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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-17

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cd should be in use dur
ing this progressive age.
1t should not be. Drugs
are in a class with the OK
cart, the stage coach and
other examples of earlier
days that have been dis
placed by our modern in
ventions. Ever stop ard
think there might be some
thing better than drugs for
curing disease?
You know that electricity
has been used successfully
in treating ner yous wrecks
men with weak stomachs,
men and women who are
debiiitated and sufferers
from pains of rheumatism,
lumbago, sciatica and other
ailments which indicate a
poor condition of the
nerves, blood and general
vitality. The only doubt
that you have is as to the
way of applying electricity
so as to get the best results.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-17
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-17

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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24

Tom took a peep ds the men folloWed
the black omd into the hOUcl.
"What? What's that? I don't believe
it," cried Jarman In one breath.
"Take your oaths to 1t, will you?
Well, If it's a fact, it'll bear thinking
about. Said all that, did he? And you
think he won't go and round on us
after all? Well, then, come inside, and
We'll talk it over. In you go, missus,
and light up"
Tom took q peep as the men followed
the black woman into the howell. They
had left the saddles outside, but to
snatch them nov was impossible. The
sacking that did duty for a door had
been drawn aside and hitched to a
nail. On the lighting of a candle stuck
in a bottle within some eager face was
revealed to Tom whenever he dared to
look from behind his tree. Even If he
were not seen he would be heard. Be-
sides, the party might break up at any
moment.
So he stood where he was and lis
tened to the voices, but ceased strain
ing after the words. Then a cork pop
ped, the voices were raised in a min
ute; In less than ten he must hear ev-
cry syllable whether he would or no.
But he would, for his own name was
on their lips, coupled with hideous i'm
nrerations and the name OF Mr.. Nat
{TO BE Continued
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24

here's one"
"An' here's the ither. Dinna heed
the brides. Ava we go afore Jar.
man turns in."
Jarman was the squatter on the
creek. The hour was still short Of
midnight, and Tom, who had bounded
lightly to the floor, now stood irreso-
lutte. In the end he let the rascals go.
Their footsteps had already left the
saddle o The groom listened and
lost them in the night. Then he felt
about for his clothes.
He was thankful he had not waylaid
the thieves at the saddle room door;
the field would have been too unequal,
the consequences perhaps too serious
for one and all. And he foresaw the
neatest triumph now. Jarman's name
had given him a foregone victory, for
now he knew the way to Jarman's
ramshaekle hut, and the saddles should
be back upon their pegs before morn
ing. So full was Tom Of confidence
as he dressed himself in the dark.
But the thought Of betraying his com
rades in captivity was as far from his
heart as that Of allowing his masters
saddles to be quietly stolen before his
eyes. Stolen they might be, but only
for the moment; he would call in Mac
beth and his mate to see how nice they
looked in the morning.
In a few minutes he was fully dress
ed and lodging Roberts, the night
Waterman, behind the convict huts.
No other man among them would have
found this precaution necessary, but
the groom was an unpopular character,
whom Roberts would have reported
none the less readily after winking, as
he must have done, at the theft of the
saddles. With luck and ingenuity,
Tom managed to elude him, however,
and was soon racing down the wooded
slope where the timber was being fell
ed, leaping the stumps as he ran and
steering by the Southern Cross for the
southern boundary of the farm, which
was, in fact, the creek on whose fur
Their bank the squatter was now en-
camped.
1t was a perilously clear night. A
white moon grizzled the peeling bark
Of a small forest of red gums, and the
famous constellation burned but feebly
In the south. Tom kept his eye on it,
however, and, bearing slightly to his
left, struck the creek at last, out Of ear.
shot Of the squatter's hut. Here be
paused to cool his feet in the delicious
running water. His plan was to cross
the creek and then reconnoiter the en-
emy's position from the rear. And SO
we'll did it work out that Tom skipped
behind a friendly trunk just as the
thieves succeeded in making Jarman
hear, who now appeared with his black
gin in the mouth Of the wigwam.
New saddles? What in thunder was
the use Of new saddles, or old ones
either, to him? Where was he to stow
them in the meanwhile? Did they
want him to be landed with the swag
on his hands and Jagged all over again
to oblige a pair of lubbers like them!
And here Tom felt that a door would
have slammed had there been one. AS
it was, the outraged Jarman came to
a pause for want Of breath, and Mac,
beth got in his word at last.
Tom could not hear 1t, but 1t seemed
to make a difference. 1t made the very
plainest difference in the squatter's
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24

