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THE VERMONT PHOENIX, BRATTLEBOKO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 18U5. MISCELLANY. The Vtnlihxl Vol. To' mrni 4 tmt rA b brt feMri'l TlkM iwl t ". Mrf fe jam Mon & i m li an MM w, rofrlettlT if wtae4 -A Uw at and the tky Th Mtcmcr bM MnH f r that Tf Of ton mA iautMC maty r Uja AJrf iMri ft a-rref : no ce mortal rtto tCT koSrir lBwatiM4. i tk iMiZfu Of youth return, the marv. moawat tie wmr,a day bT to mortal !, tVwb tra&feetiy percbaiyr lb ntML'.ihr MM Wook t ttaei t p-rchab" tut rrjim ef heud TV Hftcow Ihrih rarr.iy ocr m rife SUB to sa motVi niXi Vjy tiiamiw taf. Bt b Uk til ' artrjr. nt trtaiwpb. i"Vom and miific tear. To IK ttt fctrd m: from it o La& iao Irnc rAar iiaic U ?olk n tb a vt jwt in tb TEE LITTLE EOOH. "Ho-w xoail it 4o for aimoVing-rwuor Jtt th vv pu: only, you tuo. Kos.-, you at cut not thick of tool-loir, in link boo:. I am a!tnot afraid bavin; Jost & puis common ms around, lt a Ion a aKVilie ni, iil ojnt Aunt Hiinib. ib ii Eastland Vermont Nw Ens; Uad boiled dcnrn." 'Vou heavt A out Hannah to toe: I shall find her tender tide. I am serine to Mk her About tbe old -cptAin and the ""X yellow lko bine chintz,"' "WeU, yello AH, then." "So, no', don't mix it np to: you won't )zaov yotuieif wbat to expect, and that's hAli tbe fun." "Kow you tell roe ain exactly what to expect; to tell tbe truth. I didn't half bear about it the other day: I wool-satber-ine. It wa. Kcnethine queer that hap pened when you were a chiU. watn't it" "Somethine that bee&n to 'happen Ion: before that, und kept happenmc. and may happen ataiin : but I hope not." "V.'hat -m itr' "I wonder ii the other people in the ear can bear u:' "I fancy not: we don't bear thetn not cotuecutiTely, at least." "Well, mother waa born in Vermont, yon know: she waa the only child by a aecond marriage. Aunt Hannah and Aunt Maria are only half-aunts to me, you fcnow." "I hope they are half aa nice a you are." "fteeer, be Mill; tbey certainly will be; M." "Well, don't you want them to know we are married?" "Ye, but not jut married. There' ail the difference in the world." "You are afraid we look too happy T' "N'o; only I want my happineat all to myself." "Well, tbe little room"'" "My aunw brought mothr up; they were nearly twenty year older than the. I mi;bt iay Hiram and they brcueht her up. Ton tee, Hiram was bound out to my grandfather when be was a boy, and when grandfather died Hiram said be 'i'poed he went with the farm, 'long o' tbe critters,' and he has been there ever since. He wa my mother 5 only refuse from the decorum of my aunt!. Tbey are simply worker. They make me think of tbe Maine woman who wanted be.' epitaph U) be, '.She wai a Aird workins woman.' " "They must be almost be-vond their workins-days. How old are they?" "Seventy, or thereabouts; but the will die tlandinz; or. at least, on a hatur day nizbt, after al! the boute-work it done up. Iney were rather strict with mother, and I think she bid a lonely childhood. Tbe bouse is almost a mile away from any neighbors, and on on top of what they call S'.out Ji ill. it n bleak enough up there even in summer. "S'hen mamma wai about ten years old they sent her to cousin in Brooklyn, who naa cnudren 01 their own, and knew more about, bringing them up. she staid there till she was marTied ; she didn't sro to Ver mont in all that time, 'and of course hadn't seen her sisters, for they never would leave home for a day. They couldn't even be induced to 20 to Brooklyn to her wedding. so she and father took their wedding trip up there." "And that'? why we are going up there on our own?" "Don't, Roger; you have no idea how loud you speak." "You nsver say so except when I am going to say that one little word." "Well, don't say It, then, or say it very, very quietly." "Well, what was the queer thing?" "When they got to the nous, mother wanted to take father right off into the little room; she had been telling him about it, just as I arn going to tell you, and she had said that of all the rooms, that one was the only one that seemed plwasant to her. She described the furni ture and the books and paper and every thing, and said it was on the north side, between the front and back room. Well, when they went to look for it, there was no little room there; there was only a shallow china-closet. She asked her sis ters when the house had been altered and a closet made of the room that used to be there. They both said the house was ex actly as it had been built that they had never made any changes, except to tear down the old wood-shed and build a smaller one. "Father and mother laughed a good deal over It, and when anything was Tost they would always say it must be in the little room, and any exaggerated statement was called 'little-roomy.' When I was a child I thought that was a regular English phrase, I heard it so often, "Well, they talked It over; and finally they concluded that my mother had been a very imaginative sort of a child, and had read in some book about such a little room, or perhaps even dreamed It, and then had 'made believe,' as children do, till she herself had really thought the room was there." "Why, of course, that might easily happen.". Yes, but you haven't heard the queer part yet; you wait and see If you can ex plain the rest as easily. "They staid at the farm two weeks, and then went to New York to live. When I was eight years old my father was killed In the war, and mother was broken-hearted. She never was quite strong afterwards, and that summer we decided to go up to the farm for three months. 