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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05
IN A BAD WAY
Many a 5rattebOrO Reader viii Feel
Grateful for This information.

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work for know the trouble was always worse
when I overexerted myself If 1 moved
quickly and sometimes when STOPPING sharp
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am now able to do a good days WORK with.
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Foster'Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole
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Remember the name-Doan's-an take no
other.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05
BONNEVILLE.

VIII Johnson came from Brattleboro last
week to visit his brother
William H. Gale and son of Amherst,
Mass, were in town last week on a fish,
ing trip.
Presiding Elder Smithers had charge Of
services in the Bondville church last Sun
day for the first time.
Ed Styles Of New York brother of
c. A. Styles of the Morgan House, was in
town few days recently to visit his
mother and other relatives.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05

A large touring car was wrecked in
Greenville, N. H., late Saturday evening
and the chauffeur, Walter Sampson of
Hartford, Conn.,, was instantly killed.
Two men and two women who were re-
turning from a wedding party in the auto
mobile, escaped serious injury
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05

Dear Friend:-I just arrived home and
FOUND your letter. 1t was the first OF
70 receive my first course OF medicine.
You had written me before that / must
begin my treatment at once. When /
nation of the ovaries, proiapsus and re-
troVersion. also diabetes maletus. Every
month suffered through thelower part
OF o.. my abdomen and back, also headache.
My complexion was bad, skin rough and
perfectly well. I tried patent medicine
and the doctors Of the family and had
council to no avail until l came to you
ana cannot say too much in your praise
and at any time shall be glad 10 answer
any inquiry in regard to my case.
l am your friend,
GRACE A. GORDON.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05

White River Junction, Vt, Dec. ..
DR.. J. W. Merrow:-
Dear Sir:-Your kind favor Of recent
GATE at hand and trust you will pardon
me Tor not answering sooner. No doubt
l seemed very ungrateful for not maxim
reply after you had done so much fo5
me but Doctor, do not think so for one
minute for ! cannot find words to tell You
now much l thank you for what you have
gone Tor me. II II had not been for you,
think I should now be in an asylum for
me insane or filling a suicides grave for
a Z aad ia about given up hope that could
your wonderful treatment I am now anu anu
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ana when / commenced to take your
tTe l weighed only $50 pounds
was that wanted to be positively SURE
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Wish you Merry Christmas and Happy
that you may live long and happy ana
work. "'''ue'iu'
Your ever grateful friend,
GEORGE II. MORSE.
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Ing OUTFIT and by return mail you will re-
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Burlington, VI.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05

Charles X. Ham, a farmer of Thornton.
n H., was killed Saturday morning in a
runaway accident. He was driving a pair
OF horses attached to land roller when
they became unmanageable throwing him
In front of the roller and dragging him
three-quarters of a mile
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05
Government Ownership Of Intercolonial
Railway.

Government ownership OF railroads
mas not worked We'll in Canada. The
control of the Intercolonial Railway is
costing the taxpayers heavily 1t is
charged that the easy working hours of
the employees and the constant effort
Of the party in power 10 use the railway
Tor all it is worth as a political machine
nave caused a serious drain upon the
Dominion treasury, while the taxpav-
ing public is obliged to meet the deficit
Up to 1895 the Intercolonial represented
an investment Of public money of $50.
OOo0OO. The Liberals came into power
IN that year. and have remained in con-
trol until the present. During the twelve
years about S27 600. 900 has been added to
the capital account of the railway. 4
small portion Of this sum has been used
Tor eNtentions and improvements. The
rest was required to meet the accumu-
Iateu losses of the road under government
management The road seems TO be
suffering from all the ills that political
control can produce
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-07-05

