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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-30


| he wants it rough and tumble he can get it as
easy as rolling off log. But all the men con-
nected with the institution, 80 far as my observa-
| ton goes, are gentlemen, and, II a man tries to
do what is right, he will have no cause for COM
plant" However, we prefer to earn our own
living while longer, even II all the men con-
nected with the " institution " are gentlemen.
| BENNINGTON BANNER: Some weeks ago the
Herald and Globe suggested that Hon. f p, Wal
ton write school history for Vermont, taking as
model the admirable one in use in South Caro-
lima This has betn seconded by several state
papers, and We hope MIR. Walton will undertake
tina task. In this connection we would call at
tention to another thing There Is not a school
book published-at least we have never seen one
which gives the officers OF Vermont as stated In
the statutes, the name OF the office the duties
pertaining Dit, and each in its proper subdiyls-
ion Of state, county, town. school district etc In
an appendix to the proposed history these neces-
sary things for Vermont boy to know might be
concisely stated. 1t is laughable but serious,
what kind Of work any Intelligent scholar would
make of attempting to name the officers indicated
above from anything they will find in the text
books. By all means let us have a supplement
|
subject"
| THE Cdledonidn gives the following as the pro-
gramme OF the Gospel Temperance institute at
Hardwck Thursday and Friday Of this week
Thursday evening an address Of welcome will be
given by Mrs. A. M Ward Of Hardwick which
will be responded to by MIS-. S. P. Colby Of St.
Johnsbury. "Juyenlle Work will be presented
by Mrs, Florence L. Chandler Of Walden, " Dis
tribution OF Temperance Literature" by Mrs.
Cole Of South Ryegate and Miss A, f. Shields Of
West Barnet, and Temperance In the Home ="
by Mrs, G. W. Colby OF Sutton. Friday morning
will open with praise service, and the subjects
presented will be as follows: Temperance Text
books and Publications" Mrs c. G. Daily OF St.
Johnsbury Center; " Finance" Miss Laura Bck-
ford of North Danvillei Legal suasion," Mrs,
G, ], Clark OF Barnet, and reports from local
unions. In the afternoon the subjects will be az
follows Eyangestie Work." "Hygiene, "
Mrs. f. G. Greene of St. Adams; " How to Make
the Local Union More Effective" Mrs. NJ L. T.
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A PERPETUAL WEATHER TABLE

The following table was constructed by
the celebrated Dr.. Herscheli, upon phil
osophic consideration of the attraction Of
the sun and moon. 1t is confirmed by
the experience of many years observa-
ton, and will suggest to the observer
what kind of weather will probably fol-
low the moons entrance into any of
her quarters. AS a general rule it will
be found wonderfully correct:
If the moon changes at II o clock,
noon, the weather Immediately after will
be rainy if in the summer, and there will
be snow or rain in winter.
If between and / o'clock NJ, change
able in summer, fair and mild in winter.
Between 1 and 8 o'clock J.. NJ, fair
both in winter and summer.
Between Is and 10 O'Clock Z. NJ, in
summer fair, if the wind is northwest:
rainy, if south or southwest. In winter,
fair and frosty, if the wind is north or
north rainy, if south OF southwest.
Between 10 and - clock r. NJ, rainy
in summer and fair and frosty in winter
Between Il at night and : clock \.
NJ, fair in summer and frosty in winter
unless the wind is from the south or
southwest.
Between , and 1 clock y NJ, cold aud
very showery in summer, and snow and
storm in winter.
Between and & o'clock \. NJ rainy,
both in winter and summer.
Between 6 and s o'clock \. NJ, wind
and rain in summer and stormy in winter.
Between and 10 o'clock A. W., show
cry in summer and cold aud wintry in
winter
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-02-24
HE HAD NO FUN IN HIM

