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BELLUWo rALLS NEWS e.'glars Abroad Saturday Night, Four Houses Being Entered Haul of $150 at J. P. Lawrence's . -aoter of Daughters of American -.:iutlon Organized. w Falls for raany years has been - -.-isual degree free, from burglaries y thieving from dwelling, but ? ;rday night tb record was sd . roken. four different houses be .ered and small amounts taken ich The Imaginations of many djrlng the nights since have - active that -a number of false - !-ave been made, ami much un 55 felt. The more faint hearted -".-"us have suffered somewhat : it and any unusual noise nights t .sd In many instances much Only the four mentioned have -r than false alarms, and they i: the residences of Dr. C. T. -.. - Burt place; John Pi Lawrence iriiT-Ki place; Thomas O'Brien ao -. street and John H. Cray on - - race, corner of School street - n. All four occurred within an - f each other probably and were same section of the -illage. In ae entrance was gained by prying - a window. At Mr. Cray's nothing sheared except a few cents of - z At O'Brien's the burglar was -: y scared away by the barking of ? md dropped a wallet containing -. near the window, which was held - - a stick. At Dr. Clark's a gold and small sum of money was t - while at Mr. Lawrence's the haal was made In mileage books, and a gold watch aggregating a - -f nearly J1S0, alt taken from the - -fa traveling man. F. P. Cullen. 3 uncertain whether the work was - f local persons or of strangers here -re night only, but the Indications are . strangers were abroad, and that all -i-r from the same source Is past, without doubt it will have the - if making householders look a ht- -re carefully to the windows and -s r.ghts. -hapter of local Daughters of the - -an Revolution referred to last was fully ocganized Wednesday -- -n at the residence of Mrs. A. N. - -n Westminster street and was -aslon of a delightfully pleasant gathering. Twenty charter men- institute the new organization, - officers are: Mrs. A. X. Swain, Mrs. Josephine H. Arms, vice - Mrs. H. W. Mitchell, recording i-y. Miss Alice L. Hapgood, cor- - !:ng secretary: Miss Caroline treasurer; Mrs. F. G. Flint, regis- ll ss Genevieve Williams, historian: Elvira Gorham, chaplain. Among ! .-sts from elsewhere were Miss ! -:ark. Mrs. J. J. Estey. Mrs. E. H. I t. Mrs. A. G. Cobb. Mrs. F. G. , and Mrs. F. I. Swift, all of Brat- 1 - and Mrs. C. X. North of Shore- I -.e state regent, under whose dl- ! - the organization was effected. I - .ae is William French chapter and X a in Vermont. The residence j ratriotlcally decorated with Cag3. 1 -g and flowers, and refreshments served. An Important Industry. Tve Bogert & Hopper Manufacturing -;any, manufacturers of lock corner- xes, have run their factory on Rus - street the past two years at its full i;a-:ty. They now employ 23 people, half of them girls, and the pay .mounts to over KSM'per week. They -. 3 'his week received orders .which 'ake the full output of the concern - j? least six months in the future. . r the superintendence of C. A. Peck, s - -xs been with the company since It t .-.ere. the business has become one ' "-e sjbstantial and Important enter- j - --s of the place, and It employs an . .ally good class of help. v Helen Guild, who was in New --. 5--.-eraI weeks, returned Saturday. D. Lv Sanford exchanged pulpits S :nday with Rev. Mr. Kennedy of .e. -'. P Ryder, who had been away on a Philadelphia and Chicago, re . -1 Saturday. A -ale of fancy articles will be held .ne Woman's club during the first - s :n December. .!.-s Charles H. Nichols was ta Spring--"- . Mass.. Monday. Tuesday and Wed " " of this week. - arles L. Aheeler has been fitting the - - r.g of G. E. Dowlin on Green street - - steam heating apparatus. T'-.e ground was white with snow for - irst time thts season yesterday morn- - all disappearing with the sun. Mrs. L. S. Walker of Grafton has come - - home of her son. Edward L. Wal- " to spend the winter as In former D. W. Moore of Dover. N J., i- -r of the present pastor,of the Bap- i- -hurch, will occupy the pulpit next - - iay. r-.e ladles' society of Immanuet church hold a food sale tomorrow afternoon - t-e store recently vacated by Mrs. L. -'-s-Hadley. T-.e young people's Christian union pf Universaliat church held its annual -r:et Wednesday evening In the ves " ct me church. Mrs Pray of Somersworth. N. H-. and i.ghter, Mrs. Sarah E. Smith of ' vdivostock, Russia, are guests la the tm'.ly of J. C. Day. Mrs. Richard F. Barker of Adams, JT. . has been at the home of her fa--er Henry .S. Frost, several weeks. She 1 oeen III and Mr. Barker has been T.:h her. Mrs Charles H. Bradford and son were Mrs. Bradford's old home In Charles 'va from