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Miss Rebecca Provan is quite out of
health.
Miss Bertha Hurd of Hoosick Falls
came to town Monday of this week.
There is to be donation for tn
benefit of Rev D. Perry in the near
future.
Herbert Barber and wife of Green
wich, N. Y, we're in town several days
last week.
Mrs Clark Hamilton went to Man
chester last Monday where she will re-
main few days,
Miss Grace Andrew returned to
Manchester Monday, where she is at
tending Burr and Burton Seminary.
I'm J. Hamilton and wife have been
visiting several days in South Will
Jamestown, Mass, the guests of John
Steele.
A party of nine hunters, mostly
FROM Salem, N, Y, among whom we're
DR. Mcguire and John Williams, were
at Harry McDurfee's several days
last week.
Mr. Wyman, from the east side of
the mountain, has been in town few
days, working in the interest of the
Home Correspondence School. He re-
ports very good success.
School in district No. l again re-
sumed its sessions on Monday of this
week, with Miss Bowen OF Dorset,
teacher. This school closed on ac-
count of scarletina. The disease has
been stamped out through quarantin-
ing,
Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-01-08

have used Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh
and can thoroughly recommend II for what
it claims. Very truly (Rev) II. W. Halha-
way, Elizabeth, Nj.
1 tried Ely's Cram Bam ard to all appear
anees am cured OF catarrh. The terrible
headaches from which ! long suffered are
gone.-W. j. Hitchcock, late Major U. S.
Vol. and A. A Gen., Buffalo, N. Y
The Ba m does not iritate or cause sneez.
ing. So 4 by druggists at 80 cts or mailed
by Ely Brothers, So Warren ST., New York.
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nsnhs should Never Ache.

Never endure this trouble Use at once
the remedy that stopped it for Mrs N. A
Web, ter Of Winnie, Va She writes: CDR
Kings New Life Pills wholly cured me Of
sick headaches l bad suff red from for two
Y. ars.7 Cure Headache, Constipation, Bill
iousness. 25c at 0. L, Gibsou's drug store.
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In eed Four Nyeeks wlth La erIppe.

We have received the following letter from
Mr. Rey Kemp Of Angola, Ind: 81 was in
bed four weeks with la grippe and | tried
many remedies and spent considerable for
treatment with physicians, but l received no
relief until l tried F0leys Honey and Tar
Two small bottles Of this medicine cured me
and now use Il exclusively IN my family"
Take 20 substitutes. Quinlan's Pharmacy.
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Owing to the high price Of coal shall only
clean carpets Mondays aud Thursdays Of
each week. u. T. Cotlrell STAN Carpet
Cleaning Works.
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is sure TO
GIVE
satisfaction
EIy'S Cream Balm
Gives Relief Rt
once.