One of the members of the Methodist
conference held in Detroit was out for a
walk at an early hour one morning, and
encountered strapping big elbow, who
was drawing wagon to blacksmith
shop.
Catch hold here and help me down
to the shop with the wagon. and Il buy
the whisky called the big fellow.
81 never drink" soemniy replied the
good man.
"Weli, you can take cigar.
@ never smoke
The man dropped the wagon tongue,
looked hard at the member and asked:
Don't you chew"
"No SIR was the decided reply.
L" You must get mighty lonesome, "
unused the teamster.
q guess I'm all right; | feel first
rate
"rll bet you even that can lay you
on Your back said the teamster.
81 never bet" said the clergyman.
"Ceme, now, let's warm up little"
"Tn, in a hurry
"Well, let's take each down for fun.
then. You are as big as l am, and I'll
give you the under hold
81 never have fun,' solemnly replied
the member.
"Well, I'm going to tackle you any
how. Here we GO
The teamster slid up and endeavored
to get back hold. but he had only JUS
commenced his fun, when he was lifted
clear off the grass and slammed against
a tree-boN with such force that he gasp
ed half a dozen times before he could
catch his breath.
Now you keep away from me-" ex-
claimed the minister, picking up his
cane.
Bust me if don't" replied the team
ster, as he edged Off /" What's the use
in lying and saying you didn't have any
fun in you, when you re chuck full of ito
You wante', to break my back, didn' t
you?'
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-02-24

ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.-Dr. Johnson,
in Rasselas, gives the following advice
to young men; " The first years of man
must make provision for the last He
that never thinks cannot be wise. Perpet-
ual levity must end in ignorance, and in
temperance, though it may fire the
spirits for an hour, will make life short
or miserable. Let us consider that youth
is of no long duration, and that in ma
turer age, when the entertainments 81
fancy shall cease, and phan. oms Of de-
light dance no more about US, re Shall
have no comforts but the ESTEEM of the
wise and the means of doin. good. Let
therefore, stop, while y stop !s M
power: let us live as Aen whom IL
times to grow az @"S all evil, to :, i hs re.
be the most Il by follies, and 10 oe ~ Of
their past their former Insurance n' ,, .,
mndeSSnl by the ma'ad'es ~n''"
n ne produced
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The American Navy.

There is nc department or branch Of
the government service which Americans
are want to regard with greater pride
than the navy. This pride is fully iusti-
fled by our naval history. From March
II, 1894, when the federalists carried
through their bill for building six fri
gates, down to tho present time the navy
of the lnited States has been one of
constant and conspicuous success i'll
every direction. 1t was the navy which
checked the insolence of France, and
brought Talleyrand to terms during the
Administration of John Adams, when
Thomas Truxton, cruising in the Con
stellation captured the French frigate
l. 1nsurgente, although of superior force,
and in another hard fight compelled a
second frigate, La Vengeance, to strike
her flag. Then came the gallant figh,-
ing with Tripoli at 4 time when we were
the only nation that approached the Bal
barry pirates with any arguments but
brides. The history of the war of 1912 i,
familiar to every one, and from thac
struggle dates the deep and affectionair
pride of the American people in thei
navy. While on land we were compelIe
to endure an almost unbroken series
overwhelming defeats, the exploits [
our little navy excited admiration of Il
world In a succession of duels betwe
our frigates and those of the enen
with the exception of that betwe
the Chesapeake and Shannon, we W, =
invariably victorious. The navy ~
Great Britain had been justly deemed n.-
rincible, and held at that period compile ~
possession of the ocean. The charm
broken in the war of 1Sl2. .estige
fighting in fleets on theories made
single frigates on the rare not
can seamen Wa
Tbev do,I+ the close of the wal "a
~ NO 'no second war with the Bar
.atos concluding in a peace dc
.oa NV Decatur on his quartef-ueoA'
,ich put an end forever TO 'ri'"s's 49,
ose rascally pirates. The war Oh NV
:, p9I 1;a, ;s fresh in every ones mino'
he CAPTURE of Port Royal by the 'ies s
+,o command of dupont ""N
,n,;s in the autumn of 1861, was I'll.
a,+ success achieved by the Nof'h
a[ w frnm that time until the close OF the
II" ,,o accord Of the navy was undih-
~, Nv roverses, and marked bya success
''e' ~ s,..,l;ort and important actions.
''U In the work of exploration and oil sell
CONTINUED ON FOURTH rAGE'J
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Adding Richness to Cheese.

