WRITING ANOPERA W. «. GILBERT TELLE HOW HK PRO- J OUCE6 COMIC LIBRETTO. Accept None of the VERMONT'S WAR GOVERNOR. • ‘There's Governar Holbrook buried up . Pretended Substitutes for Royal Ä much lower than R oyal , some grocers are urging consumers tp use them in place of the R oyal at m * r If you desire to try any of the pretended substitutes for R oyal B aking P owder bear in mind that they are all made from cheaper and inferior ingredients, and are not SO great in leavening strength nor of equal money value. Pay the price of the R oyal B akino P owder for the R oyal only. ’ It is still more important, however, that R oyal B aking P owder is purer and more wholesome, and makes better, finer, and more healthful food than any. other baking •bout M pounds of M mm L' Hood’s Birsaparilla. I wish to give the fo'. Thebtoodhasssito arost important efo lowing testimonial ; I have several times monta, small round oorpnscles, rwd and *mo, in proportion ef about 300 sed U> 10 otan« ia W aching ftlMite with Crooglng Ivy. Abraham Lincoln •red the chief traits “Well," he replied I ISJECAUSE inferior and cheaper made baking the tame retailprice. • to invent a plot, the power to ontbefamoMWM k governor of Ver- mont, who to still living In Brattle- f ■ Holbrook was ths nonmucK rolbbool friend and adviser of Lincoln during the dark days of the of the north. the faculty to write readily dialogue, lyr ics and muricri numbers.” “I believe. Mr. Gilbert," I said, “that I you have little or no ear for murio. Don’t you find this interferes with your I rhythmical numbers?” “It ia quite true that I have no ear for music, but I have a very sensitive ear for rhythm; it ia precisely the difference between time and tuna lam very fond I of music, but I don’t know a diacord when I hear one. On the other hand, the slightcot error in time, which would probably escape a musician, would jas i meet gratingly on my ear. My fondnees for music chiefly lies in bearing pieces which are connected in my mind with associations. 1 would rather hear an unknown soprano singing a song I know I than Patti ringing one I did not know.” Gflburtr* d° g ®“* M r ‘ Like Lincoln, * •• *’*•> »»• M" er John Holbrook and Sarah Knowlton Hol brook, who were among the earltoel set tlers of Brattlebora Young Holbrook’s early life wee passed upon bls father’s ferns, and although his educational advantages were meager he read and studleda great deni at home. He became.a contributor to the lending agri cultural papers of the day, and hto ooa- stani writing gave him a clear and foroe- to say that although thia now diverrion touot discuased publielythevetyUab- eet view to taken of it Under the shadow of Harvard and Professor Janwa it has a scientiflc aspect A Wooten WhMBoaM describe bsrseif as earnest says that to her opinion tbs medium gets into communication with M W., iff the medium who Uvee up back stain in a di shoveled > other Hubbard and does not As the eld school of mefeine simply tried to remove the symptoms in^wd of the blood is impure, thin, laeking in the •ourc^s.of them, tnueb of the poison was nutrition noesssary to sustain u>o health left in my system to appear in an Itahlng humor on my boiy with very violent exer- and nerve strength of the body. Tb«i ThU Tired Feeling, Nervousness, Scrofula, Balt Rheum, or others of the long were more or less l-dieitÜMM ol poison in train of ills, according to tbe temperament and diapooftion, attack tbe victim. Tbeonly pofmanent remedy is found in on my body. 1 then purchased a bottle of ■ reliable blood medicine like Hood’s Bar Hood's SoTstparilla, and after using that ■aparilla, which acts upon the red cor and a half ofanoi her bottle, the sores and pusclos, enriching them and increasing hum r disappeared. I attended the Christ their number. It thus restores the vital ian Endeavor Convention In Montreal and fluid to healthy addition, expels all Im also visited the Worid s Ifoir in tbe hottest purity, cures Nervousness, That Tired Feel wealher of tbe summer. Was on the go * Ing, Scrofula and ail other diseases arising all the time, but Hod No Roourronoe nt ths hurn'ng snd itching reneation which not by our own statement»!, but by what t>*l iu irred every previous summer's out J**«Uy reliable penile my I nMton' then-fM, to be es. aho®i Hood’s Sarsaparilla Head th. tbuslsstic in my praises of Hood's Bar- Mfiarills B amukl 8. 