scullery there came a sound of scuf-
fling, followed by a crash which ar
rested Toms steps. Spurs then jingled
out of the scullery by an outer door,
and in the inner one stood a fine young
woman, with black hair %disheveled,
and a broken piece Of crockery in Ell
Their hand.
heard her mutter, but in the doorway
she stood without a word, her steel
gray eyes upon him till he colored,
when she flung the broken pieces on
the dresser and clapped her hands.
"The first blush liver seen at Castle
Sullivan!" cried she. "An' is it the
new groom We are? Shake hands, then,
and make frinds wild the cook. It's
Peggy O'Brine me name is, so now tell
me yours and all yer histh'ry, while I
get ye as good a male as ye can hould."
So he told her his name, but nothing
more, and she looked at him closely as
she laid the cloth. "Sure, it's a special
he is!' she murmured. "Poor man, 1
might have seen it wild half an eye"
And she sighed and clicked her tongue
as she put meat and bread upon the
board; then looked at him wistfully and
long with her clear, bright eyes, for he
had rested his elbows on the table and
had hidden his face, touched to the
heart by the womanly kindness of her
voice. He had heard nothing like it
since that fatal night in April, now
eight long months ago. nor, when he
looked up, had he seen anything from
that night to this like the womanly
compassion in those Irish eyes.
She cut him some mutton and a slice
Of bread. She put the knife and fork
In his hands. but he made no use Of
them.
"Ah. now, pluck upw she coaxed.
"Pluck up an ate"
He made an effort, but could not fin
ish what was on his plate.
'Your kindness has taken away my
appetite. Peggy" he said with a smile
as he pushed back his chair. tits the
first I've had, from a woman, at all
events, for many's the long month"
With that he rose to go, but she got
between him and the door.
"Glory be to God. an 1t shan't be
the lastr' said she, her bosom heaving
and a tear in her eye. "Peggy's your
frind, remember that, sorr,. an It's the
cook can be the usefullest frind to the
assigned servants. II ye'd only say
out what It is that's throublin' We 30
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24

ESQ he followed the fiery whiskers to
the stables, q long log building some
little distance beyond the house, and
here Tom was so smart in unsaddling
and SO quick to find chaf bin and oat
sack and saddle room that his surly
companion was moved to rude adj
vances.
"You're pretty handy" he growted.
;"Been a groom b%efore?"
"Only since we left Sydney"
"Well, you're in luck too. The groom
here has q room to himself next the
saddle room. Come and I'll show it
you"
The room in question was very small
and squalid, with a fixed bunk and a
foul paillasse, but Tom thought it
would be delightful with nice clean
straw, and to be alone at nights was
10 compass an unexpected and I'M
speakable luxury. Ginger whiskers
pointed out the other convicts' quarters
on their way back to the house. They
were the slab huts opposite the pail
SADIE. Two were large, the others all
small. That was the overseer's hut
with the big chimney and the little
yeranda.
"And who's the o~verseerW inquired
Tom. "Mr. Nat?"
mo, I am, and hark'ee, my beauty
here we are at the kitchen, and you're
a we'll set up youngster, amt you? But
no games with the girl or there'll be
trouble! In, you go. You'll thank me
for the warning when you've seen 9
bit"
Tom thanked him then and there
and was in the kitchen next moment
It was empty, but from the adjoining
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24
CHAPTER XVII.
sat still fn his bunk.

al voice that he knew.
He'll hear ye, Mae. He's
only next door,"
WHATS about II? rT SLIT lis jug.
g1er' if he daurs to interiors. Heard
ye that7s
II did. THAT'S Better!"
The'crafty groom was snoring where
he sat, with one eye, at al Granny In the
rude partition between, his lair and!
the saddle room! Id. the latter there
was as yet ND, light.
AN that's better still,," muttered'
Macbeth as one was struck "Slit his
juggler" he repeated. with a chuckle:
II wadna think twice OF. the mosing
blackguard. Now. whaur's' thae' sad
dies. for my hands is free7' And his
teeth snapped on something that
cleaned between them in the light.
wait a bit. I smell the oil. Aha.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24