Saturday until Monday, and Mr Bradford was there a part of the ay Sunday. Miss Esther Meacham sang in the choir ' the Methodist church In Claremont - -day and will sing again next Sunday. c'-s has been the guest of friends there -ring the week. Another balloon, the second within a -w days, passed over this place Satur- iv afternoon. It started from North lams, Mass., and in going over this i'age was flying low. Miss Jessie Rogers, who was teacher - one of the public schools here last ar. will go this week to Portland, Ore- n. She expects to teach there and to -ake her home with her brother. The annual rummage sale of the Wo- - an s club, for the benefit of the dls--ct nurse fund, will be held next Wed- 'day, Thursday and Friday In the store - the Edward Arms block recently va ited by Mrs. Gates-Hadley. The recent trial of William Fairbanks r murder calls to mind the fact that 5 r.ce the settlement of Rockingham this - the first murder committed within Its - rders, as far as definite knowledge 3 had. In this case neither of the par-'-icipants were residents of the town. William Flavin, the lS-year-old son of "nomas Flavin of Gove street, has en- ted in the regular army and Is at rt Slocum. assigned to the cavalry 9 was working In a machine shop in S-rlngfleld and went with a number of her young men from there. The regular monthly supper of the -ilea union of the Congregational church wJl be served In the vestry Wednss- THE VERMONT PHCEISTIX, BRATTLEBOBO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1907. ' 5 day evening. Hostesses. Mrs. C. W. Os good. Mrs. B. E. Memam. Mrs. J. F. P .1T".n' ? N U s Mrs. D- Maes. X WUHatna aDd A musical club has been organized with the following officers: B. B. Merriam. president: Daniel Edwards, secretary: A. K. Tuttle. musical director. The or ganization was effected at the high school building Tuesday evening and the next meeting will be held next Tuesday evening at the same place. The Woman's Foreign Mission society of the Congregational church held its an nual thank offering meeting in the par sonage Friday afternoon and evening The men were Invited tc tea. The offer ing was a large one. ir eluding an Indi vidual contribution of JM to support a Bible reader In some foreign land for a year. . , vMt .WBy oi oaxions juver was ory. so to speak, of aU interesting In brought before Justice E. L. Walker , formation. They had told me of coming recently charged with selling liquor with- , West at a time when the swiftest mode out a license. He plead not guilty, but , of transportation to Montana was by the evidence warranted his beine held In , steamer on the Missouri river as far U0 ball for trial at next term of oounty as Fort Benton thence by stage to conrt. la default of which he was taken Helena. I was duly Interested In all to N'ewfane. He came here from Gard- j they had to tell: tbetr trip of seven ty ner, Mass. ; !K days from St. Louis to Fort Next Monday ovenirur an entertain- , Benton; their Journeytngs to dK ment win be (riven in the opera house , ferent valleys not stopping until they unler the a-isplces of the Bellows Fall fund the one best adapted for their Boat club The Now England shore ' business of tock-ralaing: their lack of fniai Brr Haroor. Mali, to Newport, neighbors and consequent loneilnese: R. I., will tt d-scrtted nd UU-strifd 07 I ' a" tbU. happened years ago, and D. W. Howard of Dorchester. Mass. He f th vm now sitting beside me as eota wlll be accompanied by the Moaart la- 1 fortable and placid as If life had been tie' iuartet 1 tor them a flowery bed of ae. and happy A young man named William Day. said ?f ch1WlM?t their prospect of a win to be from Brandon, was fined Vfl and ! 'r. , m California. They had 'ceased to costs of S for having stolen a quantity ; !"" my "'"1"; reJ, more tor of clothing from the room of another ! .7 ,ts hf.rls1hPa 1 boarder In the Burnett house on West- f", Vfr It"" wUh ,ts f"7 iUt minster street Monday night. His trial 1 "?d ";urf'- Tnev, w negative sort was held Tuesday before Justice O'Brien. . .ill ",eVr ,h?,M myJn Grand Juror H D. Ryder prosecuting J'v, T.u ",1'8 " raeal;e. when and F B rinirw dofondlnr 1 mlht at thi'' mercy. I could not ami t. a. nngree uerenamg. forget mv own dlwomfltwr. ,r th- St. Peter's church was the scene Tues- j day morning of a brilliant weddins. the contracting parties being William H. Savage of the Keene Cash grocery and Miss Mary McGuirk of North Walpole. Both are well-known young people here. Mr. Savage is a member of a number of Catholic secret societies, of the board of village Are wardens, and of the police force. Rev. Russell H. Conwell's lecture Mon (lav nlzht "The Jollv FLirthnuVe" drew ! an audience that filled every seat