'I was a restless sort of a child, and the journey seemed very long to me; and finally, to pass the time, mamma told me the story of the little room, and how It was all in her own imagination, and how there really was only a china-closet there. "She told It with all the particulars; and even to me, who knew beforehand that the room wasn't there, It seemed just as real as could be. She said It was on the north side, between the front and back rooms; that It was very small, and they sometimes called It an entry. There was a door also that opened out-of-doors, and that one was painted green, and was cut In the middle like the old Dutch doors, 60 that It could be used for a window by opening the top part only. Directly op posite the door was a lounge or couch; It was covered with blue chintz India chintz some that had been brought over by na old Salem sea-captain as a 'venture,' He had given It to Maria when she was a rutin f firl. She wa sent to Sam for two y to trhrsA. Grandfather orifin llly cmm from SJen." "! thoocht there watn't any room or cainu." "That iM it (t. Tbey bad decided that mother bad imacined it at), and yet you bo- exactly evwytbinc ww paintM tn hr mind, lot tbe had efen feiawnbwed that Hiram had told her that Maria could bate married tbe -captain if ine bad wanted to! "Tne India cotton u tbe reeular blue staasped cbinu. with the peacock teure on it. Tbe bead and body of tne bird were in profile, while tbe ui! vat full front view behind it. I. bad seemed to take mamma's fancy, and she drew it for me on a piece of paper as she talked. Doesn't it seem strante to you that she could bare made all tbat'np, or even dreamed it? "At the fool of tb loonse were some hancina shelves with some old books on them. All the bvott were leather-colored except one: that was briebl red and wis called the L'ldi'' .1 It made a brisht break between the other thicker books. "On the lower shelf wa. a beaotiiol pink shell, lyine on a mat made of balli of red shaded worsted. This shell was great ly coveted by mother, bat sb was only al lowed to play with it when she had been particularly good. Hiram had showi her bow to bold it close to her ear and near tbe roar of tbe s in it. "I know you will Kke Hirim. Roeer. be is Quit a character in bis way. "Mamma said she remembered, or thovjt t , she rf.memb?ed. bavine been sick once, and she bad to l quietly for some days on tbe loonze: then was tbe time she had be come so' familiar with eTerytbine in the room, and she bad been allowed to have the shell to play with all tbe time, she bad had her toast broach t to her in there, with make-believe tea. " It was one of br pleasant memories of her childhood : It was tbe first time she bad ben of any import ance to anyboly, eTn herself. "Kisht at tbe head of the !oun:e was a liebt-sUcd, as they called it, and on it was a Very bfiehtly polished bran candlestick and a brass tray, with "nuffer. That is all I remember of her describing, except that there was a braided ras rue on tbe floor, and on tbe wall was a beautiful dow ered paper roses and momioe dories in a w-reatb on a liebt !iue zroond. The same paper was in tbe front room." "Ann aii this never existed except in her imagination?" "be said that wnen sue ana lamer went up there, there wasn't any little room at ail like it anywhere in the house: there was a cbma-ciotet where sbe bad believed tbe room to be." "And your aunts said there had never been any such room." "That is what tbey said. ' Wasn't there any blue chintz In tb- j house with a peacock figure:-" No: a scrap, and Aunt Hannah said there had never been any that sbe could remember: and Maria just echoed her sbe always does that. You see. Aunt Hannah is an up-and-down New England woman. Sbe looks just like herself: I mean, just like her character. Her joints move up and down or backward and for ward in a plain square fashion. I don's be lieve she ever leaned on anything in hex life, or sat in an easy-chair. But Maria is different: sbe is rounder and softer: she hasn't any ideas of ber own: sbe never bad any. I don't believe sbe would think it right or becoming to have one that ditler ed from Aunt Hannah's, so what would be tbe use of having any:' She is an echo, that's all, "When mamma and 1 got there, of course I wa all exc:tement to see the china-closet, and I bad a sort of feeling that it would be the littie room after all. So I ran abead and threw open the door, crying, 'Come and see the little room." "And, Roger," said Mrs. Grant, laying her hand in his, "there really was a little room there, exactly as mother had remem bered it. There was the lounge, tbe peacock chintz, the gren door, the shell, the morning-glory and rose paper, rry. thing 'sarlly at h had il'friteil it to ;.." "What in the world did the sisters say about it." "Wait a minute and I will tell you. My mother was In the front hall still talking with Aunt Hannah, she didn't hear me at first but I ran out there and dragged her through the front room, saying, 'The room is here it is all right,' "It seemed for a minute as if my mother would faint. She clung to me In terror. I can remember now how strained her eyes looked and how pale she was. "I called out to Aunt Hannah and asked her when they had had the closet taken away and the little room built ; for in my excitement I thought that that was what had been done. " 'That little room has always been there,' said Aunt Hannah, 'ever since the house was built.' " 'Iiut mamma said there wasn't any little room here, only a china-closet, when she was here with papa,' said I. ' 'No, there has never been any china closet there: it has always been just as It Is now," said Aunt Hannah. "Then mother spoke: her voice sounded weak and far off. She said, slowly, and with an effort, 'Maria, don't you remember that you told me that there had ner-r hem any little room here and Hannah said so, too, and then I said I must have dreamed it?' " 'No, I don't remember anything of the kind,' said Maria, without the slightest emotion. 