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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31
The Missouri River.

To be appreciated, Missouri River must
be seen and heard during the April or June
rise, when its waters are red and thick with
the powdered soil they have brought from
the mountains and stolen from the farms in
the valleys. Then it pours and swirls and
eddies along with treacherous sound be-
tween chuckle and half suppressed whis-
per, that repels while it fascinates the listener
1t made millions of acres of rich black de-
posits, on which it still holds a mortgage,
the foreclosure of which no man can foresee.
Hundreds of farmers, after clearing away
the heavy timber and raising fine crops year
after year, on their eighty or more acres of
deep, inexhaustible river bottom, have seen
their entire possessions swept away in few
days by sudden and unexpected "change
of channel during an April or June " rise"
These changes of channel have different
causes. Sometimes giant cottonwood tree
that has been uprooted where the river has
risen upon the forest above is borne down
by the current aud lodged in the mud, where
it will gradually become embedded in the
yielding bottom, and perhaps lie in wait for
months, or even years, without giving any
particular sign of existence. At last an
unusual rise takes place, and then this hid
den "snag u" creates a diversion in the strong
current, which begins to circle round the
spot, and which eliminates in boiling eddy.
The eddy increases in depth and force,
gradually diverting the water from its for
mer course until new pathway is formed
in the river bed. If the eddy is located near
the shore at the upper edge of promontory,
and the water is sufficiently high to overflow
the flats, a new channel is sometimes carved
straight across some valuable farm or timber
strip, and a river town, where steamboats,
took freight and passengers last year, may
be from two to six miles distant from navig.
able water next year. A few years ago
Forest City, Missouri, was kissed day and
night by the dirty lips of this Western firt.
To-day the river sports miles away, out of
sight of the old love, and is whispering soft
things to White Cloud on the Kansas side,
which has gained river while the state has
lost several thousand acres of productive
cotton land that now support cattle and hogs
in Missouri. Missouri river towns are never
safe, except when located on bluffs, or table
lands like Omaha, White Cloud, st. Joseph
and Kansas City.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31

The most perfect home ever saw was a
little house into the sweet incense of whose
fires went no costly things. A thousand
dollars served as years living of father,
mother and three children. But the mother
was the creator of home her relations
with her children were the most beautiful
have ever seen even the dull and common
place man was lifted up and enabled to do
good work for souls by the atmosphere which
this woman created. Every inmate of her
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31

educational leparftnrh
THE STARS.

They walt all day unseen by us, unfelt;
Patient they bide behind the days full glare;
And we who watched the dawn when they were there
Thought we had seen them in the daylight melt
While the slow sun upon the earth-ne knelt.
Because the teeming sky seemed void and bare.
But for light coudlets In the dazzled air.
We had no thought that there all day they dweit.
Yet were they over u.s. alive and rue,
In the vast shades far up above the blue
The brooding shades beyond our daylight ken,--
Serene and patient In their conscious light,
Ready to sparkle for our Joy again,
The eternal jewels Of the short-ved ntght-ScrfJners
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31
The aNirrside.
For the Vermont watchman.
NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.


ny MARY r. WARD.
t,o,r, ,ha, soni q w..,i,,,
which mourns the Hight OF years,
which pirates OF the Joys Of childhood
And ofage as time OF tears
a,o,,a ,,. .,r.. ,,,r,. .o.
within itS brooklet bound,
Would masts Of busy traffic
Along its shores be foundY
s,on,, ,,o o.,,, 81, ,,,o uo,o. o,.,,,,o.
Up mountains wild but free,
would onr eyes e'er catch glimmer
OF the distant rolling sea2
ana,,,a .,, .,,....., ,..t.u,,,.
Ne'er warm to summers noon
Think you the years would bring US
Their precious harvest boom
.n,,,a s,o,,a u,o io,,, s,r.v.,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31

CmILpuooD,-The early years of child
hood are the store-house in which are
boarded the impressions that last through
life; in them are gathered the influences
that are 10 be ineffaceable in the after
career. We never forget the feelings we
then experienced-th tones, the gestures,
the faces of those we loved, or from whom
we shrank, with the passionate intensity Of
our fresh hearts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31
VEGETINE!
One Package in Powder Form
Cured Scrofula!
How to Reduce Your Doctors Bills!