In the I 11 was at Dillon. Montana, that she opera house and the Woman's club have j came on board a pale, sweet-faced the satisfaction of knowing they gave woman of thirty, earrving In her arms a great pleasure to nearly a thousand peo- vrT, tlnv lay. and followed by a pro pie. Althouzh the prices were only JS I l??V?a. of bflvs of varying sizes and ages, and M cents the club will net a little i tn"" accompanied her. bringing over m besides paying all expenses, and j 'unch-basket. telescope bag. and roll of with a high priced lecturer. I bI?.n,let- fal w1tn a "-' rood-by ... , , , left her alone with her small army of -11 -r- ! feet under water near Sabina bridge, causing a suspension of running by at tn. point tor a part or one oay. t. of Mlnard-s pond has been full and run- mla, And t h rf y nlng over the spillway for many days as n wnd , T j J and there Is to be no fears of a shortace at PocateIh)... ,nt tlmM.. ,.oh In our water supply during the coming j abrtut two .etock ln the aoa-wlnter- j Imputsively I rose from my seat and The Woodstock association of Baptist I win found myself standing beside her, churches are today holding a mission offorlng my . assistance, expressing my study Institute at the Baptist church. ! lnteref In her family, and giving assur The forenoon is devoted to woman's mis- ances of my ability to dent with children sioa circles and mission study classes. 1 from a month old up to any age. While This afternoon there are two addresses, j thus advertising myself. I was taking one upon mission literature and another I Inventory of the children, noting ages, on mission study ln the Sunday school. 1 size. and personal appearance. The Tonight at T.J there will be addresses j n!est was a curly-headed, manly little by Dr. Wltten of Boston and Miss Shtnn ' fellow of eleven: the next in the descend of Burmah. j lis scale was like his mother in look. Rev. J. S. Cole, a student in Williams "S1 h 'tras about eltrht: then came a college, supplied the pulpit of the Metho- "V1? Bv before we came down dist chureh last Sunday, and .Rev. L. O. ! V fat rofflcklng boy of three: next Sherburne, the former pastor, will oc- Wra the last year's baby of four cupy It next Sunday In the Interest of j ift" months, and finally the wee new the Vermont Bible society. It Is probable I ??rw ln b mother s arms. The Mr. Cole will be asked to become th- i Ylc was turnd faclnf th taother permanent supply until the next con- h" th? three smallest voungsters. whU ference. coming here each Saturday for "West boy was beside her. Did the purpose. He was the guest of Mrs. 'TvfT, . tu,'nHI' .OVeL.one. V P n.il1 while here another as they t there? Not a bit of " . , , , It: el one a'tH as If he were a duly The Wheeler steam laundry has been J appoints Kody-euard to the mother, obliged to advance prices on some classes j ukfnff the Tt of a wlje ,Wer of work. The price for collars and cuffs , brother to the one Jvwt below him la th has been raised from two to two and scai. one-half cents, and fancy shirts from 10 sh. m(ive1 slightly towards the boy. to 12 cents. t This Uundry U one of the a, ,f TPreing .1 desire that I should last In all this section to advance on ; sit by, nr and I. nothing loth, was account of the increased cost of oelp nr wedged into the third of a seat, not and supplies, but Its prices still average , evn thinking that I generally required materially below other laundries of New j a cnod two. thirds of any seat. In such England. manner began my acou.ilnt.ince with C. W. Osgood entertained his Bible My Lady of the Rocky Mountains, which class of the Congregational caurch at j acquaintance, to be exact, lasted from his home Wednesday evening. He gave ; nlre In the evening until two ln the a very enjoyable account of a recent ' morning five hours, yet hours replete visit to Cleveland. Ohio, and told of 1 with enjoyment and rich In Information, many pointy of Interest about the city, j So Interested did I become In My Lady's; Ueiruy rexresnmeais were svw. l oc members of the class separated, feeling that a very pleasant evening had been passed, which added one n;ore to the many delightful ones spent in Mr. Os good's home. Dennis Drlslane. who has run a milk nrf intn Rellowa Falls X rears, and who is still selling his milk, all ot wnicn ; he produces himself, at the uniform price j of five cents a quart, although others are charging six and seven, has TS rega- j lar customers to whom he- delivers, about j 100 quarts. . The same customers have been with him most of the time and are I of the "sure pay" sort, so It is probable , he is netting as much for his milk as . "V " . . . t . , t. some wno get msner pnera uu - more ln bad bills. 