'I don't remember you said any thing about any china-closet. The house has never been altered; you used to play in this room when you were a child, don't you remember?' " 'I know It,' said mother, in that queer slow voice that made me feel frightened. 'Hannah, don't you remember my finding the china-closet here, with the gilt-edged china on the shelves, and then you. said that the china-clwet had always been here?' " 'No.' said Hannah pleasantly but un emotionally 'no, I don't think you ever asked me about any china-closet, and we haven't any gilt-edged china that I know of.' "And that was the strangest thing about It. We never could make them remember that there had ever been any question about it. You would think they could remem ber how surprised mother had been before, Si Heals Running Sores. fjCures the Serpent's Sting. S ill CONTAGIOUS n al1 Its etaceicnm i. fH-telr predicated by BLOOD POISON 1 S s, ".iir,au. wwmi Hi ri Hirers yield n lis n-l)PHitfiK powert lire moves the poison and rulMk up 'lie system. A TalntbU uettiw ou ib- 'HSM IU LreitmtLt icsiUd fre. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, Ga unlese sbe bad )macind :h who! thine. Ob. .t was to queer' They wre aiways pleasant about it. but tbey didn't em to feel any mteres; or curiosity. I: was al ways this answer: 'The boose is just as it was baiit : there have never been any chances, so far as we know.' "And my mother was in an agony of perplexity. How cold their gray eyes looked to me ' There was no readme any thing in them. It just seemed to break my mother down this queer thine. Many times that summer, in the midd of tbe niehu I hare seen br ee. ap and take a candle and creep softly down stairs. I could hear the steps creak under her weieht. Then sbe would eo tbroaeh she front room and peer into tbe darkness, bold in: her thin hand between the candle and her eyes. Sbe seemed so think the littie room mieht van ish. Then she would come back to bed and toss about ail niefat, or lie still and shiver: it used to friebten me. "Sbe grew pale and thin, and she had a little consh : then she did not like to be left alone. Sometimes she would make errands in order to send me to the little : room for something a book, or her fan, or , her handkerchief : but she would never sit : there or let me stay there kmc. and some- : times sbe wouldn't let me zo in there for days toeether. Oh, it wis pitiful '." "WeU, don't talk any more about it, Margaret, if it makes yon feel so," said Mr. Grant. "Ob. yes. I want yon to know all about it. and there Isn't much more no more about tbe room. "Mother never rot well, and she died that autumn. Sbe used often So sigh, and uy wrth a wan little Laueh. 'There is one thing I am giad of. Margaret : your father knows all about the little room.' I think tbe was afraid I distrusted her. Of course, in a child's way. I thought there was some thing queer about it. but I did not brood over "it. I wa too young then, and took it as a part of ber illness.' But, Roeer. do you know. 1. really did anct me. 1 al most bate to go there after talking about it : I somehow feel as if it might, you know, he a china -closet again." That's an aburd idea." I know it: of course it can't be. I saw the room, and there isn't any china-closet there, and no gilt edced china in the bouse, either." And then she whispered, "But, Roeer, you may hold my band as you do now. if you will, when we go to look for tbe littie room." "And you won't mind Ann: Hannah's gray eyes?" - "I wont mind anything." It was dusk when Mr.' anil Mrs. Grant went into the gate under tbe two old Im bard j- poplars and walked up tbe narrow path to the door, where tbey were met by tbe two aunts. Hannah gave Mrs Grant a frigid but not unfriendly kiss : and Maria seemed for a moment to tremble on the vente of an emo- , Uon, bit the danced at Hannah, and then j save her greeting, in exactly the same re pressed and non-committal way. j supper was waiting for them. On the table was tbe jitt-4yl rhina. Mrs. Grant didn't notice it immediately, till the taw ber husband smiling at ber over bis teacup: then tbe felt Sigrty, and couldn't eat. Sbe was nervous, and kept wondering what was behind ber, whether it would be a little room or a closet. After supper sbe offered to help about j tbe dishes, but, mercy I she might as well have offered to bring tbe seasons round: j Maria and Hannah couldn't be helped. so sbe and ber husband went to find tbe ; Kttle room or closet, or whatever was lobe there. Aunt Maria followed th-m, carrying the lamp, which she set down, and then went back to the dish-washing. Margaret looked at her husband. He kissed hrr, for she seemed troubled : and then, hand in hand, they opened tbe door. It opened into a Aui-''tWt. Tbe shelves were neatly draped with scalloped paper: on tbem was tbe gilt-edged china, with the dishes missing that had been used at tbe supper, and which at that moment were being carefully washed and wiped by the two "aunts. Margaret's husband dropped her hand and looked at ber. She was trembling a little, and turned to him for help, for some explanation, but in an instant sbe knew that something was wrong. A cloud had come between them; he was hurt: he was antagonized. He paused for an appreciable instant, and then said, kindly enough, but in a voice that fut her deeply, "I am glad this ridiculous thing is end ed: don't let us speak of it again." "Knded!" said she. "How ended?" And somehow her voice sounded to her as her mother's hail when she stood there and questioned her sisters about