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

must be trained not to extenuate crime against the public because of private vir- tues It is advantageous to the capital ists to stop their crimes. Some men of overwhelming individuality expand and expand. and they must be driven back, whipped back; barbed wire fences must be built up between their territory and that of their neghbors.
 Force is one method of teaching jus tice. Men learn to respect the rights they find they cannot trample on with im- punity.
 I do not believe in the efficacy of pub lie opinion, which is a trifle overworked and is in danger of becoming lunatic opinion. Consider the number of reforms and national questions the public opin- ion must look after Consequently, it generally degenerates into public senti- ment, a mere wave of feeling rising and subsiding. Is public opinion the tniver- sal cure? l don't believe it.
 We must get to the root of the public unrighteousness, which Is in you and me. What is the root? Greed, not of the miser but the desire for luxuries, for good living, palatial homes, ostentatiOn the ebeisances of footmen. I passed one miserable hour with one who is behind the scenes in uoitical life. I was agast at the story he told. Leaving him, I went up Fifth avenue and saw the pomp that swept by me. This is the cause of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

were both losing steadily. So he spoke deliberately and with due ceremony, q hain't no bjections,' he said looking 1 at Fidgets, Ito the gentleman twstin on | his chair. reckon the chair'll outlast the seat of his brooches if he keeps on. But we uns in Arkansas City don't reckon it's parl mentary nor no part O poker for to work the sign language acrost the table with your ears an your elbows an your nose. Pears like it'd be more reg'la like if he set more stiller.
 Long before he had finished the others were looking for F'idgets to shoot, and every mans hand was at his hip pocket. But he said, quietly, ''Is that all you've got to say?" And when Winterbottom sald,. "Yes," he continued:
 We uns was reck min on rough house when we came, and knowin' somepin' O the character O the crowd 1 come D pared. Knowin' we'd be did up anyhow, case of difficulty, I put a pound an n half of dynamite in my pocket. If there man in the room draws, I'll slam it on the floor
 And he drew forth large black stick that certainly looked like dynamite.
 Winterbottom and his two friends looked at him aghast for a single moment. Then they rushed from the room, unashamed of their panic.
 The other three looked at one another gravely Then, deliberately pocketing all the money there was on the table, they walked close together out through the barroom to the street. no man interfering for Fidgets still held the stick in his hand.
 When they had gone half way to the hotel he said, 'I reckon that there thing an't no good no more," and he cast tt from him. It fell heavily by the way ! side and nothing happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
ONE-EYED MAN BLUFFS
 TALENTED POKER PLAYERS

From the Philadelphia North American.
 "If there's any way O settin' hunk with that ArIansas City gang" said the man with the bristling beard, 'Tm ppared, fir one, to take my life in my hands an pile in.'
 "Wouldn't do no manner O good, Whiskers," said the one-eyed man. "when you stack up ag'in that gang you want to take your life in VT teeth an keep y'r hand as nigh VT hip pock- cts as you can.
 Well, the only way. as l was reck'- nin'," said the man who was explaining. would be for to stay abo'd the boat an not go asho' at Arkansas City at all. There ain't nothin there but the poker game, anyhow, an pears like there was some sense keepin' outside O that. But l reckon maybe you uns don't care for that neither. Pears like you vas some sot on tacxlin' that gang.
 "Oh, very well,'' said the one-eyed man, closely observant of his companions, if you reely feeel that way. Pm with you. On'y there's a few things to be greed to 'forehand an stuck to later. Fur as poker goes ain't none skeered but what we uns. playn' together like we has played fir a year, c'n hold our own az in any combination this side O the Dig sul- phur furnace.
 ..Whiskers here is good for what deal- in may be required an Fidgets had ought fir to be able to keep track O what signals the enemy is throwin' acrost the table. So I reckon if we uns gets into a six-handed game with the same number O Greenhut's pirates we'd ought CT stand a even chance. That's consider in the matter just as game O poker.
 Players Not Conscientious.
 "But I was sayin' as how there's con- sid'ssye more'n poker to be took account of Them swashbucklers ain't noways conscientious ag'in trav'lin' outside the rules O. the game. A little thing like throwin' you outen the window an rec tainin of your chips to the same time is as reg'lar as holdin' full .gin a flush. An, case of a argument, tn old man hisself is liable fer to butt in with
 "That's orms s,s'asisy' why fsay three on us had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
LONG-RANGE SINNERS.
Dr. Felix Adler's Analysis of Our Pub
 lie Unrighteousness.