1 Mis Deborah I. Corlew, daughter Of Mark R. Corlew. a former well-known resident of Westminster and Rocking- j ham. has made a decided suceess tn , grand opera singing In Boston during the . past few years, t-ast wee eunwu, 1 ne realized for the first time the grow evenlng she began the season at the 1 me divergence of their paths. Castle Square theatre and her aunts. BUt f Dell U the nearest point to Misses Ellen and Mary Corlew, went ( the ranch, how did It happen that you all down to hear her. She takes the part of , foojj the trln at Dillon, some fifty miles Ortrud In Wagner's Lohengrin. In for- further off?" And then, with a fond mer years she sang at a numoer 01 ine local churches. Mr. Corlew died In Bos ton tn June. Ira's. . . - ,. .v.- nr,h a-d of in WIS lasnion- "e an came onwn 10 PSiliS. between VWv. tha villa? between tng to Mlnard's pond, a portion of which m nfrref hv the J. B. Morgan estate for a site for a hospital, has been bought by the new Ice company which succeeds the Evans Ice company. The new com pany Is under the name of the Bellows Falls lee company, and ln the contract with the Morgan estate the company retains the right to erect an Ice chute over the Morgan land, all the way from the pond, for the purpose of sliding Ice down to the Urge houses which they will build upon their purchase. This will ma terially lessen the expense of transport ing the tee the half mile or more and the storage at the village Is much of an advantage over storing at the pond. They will probably erect one or more dwellings on the land, but may not get to It this season. They will fill the Ice houses this season at the Evans resi dence on Atkinson street. The .regular bi-monthly meeting of the Woman's club was held Tuesday after noon In Odd Fellows' halt. The pro gram was tn the hands of the economics committee .and Mrs. ZIna H. Allbee chairman, presided. The subject was "Housekeeping in Other Lands, Italy being represented by Miss Mary Read, Spain by Mrs. D. E. Webster, and Hol land by Mrs. C R. Campbell. These women wore the costumes of the lands they represented and told of the .hemes and home-making. One of the most en joyable numbers on the program was a Paper by Mrs. Sarah E. Smith of Vladivostock. Russia, on the homes and life in that country. The music was In charge of the music committee and con sisted of violin and vocal eIecUons. An exhibition and sale of articles by the Walpole Arts and Crafts society con tinued throughout the afternoon and was of great interest. This was one of the most largely attended meetings this sea son and many new members were re ported. , at nersons to the mare T.. thU iuntrU IT. while U Ng- He in this country m n. 1 mil A land It la ISO. MY LADY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS There is no denying the fact that I was decidedly sleepy and fast growing stupid and cross as the moving train bore me onwurd to my destination and t realized the fact, more and more, that I must sit there all throuch the night I there In the ordinary day coach with- j out so much as a oil low ta mn mv nmr I neck from dislocation. Every berth In ! tne Pullman was taken, and I was face to face with my first experience of alt tin up all night a prospect far from Pleasing. It was on a train of the Oregon Short I Line, going from Butte. Montana, to Salt Lake City; my companions, two widows of middle age. wboee best days had been spent on Montana ranches. T tiet Mm ,lw t h. Avt - aw ' " J " ' " t . ii ins, uriuiTU incui pect of a sleeptess night, and looked about rae for oraethtag or somebody to occupy my thoughts. Since that night I have tried to pot myself back into the same condition of mmd that I was then enjoying, and have vainly wondered how I could have survived the night had not My Lady of the Rocky Mountains come to my rescue. She gave me food for thought and field for action but I must introduce you to hcrln the proper fash- Ion. .-n!ptTwhrtl,hrhlldI I to complain of the lack of a nleht's sleep when that wtman would not catch inrwiw, ootn rxisi, present, ana tuiure. that I speedily forgot all my own trou bles, and was sleepy no longer. "Could I hold the baby, and give her a little rest" "Certainly." was the inawer. for I knew that with that baby In my arms It would be much easier for rae to get nearer to her life's history. ro i' '" " on he train at that moment looking after the baggage but he would leave at the xt station, and return to their ranch -lone, while she kert on to her mother's home In Kansas When he came to say oodby. I complimented him on his fine t-mlir of bov,. to which he replied ' I ;m very proud of th-m." and the little fees turned nn to hl for a last ffnod-hv . - hI - kl evinced their fondnes for him. "Will he drive home