IS BREMEN ST., EAST BosroN, Mass, Sept. 80, 1879.
Mr.. H. X. STgvESs-Dear .Sfr.-My little daughter
stella has been afflicted long time with ScroHia suffer
Ing everything employed different physicians In Easi
Boston, but they helped her none bought some Of yon
POWDER FORM vEGEtINE and my wife stepped it and
gave it to the child according the directions and we wer,
surprised in ortnighfs see how the child had
gained In flesh and strength She gaining every day
and can cheerfuly recommend your remedy be tn,
best we have tried.
Respectfully yours, J. T. WEBB.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31
vEGETINE!
Neuralgia, Kidney Complaint and
Rheumatism Yield to vegetine

BowERr BEACH, Me-, November s, 1879
Mr. H. X. STEvESs-Dear Sir:-For twenty years III,
wife was great sun ,rer from Neuraiga and within that
time has tried great many kinds of medicine but re.
oeived no benefit until she took the vEGErINE and sine
taking 1t has received much benent she takes great
pleasure in recommending it to all suffering from Yeura
gia or kidney complaint
For many years have been sufferer from Rheu-
masm and have never found anything that gave me th
relief that vEGETlNE has Therefore take pleasure In
recommending II to any suffering from Rhe1nasn Al,
being one OF the best blood purifiers now In use
REV. A. COOK,
Member OF the Maine Conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-31

~ I'd A wEEK.-sl2 DAY AT HOME easily
~ z made. costiy outfit Tree. Address TRUE
CO., Augusta, Maine. 1861
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19

The Shorter college, at Rome, Ga,
built by Col. Shorter, of that city, at a cost
of nearly 800, ,O0O, and donated by him to
the Baptist church, is described as a superb
building, and second in its educational IA
cilities to no similar institution in the southN
ern states. 1t is regarded as about the finest
individual donation ever made in this state.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: There are no
less than fourteen criminals In Texas who
have been found guilty of murder in the
first degree, and who are awaiting the ar
rival Of their days of execution or the de-
isiOn of the court of appe sis. There willie
be more hangings in Texas this year than in
any two states in the union.
Cotton, corn and cane are reported
doing finely in Louisiana. Rice is suffering
from low water. A local paper says: The
loss of the rice crop, which naturally follows
a decline Of the river in this season of the
year, viii prove a serious misfortune to the
financial prosperity of the parish of La.
fourehe. The yield of that cereal in the
parish in 1873 reached 34,4 ,448 barrels. The
present crop can not be safely estimated at
over one-third of that amount, and will
more likely fall short of than exceed that
estimate.
The hitherto despised, neglected and
apparently worthless pine straw has devel.
oped into new industry and an article of
export at Wilmington, North Carolina. Over
New York, last week, and the manufaetory
requires fifty tons week. 1t is said that at
the factory where it is consumed it first I'm ;
dergoes a sweating process, by which an
article of spirits is obtained, which is used
for medical purposes, and that it is then
manufactured into paper, and then an ar
ticle for stuffing mattresses.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
The Chief objection to Chinese.

Pail Mall Gazette, May 10Th There
is another and deeper reason than those
assigned by the Times in q long leading
article this morning for the hostility of
to Chinese immigration; and
it applies equally to English colonies and
to the United States. Not only is the
Chinaman, as the writer truly says, per-
sonslly Objectionable, but he is a protec-
ZIONIST and an absentee of the most viru.
lent type at one and at the same time
No one gets any pull out of q China
man. He buys his clothes from China,
he buys his food from china, and he
deal. exclusively through Cinnamon.
Thus, whether he is a gold digger or is
working for daily wages, neither Ameri-
cans nor Europeans can make anything
out oi him. When he has made as much
IS ne thinks viii keep him in comfort in
China, of he goes with his savings, and
the state or the colony knows him no
more But IN his place appears another
Chinaman equally as industrious, equally
penusious, equally inclined to take loW
wages, who goes through the same pro
eass, an then ia like manner disappears
/ Thus these thrifty Asiatics. By keeping
/ IeutireIv to the own Toutes of trade and
saving money or digging gold simply L
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19