From an Address by Dr. Felix Adler
 Robbers at long range, franchise steal- CTS, directors who loan money to one another at one-thrd less than the market rate, poisoners at long range-these last are gentlemen of good breeding, who wear clean linen, who move in the best society, yet they are poisoners, since they adulterate the food we eat, or worse still, the drugs used by the sick. And so the ugly list swels
 Long range sinners are also men of short range virtues; a captain of preda- tory wealth you consider a monster, since he is the head of a railroad which, ac- cording to statistics, kills every year one in 26 of it's employees; but he is not a monster; he is a kind father and hus- band; he has exquisite taste. Is a lover of flowers, an art connoisseur. When you learn this you say he is not a mon ster that he is not as black as he is painted. Then you eXtenuate the terrible guilt of the men. The foolish public thinks a man must be all black or all white but that is not so.
 I agree with the writer that the people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

ought for to go together f we're goin at all. The c-illun useter say, one. none, two's some, but three's hun Ndred,' an I reckon there's heap into it. We three had ought fer to be able to stand off powerful heap O fightin men, if we knows aforehand what we're up against, an goes p'pared. All's has to say is-if it's talk talk last, bu if it's shoot, shoot first. If you uns is agreed to all this, we'll go. If yor ain't, I don't go.
 Old Man Behind Bar.
 As it happened, the old man was behind the bar when they entered, and was il the act of setting forth round of re- treatments for some five or six persons the same having been called for by tht sheriff of the county, one Joe Bassett As the three outsiders came in, they paused, having an appearance of diff dence, as if they realized that they had hit upon an awkward moment.
 Come right in. said Bassett, heart fly. You uns is right in time. We uns is goin' to liquor, an I'd be pleased tc have you jine."
 "That sure is handsome O you" said the fidgetty man, before his companions had time to speak. but bein' as we uns is some in the way O bein' multitude pears like it'd be better fr us to kind O hang back fir a minute an wait f'r our turn to shout. Kind O crowdin mourners. ain't it, fir to ring in three strangers to oncet?
 Bassetts manner changed suddenly and ominously. 'I ain't p'tickler fond O countin'," he said. "an' I hain't took notice O how many they Is ina youl crowd. Pears like it'd oughter be easy enough, though, to lick any three men t won't liquor when gentleman asks 'em.'' And he advanced threateningly toward the fidgetty man and smote pow erfully toward the point of his jaw.
 The blow would unquestonably have landed but for a lightnlng-liSe maneuver of the one-eyed man. who kicked Fidgets suddenly in the back Of the Knee, dou- bling his leg so that he fell in heap.
 Simultaneously Whiskers said: Your have to excuse our friend. pard. He's on'y just graduated i'm Sunday schoo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
Hoarded Treasures.

From the Portland Oregonian
 Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Morocco. is talk ing no chances of losing his personal jewelry in the course of one of the ire quent recurring disturbances in his coun- try Locked up in the vaults of a bank near Charing Cross. London, the jewels, valued at $5,OOO000. are guarded night and day. They occupy space less than the size of bushel basket and lie about 30 feet below the level of the Strand.
 Not far away in the same vault are sev- eral million pounds worth of unclaimed jewelry some of which was deposited there during the French revolution. French people, fearful of being robbed in the reign of terror, secretly conveyed their possessions to London, and vast quantity has been left uncalled for. The bank authorities have failed in every ef- fort to locate the original owners heirs.
 An offer of sl,25O, 900 as a loan on the Sutans jewelry has been made, but the Sultan is anxious to raise much more than that to pay his army and obtain enough to meet the ransom demanded by Raisuli for the release of Caid Mac Lean,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
ARE NOT MANY
 WHO KNOW TT
Should Drink Plenty Water and Avoid Any
 Kind of Stimulating Liquor.

the use of all stimulating or spirit ous liquors.
 Patent medicines containing large portions of alcohol should be avoided.
 A good, safe and almost certain regulator and healing and cleansing tonic to the entire kidney and urin- ary tract is made up of the follow ing:
 Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsapa- rilla. three ounces.
 Mix by shaking in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and again at bedtime. Any druggist here can supply the in- gredients, which are entirely harm- less and inexpensive.
 It would be we'll to save the pre- scription, and at the first sign of these dangerous troubles mix some and give it 8 trial, as there is no better remedy known. nor anything more simple and easily prepared.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