to-night?" I .,t-d "Oh M." she renUe.1 "he will st,y over nIeht at rjeu. which Is the nenreit railroad station to the ranch, and drive home to-morrow." and there into her face an expression as If imk at the baby in ner arms, and at tne me time adjusting the bottle to the second babVs convenience, she explained have the services of a doctor and nurse at the ranch, and Just as .we were ready tn go home again I decided to go to Kansas to see my mother; as I only decided yesterday noon tnat I would go, vou can Imagine that we had some hust ling to do to get readv. "How old is the baby?" I asked, as suming It to be at least six weeks old. for It had been so enveloped ln cloak and honnet th.it I had not had a good took at It. She replied, "three weeks." with a placid air as If there was nothing strange In the whole proceeding. "Three weeks!" I gasped, looking closely at her to make sure that I was not mistaken. "Yes." she said, "three weeks old to-day, but I am so much better and stronger than I was last year when that one came"" pointing to the last year's baby--"that I c ill myself well." "And ("id you go to TOllon lost year?" I asked. "Oh, yes." she said, "three weeks old to-day, but I I could have no attention at Dellwhere my husband left the trainso we go on to Dillon, take a furnished house or some rooms, put the older children In school, and wait" "For the stork to come vour way?" I Interrupted. Smiling In a gentle sort of way, she said, "Yes, that's Just It" I looked across at the last year's baby. who had now fallen asleep on his three-year-old brother, and had a feeling of oltv for him that he should ao soon "nave his place usurped: but my pity was evi dently uncalled for, as at that moment he opened his eyes and looked at me as If he wanted to say. "If s all right, for I was alad of the chance to go to Dillon. and but for the new baby's coming I mht never have seen the world and Dflton." He shut his eyes and went to leep aim In. ana ror some momenta 1 was misv thinking what My Lady's life had Keen. I noticed the new shoes and the white collars and neckties worn by the hovs. the handsome overcoat on the I three-vear-old. the whits cloak and dainty lire bonnet on the new baby, and said to myself- "She is taking them home wen dressed, but how she has worked to do If The mother was neatly and suitably fnr fv-ii . there, m Have You Got Your Overcoat Yet? If not, let us show you a few nice things. New Browns, Grays and Blacks in full-back Chesterfields, the proper Coat this winter. We've something to please you at $10, $12, $15, $16 and up If you have got to have a Suit, we have some choice ones left yet, but don't come too late E. E. Perry & Co. CLOTHIERS and FURRIERS nothing ln the appearance ln any one of them to indicate that they were from a Montana ranch high up in the Rocky Mountains I beir your pardon, ranchers of the great Northwest: I have modified my opinions, and should have said that they were not like the dwellers of ranches as I bad supposed tbem to be. I was therefore all the more surprised when I learned of their Isolated life, their lack of school privileges and society of any kind, and then and there I felt that my previous conception of ranch families must go to the four winds If this family was a type of all. Aa If In answer to my thoughts, she told rae of her life from the time she married twelve years ago and came with her husband to Beaverhead County in Montana, settling within a mile or two of the summit of the Rockies They bought nine hundred and sixty ac es of "Improved" land, the Improve ment consisting of a one-room cabin only, which the original owner had been obliged to put up in order to maintain his claim to the property. The dimen sions of this room were sixteen by twenty feet, and in that room they lived untu after their fourth child was born. A year ago they built a log cabin of five 1 rooms, the husband doing all the heavy j work and the wife the papering. "For." she added, "we must do It alt ourselves, even to the cutting and hauling of the , tosr. or else do without our new home." ; "And do you mean to say that you an lived in that one roomslept, cooked. ( and ate there your husband and your- j self and the four children?" 