
bound home from port of western South
America.
The pair of them watched the shores
sink under the sea, and That's done
with" said Kent-Williams.
1T is" returned Losing, land I'm not
sorry, and ] am satisfied. It's bigger
puzzle than | shall ever make out in this
life. First steamer that's supposed to
be sunk gets up and goes overland and
plants herself firmly in the middle Of a
forest, as though she wanted to grow.
She's so tight there that 1t takes us six
months to cut canal to the nearest river.
Then somebody paints different pattern
on one smokestack and leaves the other as
1t was and alters some of the name plates
on her engine and fittings and leaves the
names on the life Luoys as they We're.
And then the gold that's in her flies two
miles farther no country and dives 20 feet
under the ground without disturbing the
network of mangroye roots which are so
matted above that we had to cut them
with an ak"
II think, dear boy, we've been wise in
selling the steamer with "a different name
on her to u man who gave low price and
asked no questions, "
I'm sure of it, But still I'd like TO
know how it was all done. Do you think
that Cambel had finger in itg''
do you think, " retorted Williams,
"that If Patrick Cambel had his finger on
half million that no one else knew about
1t wouldn't have been his half million2
No, sir, that cock won't fight. Besides he
was spooning the kildar girl, and that
took up all his time guess. He married
her IN the early autumn, and they've gone
somewhere west, 1 fancy, and don't ex-
actly know where. She'd a sister near
Point Sebastian, q Mrs Duvernay, a
deuced nice looking woman, that Cambel
was spoons on himself one time"
"Oh, you've spoken about her before
~ know. Between ourselves, LOSING,
dear boy, 1 went up to her place one even
ing and proposed to her, and, by Jove,
dyou know she actually refused mel
She's got that fellow Cambel still in her
head, suppose. But I shall go out and
have look at her again. Honestly was
after $500 year at first, but now that,
thanks to you, I'm better off it won't look
SO bad, and really like her better than
thought. She's most awfully charming
woman"
"What did she ever marry that brute
Duvernay for?" asked LOSING.
"Ah, that, )" replied Kent Williams, "is
more than / can tell you'll"
THE END.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
A Wide Field for kindly Work.

Only recently have come reports OF
several instances of cruelty to dumb
animals the details of which make one
sbudder and cause visions that viii
not down. These instances are per-
hans the exceptional but there are
others-every day acts OF thoughtiess
cruelty-of so common occurrence that
but passing thought is given, or an
exclamation of pity.
A vast amount of torture goes IN
punished because it is not sulllclehtiy
fagrant to call for complaint that the
law would recognize, AS the appearance
of overworked, underfed and otherwise
ill cared for horses often testines'
There is no limit to the tales OF cruel
ty that might be related, which never
reach the ears of the humane society
and which it could hardly help II they
did. ~.
A wide field for work lies here with
difficulties sufficient to ALMOST deter
from effort were it not for the thought
of what one man, Henry Berg, has
been able to accomplish, to say nothing
of the noble effort of many Others. IL
is work in which the sadness Is sci
dom lighted with much comedy ana ~
REQUIRES an optimist pure and simple
who can 60 through all the scenes that
greet the earnest worker for the cause
and not be constantly bowed down with
grief that such base humanity exists:
Speeches. tales of misery, neglect and
wretchedness, told by pleading eyes
and gaunt bodies, are far more pathet-
ic than any word stories. The slow
process of the law is often discourag-
ing and one is inclined to wonder at
the meager penalty inflicted for lts In
fringement in such cases-almost as
much as why something isn't done at
once, on first evidence.
Organization and education must be
effective. The thoughtless must be
made to see, the Indifferent aroused,
and the deliberately cruel restrained
by punishment. :,
The Journal would gladly see all
wrongs righted, have all needless suf,-
fering prevented. and the helpless cared
for and protected. 1t heartily encour,
ages any attempt to make the world
brighter or happier through kindly
acts. Our state could be no loser by
any effort that may be made, by law or
in any right way, to help the cause
along. Montpelier Journal.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
LEGAL. NOTICES.
SALE or LAND FOR TAXES.

