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PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Edmund Clarence Stedman has
reached his seventy-fourth birthday.
and ...e cn'y obvious token of his
somewhat advanced age is the fact
that he is writing his "reminiscences,
Plans are under WY for the pur-
chase of the old house in FORTS
mouth, N. H., where Thomas Dailey
Aldrich spent his boyhood Gays with
his grandfather, for the purpose OF
establishing a permanent memorial
to the author
d. Samuel D. Mercer. who died
last week in Omaha. was long prorIi-
nent in his profession, having been
some years ago vice president Of the
American Medical association, He
was born on a farm in Marion county,
IA, in 1912. and during the civil war
was surgeon Of the 149th Illinois vol.
unteers,
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Ito be continued.)

A we'll known criminal lawyer one
day sauntered into a police court just
as a case was called. 1t appeared that
the defendant had no attorney and the
judge glanced about the room to see
whom he might assign to the case.
"I'll take it, judge" the late conner
said, wishing to pass away the time.
by the way, what is the man
charged with?' the attorney presently
asked.
Hes a camera flend of the worst
sort Mr. Brown" the judge said with
a slight smile. II expect to send him
to the workhouse for about three
months"
what" the lawyer shouted indig-
nantly. Your Honor must be joking
Send a man to the rock pile for three
months for a little harmless amusement
like taking pictures"
Well the judge said mildly, che
don't take pictures much--it's tho
cameras he takes"
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hCh-ANL HhELlhI VINO attained success
In spite OF nearly every possible ad-
verse circumstance that could be rails
ed against his progress.
The Greeley family was poor, even
for pioneers. The children often had
to sit on the floor and eat their only
meal of porridge out of tin pans.
Horace earned his first money by
selling nuts and bundles of the roots
OF pitch-pine. He spent tae money he
could secure in this way for Shakes
peare and for Mrs Hemans' poetry.
His love of reading was abnormal.
lie had to leave school when he was
hardly more than a child. He was II
years old when he walked nine miles
to the publisher of a paper to secure
Il situation as printer. He was re-
fused on account of his youth, and did
not obtain work until he was IA.
The paper on which he was first en-
ployed failed, and Greeley set out to
other towns to find work. After many
trials he at last found a place in Erie
where he worked for seven months for
sS4. Out Of this he sent his father
SG3. He had spent Sc In the time he
had worked there. He kept the re-
naming SIS and set out to New York.
His first years in New York are q
record Of the most grinding poverty.
1t is doubtful II at any time In those
years he had enough to eat or enough
to keep him warm. But the spirit of
lndomitable courage that was his her
ltage kept him steadily in the grind of
work until at last he had the salts
faction of knowing that he had won
the fight against adversely.
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FOREIGN JOHN SMITHS.
Nearly Every Nation Has Peculiar
Manner OF Spelling HIS Name.