The absence Of one thing is no proof
Of the presence Of it's op~posite-but
DON'T gamble on II.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-10-24

NA0 S&Ao
the evangelical doctor loved to boast
Of the device whereby he had enforced
them in the beginning. On the first
Sunday nine-tenths' Of IFS men had
announced themselves Roman Cath
olics. So he had drawn up these gentry
in line outside the palisade and there
kept them standing out of earshot, but
in the full glare Of the snh, during the
entire service. And on the Sunday fol-
lowing there was not a Roman, CATH
Ole among them.
What remained Of their ruined day
the convicts spent in breaking, dis many
as possible Of those commandments
which DR.. Sullivan had been dltning
in their ears. Larceny, however, was
the crime most in favor at the farm
whose boundaries were seldom exempt
from that foul parasite of the convict;
the squatter Of the early days. He
must not be COMPOUNDED with the
squatter Of subsequent civilization.
The former was usually a ticket-of-
leave man. who built himself a hut in
an unoccupied spot. with a preference
for the near neighborhood of a plenti-
full contingent Of assigned cenvicts.
The squatter would supply the convicts
with rum. The convict would pay the
squatter with the only currency with
in his reach-namely, that of stolen
property. The squatter was sly pub
lican and sly pawnbroker in one. and
q pretty specimen Of his class had his
wigwam and his black gin on q creek
not a hundred miles from Castle Sull-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07
In Honor of the Soldiers.

Memorial day was observed with inter-
es,Iug exercises under the auspices of
Greenwood post No. 90, G. A r. The
veterans assembled at 5 o'clock and went
hs carriage to Dummerston, where they
u.fticipated in the exercises. Rev. II. F..
Huffum of Putney delivered the ad-
d,.ss. on their return here at noon din
r.r was served in lower Masonic hall
At . o'clock the veterans again assembled
az aeadQuarters and with the Relief col s
marched to the town hall where they
had seats of honor on the platform The
services were in charge of Comrade NJ.
Fl Pcmber. After prayer had been Of
fared Z. II. Miller of Dummerston sang
several selections. Miss Maude Aiken
r,.d Lincolns address at Gettysburg.
Rev. Charles COnklin of Boston delivered
I'll. address The children sang one Sc
lection After benediction was pro-
uuuuced the veterans again formed in line
and accompanied by the Relief corps and
school children marched to the Gene
tories and decorated the graves of their
dead comrades. The children sang a
hymn at each cemetery. Mr.. Conklin' $
address is spoken of in the highest terms,
as being both scholarly and interesting.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N. H..

o. f. Randall is running his new Ram
bier automobile.
The ladies' society met Thursday af-
ternoon with Mrs, \. G. Colburn.
John F. Spring lost a work horse re-
Gently. 1t got loose in the stable and
fell through the scuttle.
The next Grange meeting will be held
Saturday evening, June s, to arrange
for the special Pomona meeting June -.
The farmers will not finish planting
their crops this week. Potatoes are up
and are being cultivated for the first
time.
Horse owners are experimenting
in raising colts Eight or ten sleek
youngsters less than a month old are
owned in the neighborhood.
William f. Davis, who moved from his
farm here one year ago to Dummerston
to work in the meat business for e. H.
Brown, will move back to his farm again
soon, having Rnished work for Mr..
Brown.
There were about so at the church
Sunday to listen to Mr.. Roscoe's memo
rial address and the exercises given by
the school children from the different
sections of the town. On account OF the
rain but few went to the cemetery.
Cheshire County Pomona Grange will
hold a special meeting with the local
Grange here on Wednesday, June ~, the
morning session to begin at 1890, and
the afternoon session, which will be open
to the public, at 100. Dinner will be
served on the basket picnic plan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07
Hand ManaIed in a BAG picker.