the little room, she seenied to have to drag her words out. she spoke slowly: "It seems to me to have only just begun in my case. It was just so with mother when she " "I really wish, Margaret, you would let it drop. I don't like to hear you speak of your mother in connection with it. It " He hesitated, for was not this ibeir wedding-day? "It doesn't seem quite the thing, quite delicate, you know, to use her name in this matter." She saw It all now: he didn't eliec her. She felt a chill sense of withering under his glance. "Come," he added, "let us go out, or into the dining-room, somewhere, any where, only drop this nonsense." He went out ; he did not take her hand now he was vexed, battled, hurt. Had he not given her his sympathy, his atten tion, his belief and his hand? and she was fooling him. What did it mean? she so truthful, so free from morbidness a thing he hated. He walked up and down under the poplars, trying to get into the mood to go and join her in the house. Margaret heard him go out; then she turned and shook the shelves; she reached her hand behind them and tried to push the boards away; she ran out of the house on to the north side and tried to find In the darkness, with her hands, a door, or some steps leading to one. She tore her dress on the old rose-trees, she fell and rose and stumbled, then she sat down on the ground and tried to think. What could she think was she dreaming? She went into the house and out Into the kitchen, and begged Aunt Maria to tell her about the little room what had be come of It, when had they built the closet, when had they bought the gilt-edged china? They went on washing dishes and dry ing them on the spotless towels with me thodical exactness; and as they worked they said that there had never been any little room, so far as they knew; the china closet had always been there, and the gilt edged china had belonged to their mother, It had always been in the house. "No, I don't rememberthat your mother ever askeil about any little room," said Hannah, "She didn't seem very well that summer, but she never asked about anv i changes in the house; there hadn't ever been any changes." There It was again: not a sign of inter est, curiosity, or annoyance, not a spark of , memory. She went out to Hiram. He was telling , Mr. Grant about the farm. She had meant , to ask hirn about the room, but her lips were sealed before her husband, i Months afterward, when time had les- sened the sharpness of their feelings, they leanieu to speculate reasonaoiy auout tue phenomenon, which Mr. Grant had accept ed as something not to be scoffed away, not to be treated as a poor joke, but to be rat as.de as some.hine inexplicable on any I ord.narr theory. I Margaret alone in her heart knew thai J her mother's words carried a deeper sien:6-1 cance than she bad dreamed of as t etime. j fin thine I am glad of, tout father knows -r i h wnrUrmi if Roer or she would ever know. Five tears later 5bv were coins to E u- rope. The packine was done: the children were lyine asleep, wun tnetr trTeiine things ready to be slipped on for an early j start. I Roeer had a foreign appointment. Tbey ! were not to be back in America for some years. Sbe had meant to go up ana say good-by so ber aunts : but a mother of three children intends to do a rreat many things that never get done. One shine she bad dot that very day, and as sbe paused for a moment between the writing of two notes that most be posted before sbe went to bed, she said : "Roger, yon leinember Rita Lash? Well, sbe and cousin Kan go up to the Adiron dack! every autumn. Tbey are clever girls, and I have intrusted to them something I want done very much." "TBy are tbe girts to do it, then, every inch of them." "I kaow It, and tbey are going to." "Weiir' "Why, too see, Roger, tba: little room "Ob-" "Yes. I was a coward not to so myself, but I diin't find time, because I hadn't the courage." "OS! that was it, was it?" "Ye, just that. They are gine, and thy wih write us about is." Wans so bet r 'No: I onlr want to know, Rita Lasb and Consin Nan planned to j go to Vermont on their way to tbe Adi- . rondacks. They found they would have I three hours between trains, which would give the-n .ime to drive up to the Keys farm, and they could still get to the camp that nie'jt. But. at the last minute, Rita was prevented from going. Nan had So go to meet she Adirondack party, and she promise 1 to telegraph her when she arrived at tbe camp. Imagine Rita's amusement when she received "this message: "Safely arrived: wnt to the Keys farm: it is a lis tle room." RiSa was amused, because sbe did not In tbe least tbink Nan had been there. Sbe thought it was a hoax ; but it put it into ber mind to carry the joke further by really stopping herself when she wens up. a she meant to do the next week. she did stop over. Sbe introduced her self to tbe two maiden ladies, who seemed familiar, as they bad been described by Mrs. Gran:. Tbey were, if not cordial, at least not disconcerted at ber visit, and willingly sbow-d ber over the bouse. At they did not apeak of any other stranger's having been to see tbem lately, she became con firmed in her belief that Nan bad not been there. In the north room she saw the roses and morning-giory paper on tbe wall, and also tbe door that should open into what? sb akd if sbe might open it. "Certainly," said Hannah; and Maria echoed, "Certainly." She opened it and found tbe china-closet. She experienced a certain relief; sbe at least was not under any ;pell. Mrs. Grant left it a china-closet ; sbe found tt tb same, Good. But she tried to induce the old sisters to remember that there had at various times been certain questions relating to a confu sion at So