Nearly Every Nation Has "a Peculiar
Manner of Spelling His Name
or all the families OF the earth prob
ably there is none more numerous than
that of Smith, and OF all the Smiths in
the world it seems that ut least 80 per
cent have been chistened John. If the
name were not so common we should
probably admire it and see it through
ii glamour, as we do many other names
that are not half as solid and substan-
tial.
AS 1t is, plain John Smith is not very
high-sounding it does not suggest arts
tocracy. It is not the name of any hero
In die-away novels; yet it is good and
honest. Transferred to other languages
1t seems to climb the ladder of respec-
liability.
Thus in Latin it is Johannes Smith.
US; the Italian smoothes 1t off into
Giovanni Smith; the Spaniards render
1t Juan Smithus; the German adopts 1t
as Hans Schmidt; the French natten
1t out into Jean Smeets; the Russian
turns it into JonlOff Smltowski: the
lcelanders say he is Jaime Smithson.
Among the Tuscaroras he becomes Tam
Qua Smittia; in Poland he IS known az
Ivan SchmittiweIskl; among the Welsh
mountains they cal him Jihom
Schmidt in Mexico his name is written
Jontli FSmitri; in Greece he turns to
Ton Sinikton; in Turkey he is almost
disguised as YOo Sect
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days, probably never knew what It
was to enjoy an income of $15 week ;
Indeed, to the majority of them, such
a modest revenue would have seemed
riches.
The father OF Andrew Carnegie,
though he toiled early and late az a
damask weaver at Dunfermline, was
barely able to supply the humblest Of
necessaries for his small family; and
when steam looms came to supplant
hand weaving he was compelled to
sell his looms and bis few sticks Of
furniture and take his boys to Amer-
ca. where he found employment as a
weaver in one of the cotton factories
Of Allegheny City, and where one Of
his sons, little though he dreamt It,
was to amass one of the most colossal
fortunes the world has ever known.
The father of ]. d. Rockefeller.
whose wealth to-day is said to be at
least double that of even Mr.. Carne-
gle, cultivated a few barren acres In
liOga County, New York, and added q
little to the family exchequer (scanty
enough at the best) by sending out his
boys to hoe and pillow and husk corn
for neighboring farmers. w. A. Clark
the copper king of Montana. whose
fortune is variously estimated from
$4O,OOOOOO to fabulous figures (some
even credit him with an income of
$4,000 a day., Is the son Of a small
Pennsylvania farmer, who probably
never cleared $500 In any single wear
of his life, and for whom the future
millionaire did the hardest of farm
labor until years after he had reached
manhood.
The father OF W. S. Stratton. the
Colorado gold king, was a small boat
builder at Jeffersonville, Ind, with 80
many children and purse so iIl-illed
that he was compelled to take his son
away from school at IA to apprentice
him to a carpenter. Commodore Van
derbllt, founder of one OF the wealth.
est families In the world, was Graded
In the direst poverty. and between the
ages Of and 10 earned his own liy-
Ing by performing any odd jobs that
came his way, from selling newspapers
and holding horses to farm labor and
porter's work; and Jay Gould. who ac-
cumulated fortune OF S6O00O,OOO be-
fore he died at the age OF SO, was the
son of struggling farmer, who found
50 much use for his sons services that
he practically received no schooling at
all. George Westinghouse, whose air
brake has yielded such a golden har-
vest. was the son of mechanical en-
gineer in a small way of business
John W. Mackay, the "silver king"
was the son of destitute Irlshman
who emigrated to America with his
family In search of fortune. and after
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NIAGARA FALLS.

RzEESzzA NE Of the interesting things about the
1 "a \ fight to Niagara Falls Is the principle
o. which the national legislation is based
kuw~~wuur4 Congress has assumed that the Niagara
EAAlllkAsH River is not only navigabe stream, but
EfgA1SH also a boundary stream and that therefore
the national government and not the State
of New York is to determine Its destiny The New York
franchises assumed to be virtually Invalid, and al
though Of course the companies will not be dis
possessed without compensation indeed probably at
ALL at least for the present their tenure becomes
vocable at the pleasure of the nation.
The act just passed authorizes the Secretary of War to
issue permits for the use OF water by the companies
already established at the falls and further revocabe
permits If he fit; but only to such extent will
impair the scenic grandeur of the falls and in
beyond a total divsk, OF water the American
side equivalent three hundred and fifty thousand horse
power.
den except permits from the Secretary OF War, and
amount which must not exceed the quantity named
a maximum on the American side
The life of the and of all permits issued under is
three years and the President Is directed in the
time begin negotiations with Canada for q permanent
treaty which shall unite both countries in the work of
protecting the falls and preserving the beauties of the
adjacent country.
The three hundred and fifty thousand horsepower
named the maximum is very nearly the amount Of
power already authorized by the State of New York
about hundred thousand horse power less than
been authorized by Canada.--Youth's Companion.
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THE DECADENCE OF VISITING

E7@saVs9 ALLING and visiting going out of fash
81 1 Ion" Ministers and doctors make calls
but OF a professional character. The Old
enNyaTxa aabit OF running into neigbors house and
E9R1Tj chatterng about the weather and the nelgh-
eeH=eH-sE5 horhoods clothes. and the dougs of the
Smiths and the inqulty Of tie Jones chill.
urel, Whenever there was lull in the washing and
dresSnElHg, Is III decline, however 1t is no longer
proper to 90 and live on cousins country for
more than month in the supposton that this visitation
Is visit. In the first place, the railroad the
trolley the steamboat the poStoice the telephone the
telegraph the district messenger the automobile have
brought people closely in touch they see and hear
enough of one another without pursuing their acouant
ances into their flats and boarding houses In the second
place the fact that most people in cities do live in
flats and boarding houses and not in homes makes on
tertanment and isolation difficult and as for visit
Ing the country relative who the town finds
1t to his advantage to to a hotel himself for be
town cousins fat seldom contains space for a pet dog
canary Bird after the family has been CHARTERED In
the third place while the average country hotel ,s bi+
sorrow, the Increase in summer hotels eouang IN
size, comfort and luxury anything in the city is per-
suadng people from their unces who live ON ma
larla and pork.-Brookyn Eagle.
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CHAPTER VI.