8 cmrx < l , Pastor of Fise Baptist Chu ch, Apalachin, N. Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla that Governor Holbrook's letters were among tbe boot of the day, and that after The and Nerve powder or preparation. reading one of them ho always know ex communion with the visitor’s subooo actly what the governor meant. aciousnese transcends all mind reading Holbrook’s early training led him to bo These mediums are consulted in the one of the originators of the Vermont gravest matters of businses and affaire. The readers of this paper will be pleased State Agricultural society and made him ■OVAL «AKH» POWBtR co , 1M WALL ST;, NCW-VOmt. In one case a rich man had died, and his to learn that there to at toast one dreaded well known to an Immense number of Vermonters even before be sought guber- will could not be found. A clairvoyant disease that science hae been able to cure “Plots? Good gracious! where do they I nstorial honors. For a quarter of a oen- was consulted, who said ha had gone _ in ail Ito etagee, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s catnafrotn! I don’t know. A chance tury be has been president of the Vermont into his grave with the will in his coat- I Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure remark in conversation, a little acci Savings bank, and for 43 yean ho has bson tail pocket The body waa exhumed, ktoown to the medical fraternity Catarrh AN ECCENTRIC PAINTER. dental incident, a trifling object, may a trustee of tho Vermont State asylum. i Moral suggest a train of thought which devel When be became governor in October,' to Visitors. IpöFT REPEATED STOÌY OF TRUE ops into a startling plot. Of oouroe 11 1891, be recommended that one-half the A *------ -------- M th* Mood and mucous Broderip and Sir Richard Owen, says am talking of original plots. 1 don’t war expenses be paid by direct taxation When the typhoid fever epidemic wm ^tb«’ dtorase. and°gi^ Ht. ¿.PHILANTHROPY. the latter in his '’Reminiscences,'' call adapting a play or translating a and that the remainder be funded on long u !»• ........I term bonds. The legislature followsd hto building up th walked together to Turner’s residence, play writing one. Taking my own plots, advice, and Vermont was the first state, at ite height, when caaea ware bring re- which was slightly dingy in outward for instance, the ’Mikado’ waa suggested Il to said, to complete tbe payment of her ported daily and everybody expected that The proprictors>&lv7so>mu When they arrivmFat £s war debt. After the battle of Antietam wiere woum ee many deaths from tbe curative powers, that they offer One Hum Ubarle« H. Haekley. a Pleaser Lamber- appearance. door, they wiUte^ some time before their study, ’The Yeomen of the Guard' by Governor Holbrook wrote to President diaeaae. one local flower firm decided to dred Dollaro for any case that it fails to BEST SUITED1^ ring at the bell was answered. At last even a more unlikely incident I had 90 Lincoln suggesting that he ask the north make a speculation on death. It waa onrti^ 8*nd„fo,r list oftestimonials. figured out that there would bo an un- ffAiikSd by'&2S2?75i .Toledo. O. an elderly person opened the door a few minutes one day to wait at Uxbridge for 900,000 more men, and shortly there usual number of deaths and that thia Pruggtore, 78a. for That Veanlry. F or C°N°’TlONS/biGÉSTlVEO^■ inches and asked them suspiciously what station for a train, and I saw the adver after the preaidant issued bls call for 300,- 000. Governor Holbrook was very active I ! - Lorn G sud Rapids, Mich., Erenin« Press. would cause a demand for aa unusual they wanted. They replied that they tisement of the ‘Tower Furnishing Com in raising troop«, and Vermont sent four number of floral ptecea. tn the menn. I ' Dyspeptic,Delicate,Infirm and* WAY sait - xo bost . E The moot beautiful epot in ail this city Wished to see Mr. Turner. The door pany,' representing a number of beef regiments under the nine months’ call is insepa ably associated with the name was immediately, shut iu-ibeir