Il cleanses, soothes
and heals the dis
eased membrane. II
cures Catarrh and
drives away a Cold
in the Head quickly.
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10 Is inscribed. Heals
brane. Restores the
Smell. Fun size soc, a
Trial size l0c by mail.
ELY BROTHERS. 80
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and Protects the Mem
Senses OF Taste and
Druggists or by mail /;
Warren ST., New Yor
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home, but I love you. III give my
whole life trying to make you happy,
darling, il you can bring yoursei- to
care little for me-"
She looked up and the last shred of
color fed from her face.
Il can't" she stammered 81 can't
last-night-I promised Mr.. Clarke"
DR.. Seeley caught his breath.
"What?' he cried
Il promised to marry him. said
Minnie, slowly. Shehdid not add that
she had promised for her fathers sake
for the sake of the help and food
and nourishment Gordon had promised
them.
DR.. Seeley looked at her long and
steadily and then drew his breath
again with an air oferelief.
you don't care for him" he cried,
suddenly I can see it in your face,
and what=I=have to tell you won't hurt
you.ibut be prepared fer g shock. He
he is married already. He doesn't
know his wife is alive. He half killed
her three years ago, and he left her
for dead But | pulled her through,
and she is my housekeeper now. And
-and-Minnie-loo up-do you love
me?''
There was no installing the look he
saw in her face, and he caught her in
his arms
When Gordon Clarke came home
fhof ocrl,t no re
DR.. Seeley awaited him. He came
home with a special license in his
pocket, with the knowledge that Mr..
Abel Johnson was at deaths door, and
that the advertisements had brought
no news of the missing daughter, and
now DR.. Seeley awaited him with the
news that his first wife was alive.
1t was an ugly blow, and for mo-
ment Dr.. Seeley was half afraid of
Gordon's yellow face. But, after all,
it was no use, and the savage malice
that flashed up in his eyes died away
into a hideous smile.
1t was not until three weeks after.
ward, when he and Minnie were about
to start on their honeymoon with an
invalid in tow, that they saw the
dying Abel Johnson's advertisement to
his )ong-ost daughter to come back,
and Minnie pointed it out to her
father.
Glenny hesitated
He was a hard, cruel man." he said,
"but, perhaps as he was dying, it
might do him good to see youths
daughters child. Perhaps we'd bet
ter see what it means, Min
And that was how, a little later, Dr..
Seeley found, to his surprise, that he
had married a rich wife.-Boston
Journal.
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BOB HAD NOT SLEPT.
How CoIored Servant Accounted for
Stiffness in His Tent.


Stiffness in His Tent.
Bob belongs to the old school of
Southern body servants. is lazy and
blithe, full of wondrous romancing and
perpetually faithful to his master.
Besides these hall-marks, he labors al
SO under a frequent delusion of his
race, which is that he always sleeps
poorly.
On a recent camping trip Bob and a
fellow servant slept in a tent next to
their master and his father-in-law.
"Well, Bob questioned the polite,
elderly gentleman next morning, did
you rest we'll last night?"
Who? me?" returned Bob in voice
of sorrowful resentment NO, sub; /
neber sleeps we'll. Dis yere niggah
amt slep well in twenty years ur
mo-. [ jes' couldn shet my eyes las
night, Marse Jeems.
Why, what ives the matter, Bob?"
Law, sub, | can't tell yer. Spec
somebody is rubbed de lef' hin foot Nv
graveyard rabbit again my elbow"
'.Tut, tut, Bob; if you hadn't slept
well last night, how could you have
kept SO remarkably quiet? You were
as still as afmouse all night"
'Who? Me still Marse Jeems ~
Some indignation in his tones now,
mo, sun! 'Scuse me, sub, but dat wuz
lack what wuz so still"
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suit. Glenny was an accomplished
musician, and an evening engagement
had depended upon the suit. He could
not take it unless he had one, but
Gordon had refused to lend even that
small amount
He set his teeth as he thought of it.
He would lend it now! He would
lend it, and marry Minnie and make
his fortune at a leap!
But the money ccme too late for
Glenny, for when Gordon returned
home that night he was met by his
landlady with the news that he was
i'll in bed with brain fever, and that
the doctor had forbidden his removal.
"And he owes me $25 if it's
penny" she cried, "and low I'm ever
to get 1t | don't know"
Gordon put his umbrella in the stand
mechanically His thin, yellow face
had. changed. ard Mrs. Smith had an.
uneasy recollection that he had smiled
in the same way when he had seen a
man he hated, knocked down and run
over in the street. She looked at him
uncomfortably, and wished she hadn't
mentioned the bill.
"All the same, Mr.. Glennyss a gen.
tleman," she added, land his poor
little girl"
"You leave them to me- Gordon
said, slowly. ell look after them.
How much did you say his bill was
$25? Put it on mine next week, Mrs.
Smith; I'll see to it."
Mrs. Smith stared as he turned
away. She had never yet known Cor
don Clarke to give away anything
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~YoU GO ON DYING
Comfort Accorded Sick Man by His
Affectionate Wife.