Oleomargarne has had its day of agi-
the terrible possibility remains that any
of rs may have eaten it, or be now eating
it, with neither intent or knowledge
But writer who must be accepted as
well informed--the editor OF the Agricul-
tHr0i RerisH-now tells us of danger
threatening cheese also. Under the en-
now sustains the IS, 00o, geo milch cows
now in the country will sustain SO, 000,-
Geo. but producers of butter and cheese
need not be troubled, for the room for
export is almost boundless. Within the
past five years the extension of what is
known as the creamery system has i'm
proved the average quality OF butter %
to 30 per cent, the home consumption
has Increased in proportion as the masses
get good butter. and people who were
before accustomed to good butter eat
more OF it in consequence of getting bet
ter article. The factory system in cheese
making first appeared in 1857, in Ilerki-
mer county, New York, which is the seat
of the cheese industry; now $50 cheese fac
tories are running in that county, and
over 1000 in the United States. The
chief draw back has been poor quality ::
that is, skinned milk cheese. This has
sold at from one fourth to three fourths
the price of 1ull-milk cheese, according
to the extent OF the skimming, but it has
disguised those who who eat it, and has
created an indiscriminating prejudice
against cheese. The skinned article is
asserted to be unfit for food, and although
%, 600 900 to 60, 600, coo pounds of it are
made annually in the United States, and
although the product of fine butter has
increased this has been at the expense of
the cheese interest. iniuring home con-
sumption and export demand both. In
order to attain cheap production of butter
the skinned milk must be put to use,
land under proper conditions it can be
made into fine cheese, whereby $25,-
coo, 900 to $50, geo, 600 may be saved to
the farmers Of this country annually,
even on the present number OF cows and
the public supplied with an excellent
article This desirable stroke of econo-
| my is to be effected by the substitution
OF pure, sweet animal or vegetable oil for
the cream taken from the milk and used
to maize butter" \ simple machine is
used, consisting of a fixed vertically
placed cylinder, within which another
and snugly fitting cylinder is revolved at
high speed. Two watts, containing re-
spectively sweet skinned milk and pure
sweet vegetable or animal oil, each heated
TO l31 degrees discharge their contents
into the cylinder, at the uniform rate of
two parts milk to one part oil the two
are discharged into a receptacle below as
q pure, rich, perfect cream Each
globule of milk is coated with oil within
the cylinder-we should naturally state
| it thus but the writer whom we a:e quo
ting says that each slobule of ell is coat
ed with milk This artificial product,
in the proportion Of one and a. half pounds
20 the 1uo pounds, is introduced into milk
which has been skinned twenty four
and thirty six hours, and the process of
cheese making is then the same as the
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LIFE IN A FICTITIOUS Sc,

There are horrible stories toll of for
mer days, when a couple of men being
on duty on some isolated rock, one eff
them happened to die suddenly in rough
weather; when the survivor, fearing of
being charged with the crime, remained
shut up in the closest proxomity to
the corpse of his comrade till the
hull of the storm brought relief
and the opportunity of axplan-
ton. This very week we hear of a case
which might well seem incredible were
it not amply authenticated The watch
men on the Wolf Rock, opposite the Cor
nish coast, We're cut off from all commu-
nication with their kind through the two
dreariest months of the winter; and it
was nearly the middle of January when
relief reached them at last. Nova days,
however, the lightwarders in similar
circumstances invariably consists of
three at least; and both on the light
towers and in the lightShips, the men are
surrounded by all manner of mater; IA
comforts. They have rooms as ths;r W
the limited structural arrapc c+;u Il
admit they have am,s'e,. ~, hos4 r.
cellent food, nor .-.al IL DIT Wv Il
minds by . perilously fitted 10 NV. .a
if mu..e fancies. W. may CONCEIVE
a in the men who take most kln"'y sa ~
'"' ~ the inauguration IS sell
1 om strongly developed; but nS,tas"
s osH they must be quick and Intelligent ,ssatc
'en. st 81 exercise is believed t" be III
aispensibls to preserving the balance the Ue
..n ,od;,v and mental powers ana III 'Ae
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A NEW POEM BY OLIVER WEN
DELL HOLMES.