1 "I do mean just 'that." she said, laugh ing at my evident consternation; "It's , only a matter of planning. You see." she went on to explain. I put the two j beds together at one end of the room. 1 teavlng space enough between them for a , trunk in which we 'kept most of our 1 clothing. Then for a table I had a large 1 dry-goods box. opened at one side, ln which were shelves and hooks for pou . and kettles and similar kitchen utensils. ( But now." she added, proudly, "we have three? chambers, a parlor, and a kitchen. ! but I don't know that I am any happier 1 than I was ln the one-room home. My j husband and I worked together: I always helped him outdoors when the babies . were asleep, and we saved our washing for rainy days when he could help me j indoors." Their capital ln the beginning was three I hundred dollars, with one pair of horses. ' and at the present time their horses and , cattle range the mountains, and each year 1 bring them ln a good living Income. I 1 confess I was not as deeply Interested In ' the details of stock raising, the number of ( head they owned, and the market price, , as I was In her domestic life and work, , and her ability to accept as a natural. ; every-day existence one that ieeraed to , me exceptional in Its hardships and lack , of enjoyment I was able to draw my own conclusions. however, that they had prospered flnan- elallv. or they could not present the well- . fed and welt-clothed appearance now so ( apparent. 1 "But have you no one for nelghborsr , I asked. I "No one but a few bachelors who live j on neighboring ranches and occasionally give us a call." I thought of all that It must mean to a man who "baches." as they say out In Montana, to go Into that well-kept home . where children were sweet and well-mannered, and the bread did not taste of too much soda. How those men live I alone, year after year, as they do. is a mmindmm. but. as Kipling says, "that's 1 another story." My mind was running on those bachelors as My Lady was going on with her talk; I brought myself back and listened. "We have to go twenty-five miles for our mall and for all our supplies, except what we send to a mail-order store for. My husband goes to town several times In the fall until the grub-stake Is all ln for the winter." "The whatr I asked. "What Is It that you put ln for the winter?" "Grub-stake." she replied, as If every -htv mirht tn know what that Is: but as my face maintained Its blank expression, she was kind) enougn to explain mat aii ranchers buy their winter's supply of food In the all months, and this supply Is called, tn miners' parlance, "grub stake." She said, "We always buy--" and then came an enumeration of vary ing amounts of food products which made my head whirl, and I begged her to atop until I found pencil and paper, tor i . knew that even if I had been able to remember the quantities stated no one t would have believed me unless I was able j to verify my statement With pencil ln hand I said, "Now you may begin." and , here Is the list Just as she gave tt to me- 1.000 pounds of flour. 400 pounds of ' sugar. SO pounds or lara. ao pounas or ranee. 1 500 pounds o( "spuds" (which beln Interpreted to an Eastern farmer meat eth potatoes), 300 pounds of cab bages 350 pounds of carrots, 2S0 pounas of beans and here she Interpolated that I omy ln buying all that we can ln that way they ail Just loved baked beans. "And j rather than paying twice as much for the there are the dried fruits." she added, t same things ln the nearby stores." 'the canned goods, and iou of othar The children by this time were begin nings I can't remember." " ning to wake up. The wee baby aauirraed And has your grub-stake been put In a little, as If he dldn"t like his bonnet for the winter?" I asked. the fourteen-months Infant sat upright "No: my husband will go home now. with a smile and his mouth put up for a and after driving tn the forty calves to kiss, while the older boys were putting their winter quarters for the cows with 1 n coats and straightening out neckties their calves are not allowed to range ln and there it was nearly two o'clock in the winter he will take his big wagoa ; the morning, and not a murmur or a and drive to town, buy our grub-stake. 1 whimper out of one of them. "I am and carry it back to the ranch. We i glad," she said, "that they have waked made out the list together before I left I up. as it will be much easier changing but he knows Just as well as I do what ' cars while they are awake than to wake la needed for the family. When all that ' thera up from a sound sleep." is done, he will come for us perhaps ' "But how can you manage, with an In a month or so and we shall all come 1 Four bags, to get these children out from home together." j one train into another?" "I should almost have thought you "Oh. Til get along some way." she said would have left the oldest boy at home j and while I helped with the putting on of as company for his father." I remarked, coats and hats, she was giving to each "Tes. his father would have kept him, , child his special part of the program except that he knew I needed his- assist- j A3 the train moved more and more slow ance." I had noticed his willingness to 1 !F- the children