Comfort Accorded Sick Man by His
Affectionate Wife.
Writing in Longman's Magazine" on
Eighty Years Ago." Mr.. Geo. Rooper
describes amusing incidents to illus.
trate the indifference to death often
shown by the poor. He says:
My original destination was the
church, and SO my father, a model
parish priest, sought early to initiate
me into one of the most important du-
ties Of clergyman-visiting the sick.
In acc ompanying him, was greatly
impress sed not only with the patient
endurance by the poor of the hard
ships they endured, but by the indifs
ference to death, whether in their
own persons or in that of others.
When I'm gone, Susan, you'll look
to the mending of the pigsty''
(" You go on dying, Sam, I'll see to
that was the wife's- response.
/" When you get up to heaven, said
an old lady visiting her neighbor, then
in a hopeless condition, you'll see our
Jem, tell him we are getting on pretty
well now
When get up to heaven, Betty,
do you think shall have nothing bet
ter to do but to go rampaging about
for your Jem?" was the unsatisfactory
reply y
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THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.

Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock Centers.
st. Paul, June 3. Wheat - No. 1
Northern, 80 q S0=1-2c; No. 2 North
ern, 1913 l-2c; No 3, ~ 1-2@78c; no
grade, 70@77c. Corn-No. 3, 4604Sc;
NO. 4, 44@45c; no grade, 41@44c. Rye
No. 2, AZ q 49c. Barley = Mailing
grades, 45@53c; feed grades, 37@42c.
Minneapolis, June 8. - Wheat-No.
j hard, 793-4c; No. l Northern,
1886; No 2 Northern, n 3-4c.
Duluth, June 8. Wheat - No. 1
haru, 80 1-2c; No. 1 Northern, 70 1-2c;
Nc. 2 Northern, 1920; rye, 400;
flax, SLIP IL; barley, 35@51c.
Milwaukee, June 8. ~ Wheat - No.
/ Northern, S3 1-2c; No. 2 Northern, 80
@S21-2c; July. 70 1-4c. Rye nrm; No.
1, SO lie. Barley lower; No. 2, 59c;
sample, 46@57c. Oats lower; standard,
SO 3-4@37 1-4c. Corn-July, "A 3-sc.
Chicago, June g. Wheat No.
2 red, IS 1-2076 1-2c; No. 3 red, TO
74c; No. hard winter, 74@76c; No. 8
hard winter, 71@75c; No. / Northern
spring, 79@Soc; No 2 Northern
spring, 79@S0c; No. spring, 74@79c.
Como. 2, AZ. 3-4@46c; No. 3, 35 34c.
Oats = No. 2, SO q SO lie; No. 3,
81 1-2c.
Sioux City, Iowa, June 8. Cattle
-Beeves, 81 @ 400; COWS, bulls and
mixed, $2.50@4.1O; stockers and feed
ers, $3.5O@46O; calves and yearlings,
s504.50. Hogs, s5.75@6.15; bulk. $500
@G.O5.
Chicago, June Cattle - Good
prime steers, $4.90w5e 20; stockers and
feeders, S3@4.55; COWS, s1.60 @ 4.50;
heifers. s2.5O@485: calves. S2.50M6.
Texas-fed steers, $4@475. Hogs ~
Mixed and butchers, s63O@6.55; good
to choice heavy, s6.60@6SO; light, Sc
a 6.35; bulk Of sales $6.35 q SEQ.
Sneep-Good to choice wethers. 1871 S
@5.25; fair to choice mixed, $3.75 q
ATS; Western sheep, $3.50 q 5.25:
native lambs, $3.50 q 40; Western
lambs, $4.50@7.10.
South ST. Paul, June g. - Cattle -
Good to choice steers, S4.50@6; good
to choice COWS and heifers, S3.25@4;
good to choice feeding steers, $3.50
4.25; common to fair stock steers. s2,D
2.75; steer calves, s2@3.5o; good to
choice nilch COWS, $35@4O. Hogs
Price range, $5.9O@65O; bulk, s6.1o@
6.25; light and inferior grades, s5.90g
6l5. Sheep - Good to choice shorn
lambs, $5.75@6.5O; good to choice
shorn yearling wethers, s4.75 @ s.:
heavy, S4.5O@5; good to choice shorn
ewes, medium weight S4@4.50; heavy,
1904: culls and stock ewes. s2.50@3. !.
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires in Con-
densed Form.