TIE idea of reforming the Incorporate
by getting up cheap coffee houses in the
neigh borhOod of the rum shops has been
tried with much success in England
so great, in feet, that they have in many
cases compelled the rum dealers near by
to close their shops fer want of custom
which the coffee resorts had drawn away
from them. In Bristol, the rum sellers,
hearing of the proposed trial of the plan
there, hired every available location in
their quarter, and at first it seemed that
the reiormers were thwarted because Of
their inability to secure available rooms,
it being considered necessary to have the
coffee houses in the vicinity of the places
where the laboring people were wont to
resort for their morning and evening
drinks. The coffee men, however, outs
generated the rummies by sending out q
wagon every morning and evening, and
peddliDg the hot coffee and tea for q
penny a mug. The success was so great
that a number of benevolent individuals
have started coffee wagons, and have all
they can do to supply the demands of
the thirsty throngs which morning and
evening besiege the wagons.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
Persons Seldom Buried Alive.

The newspapers contain every once in
a while sensational accounts of the ex-
humstion of bodies that give what is
called unmistakable evidence of having
been buried alive. Change in position
of the corpse, often asserted to be proof
of premature interment, usually results
from chemical changes, especially from
gases generated by decomposition. Some
of the Pennsylvania journals have lately
published highscOlored, horrible nara
tive or the unquestionable revival OF
man who had been entombed three days
at q town of that state. Doubt of his
death having been excited, the grave
was opened, and it was shown, according
to the local chrOpiclers, that he had
fought desperately for his life, imprints
of his nails being visible on the lining
of the coffin, in some places torn to
shreds. This needs confirmation. It has
in all probability been much exagger>
ate1, and warmly hued with imagins>
tion. While such things have happened,
and may still happen, they are Of the
/ rsrest occurrence. WinglOW, the cele-
brstsd anstomist, is ssid to have had
two narrow escapes from burial alive,
and to have published, in consequence.
s treatise on the signs of death. Bou-
chut, Michael Levy and other physicians
have also expressed their views on the
subject; but all testimony prOcurable
estsb blishes the fsct that burial alive
hardly ever takes place IN these times
In coTrobOration OF this, many German
cities have IN their cemeteries mOrtuary
houses, in which the dead are kept som'
days before final interment, TIE bell
pull being 50 arranged that the slightes
motion of the body would sound al
siarn. So FAR these precautions hav'
been supeahuous In more than fortl
yesrs not ons sRpposed-to~be corpse hs
proved to be anything else.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
HyDaerisy Rebuked.
virrinia Citr (Nev.l ChronieIe.


Last evening a man came into Charley
Legate's restaurant and called for rum
omelet. Legate walked Jack to the
kitchen with the solemnity OF an old
eIephaut, and presently 8 waiter came
ont Nth s beefsteak. The customer
looked at the steak a moment 'snd
remarked:
" Look>a.here, I ordered a rum
omelet."
fI know you did, my boy, but you
can't have it." said Legate, coming up.
" You know last year you sWOre on, and
tied a blue ribbon to your vest. It's
there yet. Now, you contemplate hSs
pocrite, do you s'pose you are goin' round
this town Haunting the ensign of sobTiety
in the lace of the public and imagine
you can come here, stuff yourself with
rum nmelets, and make me partieeps
criminis to the deception Haven't you
got any more self-respeet than to observe
the letter of the law and bust the Etuttln
out of it? That sort of a lay don't go
down here, my friend. II may do at
some second-class hash houses, where
thew take neither the diges tion nor the
morals of a man into consideration. Pm
looking after both. won't have sneak
ing hypocrisy in roy house. dispise
the crawling wretch who
ooh ! Legate, speak no more. 1hou
turuest mine eyes into my very soul,
yelled the distracted patron, and he
called for more eggs, and the irrepTessl Die
caterer ent back into the kitchen with
the air of q man who had served hls
country we'll, as he remarked:
''I had to bluff him Or acknowledge L
was Just out of rum.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
Hobart Pasha on Big IrOu-CIads.