faces, eaters—why, goodness only knows. It She also sent tbe first regiment under the I facture of floral pieces moss ia aa abso- Oo Rast from Portland. Psndleton, Walla to Spokane and Greet of Hack lev. Chariee H. Hackley has but after a time the person came back gave me an idea, and I wrote the play three yeam' «nil and all her soldier« were lute necessity. and tbe peculiar kind that | been in the lumber business here eon- to say that they might enter. When is used comes tram Oregon and Wash- n*‘8t'I -i- e* a WQTrn - Originally as one of modern life in the volunteers. tincously since IBM and in that time ington. Tlwflrataqne^tlMMvhtto louii.lLtanA he tN - they got into the hall, she showed them Tower of . London. Then it suddenly IN “ < hae amassed a fortune which give« him IN MR8. BROWNING’S MEMORY. Into a room and forthwith shut the.door occurred to me to throw the time of it xa rating among tbe weedthy men oCthe i FOR uauon. But with wealth there did not upon them. They then discovered, with j back to that of Queen Elisabeth. Hav- tome dismay, that this apartment was ing got one ’ s plot, the next step is to fit pataate R.r husr to m come that tightening of the puree string» corner in it The moss has arrivsd ¿d C°0^^BG^^£B,kr^ which is generally a marked character- in total darkness, with tbe blinds down in the characters. And tho chief point baa been placed ia storage. But out of Oregon. or^I.WhttiJ^V^^ A*’ Ledbury, Herefordshire, Kn all tbe cases of typhoid fever tho deaths S l Paul, Minn., for printed matter and im - . istic of wealthy men. and the shutters up After a prolonged in doing so is to invent original charac- birthplace of Elisabeth Barrett I have numbered lees tbah ML arid thsrw formation about rates, routes, eta. It is no wonder then that the name ol interval they were told they might go ls about to erect a novel memorial In hon Charlee H. Hackley is known at borne up stairs. Upon arriving at the topmost “I write out the play as a story, just or if the author of “Aurora Leigh.” It and abroad. Hiq munificence to Muske- story they perceived Turner standing as carefully as though it were to be pub will not be a “storied urn or animated Francisco gon alone repreeenta an outlay of nearly lished in that form. 1 then try to divide bust,” but will take the form of a very Cblekrrinr, Hard taas, Fbeher Ptanos, Kaiay half a million. For tbe past twenty before several easels and taking his practical and useful town hall and clook SS.V terwa colors from a circular table which be it into acta. I think two acta.the right 1er eslatafues. tower. Some 37,000 has been contributed swung around to get at the paints be number for comic opera. At least my by the numerous residents of Ledbury experience — and that to 30 years old — required. He was painting several pic ursikg others who not only admire the poet, bnt are not so that it baa seriously interfered with tures at once, passing on from one to teaches mo so. Sometimes, of course, averse to adding a handsome public build his pleaifbre IMife. ^r ooaaetime past tbe other and applying to each in Ite the original story does not fall readily ing to tbe srohltecturai treasures of tbe his irienda have noticed that be lias turn tbe particular color he waa using into two acta, and so requires modifica town. ‘Borne <8,000 more are needed to seemed to grow young again and to have* till it was exbaueted^. i tion. Well, I put It by for a fortnight complete the work, and thle sum, It Is sx- Ml««, HIGH ORAOff recovered tbe health which be bad in After showing them all that there was or more, and then rewrite the whois pected, will bo contributed by the poet's HH youth. KIM thing without referring to the first copy. admirers regardlsm of geographical loca To a reporter for the Press Mr. Hack- to be seen Turner vouchsafed tbe ex woman to change her tion and tbe town ball project I find that 1 have omitted some good I DRUG GISTS, by explained *tje secret ot hio tranafor- planation of tbe treatment which they Mrs. Browning lived at Hope Rad, Led- i IWKo I AWMUM nation. “I have suffered for over 30 experienced upon entering tbe bouse things that were in the first edition and I J ohn C arle L So ns .N ew Y