whether the closet had always been a closet. It was no use: tbeir stony eyes gave no sign. Then she thought of tbe story of the sea-captain, and said, "Miss Keys, did you ever have a lounge covered with India chintz, with a figure of a peacock on it, given to you in salem by a sea-captain, who brought it from India?" "I dun'no" as I ever did," said Hannah. That wa all. sbe thought Maria's cheeks were a little flushed, but her eyes were like a stone wall. Sbe went on that night to the Adiron dack". When Nan and she were alone in their rooms she said, "Ily-tbe-way, Nan, what did you see at the farm-house? and how did you like Maria and Hannah?" Nan didn't mistrust that Rita had been there, and sbe bgan excitedly to tell her all about her visit. Rita could almost have believed Nan hal been there if she hadn't known it was not so. She let her go on for some time, enjoving her enthusiasm, and the impressive way in which she described her opening the Joor and finding the "lit tle room."' Then Rita said: "Now, Nan, that is enough fiobing. I went to the farm myself on my way up yesterday, and there is no little room, and there nrer has been any; It is a china-closet, just as Mrs. Grant saw it last." She was pretending to be busy unpack in? her trunk, aad did not look up for a moment ; but as Nan did no: say anything, she glanced at her over her shoulder. Nan was actually pale, and It was hard to say whether she was most angry or frightened. There was something of both in her look. And then Rita began to explain how her telegram had put her in the spirit of going up there alone. She hadn't meant to cut Nan out. She only thought Then Nan broke in: "It isn't that; I am sure you can't think it is that. But I went myself, and you did not go: you can't have been there, for it Ua little room." Oh, what a night they had! Tbey couldn't sleep. They talked and argued, and then kept still for a while, only to break out again, it was so absurd. They both maintained that they had been there, but both felt sure the other one was either crazy or obstinate beyond reason. They were wretched: it was perfectly ridiculous, two friends at odds over such a thing; but there it was "little room," "china closet," 'china closet," "little room." The next morning Nan was tacking up some tarlatan at a window to keep the midges out. Rita offered to help her, as she had done for the past ten years. Nan's "No, thanks," cut her to the heart. "Nan," said she, "come right down from that stepladder and pack your satchel. The stage leaves in just twenty minutes. We can catch the afternoon express train, and we will go together to the farm. I am ter course clothes OA equal to Pearline, the original washing compound, which saves more work in washing and cleaning than anything else that doesn't do harm. Pearline is never peddled, and it offers no prize packages. Every package is a prize in itself. Get it from some good grocer. k james i'yi.k, New York. either gome there or going home. You better eo with me. N'an didn't say a word, she rUneren up tb hammer and tacks, and was ready to start when tbe stage came round, It meant for them thirty miles of stacine and six boars of train, besides crossing. She lake: but what of that, compared with barine a lie lying round loose between them! Europe' would have seemed easy to accomplish, if it would settle tbe question. At the little junction in Vermont they foand a farmer with a wagon foil of menl bags. Tbey asked bim if he could not take tbem up to tbe old Keys farm and bring sbem back in time for tne return train, aue in two hours. Thev bad plauned to call is a sketching trip, so they said. "We have been Shere be fore, we are artists, and we might find some views worth taking, and we want also to make a short call "upon tbe Misses Keys." "Did ye calculate to paint the old hw in the picture?" They said it was possible they might do so. They wanted to see is, anyway. "Waal," I guess you are too lite. Tbe hoM burnt" down" last night, and every thing in it." (jrpr'n Magaxin'. Ilor Icttr;i ItrH from (iUcUr. The number of bergs given orl varies somewhat with the weather and tbe sides, the average being about one every five or six minutes, counting only taose large enough to thunder loudly, and make them selves heard at a distance of two or three miles. The very largest, however, may be heard ten miles, or even farther. When a large mass sinks from the upper fis sured portion of the wall, there is Orst a keen piercing crash, then a deep, deliber- .... ,...nin n-kii, 1 wbich slowly subsides into a low, muttering t nntl fnllnirpd hr nnnwmni maller prat- ! f i.hine ounds from Sh acitated I w, lhit dance in waves about the new- , comer as if in welcome: and these again i are followed bv the swash and roar of She waves Sbat are raised and burled against tbe moraines. But the largest and most beautiful of tbe bergs, instead of thus fall ing from the upper weathered portion of the wall, rife from tbe submerged portion with a still grander commotion, springing with tremendous voice and gestures nearly to tbe top of tbe wall, tons of water stream ing like hatr down their sides, plunging and rising again and again before they finally setlle in perfect poise, free at last, after having formed part of a low-crawling glacier for centuries. The Oaf wry. rilltllliC rour-I.eareft Clfrr. f The talent for fin linz four-leafed clovers is apparently a g:f; of the gods and is not ; to be won by much s--k.n 'Tis said that , a certain Boston maiden waald s t down upon a grassy plot and presently half-a -I dozen four-leafed clovers would be seen twirling in ber slim fingers, though she had ' never ceased smiling arid taikine. nor sem ! ed to look for tbem. When