Lord Avon stroled onward with a
clouded face. When staying at Avon
House, a boy, he used to 60 over 70 Mr..
Dane to do Latin with him in the day
time Mrs. Dane was very fond of the
boy, and he was fond Of her He would
rather, now that he was man, have
brought vexation upon every one in the
two parishes than upon Mrs Dane.
If ever Grace gets me again into a
bother Of this kind she shall pay for it,
thought his lordship.
BY and by he came in view of Wilton
Cottage. Mrs. Dane was still seated nm
der the pear tree. Seeing Lord Avon
she waved her hand to him. aud he omen
ed the gate and entered.
What stranger you are" were hes
hrst words.
he kept her hand In bis as he sat down
on the bench beside her. She had a light
heecy kerchief thrown over her white net
cap, and a warm shawl wrapped about
her shoulders. Her face, always a deli
cate one, looked ominously so now: il
was 90 changed as to give Lord Avon an
unpleasant thrill.
Dear Mrs. Dane, l am sure you have
been very ILL.,"
Il have been, and am" she answered
You see the difference in me. don't you ~
Il confess | DO" he acknowledged
Cannot Briee do anything better for
your"
No one can in this world" she gently
said. THE last days here must come 70,
u all, and they are upon me. All. nv
dsar, II we, all Of US, can but be prepared
for them. You see l talk TO you with the
familiarity Of old days" she concluded >
smile upon her wan face.
hope you viii never talk 10 me n
any Other way" he said, with earnest i'm
pulss- DO you remember how You use,
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He-And so they are engaged to be
married?
She-Yes.
HAS he given her a diamond ring?'
shes wearing oI2, but l don't know
whether he's given 1t to her or not
They're not married yet, you know
Yonkers Statesman.
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when. and In a cOun-
try where nearly ev-
cry man in public life
rose to his emlnence
through strug & e s
against poverty and
handicapped by lack
Of education and a
dozen other difficult
ties, Horace Greeley
stands out as a man
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Particulars Wanted.

"Ah, dearest" sighed young Brone
leigh, Il cannot live without you"
why not?' queried the girl with the
obese bank balance. Did you lose your
job7"
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,.SrnnII ADJ JnlSc.

The honeymoon had just finished
waning when he meandered home at
. n. m.
Il suppose he remarked to his bet.
ter half, you will class me as a brute?"
"Oh, no" she answered calmly. You
are too late to classify. "-Columbus
Dispatch.
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two years Of terrible struggle died,
leaving a penniless widow to support
herself and her young children as best
she could. Russell Sage, who left a
fortune Of over $S0,0O0COO, was the
youngest Of the six children of very
poor parents. and was toiling on a
farm before he WIS 10.
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The pedestrian hal lust staggered "
his feet ffter being knocked down by
runaway horse.
Its just my measly luck" he growk
cd. ito be run over by "A horse when
there are 60 many automobiles in town"
And he limped slowly and sadly
away.
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Suspicious.
away.

Did you ever east your bread upon
the waters? asked the parson.
NO" replied Newllwed, but l rus-
pect my wife has hers cast at an !rnn
foundry"
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~o@@

presence In his country and his community howsvo,
great his wealth high his station just 80 much =,
burden to carry Nature has her slow way Of do
stroying the individual who in his heart has turnoa
traitor to his better self and to the moral judgman,
OF self-respecting COMMUNICATIVE Street Journal
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Not a spender.