densed Form.
The Yellowstone National Park has
been formally opened at Livingston,
Mont.
S. E. Petree, inventor Of the ma
chine for making paper bags, died at
Cleveland. He was eighty-one years
old
Prince julius of Schleswig Holstein,
brother of the king of Denmark, IS
dead Prince Julius was born at
Gottorp in 1924.
The United States transport Logan
has sailed for Manila and will stop ct
Guam on the outward voyage with 100
tons of military supplies.
The London Daily Mail understands
that Lord Curzons term as viceroy Of
India, zwhieh~.expires next Septemper.
will be extended for two years.
The wisconsin board of commits
sioners of the ST. Louis worlds fair,
appropriated 100000 for building to
represent Wisconsin at the exposition.
Six representative Butte (Mont.)
labor union men will go to Washing
ton in the near future and sojourn at
the White House for week or ten
days as guests of President Roosevelt.
The president was entertained by the
labor unions in this city and invited
some of the labor leaders to Washing
ton to talk over the labor question.
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A Love Lesson.

30
8ass''little girl. don't cry,
Re has broken the dance. l know,
And the words he said,
When your cheeks flushed red,
Are the things of an hour ago;
But a better Walter may soon come by,
There, little girl don't cry. don't cry.
There, little girl, don't cry,
He has broken date, / know,
And the violets blue,
That he sent to you.
Have faded, long ago.
But, merciful heavens, child, don't cryi
A man with an auto may come by.
There, little girl, don't cry,
He has broken his troth, l know.
And the horrid thing,
Accepted his ring,
When you told him to take it and co.;
But the sea holds all for which you sigh.
And it's utterly useless to sit and cry
With so many good fish swimming by
: Helen Rowland in New York Press
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minnie! Minnie!" he cried. "What is
the natter?"

unless he got back double what he
gave, and now his offer to pay the
Glennys' bill was beyond her compre-
hension altogether 1t meant mischief
of some kind, she was positively sure
of it. She waited for Dr.Seeley's rat
tat with an odd misgiving at heart.
When it came at last she flew to open
the door and faced him breathlessly.
DR.. Seeley was young and strong,
with kind, keen face and gray eyes,
and he looked at her now with good
humored twinkle IN them, for she
always had string of woes to relate
to him.
amy more tragedies, Mrs. Smith,"
he asked.
Mrs. Smith gave a sigh.
'Lor', no, sir, no more yet-but it
do seem likely as there may be
mone'n we reckon on, sir
"Oh!"
Mrs Smith glanced furtively at the
stairs and edged away to her own
room.
Its about Mr.. Clarke, sir" she
said. He's a good lodger-regular in
his habits and all that, but he do seem
to be upsetting of Miss Minnie
DR.. seeley's face looked grave.
what has Clarke to do with them?"
he asked.
why, this, sir" she said "He's
lent em money, sir never liked Mr..
Clarke, and seem that you know some
thing of him, an seem that he's
tormenting Miss Minnie nearly to
death, thought I'd better tell you"
DR.. zSeeley's heart grew oddly heavy
under his thick coat A sudden vision
of fair, pale face, with wide, fearful
eyes, flashed ZIP before him.. and he
sighed again. Yet what had he to do
with Mrs. Smiths dodgers? He was
only the doctor.
"What is he worrying her about?"
he asked.
Mrs. Smith shrugged her shoulders.
"Why, marriage, | believe, sir,
though you'd never think it, seem as
he's forty if he's a day, and hard
faced and nasty in the bargain, and
she's as fresh as daisy when things
are all right and | thought p'raps-
p'raps you might 'elp her bit, sir"
81? Really, don't know. I'll see.
1t may be nothing may not be able
to Interfere, and you know you are
always imagining things, Mrs. Smith.
You're a true woman
Mrs Smith curtsied. not knowing
| whether to accept it as compliment
or not, and Dr. Seeley went up stairs.
He went up slowly, with his head
bent, with that curious vision of a
girlish face still before his eyes, and
opened Mr.. Glenny's sittingroom
door
He opened it SO suddenly that Min
ME, bent face downward in chair,
had not time to spring to her feet.
She faced him with tears running
from her eyes, with her handkerchief
crushed in her hand, and attempted to
| rise.
"Minnie-Minnie," he cried, What
| is the matter?"
Her lip trembled.
| at is nothing-I-oh, Dr. Seeley, do
| not look at me like that. l shall be all
| right in a moment"
He still held her hands.
minnie" he cried, tell me. Let
me help you. want to help you. I
want to help you always. Minnie |
love you Look into my eyes darling.
I'm a poor man. but you're poor too, or
should never-dare to speak, and-I
can only offeryou q poor sort of a
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His han,