Fred Mcdonald. who. after the sudden
death of his wife. which occurred about
two months ago: sold his household goods
and went from IInsdale to Franklin to
live with "a son, had the great misfor-
tune to lose his right hand. Mr.. Nc
Donald was employed at the Franklin
mills, and in feeding the rags into the
picker. the machine became ClOEgcd. and
as Mr. Mcdonald was trying TO clear it,
by pulling the stun away, the machinery
suddenly started and his hand was drawn
between the revolving picker rolls. Surgi-
cal aid was summoned and the hand was
found to be SO badly mangled that ampu-
tation a little above the wrist was
found to be necessary.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07
NORTH HINsDALE, N. II.
The Memorial Day Celebration.

Memorial day was celebrated in North
Hinsdale with some Of the most interest
ing and best attended exercises ever held
there, Much credit is due the committees
for the careful preparation Of the excellent
program and the able manner i'm which It
was carried out The main exercises were
held in the church at 9 o'clock in the
morning, the Hinsdale band leading the
procession to the church. The church
was profusely decorated with flowers and
flags which were afterwards taken to the
cemetery and placed on the graves. The
exercises opened with music by the band
followed by prayer Pleasing recitatons
and songs were given by the children
from the Monument district and the Plain
district and there were selections by Mrs
Charles Alexander OF Guilford and the
Hinsdale quartet. Ex-senator Herbert
Parsons OF Greenfield, editor of the Green
field Recorder, gave an inspiring address
appropriate to the day and at the close
of the program the procession formed
again under the leadership OF the band
and marched to the cemetery to decorate
the graves. The company marched back
to the village where dinner was served
outdoor by a committee OF women, Mrs.
S. w. Hudson Mrs. Eugene Hastings Mrs.
Fred Butler and Mrs. Edward Tombs.
The decorating committee was Miss Nellie
Anderson, Miss Lora Rogers, Mrs. Lena
Browning and the Misses Streeter. S. w.
Hudson served as secretary of the Me-
mortal day organization and as chairman
of the general committee of arrangements
Eugene Hastings was president OF the or
ganization and presided at the banquet
and at the exercises.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07

John Goodhue was in NARROW last week.
w. +. Robertson has been in New York
this week.
Sewall Day of Millers Falls was in town
last week.
Charles NORM is running G. NJ. Wrights
milk wagon.
Guy Smith was in Springfield, Mass,
Memorial day.
W. NJ. Thayer and family visited in
Keene last week.
5. II. Mcdonald has been on the sick
list a few days.
Miss Adelia Beneville was in Spring
field. Mass, over Sunday.
Miss Ellen Detour is home from Brock
ton, Mass, for the summer
Mr. and Mrs. ], H. Brtton of Spring
field visited in town last week
Mrs Bessie Martin of Boston Is visit
ing her niece, Mrs. Hannah Mullen
Edward Stebblns entertained party Of
friends at dinner Thursday evening.
Leavtt Hubbard of Chicopee, Mass,
visited Hinsdale relatives last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. David a. Minis visited
their son in Keene part of last week,
II. T. Fisher made trip to northern
New Hampshire and Vermont last week
Michael and William Dempsey were at
their home here from New York last
week
Misses Margaret Dempsey and Marga-
ret Mack have gone to Atlantic City TO
work
Mr.. and Mrs Fiheld of Bellows Falls
have been guests at II. H. Russells re-
Gently.
Mrs Benjamin Robbins of Richmond
visited Hinsdale friends Monday and
Tuesday.
ut aalr
to Maynard, Mass, where he has en-
ployment.
Mrs. Dyson Rayne is entertaining her
niece Mrs. White, Of North OK
ford Mass.
Mrs. James O'Brien returned Tuesday
from a two weeks visit with relatives in
Massachusetts,.
Mahlon Knapp is firing on the Boston &
Maine railroad, with headquarters in
Springfield, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs Almon Adams of Athol
recently spent several days among Hins-
dale acquaintances.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Britton of Adams,
Mass, have been visiting his parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. George Britton.
f. w. Tilden has his iron foundry in
operation again, although the buildings
are not entirely completed
Misses Bessie and Nellie Mullen of Mt.
Holyoke college visited their aunt, Miss
| Hannah Mullen, last week.
Rev. w. f. White returned Friday
from Rensselaerville, n. Y, where he
had been a few days on business.
George p. Hooker arrived home last
Thursday, May &c. after spending the
winter with relatives in California.
Miss May r. Lane Of Waltham, Mass,
was a visitor at Mrs. Addie E. DiX's
from Thursday until Sunday afternoon.
According to their usual custom, Bur-
| ton Spencer and family have moved to
their house on the plain for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. r. e. Metcalf attended
the funeral of his father George w.
Metcalf, in Westminster, VT, Saturday.
Mrs. w o. Kenney of Worcester and
Mrs. William Bohrman of Somerville,
Mass, are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. f. w.
| Tilden.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Wilder of Nillers
Falls came Thursday to visit relatives.
Mrs. Wilder remained until Sunday af-
| ternoon
on account of the baccalaureate sermon
in the afternoon there will be no SER
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07
Hartman Must Answer.