"He has lost his Job. | wouldn't be
surprised If he'd take to drink"
"Oh, he'd only do that as a last re-
sort"
How do you meanr
HE always prefers to have some
body else take him."-Philadelph
Ledger.
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4 LITTLE LESSON IN ADVERSELY.
~~~-~~~~~~

The story of Horace Greeley is one
20 familiar that the re-telling Of it
Beems almost unnecessary. At a time
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rural delivery service
AS the service Is extended the loss will become greater
and the Postofice Department is wondering how II can
lessen the deficit without calling other government,
revenue to make 1t good 1t will probably have to keen
on doing So Free rural delivery cannot be abandoned
and 1t VIII need to be supported ward Of the gov
eminent TIL such time the Increase population
makes 1t self-supporting, nearly so.
In either private hands under public management
the post teams automobiles could put to other SER
vice In addition to carrying mails They could take mas
sengers and maintain local express service on each
route AS 1t Is estimated to $25 year to hitch nm
d team every time farmer has to 20 on an errand
system for doing this business for rural families would
be profitable especially when it remembered that the
rural delivery patrons number 4S0OO00 The govern.
Journal
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COSTLY RURAL FREE DELIVERY

HE average rural post wagon makes twer.
ty-fve-mile trip a day, visits 1875 families
and picks up about two pounds OF mail mat.
ter. Its total income is less than $125 a
year, while 1t costs 5000. Thus 1t will no
easily understood how the government 10
losing about $40 600 900 a wear on +bo e.
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POOR FATHERS OF RICH MEN

Some Earned Less in Lifetime than
sons Get I'm a Day.
1t Is an interesting and instructive
fact that at least four out Of Eve Of
American multl-millionaires are sons
Of men. who. In their most hourishlng
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-02-09

tuberculosis causes some 12OOc
deaths annually In Paris
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k-k@AGsssI9 social uecenCy.
1t matters not how profanely he may pro-
test that his private affairs other peoples bust
But the protest is that of the in the wrong
The who is faithful to the duties of his office and
false the standards of domestic decency have his
financial credit marked down and the business confidence
of his eOwmen lowered to the class of hazardous
risks. Such Adventures masquerading before
the community respectable people, under the belief
that they deceving those about them. But a man
who neither be to himself loyal his fam
lily cannot be safe leader In industry, commerce or
finance because the very foundations of integrity have
become rotten in his character. He is a man divided
against himself
When the crack in tall building appears we know
that there Is something giving away at the bottom. We
do not need detective service to find it out AS sure
night follows day, wrecks ts perpetrators first
morally, and then in business usefulness Such a man
may live out the full measure Of years allotted him.
but the las become whited sepulchre his
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CHAPTER VII.

Mr.. Baumgarten came softly forth from
his house In the brightness of tha early
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So many public men belong to some
body.
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HOW DOES HE LIVE2

He business world has a right to know Of
any business man not only where he spends
his days, but where he spends his nights. 1t
has a right not only to know his financial
standing but also his status IN the scale Of
social decency.
II matters not how profanelY he may nrn.
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EAST ARLINGTON

@. a. Warner spent Friday In Troy
Alan Nuttlng Is working In Halls
market
Mabel J. Dustin has gone 10 her
home In Massachusetts
Mrs Jesse Madison OF Bennington
visited relatives In town Friday aud
Saturday.
Mrs blair Of North Bennington has
been with her son. r. A. blair for a
few days
Nella Cole II home from North Ad.
ans whore she graduated from the
Normal school
Steven Hull and family Of shushan
visited his daughter Mrs Robert Park
inson the past week
Gertrude Shepherd OF North Ben,
nington has been n guest Of her grand
mother. Mrs J. +. shepherd for n few
days. Onc9a tEUllWuUHu
Mr. aud Mrs y. l.. Bailey Of Middle
town. Conn. we're In town the past
week. called here by the death Of Mr.
Balley's father
The funeral Of y. Bailey was held
at the home Of Hiram Brown Friday
afternoon. Mr. Bailey died Thurada,
morning after n lingering illness. ~,
was SO years Of age and leaves one aof