Hobart PaSha on Big ITOu-Claus'
The following letter has been published
in England, to show that the building OF
huge iron.clsds has been carried too lar
for efficiency:
NV Dear Bras=y: was so glad to
see your letter in the Times about large
ships to be used for fighting purposes,
because it 30 thoroughly accords with my
humble opinion on the matter. / am
sure that you are right. What we want
is small, heavily-armed, fast vessels, that
can, as it were, hop round their enemy
like a cooper round a cask,' hitting him
on every vulnerable point, shelnng MS
decks at long range, and worrying him tO
death. I hope you will continue TO
maintain the ground that you have taken
up
Ofcourse, the small vessels would be
liable to hard knocks now and then put
YOU can not 90 to war in kid gloves.
3" AS to bombaTding forts, rely on 1t,
in these days of thiTty-fve tons In
masked batteries, or batteries cased with
thirty inches of iron, the idea is obsolete
mo sane man would think of such a.
thing, Fleets guns can only be used
against land defenses IN making diver.
sion while landing troops. Remember,
also, that the immense cost Of losing, by
torpedoes, or otherwise, one OF tbe ne"
monsters such as Italy has built.
{" No; stick to the idea OF small vessels,
and common sense must bear you out TO
the end. If you can find the American
Review of November last you will see my
humble opinion on naval warfare Of the
future.
Faithfully yOurs,
HOBART PASTA"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19

take L oft of the country, seem to the
upsophisticated American and equally
dull Australian to be by no means so
useful to the country as a less Industrious,
less penurious and less home~sick EdBo-
pean, whatever effect their method may
have Upon the wealth OF the world at
large. This, at any rate, is the chic f
reason why men who are worth arguing
with support such movements as those
of the labor party in California; and
writer's who wish to combat their argu.
menta efFectuaIly will have to take q
wider view of the subject than they take
at present
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19

THE modern Sir John Franklin is DIR.
Nordenskjold, of the Swedish polar ex.
pedition. Several months ago he left
the coast of northern Siberia, expecting
to reach Behring's straits in a short time
and send dispatch home. Since then
not word has been heard from him,
and there are grave fears that he may
have been lost, and several expeditions
are about to start out in search of the
missing explorer. The governor of east
Siberia has been ordered to dispatch an
expedition to the north overland. An
other expedition will be provided with
powerful iron screw steamer, the James
Gordon Benefits Jeanette, which i, soon
TO sail from San Francisco, will take
such a course as to aid DIR. Nordenskiold
if he is still alive.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
TRIOLET.

TRIOLET.
The zephyr down in the lea
With the violet doth daily,
And brings it's scent to ne,
The zephyr dowu in the lea
The yoEl Of the cat in tne ALLEYS
The zephyr down IN the lea,
With the violet doth dsiy
An open letter-O.
FURNISHED chsmbers-a loaded revol-
yer.
IMMENSE side-whiskers--t -the mules
ears.
SIGHED trscks-wrinkles on the fore~
head.
BEWARE of dried apples; they live not
wisely but to swell.
LAwYER's motto: "Be truthful snd
multiply and replevin the earth"
"His profession What is mis- profess
sion z" Madame, he pedals music"
THE oldest sort of fire escape on record
is the fond husband, who lies abed morn
ings.
man, says he never smiles but he feels
ashamed of it.
In the Russian language, the ter
mination (which" found in proper
names, means son.
CREMATION, as thus far dealt with
shows thst woman's jsw-bone holds
out against fire the longest.
THE man who habituRlly and regular
ly left the door wide open all winter, is
Just learning to shut it tight every time.
YoUNG Farmer--How can we tell you
.rhog to cure 8 ham" unless you inform
US what ails the ham p Saturday
Night.
EIGHT hundred thousand base ball
bats are made every year in this country
and that's what becomes of all our
forests.
A Sioux Indian maid is net permitted
to look at a reflection OF hor face, even
in brook, and she never W uld want to
more than once.
IT is wonderful how silent q man can
be when hs knows bis cause is just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong.
WHISKY left in a c2sk seven years win
lose its fusil oil. And cask left in 8
Kentucky newspaper offic5 seven days
will lose its whisky.
LUTHER G.. RIGGS, of the Merideu,
Conn, Recorder, says he has never kissed
but one girl in his life. For Heavens
sake, young man, come west, and brace
up with the ntry.-[Stillwater Lum-
herman.
The lawyers in Pittsburg are strug-
Cling with the question, 4" Can man
marry his Wife's sister 2" Well, we
don't see what there is in that to puzzle
a lawyer. The man can, if he wishes,
but it's bigamy, just the same as though
he married his wife's neighbor. IT the
question was raised about his widow
sister, now, it would be quite another
NATTER Burlington Hawkeye.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19