sbe really 1 used her talent, the witch-hazel's power to find hidden springs was not to be com par- el with her. Once somebody wagered her ... , : , that she could find one four-leaved clover every minute, and she took it up, modest ly asserting that this was an overestimate of her (airy -given powers, she sauntered awav bv herself: there was a swish of while muslin vanishing through a little sunlit mornin- grove, Sbe came back in twenty minut! jnd her bunch of four leafed clovers was counted. There were seVfitaen cf them. "There," sbe said contented!y,"I knew I couldn'l find one every minute. But perhaps." she added thoughtfully "perhaps I didn't really work." It was told of her that when she was seventeen she found ninety in one long August afternoon, but to this day she will neither deny nor declare this, sbe smiles faintly and inscrutably: wood witcb ei and meadow goddesses are not to be quizzed by every day mortals, who are glad if they can find one or two four leafed clovers in a lifetime. JJo.fon Trnntrrift. Hi lirrat Ml.tal. "I se,"remarked the wide-awake farmer, "that wheat has gone 'up to 70 cents in Chicago, and there's a report that it will keep goin' till it gets to a dollar. Now, I'd like to contract to sell you my crop for TO cents. Seventy cents will do me. I'd rather have a snre thing while it's goin' than to take mv chances on doin' better bv 1 waitin'." 'But,"replied tbe commission merchant, "I can't agree to contract for your wheat at TO cents." "Why not? It's goin' up to a dollar, an' you'll make 30 cents a bushel. Ain't that enough?" "Oh, yes; but, you see, that TO cents is only a speculative price. It ain't what they pay for real wheat." "Don't pay that for real wheat? What in thunder do they pay it for, then?" "Why, for options." "Well, what the blazes are options?" "Why, they're promises to get wheat and sell it for such and such a price." "Well, then, they got to get the wheat, ' ain't they.'" "No, they sell the promises again, ac cording as the market rises or falls." "An' thev don't buy an' sell anv real wheat at all?" "Not much." "Just buv an' sell wind at TO cents a bushel?" "That's about it." "Thunder an' Mars, wish I'd knowed that last fall ! I wouldn't a-sowed any wheat. I'd tied my grain bags to the back o' my fannln' mill an' kept tbe boy turnln' it all winter till I'd filled all the bags I could get hold of. But It ain't too late yet. By Gosh, if It's wind they want, 'stead of wheat, I can supply the market for the hull country right oil my own farm !" Buffalo Etprt. The notion that the Sahara is altogether a barren and worthless waste is wide of the truth. In 159 there were 0,000,000 sheep In the Algerian Sahara alone, be sides 2,000,000 goats and 200,000 camels. On the oases there are 1,500,000 date palms, giving dates worth $3,000,000 a year. So even the desert is worth keeping under control. It isn't "The Same As," and it isn't " as good as" no mat what any grocer may tell you about any imitation of Pearline He makes more money on it. of but do you want to ruin your for his profit. Some of the imitations 01 jrearnne are sola at a lower price, naturally. They ought to De cneaper, lor tney re not as good. Some of them are dangerous, and would be dear at anv price. None of them is ilrgal Xotttfs. STAT To all 1 TATK or Vi:ilIO.T, Tb- Proeat Coart for sal Lmrwt- trvtt Btrsted. frtie. Tk- t. hMt tt ih pR4jat Oxirt to b bM it tb tr vt :-a.y, is BraitMnrc. :e mlA dttnet. tb faMt SMurUr '( aewM. A tt . :f..thucoortill"leS tb nArXjrM of CTRCS X WHITE and FRANK E WBITE. minor btrt of Loot a Wbrt. Ul of Xmm. sa MM dasrict. f bca to tl all the inter 'A MM wat m the rl eU wta'of tb mt& Locr A. Whrt 4x4 -d. :oti m Oailford. In ald district. f tb msrxi aUrd Uut m1 nt T.ll t- bnOcfel to Ml wards. & aa4 ,v Dt",r and i so-: u mum graatiiuf ch tK. if '.bT QoMMllo.";, .totick. ETAT JT JOBS QO' Ll 1 uixtmfid bariDiT t-tt p-viot-l by tbe H-orb Probat 'in for tb trattvx of Marlboro. coromiMWoerj. to rn:iT. x uaio 1 adjiM aii ctaim aa-i 4maad of ail prsjQt urainst tb tat of J Aa O--oVl W: of Brattarboro. in Mid dwrtct. dwd. abd aL cSainM mi(jnd m oflst tbr-to. bebf r f. tkr that w ill m for tb afraid at tbe Probat unV in Brattlboro. 00 the :Xb day of Auzthc an-1 in -b dar of Dwormo. ort. from t octoc astO t ockx r- . on each of e.A days, aad that ix noth from tbe CTh day of Joiy A D 136. is the t un limited hy coart for i crlftors to p st tbr ciaims to as for xammaU tad al- lovaace Daivl at Brattiboo Shi r.tf day of Jlr. l!5 A. TAB.KEY ti B A. CLARE. Comini.'ars Co.IlI'Io.s;E!l' .notice. ESTATE OF JAKE E HIGOIXS- rb ao4r4im4 bartut t app-atd or tb ! Hoatorabt Pfa Cotirt f.Jf tb nm of Mart j bono ComniX(Mr to roi. Itn:b ao-3 ad j jut all daciu ami dmaci ' all from aruaM tbe -tal of Jaoe E Hiezin. tat of HrattVr- ' tore, is Mid dMrkrt. dol. anl aL claims ex hibited in oCt thrto. b-bj- rir not tbat tor tb pj-p.. a.'vrl. t tb orsc of wuiam s o. on ta sn-iav.x AaraM. a&l tb i'.h day -A lwnt-r. o-x ac f mi 1 day, and tbat ix trt. th f rotn tb inur aioth dav '4 Jun. A D 1V t& tin . """'ed r ld tot mI creditor u, prwnt "T" rKaW ' A. d . :k W3( KEWTOX. C A HARRIS. - CoenmiMknr s TATK or VEHJIO.VT, Wtodhatu county Ii CbavrT. Sr-ptembr Term. :"0'. WINDHAM COUNTY SAVINGS BANK MaRYC McCLtURT and W P. McCLEABV Wbft-n tb Wiodham Cnty Sauries a;.i a corporate duly bbbd by law. t "'! a&i dot&sr buios u Nrfaee m tb c-nt W.e-1-bAm. alornMid. ha thss day fi-ti in tb- "f - f tb cirrs A tb court of cbacrj for ai ir. 1 bazn cjonty. it p-truoc for fom.