~ l.. Bailey Of Middletown. Conn. IN,
remains were taken 10 Connection
Saturday morning for burial.
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HoosicK

Mrs Frank Gallup and Mrs Joseph
Non were In Troy last Thursday
Mrs Andrew Williams and son star.
ton spent last week In North Adams
Miss Margaret McGraw Of Hooslck
Falls visited Mrs T. w. sullivan last
Thursday.
Mrs T II. Sullivan and her uncle.
Patrick Sullivan were In Bennington
Saturday
Henry Honyur has moved from Jack
Galatians tenement house into one 81
u G. Dresses.
Mrs Andrew williams aud son Stan.
ton spent Saturday with Mrs T. Rea
gan al ilooslck Falls
Miss Margaret Mccormick Of Troy
attended the closing exercises nj the
lioosac school last Thursday
william Callahan has moved from
/ North fownal and has entered the en-
ploymcnt Of Zebra Quackenbush.
Mrs Helen Babcock and daughter
| Hazel ri Albany came yesterday e
spend their vacation In Iloosick
Mr and Mrs Ralph Haswcil Of Brool
lyn are spending n couple Of month";
with Mrs llaswcll's father. A. " Sher
wood.
John Johnson. the North Adam
horse dealer. was IN town one day las
week riding after Thomas sullivan
driving horse Daisy.
Mrs J. ~ McAtcc Of Chicago an,
MrH ". o. Moore and baby aud MlH
Gertrude Long Of brooklyn are visit
INK Mr. and Mrs Thomas Babcock.
Nlr and Mrs Johnson and family o
Washington. u. c.. who have been rem
INK Mrs Fannie Bovles residence vii
leave Monday for Lake Cossayuna fol
the rest Of the summer.
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A Woman's Back

Has many aches and pains caused by
weaknesses and falling, or other dlsplace-
ment, OF the pelvic organs Other symp-
toms OF female weakness are frequent
headache, dizziness, imaginary spccks or
dark spots floating before the eyes, gnaw-
Ing sensation In stomach, dragging or
bearing down In lower abdominal or pelvic
region, dlsagreeabe drains from pelvic
organs, faint spells with general weakness
II any considerable number OF the above
symptoms are present there IS no remedy
that WIN. give quicker relief or moro per-
maAent eoSe than DIR. Pierce's Favorlte
PreAc1tSNop,> has a record OF over forty
years OF cufeA II Is the most potent
inYlgorailng tonic and sirenglhcnln nel-
vine known 10 medical science, lis made
OF The glycerlc extracts OF native medici'
nal roots found In our forests and con-
talns not drop Of alcohol or harmful, OF
habitforming drugs It's ingredients are
all printed on the bottlo-wrapper and at
tested under oath as correct.
Every ingredient entering into ga
vorlte Prescription has the written en-
dorsement Of the most eminent medical
writers Of all the several schools Of prac-
tlce-moro valuable than any amount OF
non-prOfessiOnal stimonials-though the
latter are not lacking, having been con-
tributed voluntarily by grateful patients
In numbers 10 exceed the endorsements
given 10 any other medicine extant for
the cure OF woman's Ills.
You cannot afford 30 accept any medicine
Of unknown composition as substitute
for this well proven remedy or KNOWN
COMPOSITION, even though the dealer may
make little moro profit thereby. Your
interest In regaining health Is paramount
10 any selfish interest of his and II Is an
insult 10 your Intelligence for him 10 try
10 palm OF upon you n substitute, You
know what you want and II Is his busl-
ness 10 supply the article called for.
Dr. Pierco's Pleasant Pellets are the
original Little Liver Pills" first put up
by old DIR. Pierce over forty years ago,
much Initiated but never equaled. Little
sugar-coatcd granules-easy 10 take ~
candy.
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NORTH BENNINGTON


Arthur Phillips Of Troy spent sun
day Ia town
Miss Katherine Lewis 90 Wells b.
Improving at her home.
Mrs O. Hutchinson IL Ia Montpelier
where her brother ln.law IL very ll
The weekly prayer meeting Of the
Methodist church viii b. postponed
on account Of H. being a holiday.
business nj the factoricr iu town D.
very strong. Al the n. G. White fac
tory the business has ncccssltaicd
some OF the operators working nights
During last week excavations we're BE-
gun ON the new building for The n. &
White company
Saturday afternoon the pcrfecta ui
the u. &. White company met and DE-.
frat'd the Stnrs Of this place on the
local bail grounds 10 a. .. A home
run by Spencer Of the Stars bringing
In three runs was n feature 81 the
game. After this game the Olymplcs
wcrc defeated by the g. NJ MS of Fast
Arlington 10 to =.
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nnIIri Tnr nrItI.h MI..Ien I'D CaIen

COLON. July I Claude e. Mallct.
iur many years british consul nj Pan
tmn. arrived here from Europe IN the
capacity ~ first British minister 20
Panama The newspapers here pay
tribute 10 Mr.. Mallct's we'll meriie,i
promotion. H. was welcomed GA his
arrival hy many prominent native and
British residents