were getting into tine and do everything his mother asked of him. when at last the cars came to a standstill, from taking off the second baby's cloak aH were ready to move, and It was ln this to the picking up of his bottle, and not fashion that they rassed from mc- once did he act in any way that did not show that it was his business to nlav th part of a famhy helper, so I christened , hand: the oldest boy carried In his arms sPendlaS several weeks with hertJn him ' little father." During our conversa- 1 the last year's baby of fourteen months- ! moUler- Urs. L. A. Eddy grand tlon the "little father" had slipped out j the eight-year -old boy led by the hand' il". C. E. Walker and Mrs E. tc- a into another seat where he had stretched the one who was three years: and that , ams went last week tn rSrw., himself out and fallen asleep, without so : three-year-old-nothing out a baby him- whre they will spend the wtl. . much as loosening his necktie. And . "-actually tugged off the bundle of Walker's son E L Wiiv., wlt she told me what that boy could do 1 allows and blankets, being encouraged Mrs Fred Turfe- fc get V breakfast for the family when she by his mother, who said. "He thinks he . Tdtker Under?r d hfr scn' ebon was sick: take care of the fires; wait on ' a HtUe man." I followed in the rear ofSt' week Wrxiion3 Thursday the younger chlilren. and-but sne did j J the lunch-basket and saw them I FalU and Bowenf 2.t0B of Ben5ws not enumerate further-breaking off with I banded down the steps, one by one. and the attending nrJ Saxt0a mver -"My children must help me. or I could . they went out into the darkiess which Ludlow caring? ttn1 a Ur3e tloax never get along as I ao." , enveloped them. iw is caring for them. But I could not get away from the 1 1 returned to my seat In the car. which ' fwVJ J" ?' ?Jcket entertained a few thought of that grub-stake, and kept re- ! w seemed so lonely, and the sleeo i t, f me Saturday evening In a ... 1. i , , , . . . thf hill v. - - , . . f nonor or Atiae riflH.u j . "how they could ever eat so much." 'mm au again, inquiring' -nay. my nusoand. she said, "thinks nothing of eating a whole mince pie in ctcums, iw a piece 01 pors caxe thrown In" but before she could con- tlnue that evening bill of fare I was asking about the pork cake what was It like, how did she make It? "As you have your pencil and paper." she said, "you may as well put that down with the rest of your information, for I have the rule right tn my head. I've made it so much." So. for the benefit of other ranchers who may have husbands and children with big appetites. Til give it ln lull: One pint of salt pork, chopped; one ISM 1S0O to 3000 feet slight rainfall and ' tenn wer Raymond Eddy, Harold Has plnt of cold coffee: two pounds of sugar: a seml-destrt vegetation. The shrubs ' ke"- Peal-I Martin. Pearl Prouty. Nor totnakifTrSi ?UfcZifZ,V?M fre,m0,sU-v of a du". eraytan green. Pret- 1 raa" bright and Arthur Wright Those to make It good and stiff : plenty of raisins ty little anuals grow under the shelter ' who were absent only one-half day are ..... U. "This rule makes a large quantity,' she added, "and I always bake it tn a milk-pan. When I have that and a dozen ralnce pies on hand. I think I am pro vided for. at least for a few days." As we were talking I noticed the fine quality of the baby's dress, with Its hem- I? lDLZ, H Into her baby clothes. "Oh, that Is only a common dress, she said: "I have three others much handsomer, with finer work." and in a somwhat exultant fashion as much as to say, "I am not so common place as you think I am" she said. "And all my sheets and pillow-cases are fin ished ln the same way. with hemstitching and drawn-work." And when I asked haw on earth she found time to do such fancy work, she said that after the chil dren were In bed she worked and her husband whittled. "So," she added, "we have our little home full of all sorts of pretty things he has made." Of course I tried to convince her that she was a very foolish woman to do that unneces sary work while In my heart I was ad miring her ability to do It but her de fense was that she had no club to at tend, no neighbors to visit no church work to lake her time, so she had a right to do tire things It pleased her best to do. Hemstitching and drawn-work in a log cabin twenty-Ova miles from a post office, and tn the wilds of the Rocky Mountains! Wnat would she tell me next? "And I take eight magazines, and read them an. too." I was now pre pared to have her tell me that she had established a public library ln her neigh borhood, that It had been endowed by Mr. Carnegie, and so on: but at this point the subject changed to shopping how did she manage to buy the clothes for herself and family? "Well." she said, "I can't go shopping like other women. So when my cata logue comes from a mail-order store, I say to my husband. 