Recent insurance reports snow a tremendous increase in the num- her of deaths resulting from some form of Kidney disease. While there are many cases here, yet few have resulted seriously thus far, states a well-known local authority Kidney troubles are the most dan gerous. because the disease is gen. orally far advanced before anything wrongis suspected by the sufferer
 Pain in the back. sides and above the groins; foul. discolored urine, which shows brickdust sediment after settling; frequent desire to pass it. irritation and weakness of bladder, are but symptoms, the cause of which can generally be traced to feeble. inactive kidneys, which fall to filter the poisonous waste matter and uric acid from thes blood. causing such symptoms as rheumatism, blood disorders and general debility and weakness.
 Such persons should drink plenty of good pure water and refrain from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

political doings that disgusted me, for this glitter and brilliance. to gain place in this Vanity Fair, laws are1 made merchandise and men are slaughtered on railroads, and poisoned foods are sold.
 The task of public reformation is long and weary. and the outlook will often seem dark and dubious. but there is one bright thought in which we can always take consolation, there is one reflection which will always hearten us. there is the reformation of the world, and that, too, at once. Take the candle or the lord, which we can light in ourselves, shedding it's light into the surrounding darkness. no one can tell how far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
Knockout Blows.

From the New York Press.
 If the coming champion prize fighter Of the world would study anatomy he would arrive much sooner. He would learn that a blow in either temple is certain knockout It would prove short cut to the championship. A blow on the lower jaw, couple of inches in front of the lobe of the ear is terrible. and terribly effective because the temporal muscle is the connecting link between the point of the jaw and the temple. Watch man chewing his food The temples move in and out every time the teeth come to- gether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22

Effective Sunday, Dec. 22, Southern Railway will change schedule of trains between Bir- mingham and Atlanta as fol- lows: Train leaving Birming- ham 4:15 p. m., arriving Allan ta 9:45 p. m., will be changed to leave Birmingham 12:30 midnight, arriving Atlanta 6:50 a. m.; train leaving Allan ta 6:30 p. m. arriving Birming- ham 1915 midnight, will be changed to leave Atlanta 10:45 p. m., arriving Birmingham 5:15 8. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
A Break.

From the Catholic Standard and Times.
 "what a queer remark that man made about the bride' said the first wedding guest
 "What was it?" asked the other
 "tIe said. How natural she looKs' don't you think so?' "Force of habit. He's an undertaken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-16
The Death Race

yesterdays score in the motor car race
was as follows: Two killed and four in
1ured at Saunderson. R. l.. by the collision
OF car with a stone WALL one killed and
Two hurt at Chattanooga. Tenn, when a
car went over an embankment: nine badly
nurt ana -FOUR others slightly injured in
New York. when a car smashed into a
butcher cart To this record is to be added
'he death In Philadelphia of another of the
members OF the party struck nv tr,in
near that city on Saturday.
High speed. bad management md J.. rao,,
less indifference to the rules of caution
were the causes of these disasters Rush
oaSh ana smash! Clear the road eyerv
pou!' Tor the speed maniacs are coming,
Inc man at the wheel Is intent ONLY unon
6e''ihs the maximum out of his machine
lie may have with him his wife and chill
dfen his parents, his sisters or his friends
lie may be the owner. He may have .bor
rowed the car from his employer. Per-
maps the owner has delegated the respon-
sibiiity for the management of the car to a
hired man, who is urged TO go the full pace
regardless of danger. On. on. on. down
hills. around curves, past wagons, through
the mud close to the edge anywber. ard
anyhow. so that the car is made In whir,
forty or nifty miles an hour, Faster. faster
10 make the already tense nerves thrill
again What matters If the road is
strange the curves unknown. the night
dark or the day foggy? What matters IL
the little children of other people are cross
Ing in their play? What matters If slower
coaches are ambling along I'm peace and
contentment at their snail's pace? Rip past
them whirl by them, cut around them.
Craze them, scare them, dodge them, Open
the Throttle wider. push her faster cut the
corners and jump the bumps, For this is a
10000 toy. and the owner must play with it
10 his hearts content. A railroad track
ahead? Run for It, cross. il without slack
ening speed, fiagman waving a warning
signal? Bother with him. he's bluffing! Cut
across. take chances, play the game to the
limit! \ hairpin turn somewhere in front?
Take it flying. with the outer wheels in the
air, Faster. faster!
Fun while II lasts perhaps; fun of a saw
age sort thrilling and hair raising but
desperately hard on the widows and or
Phans Of those who enjoy it.