After a conference with President
Roosevelt in Washington Tuesday night
Commissioner Lane of the interstate
commerce commission announced thac
before July II legal proceedings would be
instituted to compel E. II. Hartman
to answer certain questions propounded
to him by members of the commission
at the recent hearing in New York, when
the merger of the Hartman lines was
under investigation. Previous to his
conference Commissioner Lane had con-
ferred with Frank b. Kellogg, special
counsel for the government in the STAN
dard Oil prosecutions, and it was ar
ranged that Mr.. Kellogg should repre-
sent the government in the case to be
brought against Mr.. Hartman.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07

saturday after visit of two weeks with
MIS- CRAFTS mother, Mrs. II. c. Parker.
Children's day i'm the CONGREGATIONAL
church has been postponed until June Id.
Mrs. Fred e. Smith and daughter Mil
dr"d, of Dover, n. H.. have been guests
OF Mrs W. f. Aver a week.
Mrs. Sanders and daughter Flora. and
little grandchid of Springfield, Mass,
were i'm town Memorial day.
Mrs. Hannah Parker went Tuesday to
Brattlcboro to visit Mrs Lucy Knight az
the home of Fred :. Knight
Mrs. Adelia Young has returned from a
visit with her granddaughter, Mrs. Roy
Howe in Wincheudon, Mass.
Mir. and Mrs. William Francis came Sat
urday from Springfield, Mass to visit
his mother, Mrs. Mary Francis
Miss Ella +. Howard has returned this
week after spending che millinery sea-
son with Mrs. II. +. Bascom in Brattle-
buro.
Royal Taft, who has been spending
short time at his grandfathers, Homer
Tafts. has returned to his home in Cor
ona. y. y
Miss Alice Holland, who has worked a
Mrs. Warren Wizards several years,
finished work there and left for Brattle-
loro Wednesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Z. Whitney and
Mrs. |. X. Doane and son, Whitney, have
returned 60 their home in Springfield, this
state after a weeks visit in town with
friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Smith and two
maids of New York have come to a. +.
Nathans for the summers stay. Mr.
Smiths father and mother, who had been
visiting there, returned home Wednesday,
Miss Beulah Williams will 80 Saturday
to Montpelier to visit her aunt Mrs. YER
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-06-07
HINSDALE, N. H.
Board Of Trade Definitely Organized.


The IIinsdale board of trade was def
nitcly organized last week by the adopt
ing Of the bylaws The board of di-
rcctors held "a meeting Thursday evening
and began to make up the various COM
mittces. one committee, consisting of
John NJ. Lamb, chairman Walter II. Bar
rett, Frederick S. Leonard, James
O'Brien, Fred w. Cotton and Gustavus
S Smith, was chosen for highways and
public improvements An important OBJ
iect of this committee is to confer with
the village improvement society to see If
any assistance can be given to improve
the attraCtiveness of the village. The
Improvement society did a great deal
last summer i'm cleaning up unsightly
places, fixing up grass plots and making
flower beds Another committee. which
has "A definite purpose in view Is the one
on telephone, telegraph and postal SER
vice, consisting of Frank H. Fuller chair
man. Wiufrcd +. Robertson, Harry II.
Russell William O. Amidon, Waldo Rouil-
lard and Frank a. Davis. The central
telephone station is now i'm a drug store
and. while the proprietor lives up to his
contract. the service is not what is given
in other places. An attempt will be made
to improve this condition.