Gordon stared at the name, fascinated.
heart throbbed heavily Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars!
He stared up at the leaden sky and
tried to think. There surely could be
no doubt about it? The man he knew
the man who was starving with his
daughter in the garnet above his own
room-was the man who had married
Ellen Johnson twenty years ago! 1t
must be! 1t was impossible that
there could be any mistake.
Gordon rose from his stool with his
lips set tight. He had a little money
saved, and only few days ago Glenny
asked him to lend him some in order
to pay Doctors bill for Minnie, who
had been i'll. and to get an evening
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Woman Takes Her Own Life.

Houghton, Mich, June 8. Mrs.
William 3. Mason, wife of the prose-
cutting attorney of Barago county,
committed suicide by shooting at her
home in L'Anse, near here. She stood
before mirror and sent bullet into
her brain at the temple The ball
emerging at the top of the head and
on account of i'll health was the cause.
She is survived by her husband and
grown daughter.
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The rain drizzled down outside-pit,
pat, splutter, splutter on the leaden
roof, and Gordon Clarke stared up
gloomily at the top part of the Office
window, which was not frosted, and
which commanded a view Of dull sky
and telegraph wires.
He bit the top Of his quill pen
and looked down again at the mass Of
papers on his desk Another will to
copy! He was sick Of wills to copy!
I 1t was his business morning, noon. and
night, copying out details of other peo-
pies fortunes; and as he was not
likely to have fortune himself he de-
tested everybody who has.
This will to-day however, had an
unusual interest, and the man at the
desk next to him leaned forward.
You've got old Johnsons will to
copy, haven't your" he asked. He's
dying. The governor was there last
say that he couldn't last more than a
few weeks. And he hasn't found his
daughter yet.
Gordon Clarke looked carelessly at
the will.
Hes mad, isn't he?" he asked.
The other laughed.
He's been sharp enough to make
$3.50 900 or So he said, "aad should
not call that being mad myself. But
he is a bit queer. Twenty years ago he
quarreled with his daughter and
she ran away. He swore she should
never come back, and that she might
die before he'd look at her again, and
all these years he has kept his word,
He has lived alone, never mentioned
her name, and Willed all his money to
charities.
"Now he's dying and has altered his
will, and is advertising and searching
for her everywhere, and can't find
her. That's fate, and serves him
right. He only quarreled with her be-
cause she wanted to marry some one
he didn't approve of. But it will serve
old Johnson right if he dies without
seeing her. He was cruel"
Gordon bent to his work. He cared
nothing for Johnson's daughter He
cared nothing FOR anybody except him
self, and his face was bitter and ugly
as his pen scrawled the first words
on the parchment.
'.This is the last will and testament
of me, Abel Johnson"
1t was a very short one, but there
was something in it that startled him.
1t was description of Abel Johnson's
daughter who ran away twenty years
ago to marry man named Glenny.
Gordon stared at the name, fas.
cinated-Glenny! His heart began to
throb and the blood to run through his
veins That fortune might be nearer
to him than he thought. He might get
it himself-if he were careful Two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars!
He clutched the pen and stared at
the parchment. Twenty years ago
Abel Johnson's daughter had married
a man named Robert Airdslip Glenny
Airdslip was an uncommon name and
it was not likely that there could be
any mistake. Gordon Clarke knew
man named Airdslip Glenny, and his
daughter, a girl of eighteen, was call
ed Minnie Johnson Glenny.
His hand began to tremble. His
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A-Eeeless Case.