'Let's go to Chicago tonight and buy all our winter clothes.' So we sit down together and make out a list from that catalogue of an sorts of wearing apparel, from the baby's stock- lngs to overalls for the boys; and we haven't paid a single cent for carfare, either. We frequently order a hundred dollars' worth at a time, as thera la eccra- '-pyright 1907 bv Hart Schaifner r? Marx ' My Lady, with the new baby ln arms , carried the telecnne K- - -iti. ..1..' '. 2any boon now came In broken naps. - &cpi in aoeyance for so every turn In the seat and with ery twist of my neck to make myself ' uiute. 1 naa visions of a 1 Procession of children but the children j of dreams had been transformed Into . 3nsels whose wings were spread. nd ften have I seen them since tn my day- i dreams My Lady of the Rocky Mountains ' aco- ner "'tie army of boys, ' The plants cf Karoo sprout, bloom and die during an April shower The Karoo is a broad, elevated tact of tan in Cape Colonv. with an iiti,,,. " , 01 l&nre DUSfte4 f!nrM .ti l , I. j pearing in seedlings only one or two " ' - muu uuli UJ DearinjT in seeriHnc-w niilw , . urcaea nign, ana these cotyledons are still fresh and green. The adaptation of these ephemeral plants to a dry climate turns on the short durati6n of their lives, a single shower being sufficient to en- ' their development aoie mem to pass through the whole GROWING CHILDREN Advice to Mothers of Brattleboro. 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As a body builder and strength creator for old people, delicate children, weak. J run-down persons, after sickness, and for 1 chronic coughs, colds, bronchitis, and all throat and lung troubles, Vlnol Is uaex- celled. Try Vlnol on our offer to return money If It falls to give satisfaction. George E. Greene Druggist, BrattUboro. e. ft. HrW GRAFTON. W i'arl0n Mnls 18 " S. Hemen- town overnV' Bn"Urt in C.H3 U at ifT Mass.. K-strLrrH, firuer- s? cupw SmL oc- Sunday morning e church Fairbanks, this week evil on r, 1T. 71? VWS the Vermont MaVrXT I0naS to co.mpany, It. R Din,.), . . r and irifv, u -ivbi ner house Miss Bernice .... . ' from Bellows Pali. . -JT .lueuy the m , An.-irnw, to wnoca ' . Party was a complete surprise. The 1 i 7 pleasantly with gamea 1 1 Toca and instrumental music, and passed pleasantly with gamea cake and coffee were served. The grammar, primary. Valley, Pettin giU and Houghtonville schools closed last week. Miss Thayer and Miss WlllanJ have returned to their homes In Bellows Falls. Miss Babbitt to her home ln South Londonderry and ML53 Adams to her home la WlUiamsvlile. It Is regretted that Miss Adams will not return this winter to the primary school, where she has taught many terms. Pupils in the primary school having no absent or nrHv m-ir. . aiarele Klwarrf t- 1 ri Tdnn 11. - " ' 1 atui .-llta I Pmtllv Trfvp i Twi .4 . u - A, Prouty. Prizes were awarded to the fol lowing as having the most headmarks In spelling In three classes: Dorothy Cam bridge. Angle Hakey, Harold Haskell, Frank Jennison and Pearl Martin. Flor ence M. Adams was teacher. Master Dean King Zellar gave a Hal lowe'en party recently on the Hth anni versary of his birth. Eighteen of his young friends were present The time was spent tn playing games until Mrs. Zeller announced that refreshments were ready. The menu consisted of three kinds of cakes, a variety of cookies, grapes, candy and corn balls. Mas ter Dean received many gifts, andt the guests departed, thanking the host ess for the good time they had enjoyed? and wishing their young friend many re turns of the day. SAXTONS RIVER. Mrs. Edward King visited recently In, Lebanon, N. H. Mr. and Mrs. George Carle ton. Jr., or Windham were at C. H. Twttchell's Tues day. Chester Coleman and family are mov ing from the Hartley farm to their owra. farm. Miss Clara White of Chester has been with her sister, Mrs. Orrin Kingsbury, recently. C. C. Johnson and daughter, Nettle, of Townsbend visited Saturday at H. C. Johnson's. The ladles of the Baptist churcb will serve their annual chlsken-pia supper Tuesday evening ln the vestry. G. R. Tower will finish work at the Coleman farm this week. C. L. Gala finished work there Tuesday. Mrs. James Little went to Townsbend Saturday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Al bert Barry. She returned Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kingsbury of Chester visited Mr. Kingsbury's brother. I urna n-ingsoury, a tew nays last ween. 1 Frank Jones and family, who have lived h" ? Z?, JEILE" They expect to move soon to the ho use- I recently vacated by Charlea donna. E1