THE English in their camp aign in
Afghanistan, employed the mirror as an
instrument of telegIaphy. Their mode
of use is very simple The mirror of the
heliostat is placed SO as to reflect the
SUMS image to a distant station, and
when the instrument has once been set
the clook-work arrangements keeps it in
position. The distant station always
sees the dazzling ray reflected from the
mirror, except when purposely obscured.
The appearance, disappearance and durs.
tion OF the hash constitute the signals.
The ordinary Morse alphabet supplies an
Ineligible code, and no one out of tie
line OF signals can read or understand the
message. The fash can be seen at a dis
tance of twenty miles. Heliostat sta.
tions are now established throughout the
Khyber pass.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
THRENODY.

The day is come, and the carnets
EIe dragged outside the house,
AS man is dragged to the station
at the close of big careuse.
see the wife and her handmeids
Wade through the suds and the dust;
And feel as though the pie of my life
Was nearly all under-crust.
Come, give me club with handle
AS long the month of May;
And l will waffle the carpet
Ghe whole Of the HvelOng day.
Do you reckon the grand old masters,
he immortal baTds sublime,
Sent the schoing thuds of the carpet-stick
DCwn the corridors OF timer
Oh, like the strains Of martial music,
The endless thrum, huH, humi'
Makes me think Of the man on dress-parade,
A-pOundipg the big bass drum
l WELD the stick they have brought me,
with fip, and thud, and hiss;
Oh, better year and half of sleep
Than fifteen minutes OF this.
PeIchanca some hum bier poet
Was driven at rise Of sun,
To face a carpet and collar a club,
But he didn't do 1t for fun,
For carpet has power 10 quiet
These dreams of the upper air,
And make man run riot,
And rip and rave and tear.
But pound from dawn to noontide,
And If ever stop from choice;
From the back door nigh the window high
hear the good gite's voice.
And the day is so fall of this music
That I wish thar some Pdi day,
rome tramps would take in our carpets and ruI
-Burlington Has5ksye
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-06-19
HURKAH FOB THE NEXT THAT DIES.

The following poem represents the feelings of g
and Of British officers, cat of from help and hope
oem is charged 10 the Iull with spirit Of ste-ni
toical defiance:
We meet beneath the sounding rafter,
The wslls around are bare
As they shout TO our peals of laughter
1t seems the dead are there;
but stand to your glasses steady,
We drink 70 our eomrades' eyes;
Quaff cup to the dead already,
And hurrah Ter the next that dies.
Not here are the Roblets cleaning,
Not here is the vintage sweet:
IT'S Geld as our hearts are growing,
And dark as the doom we meet.
But stand to your glasses steady,
And soon shall our pulses rise;
A cup to the dead already,
Hurrah for the next that dies.
Not sigh for the fate that darkles,
not tear tor the friends who sink;
Wen fall mid the wine cups sparkles,
as mute as the wine we drink.
So stand to your glasses steady.
lis that respite buys;
One cup to the dead alrt sdy.
Hurrah for the next that dies,
Time was when we laughed at others;
We thought we were wiser then.
Hal hal let them think of mothers
Who hope to see them again.
No stand to your glasses steady;
The thOughtless are here the wise.
A cup to the dead already
HuIFah for the next thSt dies
There's many hand that's shaking,
There's many cheek that's sunk
But soon though our hearts are breaking,
they'll burn with the wine we've drunk
So stand to your glasses steady;
The thoughtIsss are here the wise
A cup to the dead already
HuTrah for the next that dies!
There's mist on the glass congealing-
lis the hurricanes fiery breath;
And thus does the warmth Of feeling
Turn ice in the grasp of death.
Ho stand to YOUR glasses steady,
For the meHent the Vapor flies;
a cup to the dead already,
And huIIak for the next that dies
Who breads to the dust returning
Who shrinks from the fatal shore
Where the high and naughty YeaTning
Of the soul shall sting no more?
No; stand to your glasses steady,
The world is a world of lies.
4 cup to the dead already
Hurrah for the next that dies
Cut OF from the land that bore US,
Betrayed by the land we find
Where the brightest have gone befUTe US,
And the dullest remain behind.
Stand, stand to your glasses steady,
IT'S all We have left to prize.
A cup to the dead slTeadV-
Hurrah for the next that dies.