"a case came to me this morning, ;"
said the great lawyer, that propose
to handle without gloves
What kind of case is it?" asked
the human interrogation point.
"A case of soap" replied the legal
urinary with an open-faced grin.
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WILL SPREAD THE PLAGUE.
RevoIutlonsts Threaten to Infect Con

RevoIutionsts Threaten to Infect Con-
stantinopIe and European Cities.
London, June 3.-The Sofia cores.
ponden. of the Daily News says he
learns that the revolutionary leaders
in Bulgaria have obtained quantity
Of Indian plague baccili and are de-
termined that unless the powers inter-
fere in their behalf to infect Con-
stantinople, Salonica and even Berlin.
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Violation of Postal Laws.

Winona, Mimi, Jan. 8. Deputy
United States Marshal Sheehan went
out to Almon, this county, to arrest
John Duncanson, widower,, charged
with sending obscene letters through
the mail to his rival for the affections
of Stockton young lady.
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A LONG LOOK AHEAD.

The larger plans of J. j. Hill
always look far beyond the con
ditions and needs of the present
time. This is undoubtedly true
of his splendid conceptions OF
the enormous possibilities OF
extending American trade with
China.
There are short-sighted per-
sons who think Mr.. Hill little
daft on the subject Of American
trade with China; who believe,
that his dreams of ocean traffic
across the Pacific and world
traffic across the continent can
never be realized; unless the
present inhabitants of Asia
should be exterminated and their
place taken by western races,
accustomed to living on a higher
scale, to eating white bread,
wearing good clothes, buying and
using machinery and developing
the resources of the country in
European and American ways.
The skepticism overlooks the
enormous change made in the
way of living and consumptlve
power of Asiatic races by a small
leaven Of western civilization. 1t
is not necessary to exterminate
the Chinese and put Europeans
or Americans in their place to
make a market there for western
products. It is necessary only
to bring them under dominion of
western energy and enterprise
and to organize them for produc-
ton and consumption according
to western ideas.
India has been made an enorm-
Gus market for European goods
by a few hundred thousand Eng
lishmen. The consumptiye power
Of Japan has been increased.
many fold by the mere introduc-
ton of western political and in
dustrial organizations Our trade
with Siberia and North China
has grown by leaps and bounds
with the advance of Russian oc-
cupation. Even in the Philip
pines substitution Of American
energy for Spanish lassitude has
increased the consumptive power
of the islands in spite of war,
pestilence and famine.
Mr.. Hill looks forward to a
time when all China shall be
brought under dominion of west
ern ideas; whether by its parti-
ton among several nations, it's
reorganization by Japan or an
awakening of the Chinese nation
itself, similar to that which made
Japan a great consuming coun-
try. This change is sure to
come, whether in Mr.. Hills life
time or later. When it does
come, it is probable that what
men cali his dreams now will fall
far short of the sober fact :
Minneapolis Tribune.