The resident roprie;tors Of the town town o"
vermont are hereby notified that the taxes as
said for the yeab5 Of des
cr;hed lands in said town of Dover to wit
certain p or parcel Of In land aown %
Dnver and bo,fnded and described as follows,
VII south and Of S9ns east east by a tha
north nv the land of +. q. Stanley and on the
and of Wilmington Grain nnd LH
the nresant owner supposed to be RICH, BATES
& co. Tne taxes assessed as aforesaid on said
lands ara premises and remaining unpaid as
follow to wit: on
on st Of 1902, grand list 500; town t. tax 81 co
.df, s1.SO. And so much of said lands and
~ Uses will be sold at Public Auction, at the
6srrl of William l.. Uptons in said town OF
f. Ser, on the 18th day of March, A. D., 1908, at
2 o'clock in the forenoon as shall be requisite
!. a1discharge and pay said tax * thereon WIN
= ary. A. D.. 1903 CT. MANN,
: Collectar ri Taxes for the Town of Dover, Vt.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
Greatest Of All Physicians.
Eminent Discoverer of
PAINE'S CELERY
COMPOUND

Prof. Edward E. Phelps, NJ. d., IL. D.,
was born in Connecticut and graduated al
Yale.
His unusual talent soon brought him reputa-
ton and prominence. First he was elected TO
the professorship of anatomy : surgery IN
the Vermont University. Me- he was aPI
pointed lecturer in Dartmouth College. my
following year he was chosen TO the mcs'
important professorship in the country, 4.
place that he occupied when he made, MS
world famed discovery of Paine's Celery Soh'-
pound. ;1,s that
result from an impaired nervous system ana
impure blood, has endeared the great doctor
to the world,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06

A corporation under the pame of The
journal Publishing company has been
organized in Lyndonville with a paid
in capital of $40, 90 There will be no
change in the management of the paper.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06
SALE or LAND FOR TAXES.

The nonresident proprietors of the town OF
Dover in the county OF Windham and state OF
Vermont are hereby notified that the taxes as
sessed by said town for the year of 1902, remain
in whole or in part unpaid on the following de-
scribed lands in said town of Dover, to wit:
certain piece or parcel of land known as
the RICE HILL, in said town of Dover. bounded
and described as follows, viz: beginning at tine
southeast corner of lot number Sc in Hudson
and Jorden survey thence running northeriy on
said survey 200 rods to the northeast, corner OF
lot number 81 in said survey, thence west 10 de
grees south $40 rods to hemlock tree, thence
south 10 degrees. west 200 rods to marked
beech tree thence east 10 degrees, north $40 rods
to first mentioned bound containing 800 acres,
more or less.
Original proprietor of said land and premises
WALLER f. CASSIDY, the present owner,
supposed to be FRANK II. WILLIAMS, the tax
assessed as aforesaid on said lands and premises
and remaining unpaid as follows, to wit:
On grand list of 1902, grand list $3.50, town
tax GO cts. school tax 20 cts, highway tax 5Octs
total 81 So And so much of said lands and
premises will be sold at Public Auction at
the hotel of William L. Uptons in said town OF
Dover, ON the 2Sth day of March, A. d. 1908, at
10 o. clock in the forenoon as shall be requisite
to discharge and pay said tax thereon with cost
unless previously paid.
Dated at Dover, Vt, this 10TH DAY OF febru
ary A. ID. 1903 C. t. MANN,
Collector of Taxes for the Town of Dover
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-15
Pr psrtY Transfers.