ork . He said that tbe bright light outside have introduced some other good things would have spoiled their eyes for prop that were not in it. I compare the two. mother and stater are sleeping the late cold erly appreciating the pictures, and that sleep. Her poetic genius developed early, voicet” and when she was a child of 11 years she to seo them to advantage an interval of Iwtbered more at night than in the day timee; indeed the general public has no astonished the good people of I«dbury by time. -The neuralgic and rheumatic darkness gak necessary. At this stage idea of the trouble it takes to produce a writing her first poem, ' The Batt|e of pain« in my limbs, which had been of tbe interview Broderip bad to leave Marathon, ’’ which, despite Its msny child a.COItDOVAN. growing in intensity for years, finally for some engagement, and then an event play that seems to run so smoothly and ish faults, proved that ■ naw poetlo star x became chronic. 1 made three trips to took place which Owen declares that so naturally. “One must work up toa good curtain, was beginning to twinkle in the flrma- the Het Spring« with only partial re none of his artist friends would ever be-1 A continuous down poor of rein, inclem •UV POUCE. 3 SOLE». lief and then fell back to my origina liiva Turner offered him a glam of (believe very strongly in this, although 1 ent weather, generally in winter and state. I couldn’t sit «till and my euffer- wine Il was while they were coming I never take up any controversiec, butsim- spring, are unfhvorable to all classts of in stairs that he first discovered sue the plygo my own way on my own lines. Twn H I down =»■ •«»» no ur» uisouvereu valids. But warmth and activity intnssd The last impneffon is always the strong an a^^t^TW C he T Pnto inw^d^ into the circulation counteracts these In- est, and thp audience will often pardon a on in Turner*« bosom. When they were for Pale People and what they had done flaences and interpose n defense against passing a little cupboard on the landing, feeble, wearisome act for one dramatic them. Hostetter’s Btomnch BittersTmoct clim a x at ito conclusion. I can generally tboroogh and effective of etomachice and completely evred me of roJ __ {I thia struggle reached a climax Finally ____________________________ ___ s.i , so ■rmbled mine that 1 wan interested tonics, not only enriches the blood, but tarrk wAea eserylAtay «far wrote to one who had given a te«ti-1 Turtier «aid, “Will you—will you have judge now what will have a good effect I aoceleratce i& circulation. For n chill, er monial, an eminent profeeeor of music I » glare of wtneF' This offer having been Sometimee, but very rarely, it is spoiled premonitory eymptomo of rheumatiem failed. Hann ac7«ainl- They always do in Canada. The reply I received wk I accepted, after a good deal of groping by the interpreters. W. L Douglas $3 $4 SS Kiffa even stronger than the printed test! fo the cupboard a decanter waa pro- their beet, bnt occasionally they fail to U -Wlh 1B I duoed, of which the original stopper realise my intention. The fact to that remedy. It to nlno invaiuabta for-dyspep ealbnt rttulU —Alfred W sia, liver complaint, constipation and ner- SbMn», Caldwell, Ohio. “I began, taking the pill« and found 1 had been wlth «»o I for comic opera many artists, especially ronensse. Never act out on a winter or tenors and sopranos, are necessarily en epriog tourney without IL Elderly per- them to be all that the professor had remains of some sherry at the bottom. gaged who are singers rather than actors, • OD• ^ *■>•’’•1‘oateand oonvnlescriitare told me thev would be. It was two ot This Owen duly consumed and shortly greatly aided by it. and it to not to be expected that care afterward took his leave, with many ex three months before I experienced ant this E visit had fully written comedy dialogue will re perceptible betterment of tny condition. pressions of the _ pleasure _______ _______ Hetly Green hMOMttwtadteeheblt of eell. My disease was of such long etandiny I afforded him and a disturbing convio- ceive full justice at their bands. “ Well, to go on with the writing of that I did not expect speedy recoven lion that tbe sherry might lurk