AT the annual banquet of the BostO!
| Bar Association, on Tuesday evening o
last week, Mayor Palmer was called upol
! to speak for the city of Boston. II,
closed his remarks by calling upon DR.
| Oliver Wendell Holmes the father VIII,
went in search of captain, and, finding
him, presents now his son, the Judge.
DIR. Holmes responded by reading the
following poem, referring, Of course, tt
the recent elevation of his son, once a
soldier, to the judicial bench:
DOCTOR AND JUDGE.
Ills Honor father yet remains
His proud paternal posture firm in
But, while his right he still maintains
10 WELD the household rod and reins,
lie bows before the filiai ermine.
What curious tales has life in store.
With all its must be $ and it's maybe $.
The sage of eighty years and more
Once crept nursing on the floor
Kings, conquerors, judges, all were ba-
bies.
The fearless soldier, who has faced
The serried bayonets' CLEAN appalling,
FOR nothing save pin misplaced
The peaceful nursery has disgraced
With hours of unheroic bawlinm.
The mighty monarch, whose renown
Fills up the stately page historic,
Has howled to waken half the town,
And finished off by gulping down
His castor oil or paregoric.
The justice who, in gown and cap.
Condemns a wretch to strangulation.
Has scratched his nurse and spilled his
pap,
And sprawled across his mothers lap,
For wholesome laws administration.
All, life has many a reef to shun
Before in port we drop our anchor:
But when its course is nobly run
Look aft. for there the work was done
Life owes its Roadway to the spanker,
\ our seat of Justice well might awe
The fairest manhood's half blown sum-
There Parsons scourged the haggari law,
There reigned and ruled majestic Shaw
What ghosts to hail the last newcomer.
One cause OF fear family name
The dread lest duty's dereliction
Shall give SO rarely cause for blame
Our guileless voters will exclaim:
" No need of human jurisdiction"
What keeps the doctors trade alive.
Bad air, bad water: more's the pity,
But lawyers walk where doctors drive,
And starve in streets where surgeons
thrive,
Cur Boston is SO pure a city.
What call for Judge or Court, indeed.
When righteousness prevails so through
it,
Our virtuous car conductors need
Only card wherein they read:
I" Do right; it's naughty not to do it"
The whirligig of time goes round,
And changes all things but affection;
One blessed comfort may be found
In Heavens broad statute which has
bound
Each household to its heads prstec-
ton.
If e'er aggrieved, attacked, accused,
A sire may claim sons devotion
To shield his innocence abused,
As old Anchises freely used
His oflspring's legs for locomotion.
You smile. You did not come to weep,
Nor | my weakness to be showing;
And these gay stanzas, slight and cheap,
Have served their simple use-to keep
\ fathers eyes from overlooking.
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Buttered with Humbug.

\ man is not more justly known by
the company he keeps than by the char
acter of business he chooses to follow.
One would not willingly confide in q
pinchpeck 50 five dollars till he can sell
his dog We could not think of George
Washington as engaged, for example, in
degrading with cheap glucose the stand
ard Of sweets, or consenting to realize
profit from adulteration of tea. The
truth cannot abide in a person whose
money is got by deceit, no matter how
large the sub basement where he works,
OF how expansive the superstruc-
ture in which he displays his lying goods.
Do we draw good water and bad from
the same fountain? May We expect figs
from thistles? Dc The peaceabe fruits
of righteousness grow in disguise?
''le cannot serve two masters" 1t was
lucidly said of certain parson that he
was an angel-in the pulpit. But he
killed official utterance by his weekday
walk and conversation; The simple
fact is, his preaching wasn't sanct toned
by his practice. So it is cold day for
Reform when it is championed by a man
who feeds on fraud.
Everybody knows or may know, that
oleomargarine never appears with i's
proper name when it can be palmed off
butter. Hundreds of thousands of PEI
sons i'll this city, in every town, and III
foreign countries as we'll, are to-day buy
ing and using this refined soap grease az
genuine product of the dairy COW. The
very completeness of the counterfeit gives
the more occasion for criticism. If by
the shrewd arts of tie laboratory, de-
cent suet, or the refuse fats of the slaugh
er-house, or of worse sources, can, in
open competition, be made to take the
place of butter(as they do secretly take
it to the extent, according to figures, of
Il, 100000 pounds per Year,. no one
could fairly demonstrate; but the simple
fact is that not little of that vast guam !
ity could be marketed if it were placeG
on grocers counters for exactly what
it is-as not only sense of honor W. ould
require, but as the law itself directs.
This is the ground of the objections we
urge now to oleomargarine, and to- tho
man who has become to be known as tho
mogul of its commerce; who, using the
machinery of an extensive trade, fills his
pockets by circulating the article against
which even the barriers of legislation
have been set apparently in vain.-N. y.
TrtJua9.
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SOME PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS

An eminent psychologist in the cur
rent number of the Hpular Science
| .hoathly furnishes some expert testimony
regarding the fallacy of competitive ex-
limitations as a test of brain power and
practical knowledge, which might have
| been of service if it could have been in
troduced in the recent debate upon the
| civil service reform bill in Congress-
But it is not necessary to 60 to Eng
land to secure illustrations of this fall
| lacy. They are found in all the depart
ments at Washington, and in every in-
stitution of learning in the land. Techni-
cal questions making demands upon the
memory and not upon the reasoning fac
ulties and practical experience of the
student are no test of his intellectual
force OF general capacity, particularly
when men of ability to conduct practical
transactions are sought for, and it is
herein that the competitive examination
msleads the inspectors and does injus-
tice to the candidates. The only practi-
cal test that can be depended upon is
trial of fair duration, in which the facul-
ties of those who entered upon it may be
demonstrated by active contact with the
affairs that are to be managed. General
Grant i'll speaking of the results OF the
experiments tried during his administra-
r.n,ari- al thaf ba h5,
passed the most ereditabie examination
before the Civil Service Commission Of
Isl" was at the time he spoke in prison
fer robblng the government, after es-
Gaping detection for four years and the
man who passed the second best exami-
nation was, after two-year trial Of va
rious classes of duty, finally assigned to
keeping the index of the letter books in
one of the bureaus of the Treasury De-
partment. because he had failed in every
thing else.
Ten years ago a class Of thirty four
Young men graduated from Western
college, and in the final examination,
which covered their knowledge of the
studies pursued for four years, a certain
man was found to be phenomenally per-
feet, answering every question with re-
markabie promptness and accuracy. One
Of his companions, who had been an
equally painstaking student, failed to
answer most of the technical questions
and had i narrow escape from being
"p.ucked standing at the foot Of the
class, and being allowed to graduate only
by the favor of his instructors, who be-
lieved him to be worthy of diploma.
After ten years had elapsed the brilliant
young man, having utterly failed TO earn
living in two professions, was glad to
secure a clerkship under the Govern
ment at a mcagre salary. tHhe stupid
young man at the tenth anniversary of
his graduation was at the head of an
army of men managing enterprises of
great magnitude involving several mil
lions of capital, and receiving salary
fifteen times as large as that upon which
his more brilliant classmate was trying
to exist.
If the new Civil Service Commission is
to be il success it must take iuto account
more qualities in candidates than can be
discovered or developed by the answers
to a series of test questions, and base its
appointments and promotions upon the
mental resources of men and not upon
their retentive memories.
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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW
~ .inH< -. >A\:

know a girl with teeth OF pral,.
And shoulders white as snow;
She liyes-al, well.
I must not tell i
Wouldn't sou like to know
Her sunny hair is wu,idrouS fair.
And wavy Ill its flow:
Whn made il less
Nne little trrS>-
Wouldn't you like to know
Her eyes are blue Celestial hurD
At:d dazzling in their glow:
On whom they sic ,h
Wit. melting beam,
Wouldn you like to know ,
Her lips are red ami finely wed
Like roses ere they blow:
" hat lover sips.
Those dewy lips,
N"a!''n you like 70 know
Her fingers are like lilies fair.
" here lilies lairest grow:
Whose hands they press
With fond caress,
Noni';n You like to know!
Her foot is small aud has a fall
Like snowtiakes on the snow;
And where it goes
Beneath the rose,
N"alln l@u like to know
She has a name, the sweetest name
That language can beSlow:
Twould break tn. spell
If | shout. tell
NnHidn you like 10 know?
ROSES lie GUERRE
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men Of the city outside of its dirty alleys
and foul air are doing much, not only
for the physical good of those people,
but for their morals also
True. all this identifying will cost
something, but not so much as we spend
on our depravel tastes and unnatural APP
petites. Let us have beautiful churches
let us decorate our homes and ornament
our grounds let our school houses be
halls of beauty with pleasant surround
Let us glorify the earth.-kate II. in
EtrMNntOlrn GniIe