Richmond: Mysr KIrsh and wife to
Leight Street l25 feet east Of First, g, 90
Iarwood and wife to 2. F; ", Garter,
1s1-2 feet on eat side TWenty-nlnth
Henrico: VIII am G. Leftw.ch and wife
to Charles A, Gnnzert 80 feet on north
side OF Wood Street, s007.4O
G. w. Mon geometry TO e. e., j, a. ana
C. p. Fisher, q l-2 feet on. north slice
Cary Street, Sc feet west OF Vine, S3ast
H. Valentine to Mary j, II ncock, % 2
feet on west side Auburn Avenue, lb0
feet south of Main Street. $2S1 %.
Samuel p: WaddIll Gle k. TO Tax Title
Company of Richmond. acres adJoin-
INK lands OF Ann r, T!nsley. Dr. j, II.
Woodward's estate and ais. In name Of
George Payne, for taxes.
Same to same. lot 90 on map of the
division of Casper Briefs land, in name
of Amanda Hilton. for taxes.
Same to same 80 feet on south side OF
the Richmond. York River and Chesa-
peake Railroad, In name OF $. Stern, for
Same to same. SO feet on east side Al
len Street, SO feet from Howe. Duval's
addition, IN name OF John r. Ellyson,
Same to same, 4 acres adjoining lands
OF George Payne, and ais, IN name 81
George Payne, for taxes.
Same to same. acre about 10 l-2 miles
east of Richmond on north side Nine
Mile Road. in name of r. II. Atkinson,
for taxes. '
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-15
HOT BEVERAGES,

What to Use in Place Of Tea and Coffee.
Many drink tea and coffee against
their better Judgment because they re-
oulre hot drink at meal Tine
They know that by the use of tea and
coffee they are only drugginG themsel. es
but they struggle along and continue to
Use one or the other. To these people
Postum Cereal Food Is a great help, Tor
many people find we'll boiled Postum
superior in flavor to coffee, to say no
thing of It's great health restoring quail
ties
The effect upon those who leave of
tea and coffee and take on Postum is
very marked, for the old time cof1ef AIS
such as heart trouble, kidney disease,
nervousness and other his soon disappear
as II by magic, The Postum makes new
red blood. and this is shown IN the rosy
cheeks and clear complexion that replace
the blotched, sallow skin of the coffee
drinker, A young school miss Of Alva,
okla. SAYS of Postum; u have used 1t
now for over year and my complexion
and general health show the change. Be-
fore that time ! drank tea and coffee
and nv complexion was sallow ana mud
dy ! also had almost constant dun
headaches ] realized that ] must CIV C
up tea and coffee. but hung onto them
because | felt the need of hot drink
at meal times.
"One day heard Postum SO we'll
spoken of decided to try IT, and bless
the day / did so. dropped coffee and
took up Postum and now my dull head
aches have disappeared, my complexion
is fresh and rosy. eyes bright and m.nd
clear. sleep we'll now and owe 1t all
to using Postum In place OF coffee.
1.-THE matron of the Young Ladies'
Boarding House at the Alva Normal
School has adopted Postum as a standard
drink. as she is positive tho students
STUDY and got along better on Postum
than on any other drink
"a lady friend OF mine had son who
was a nervous wreck, due, SO his doctor
said, to coffee, The lady tried Postum and
the young man rellshed It, 30 he drank
1t in preference to coffee. and In q few
weeks he was Ike an entirely new per-
son. know OF lots more cases. too"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich.
Look in each package for copy OF
the famous little book, "Fhe Road To
MELVILLE" 3
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-15
GRAND OFFICERS
ROYAL ARCANUM
They viii Exemplify Degree
Work at Mccarthy
Council Tonight.

The opening gun for tho fall campaign
of Mccarthy Council, Royal Arcanunl,
will be fired tonight at Lee Camp Hall.
Beginning at 1880 P. NJ. business ses-
sion OF the council will be held, during
which several prominent Richmondcrs
b exemplAcd by the grand offers. The
Grand Regent Rev. +. T. McFaden, 81
Lynchburg, as we'll as the other grand
officers, are quartered at Murphy's Ho-
tel. They will be escorted to Lee Camp
Hall by a specially delegated committee
Of past regents Of Mccarthy Council, six
teen in number. Mr.. Marx Gunst, grand
preventative, will be chairman OF this
committee.
Beginning at P. NJ. the doors will Re
thrown Open and q social session held.
1t is expected that a large number OF
McCarthyites will be on hand. and men,
bers Of the Order may bring friend or
friends, who will find a cordial welcome.
The grand officers will. at this SESSION.
be formally welcomed by Mr. r. G. Nell
son, chaplain OF Mccarthy Council. The
will be made by Grand Regent Rev. F.
T. McFaden, who Will deliver an address
upon the principles and purposes OF the
Royal Arcanum. Rev. McFaden has a
vide reputation az pulpit orator. and
many of our citizens will be eager to hear
him on the theme announced.
Between tho numbers on the musical
programme which Is an excellent one.
Will be interspersed brief but stirring adj
dresses by the grand officers. The musical
numbers selected by the Music Commit
tee are OF an unusually high order and
bear testimony OF the efficiency of the
committee which consists OF Mr.. I. Low
enstein. chairman: Regent James G.
Bowman and Major Charles Q. Sav!lls.
Mr.. w. Reginald Walker has consented
to act as accompanlst. Among the num-
bers will be duet by hIessrs. Frank W.
Cunningham and A. w. Martenstein, 4
solo by Mr.. Haddon S. Watkins, vocal
and instrumental music by the West-En1
Angels and other glee clubs. After few
words OF thanks to the grand officers By
Mr.. Robert E. Peyton. Jr., on behalf Of
the council. the serving Of refreshments
will conclude what promises to be most
enjoyable occasion.
Mccarthy Council stands high In Royal
Arcanlm circles. It proposes this year
to be not only progressive, as in the past,
but aggressive in It's work for an even
larger and larger membership.
The grand officers here include Rev. =.
7. McFaden. Lynchburg. grand regent:
A. T. Lincoln. Marion, grand vice-regent;
James B. Blanks, Petersburg, grand sec
rotary: Charles c. Berry, Alexandra.
past grand regent; j. Taylor E1lyson.
chairman Of the Finance Committee; 8.
L. BloomberE. this city, supreme repre-
sentative, and William T. Dabney this
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-15
NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB
Fourteenth Annual Field Trials to BE
Given In AIbemarle County,

Fourteenth Annual Ftelo rials 10 ne
Given In AIbemarle County,
The fourteenth annual field trials OF the
National Beagle Club of America will be
held this year at Howardsvllle, Albemarle
county. This Is probably the first time
this organization has ever held "feld
trial" in the South. and the event is
likely to attract the attention of dog
lovers In every part OF the Southern sec
ton. particularly Virginia. The head
quarters OF the club will be on the plan
tation OF DR., Henry Dickson Bruins,
known as Dungannon, on the outskirts OF
Howardsville. Here all members of the
club and all persons not members OF the
club, but having entries In the trials, Will
be the guests OF DR.. Bruins. Others may
engage rooms at the hotels OF Towards
vile. Heretofore tho club has been meet
ing at Wheatley Hills. the home OF Hon.
w. T. Whitney, on Long Island.
The prizes for winners are In money
and quite handsome, ranging from SIS,
first prize, down to $40. third or fourth
prize. as the case may be. challenge
cup presented by George p. Post. Jr.,
will be offered annually for the best pack
Of eight animals, to be won two years
before the cup becomes the property of
the owner. An additional prize of SIS In
cash or plate Is also offered by the club.
The entries close the 26th Of this month,
while the trials begin November 9th.
Mr.. George B. Post, Jr.. of New York,
is president of the club. and Mr.. Charles
r. Stevenson, Of Camden, n. j.. Is the
secretary and treasurer. and will gladly
give all particulars to interested persons.