indefl- noaieal adsilaistralloa rrW at ours. the play, I next sketch out quite roughly and waa thankful even to be relieved. JI nitely in his system * Doubtful Resds alone. The best progrereed rapidly, however, toward- I the dialogue and then fill in the musical VNNRCBMART BISK*. ■ re easy to ret, and cost no numbers as I fed inclined. I do not at-1 -seeovee»- end- for the last six month» I Givtag owe » siM»rv er «he rive, ■acre. Ask your dealer for have felt myself a perfectly well man. J I Some gueste of Mr. Richard Lovell Edge I tempt to write them in order, but just M Warren have recommended the pills to muny I worth were eitting with him one morning ss the humor takes me—one here, one There are few greater risks than allowing MEMORIAL TO MBS BROWNING. people and am only too glad to assist tn a bright ami ptaawuit room. It was I there, a sad one when J feel depreaeed, a ment While a resident ot Ledbury she a cold to fasten itself upon tho system. others to health through tbe medium ol I rather aa odd room in Its shape, being per this wonderful medicine. I cannot say I fectly circular. They were all busily en bright one when I an. in a happy mood. also wrote and published a volume called Whether it attacks the throat, ths lungs.the ■ Always the bee«. Known too much for what it has done for me/’ I gaged in talking and laughins at Mr When at last all thoee of the first act are I “Essay on Mind, and Other Poems,’’ ttomach or the muscular system, if given ■ everywhere. Ferry’s Herd Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all I Edgeworth’» emrmlny ene edntee, =hl=! cne done, it is sent to the composer to be set which sho afterward mid she had “long re *<» ■trengthen F A ium I «hr IMS tells you ’«bet, bow, and when to plant. » tne elements necescary to give new lift at the ladies suddenly noticed that she waa to music, with a copy of the rough pented of ae worthy of all repentance. ” Ito bold and can then bo Shaken off only Haul Free. Get IL Address i/J and richneea to tho blood and rector» I aow at quite a distance from tbe open Are sketch of the dialogue to show him how Another of her poetical efforta at thio pe with great difficulty. i! " • nt *reiy unnecessary to run those O. M. PERRY a CO., shattered nerves. They nre for sale by I place, although she had been sluing near It the different songs hang together. I riod wae her translation of “^ffachyloa,’’ I 4- !?' ^ L t co S<^P®*Hi«F»-A«oaBcpplied “ which, ” she onoe declared, “ was written all druggists, or inay be had by mat I when the converaation begun. nt m generally Jike reading it over to the ocen- I in 18 days and should have been thrown Jh th?Ef* of tbe stomach or to from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company. I All tbe ocher pereona preeent bad also I ToMhallaeitom w,u* effertuaily prevent the poeer, so as to give him my idea of .the Into tbe fire afterward. “ rh henectady, N. Y., for 50c per box, ot I changed their poeltlona in regard to it, trouble from iyreaaing. They are simple rhythm, which, as a matter of couni, he Tbe new town ball to to bo of two kinds six loxes for $2.50. I some who bad been faroff bring now quite ot stone, quarried in the neighborhood, --------------- - - . I osar and the reverse. She queetioned Mr varies at his pleasure. “There must be perfect good fellow and half, timber work will bo one of Its BBANoarrM's P ills tone up the system. Edgeworth eagerly, and be explained that this room was one of bls inventions. The ship between the writer and compoeer. features. On tbe ground floor are to bo a “Every middle aged map of sound flreplace was atstionary, but the floor of as there to much give and take to be well lighted entrance ball, a library and a memory who was brought up in town,’- the room moved upon pivots, so slowly, It managed. Meters have to be changed largo reeding room. On the first floor I clothe, aaade over. said Mr. Greotbar, “will recall the fact is true, that the motion was quite unno by the writer, or tunee altered by the will be tbe assembly room and a number of town offloea The stain are in the that when he was a boy he found great tioesble, but moving all the while and compoeer, to fit in with «ome idea, eome tower, which is to be surmounted by a intention, of the other partner. For in- I I handsome four dial eleok. Robert Bemtt delight in rattling a stick along the pick ■SB stance, the writer may have put a theme Browning, Mra. Browning’s son, still et fences. This amusement of child hood, like many others of that period of in one meter, and the composer hae a lives In the Ressonieo palace hie father life, appears to have been transmitted the heat."