--jur- r-. . abse to tb W.aibaro uaiy ert 'A cf.at -v next to b bij at Nfa& i!fcjn atil f r cnonty -n th second T-iav A S-ri.i. i : aawt Mary C. MeOeary if-! br tustiatJ W P M.i.i-ary ot l. I.ts in tb- stai- f M. vAiri s-ttmr forth la sutntasc. that '.be &k,i , Mary C McCl-arv. th-6 of Ward.brv id tb t county of Wtndhatn afore-Mi. who di ba&iie in ber on nam and right in tb- tracs'ers of real eatat abd r-'li-r tr, on tbe x.i. day of -ptm-br. a. d 14. duly excutd to tb aaiJ Wu.iham . Loun'T .-arm bank, a m yrj:- dol of certain mr.'M la jsnaKa ic fa? n w.tm ctjniy. a- . enbd a. f..uv South t.yUJsof Henrr N. Fitta and '.-ar M Newel,. -st by und calkrd tb M-jnjtru but and by lands A j& y A. Wubar ' and oarf. ajna by lands .f Rftuij Howard. oUar and of tb aatd Mary C McVary known as the Mla Jotw-i farm, and tan-Is ot S( aire Olea- , fr-G's tat: and ax by Labis of Lreiib M. i urKi, P'- f kn-srn the Ianil i vv nit farm abd coctam bv umauoo two hun dred acre, with tb buttdui? tbm-on Looci- i tiooed tor tbe payment ? tb promiory note of tbe Mid Mary C t-rnnc even date aith said mort- ' zajfe for tb sum of thr- bondr-d dollars and payable to i baot on demand ith interest : m -annuailr, which is now jostiy du ani ha ' not r rdin to the ten-r and ect of the same. And tbe pti!Hbr ahoweth that it was at the time, riven to understand by the ad ' Mary C. McllearT tbat tb? was a sK.f i- woman dotnz buaine-s in ber own nam and couid law- , fully coo ey aid pmniin in tuortfar a afur- i sati: and tbe i-tKKmer did j beUer- at tb tune. upon men undeotandm? and bebef advanced I tbe aji tbre hundred dollar to the sai 1 Mary C" and a cunty therefor accept-d tb mortsar aforaid. That tbe peut one." ha recently d- 1 cOTred that at be time of tb eicuu-s Cri said , tnoruran aa aforea!d the caid Mary C bad a -husband. the said W. P McClea.-.. but lvri cam unknown to tbe petitioner were tmai sepa rate and apart, and ha o cor tinned eser ince. And praylce that the equity of red--a.ptaio of the 1 Afl Mary C McClearyand W p. McCleary in tbe , premiK I- forrWd agreeably to law. And it i beii? made to appear that both toe aij Mary C and W P MeOiary ax now resident without tbe I state of Vermont. ) that th ordinary' process of -ubpeena cannot t- rTrd upon tbem. it k or- dered that tbe petitioner cau- notice of tbe frn- I deecy of its said r-titton and tbe term of court to ' whx-b it in returnable to i -n to tit naid rv-ti. ' Uons. by pubiistun; tn The Vermont Pbaron. a ' newna(-r print -o a srattieooro in sau county, tbe rubetance of it said petition, together witn th ordr. tv tare weks soccesMvely. the last publication to b at least twenty days prior to tbe rlrt day of the rieptmt-r term. !w5, of said court of chancery, which said pnbucatioa will be considered uffloent notic to tbe saia r titiomre to apprvir and mace aojer theretj shall tbey sw fit. Uiea under my ban 1 at BratObord. in said county, this 3!tt day A Julr. x o :54 33 ROY ALL TYLER, Clerk. y.tius DirtDeo.v, Solicitor for Petitioner STATE OF VKIl.HO.VT, Windham County ! In Ch no-nr. Septmbr Term. 1-"j5 i Emma M Pratt! in. Eiecutnx of liit will of James H Franklin, vs. OeorseE.Ricbardsoo. Ph.Tba A Ricbard ' ion. C'yru M Whlte,;EUa St-bbins White. Geors Austin White. Frank Elbert Whit. Lucy Amelia Davie and ber husband. Henry W. Dans. Whtvas. Emma M Franklin. Executrix of the lat will and testament of James H. Franklin, late of Guilford in said Windham Count v deceased, has this day filed in the efflce of the 'Clerk of tbe Court of Chancery for Windham Countv her peti tion for foreclosure returnable to the siid Wiud ham County Court of Chatcerr nit to be held at Xewfane within and for said Windham County on tbe second Tuesday i.f September. A D. 1?95. araintt George E RichardsuQ and his wife Phceba A.Richardson of Neafane aforesaid. Cyrus M. White. Ella Stebbins Wbite. Georje Austin White and Frank Elbrt White of Winchester in the County of Cheshire and Mate of New Hampshire, and Lucy Amelia Iiavis and her husband Henry W. Davis of Fitchburs in the Countv of Wor cester and State of Massachusetts, settine forth, in substance, that the said Georse E. Richardson and PbcBba A. Richardson, then of Guilford aforesaid, on the Jth day of January. A. D. tvO duly executed to the said James H Franklin a mor?a?e de-d of certain lands situate and being in saidGutlfoni bounded and describe! as follows: North by landsjforroerly owned by James Noves and James Miner: west by lands formerlr owned by said Miner and Eri Smith ; south by lands for merly owned by David Culver and by Sylvia Weatherhead, and east by the highway leadine from Guilford to Colrain, containics 113 acres with buildings thereon. Reserving and excepting 13 acre of the above tract heretofore conveyed to J P Felton. Conditioned for the payment of the certain promissory note of the said George E. Richardson bearing even date with said mort gaee for three hundred dollars and payable to said James H Franklin or order on demand with Interest annually, which said note has not been pa id according to the tenor and effect thereof, but is still justly due and owing. And further setting forth that subsquent to the exwrullon of said mortage the said George E Richardson and I'hoiba A. Richardson conveyed the same prem ises to one Lucy Ann White, wife of the said Cyrus M White, and mother of the said Lucy Amelia Davis, who i now of lawful age, and the said Ella Stebbins White. George Austin White and Frank Elbert White, minor children of tbe said Lucy Anu White and Cyrus M. Wbite. That the said Lucy Ann Whito oeceased at said Gull ford, to wit, in Januaiy 15M; that no adminis tration has been taken upon her said estate, nor has a guardian been appointed for said mluor children, or either of them That the legal title of said described premises Is in the said Ella Stebbins White, George Austin White, Frank E bert White and Lucy Amelia Davis, children and heire at law of the said Lucy Ann White, sub ject to the life use thereof of the said Cyrus JI. White, surviving husband of said Lucy Ann. And praying that the equity of redemption of tbe said George E. Richardson. Pb(eba A. Richard son, Cyrus JI. White, Ella Stebbins White, George Austin White, Frank Elbert White. Lucy Amelia pavis and Henry tV Davis in the premises be foreclosed agreeably to law. And it being made to appear that the said Cyrus JI. White. Ella Stebbins White. George Austin White. Frank Elb-rt White. Lucy Amelia Davis and Henri- tv riivi rudi. dents without the Stale of Vermont so that the teEOTcS. tbem to tie notiSed of the iiendeucy of her said petition and the term of court to nfnch the same ' is made returnable, b) pub IsLIni in The Ver- ' mont Phrenix. a newspaper printed at Urattleboro In said county, the substance of Her said petition . as above set forth together with this order, for I three weeks successively, the last publication to ner njniu ' waiiMBunniij uujupriuriu me nrst day of the September Term of the Court of Chancery aforesaid. Which said publication will be deem d sufficient notice to tb said jietitioners, resi dent without the State of Vermont, to appear ami make answer to said etition shall they see tit. Given under my hand at Rratlllro In said County this 1st day of August. A. D. 13. 0 ROYALLTYLEH. Clerk. IUSKi.Ns & Stoddard Solicitor for Petitioner. irgat Xottccs OTATi; Of Vi:itWO.T, Xar Br lb Protas ("t for Merest at tb -- ABLZ 11 lai of vm . .! m Yea brbr aatift! ttu' of ci apes tb iVrt: i4 lb- fc. r Morely. adakteMs. t. t.n- t S. .i Kil asd -IMtVxr ,r. :: urrfrMM tit4. M f '- ." at tb Proj CfJV IB Bl "r fOD D nmra m uk I'- Aaft b " 31' 't'ln. - - - - -tt' iic VRitsto.wT. Br tb Proex 'nr. '. t i H"?tLliir HAMILTOS Us H. dMtrKt. dw.x mi. J nfn& tb al-wan- of ' BtTftM. almrsiMratA ofr :b ia F Baicltoe. kw of Ha(..'i .t . lgg.'i d. and drr dMtnbatA ' nri& ilM tbrto. at ?r - ' to b- bM tb Probate ..- a fc-- -in vmA dWrKt. oc tb lax SaJn'ii? ' l A t 1")C. mm a&l rbr jo zrj f. L-i-tb pretniont. :f you ahii f E W gTODLARD Berj--- STATK or VEIIMO.M. Xa f r -By tb Probar C MR ''. ai Ir.w ' To an t-o iatraiij ta tb a! ;! f XET TESSET. iaJ. of Lea-r c x .. tr-rt d-d, : .m 'oa ar br-T aotiiVd : bi tfan -- .-. r dd upon tb aUowaac of tb ao---.c". ' a -1--B. BaUy. Adm actvator vtrx '..- -".it- ' whitoer Tenaey, Ut '.! Ijain--- c aci i I cr; dixnoutioa tbereoJ to tb p-r r.t.:,'-: . at tb w tbrof to t- bii at p t OAo ta Brattvofo. os t-- !.: a'-.-iav ! Aontt'A V lC. abea &J trf.. - y 1 bnard IB tb pn&m-ri. j i i ! E. W STOItsP.t- tJTATE or VEHMO.XT, MartV - O Bj tb Pro'"; Our: for . i I .- - To all () intr-t-J .a tb -a"- ' r . S K1 '. WILKI.V lav of ju.L1 tr.- dwaw-d. 0 Xoa ar brty DotiVd thai th. ' cid upon tbaikaacoftfc a.xv ;-,t ' A A. Wiifciat. adsBi&Krat.r u c ::y Barnard f Vila-ito. lat A inHo-i z. -tnct. da.d and dcr (Knv,: r ---r- ' to pro ntitid tbr.-j a; ti - t to t- bl at :hProas- '"'C- B-a--,-in art tXscnet. on tb ia satu-ar ' A t 160. wbr. and srbr y: csr t : --. tb pfc&i-" if t i caut i e w .ToirA?.:- r.- I THE TROLLEY ROAD Caa sot ira joor Loxei . ' z'. JoLi Ga'iTii.cin Se'.l in Perfect Hot Air Blast Draft Furnace Tnat wii:. An ct.r:y cew a p.p' it prrJuces a t&ucn bear ?r ti -. j- ?a -snv-ce aV. by consuming tbem. as tL- - -. r a- , furnaces mat from tbe coal, t.lu-ir - ere hirbr tetnt-ratur of heat w.-a : j cent tea coal This accc.p!J-i -incoxysvn beared to a hizb:emc-ratt, t- ; tbe middle of tb body of cuai en -a.& si fir pot forcmc al eas frx-i -he f.;. daeine hurt temperature oxyree a-r tb - face of tbe fire Remit perfect i sr. t.n i i sen. za-s and smoke producms cr-.re t-at -lea coal than any furnace on tbe mark-t T:. are not idle word, hut tbe appli.-. . KiectiSc. m'ilern. practical way cf obtaxiij -i full benefit of the combutc of th c-ial I will ?t one of the furrac in mi -with any other mi of furaao? in tfc w -V: i tf it wOl not protfuce more beat w-tt t will ooe ic your bous and charr y ;r t l -for it JOHN CALVIN, 53 3Iain Street, Iirattlehoro, Vt. STOCKNGS. Bar From the Manufacturers, Twelve Pairs for $1. rLt rJ.sr"1t value. Men',. Women s anl CnOdreo s. Any sixes assorted as t.ic wis W rite for our circular. MADISAs H "IERY CO . Pot-oCace box . Boston. Mass " Real Estate. I hm some fine farms, but I on!v mention a few cheap ones. From $STJ to 5jM stae bargains hi houses and builfing lot All you want to do i? t write me what vou want, and If I have not cot HI will tell vou so A number of business chance? tn Brattleboro Can be bought right. AMOS V. MAY. "o. 0 Chase Street, Brattleboro. Vt. ETelephone call, ii i. WANTED. Tea men at once as solicitors. have some rich territory open, Oome with references. Apply to 0. G LE0N ABD, General Agent. 61 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vt. The Vermont Academy Saxtous lliver, Vt. TWENTIETH YEAR opens September p Lo cation unsurpassed for beauty and health- L"ww.V Vst'v-'1'lss Preparatory and acaAmic school for both sexes. Prepares for any ccege Admission to college on certificate. Fine buikl- tl?S'dri?faw riei: UbJrj'' jfybasium. mill, tary drill. Thirteen teachers. Training for char- fnfnr??.CitUU8,hlp- FoT a!o?u or other Information, apply to Vermont Academy. -JT-v C. P. GILSON, Auctioneer, "West Chesterfield, S. II., SAJS? j"',?,111 x1 la Xenr Hampshire. Ver k moot Massachusetts. Connected by tel. North Street School, BKA.TTLEBORO, VT. rT,S.)S?t.h yar ot the Norto Strpt Trivav THE CHAMBERLAIN STABLES. Xow open ami ready for IJoarders and Transients. Alo M'agons and Har ness for sale, Vi. V. ItlCIIARDSON & CO. Ed Blood, Foreman. BRADFORD ACADEMY, f Mlts IDA L. ALLfc.Y Pnocipal. llrio i J. Ills