—Philadelphia Times. tune in hie head which will just suit the bought In Venice, and his Idea of a fitting from generation to generation without theme, but will not fit the scansion, and memorial for bis talented mother Is mors so the lyrics must be altered. Each must poetical than that of the good people of L«dbnry. He has converted a little chapel I Some swallowsor martins at Lake Grove other’* P“1 “ fal A i « a my branch tn the old palace Into a memorial room, I children of today are substantially like have found a novel place in which to build P0**”*«- There must be no jealousy, no • Venetian lamp Is kept burning th«w of their forefathers. But it might their neste and bring forth their ymmg. A H^d night and day. -—r- .. _ of terms, otherwise there seem to some that thig succession is iu danger .of being broken. In many sub-J boat wharf at tbe grove Is a sunken wharf The current in the Missouri river is at urban towns and villages there ia now on which there is a barrel nailed to a post Gasetta which serves as a buoy for the small ship times something remarkable. For a no picket fence. The modern spirit says Week past the river at its mouth has k , . ------- , ’ ------ * ■-------- inwnffnwr. iu tor BKieui vuis uffTTYi, wmcD •MT IS TNI WMLS. where the housee are as it in parks, and u bonded as both sods, is a bungbols about strange because openly and handsomely re been a raging maelstrom, and so swift LiniTED TUTE ONLY. where the younger children might not! 3 Inches across, and this serves the birds as munerated In tbe current coin of the realm. that several steamboats were tied up at know « picket fence if they ehould eee an entrance There they have built tbsir Il to carried on by elderly ladlea, who go tbe mouth waiting for it to subside. The one I have two children, for instance, neats and batched their egga We took a from house to bouse of rich people, aiv government steamboat Stone tried ssv nounctng their coming by beating a drum. era! times to breast the terrible current. who I am quite sure have never enjoyed boat Monday and pulling out to tbesunken and Dealen generally. the felicity Of rattling a hard stick wharf stood up and looked into the barrel lady of the bouse This offer accepted, they I _, / , T T" There were several nests In the bottom, and sit down and tell her the latete scandal and “ “ «"« ‘ PP 4 . “ I/ «»coeeded in mak against the resounding picket«. the newest stortae and on diteand are re I tbe “°«41 at all when the Miastosippi "It might indeed seem under such cir- not. It is probable that the birds have warded at the rate of half a crown an boar, r™* BD^ «becked the velocity of the Big cutnstanecs that thia it one of the enjoy- ___ found this novel place for nest building in ments of childhood which in some fami-1 previous summers, for the harrtl has been beaMm a handsome preaint should some Muddy.— Alton Sentinel ■»■ might be loot altogether; that one there many yearn When tbe mother bird» could m arvely expect the children of teach their young to fly. they must neea. Blood Purifier True Tonic. HIGHEST AWARD ^ WORLD’S FAIR, m PUBLIC BENEFACTOR AGEDPERSONS T SAFES T FO Q() ROOM HE I I MX/'A I A TT1 -U C . I ========== ZN H J nfmts Z WSÄ'MSi CHILDREN “ns xas AND CHOCOL I» Emuni Mca. & Shoes CATARRH Leave FERRY’S k SEEDS Fl T I Tutt CHIOK WE^ MEIICM nPEFOIIIEK'M “=QIVE AWAY< FRAZER c*}“, IdKCAdE DR. GUN*8 The English parliament will bo 900 . youth the children oft A Fsfoms Bottle. ’ ♦ should come upon a town A new style of bottle for poisons that wnTi ieT*?**S Is described by The Lancet has the neck wOUld inck nn V-rr^m^h wM V _______ ... -___ .__ •__ .. a?* f in by Ue girl pupils fo MARUI - EOUR BACK m T Yon need RKMCDY. UVER HUD GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS