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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Wew advertisements.


Mrs. NASoY j. SMITH, of Eastland, Tex,
writes:
al was terribly afflicted with Kidney Disease
and Dropsy having suffered for over three years.
I employed the best physicians in this county,
and obtained no relief. but was getting rapidly
worse. My family and friends had lost all hope.
My son happened to read your advertisement of
Hunts Remedy, and procured the medicine for
me. / began to take IT, and IT worked like
charm. After taking several bottles became
entirely we'll. | am indebted to Hunts Remedy
for saving my life and II II had not been for
your great medicine surely would have been in
my grave to-day"
INTERNAL REVENUE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, ID. G..
MIR. STEPHEN A. APLIs, Washington, d. G.,
aays:-
"a member of my family having been troubled
for several years with Kidney Disease, and, after
trying numerous remedies and methods of treat
ment without obtaining relief, she was induced
to use your Hunts Remedy, and after Thorough
trial she has become completely cured. Know
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11

A good name at home Is tower OF strength
abroad. A recent canvass proves, despite all
claims to the contrary, that ten bottles of Hoods
Sarsaparilla are sold by the druggists Of Lowell,
to one Of all the other sarsaparilas combined.
This stamp Of public appreciation proceeds from
Its numerous unprecedented, well-known and
remarkable cures in Lowell and vicinity.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
0! Where is Ny Boy Tonight I?

To Young man away from home better book send
him than KEst's NEw ConnKsrART, Manual for young
men. Many God bless you TO the author from
anxious mothers for his Interest in sons" Many
mother will wish her darling hoy could have had for
guide before he went astsy" No parent will regret
in purchase. Mailed to any address for 81. AGENTS
WANTED EVERYWHERE. Circulars, testimonials Of more
than Nifty eminent men, mailed free
FRED L, HUNTINGTON, General Agent,
ss-s9wcj Malone, New York.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Hoods SarsapariIla

Sold by druggists Price 81; six for 50. Pre-
pared only by c, |. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries,
Lowell, Massach usetts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Sold by druggists. Price ST. six for So Pre-
pared only by C. J. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries,
Lowell, Massachusetts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

chimes for listening to parrotlike Rotations and
recording Smarks." The scholar, made to depend
entirely upon his books, must have those BOOKS
changed every year or two, to suit his expanding
comprehension At eight he commits to memory
the "primary"; at ten the "intermediate" at
twelve the commOn-school"; at fourteen the
grammar-school"; at sixteen the university"
From first to last he commits to memory and recites
by rote and when he gets stuck and asks for in
formation, he is told, Look at your book and see
what it says" and gets demerit mark for dulness.
Authors and publishers encourage this system;
for the more books they sell, the more money they
make. Many teachers and school boards, acting as
publishers agents. encourage it for the same reason
The parents who buy the books, and the children
whose search for knowledge is bewildered by null
tipicty of guidebooks, but paucity of guides, are
the losers If the money that is wasted every year
on worse than useless textbooks could be applied
to hiring more and more competent and more ear
nest instructors, our school system would be in
creased in real usefulness hundred per cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
THE ,lyD QUESTION IN ENGLAND.

THE LAND QUESIION IN EAuAhND'
The efforts of the English advocates of land
naturalization appear TO be encounterng dlin-
cuties which they are puzzled to meet. 1e"
days ago a meeting held for the purpose OF dls-
cussing State aid to emigration was captured
Inv n number of these peculiar land reformers,
and their spokesman, Mr.. Murray, announced
that the workingmcn of England were the
trre heirs to all the real property in the island.
aTbcir fathers" he said, A" had been plundered
of that land and they meant TO have 1t again.
Whereupon The Saturday Rerie0 observes
q Before one can discuss the matter soberly and
aproperly it is necessary to know who were the
q ancestors of the workingmen from whom the
.real estate was plundered. Were they autoc-
u tboaes born of the soil and on the soil, or were
they the first settlers If they were merely
9Celts, or Silurians or English, or any one Out
"the original Eskimo-liko people with the stone
"weapons, they were robbers themselves ana
stole the land from some earlier prOprlet0rs'
- ANDY who stole it from them What had they to
q steal What proof is there that they ever pos
sessed the soil in private property, or that, II
"they did possess it, they did not sell 1t openly
q for what it would bringP How far back IN
"history would Mr.. Murray like to got If the
q ance.tors of the wOrkingmen were utte'nS,
they were far from being owners of the SOIL.
"Tbey were not even owners of themselves"
These are awkward questions to answer, yet
they must be answered before, rs I he Saturday
Pcyie,r SAWS. the matter can be discussed soberiy
and propcrly. It's not enough to prove that the
land of England was mt some remote period
wrongfuly taken from its then owners. 1t Is
necessary to prove that those who now set up a
claim to il are connected in some way with those
remote proprictors. The truth is that if it were
possible to trace back far enough, very large
promotion of the landed property now III exist
ence would be found to have originated in force
or fraud. But the significance of such Il fact Is
neutraljzed by the impossibility of proving the
survival of any direct descendants or heis of
those who were wrongfully dispOsscsScd in the
beginning. OF course if n whole people should
agree anywhere to natiOnalize the land, they
might devise means for cXtinguislling existing
titles. But it is in the last degree improbable
that any civilized nation would make so hazard
Gus an experiment, and though the tenure of
land in England may and probably does de-
mand reform, there is no likelihood that 1t will
be reformed ont of existence in the Utopian
and impractical way proposed by the champions
of what they are pleased to call Democratic
Federation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
THE COLOR LINE IN PHARMACY.

A recent Washington dispatch stated that thirty
eight out of forty-sx students at the National Col
lege of Pharmacy, headed by their principal teach
er, had withdrawn from the institution because
colored student had been admitted to 1t. III
appears, therefore, that the color line is to be
drawn in pharmacy as well as in the art OF
war, and that none but white persons are to
be permitted to learn how to compound
drugs. Perhaps if these pharmaceutical students
were cross-examined as to their motives for making
this fierce and determined stand against the adj
mission of cOlOred students they would find it diff
cult to justify their position. Certainly it would
seem that the average cOlOred citizen ought to be
capable of serving customers with sugar or lead III
the place of magnesa or arsenic in the place OF ep-
som salts, as well as the average white embryo
pharmaceutist The compromising of bread and
other pills. the decphering of the conventional wink
which calls for spiritus frtment in the soda OF the
period the. preparation of pitchplasters and liver
pads, and even the customary addition of from 200
to 900 per the cost price of indictments,
ought not TO be beyond the attainment of the in-
telligcnt cOntraband.
But perhaps it is because they know their mystery
to be so diaphanOus, and therefore fear the conf
petition Of the cOOred race, that these young men
are so anxious to maintain monopoly. Or course
it cannot be supposed that they seriously object 10
the acquisition of real knowledge by one whose SKIN
happens to be darker than their own. To admit
that on their part would be TO confess themselves
narrow-minded fools, whose shalowness and mean
ness of view disqualified them in advance for the
guardianship of the important trust society is
obliged to conide to the professional druggist
Young men often do silly things, and this is very
silly one but what is To be said for that teacher
who, his maturity being presumed gave aid and
countenance to this foolish and discredtabe act by
heading the exodus of the pharmaceutical simple
tons He at least must be held to a stricter account
ability since he cannot plead the baby act in ex
cuse for his folly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

according to Mr.. Carlise's theories, and not ac-
cording to the notions of Mr. Randall.
Broadly speaking 1875 out of1S8 Democrats de-
clare that they mean when they can, to reduce the
revenue by cutting down the tariff The 50 mem
bers who voted for Mr.. Randall may be under
stood as preferring to abolish the tax on liquors.
1t was expected that the action of parties at
Washington this winter would determine the
result of the Presidential election. 1t has
already given notice to the country that the
Democratic party means to cut protection 1or
American industry out of the tariff. That Is
long step toward the result.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
TELEGRAPH SERVICE HERE AND ABROAD.

Government Control of the Telegraph" is adj
vocated by Mr.. Gardiner G. Hubbard in The North
AMERICAN ReriGC as a means of securing better and
cheaper service for the public. But ii cannot be
said that his reasonings are altogether far. The
teleTaphc rate in this country, he says, averages
IS cents; in Great Britain % cents and in Holland
Belgium and Switzerland 10 cents. Then he argues
that il costs scarcely any more to send message
long distance than TO send it short distance. The
unfairness here in suppressing the fact that the
cost of building and maintaining Lines is the nam
part of the cost Of telegraphic communication, ana
that cost is much greater for long than Tor short
lines In Great Britain, with an area OF l2l,OOO
square miles. there are about $4,000 miles OF line
in this country, with an area of over 3OOO,OOO
SQUARE miles exclusive Of Alaska there Ia, 800
miles Of line. To create the American system,
therefore had wires and poles, machines aud other
equipment, labor and skilled service cost the same
Der mile. would have cost nearly six times as much
os TO create the British system. Yet such is the
density of population that in Great Britain there
are about 2G4 persons to every mile of line
constructed while in this country there are only
$50 persons to each mile of line. Hence IN Great
Britain the number of messages sent (3l 34o,o6l III
1882 averages about 1850 to each mile OF tele-
graph line But in this country the messages sent
HO.5Sl III in tho year ending July l, 1888 aver
age only 2SI to each mile of line. The cost OF
maintaining a mile of line repairing It when GRIP
Piled by storm or wind or ice and supplying new
wires and other material from time to time is greater
here than in Great Britain the wire costs more and
the labor more.
The comparison with small and thickly populated
countries like Holland, Belgium aud Switzerland is
still more unfair. These three have III all hardly
80 600 square miles and less than 10000 miles OF
telegraph line to be maintained for population OF
over II 100000. The construction and mantle
nance of the system in such countries cost much less
i'm promotion to the business to be done than III TINS
country-so much less, indeed that the charges are
probably lower here in proportion TO the cost oil the
service than in either of them.
Probably Mr.. Hubbard himself will hardly MAIN
tain that the Geographic service in other countries
is more efficient or prompt than it is in the United
States. The evidence on that point is exceedingly
strong against the disturbances of Government con-
troll Ii it be true also that the charges for the ser
vice are actually lower here, in proportion to the
cost of building and maintaining the system, than
in Great Britain or elsewhere, the only argument
advanced by Mr. Hubbard appears to be tallaclouS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
refreshing atmosphere would 30 further aid IA
that direction.

" lOhCohihe aInuVcPhVi0 WvNAN w " luItucr aid In
that direction.
The destruction of the Windsor Theatre by Ara
mas shown how necessary for the protection Of Life
were the alterations In the building ordered by In.
spector Esterbrook, of the Fire Department. Yet
the matter was carried into the courts and had IL
not been for the fear Of loss of patronage IL ia
probable that the improvements would not have
been made. Even after the alterations were COM
pleted, the building was unsafe. Had the fra
taken place two hours earlier, there might have
been frghtful loss of life. Since the destruction
Of the building the lessee has admitted the danger
Some of the hotel owners in the city are apparently
guilty of the same short-sighted policy that
marked the course of the proprietor of the Wind
sor Theatre. AS long ago as last January the own
ers Of the Sturtevant House ordered by In
spector Esterbrook to erect certain fre-escapes.
They disregarded the order, and now Judge Bar.
rett has made decision authorizing the Fire De-
partment to erect the escapes and make the cost a
lien on the building. Inspector Esterbrook should
pers st in the work until every hotel and other
public building is properly provided with frees
capes and made as safe as possible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
amusements Co. Might.

ACADEMY or HHToSursr-s-"Orpheus and Euydice"
1G,sSTWoNs-" The Beggar student so.o,
DAYS THEArRE.sl5-"eD Dollars eaGnss ana 0en'e
SkxSp San FRANCISCO MsrRELs-s-"The Princess
OF Ma1agaS nv ruy .rRr-o and 800" The Raah
MeTEoPoIITAH OPERA HOUSES" Lucia I'll Aah"ni''
moor" . ay..,.,o,p
S Sn,S P.HK THEATRR-S-"T The Strangers OF Paris
e.. y THE ATRH-S-" Our Boarding House.
O.. aSn.pD THE ATRE-S- " In the Ranks" ,,
Tav.TRR CoMIoUE-8-" Cordelia's Aspirations
THaI IA THEATRE S-"Lumpau VagaDnnous
iSIoS SQUARE THEATRE-S-"StorIn Beat1n
VII ,cK's THE ATRE-S-" The Road TO RUM
o. AyESuF THEATRES" Friend and zoe:
MN AVENUE THEATRES" Monte rls'o'
I4TH STREET THEATRE-S-" Fedora
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
roo MANY TEXTBOOKS.

The multiplication Of textbooks is growing evil
in orr public school system which should attract
the careful attention of school officers and teachers
everywhere. Within the past few years almost
every textbook has been developed and expanded
into a " scriesp A child is given at eight years old
n primary" arithmetic. Next year lac is promoted
10 higher class and must be provided with an IN
termediate" arithmetic. A year or two lator this
must give place to n new volume bearing the i'm
print common school." Further he drops this
and secures a grammar-school' or academic"
And before his common-school education is finished.
lie must add, perhaps, " collegiate or "univer-
sity" arithmetic to the list. Here are four or five
books, costing his parents-or the public under the
frcc.book systcm--hrec, four o. five dollars Which
he must have if he would keep his place in the
arithmetic class In the grammar, geography and
other classes the Same system prevails. The
scholar during his six or eight years course, must
be provided with from four to six textbooks Tor
each study pursued.
But this system is not to be condemned because OF
Its cost though that be burdcnsOmc. Cost must not
be considered when intelligence is ut stake Inc
magnitude of the evil is in this fact, that beyond
certain limit the more books scholar has TO study
the less he learns Iu other words numerous text
books and frequent changes are substituted for per-
sonal instruction by the teacher; and inevitably
with bad results~ Ii the teacher had the proper
ability and opportunity he or she could teach the
scholar all that is to be learned in schools OF arith
metc, or of grammar, or Of geography, from not
more than two books to each study. But, with
sone through incompetence or carclessness, with
others through lack of time because of too large
classes, very many teachers have become more ma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03
New2lork DAILY Gribnote
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
NETWORK, MONDAY, DEC. 8.
The NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-There was much excitement among
Irishmen in Ncwry yesterday, but no serious
trouble occurred. 80 ODOnnell expressed
hone that he would be rcSpited. - Orange
lodges condemned the suspension of Lord Ross
more - In an uprising in East SOudan, the
Governor OF DarfOur was wounded 80 A
conference Of the Australian Legislatures is in ses
sion in New South Wales. - julius Payer, the
Arctic explorer. is dead.
DoMEsTlC-The annual reports of the Secretary
of War; the PostInaster-Gencral and the SuperSls-
ing Inspector General are made public. - Re
publcans are pleased at Mr.. Carlisle's success
- strange story of a wedding comes from
Erie. Penn. - Tho screw steamer City Of
Palatka from New-York, has just put
into Chester, disabled. = BY the expo-
sion of locomotive boiler at Montgomery,
Ala one man was killed and two severely hurt.
80 The crew of the DauntleSs, a Boston bark
wrecked Oh the African coast, has been brought TO
Baltimore. - The schooner j. II. Leeds on
VOYAGE from Philadelphia to Boston mar
rowly escaped coming into collision on Friday
night with a steamer. 80 Eugene Roland
committed suicide at Conneaut, Ohio, on Saturday,
having been disappointed in love. = The body
of H. Lesser, missing merchant of Milwaukee was
found floating i'll Lake Michigan yesterday.
CITY AND SUBuRBAN.--Pero Hyacintbe presented
the purpose of his visit at the Church of the
Heavenly Rest yesterday. = The delegates from
French labor organizations attended the meeting
of the Central Labor Union. -- The eleventh an
niveGsary of the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes
was celebrated. Mis-. LivermOre lectured on
Temperance. Nothing new was learned i'll the
Phoebe Pauin II man was arrested on
Sa turday night who is suspected of the Maybee
murders.
The Manufacturers local observations in
dictate clear of far weather. Temperature yester-
day Highest, AGO; lowest 32'; average 3o5s".
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

this view. The sign language, ne says
is neither French, English, Spanish nor Ger
man. but a universal language in which mutes
of all nationalities can readily converse. from
this point of view the use of it should nave
broadening influence rather than narrowing
one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

The law which aims to secure for the city the
benefit of competition in the supply of gas is COM
pleto failure. Bids were opened this week for the
lighting of the municipal buildings and offices. The
GAS companies divided tho city into districts, and
each one bid only for its allotted territory Hence
there was no competition. The same course was
followed in bidding for the supply and maintenance
of street lamps. The New-1Ork, Manhattan, Metro
politan and Mutual companies bid Sl7 90 lamp
for their respective territories. the Harlem Com
many $40 90 the Central 800, the Yonkers $50, and
the Northern S32 The city is compelled to pay
whatever n gas company bids for its district, or
else 30 without light. One company is paid 80 for
fitting up new lamp, and another company does
the same work for IS. Fer removing hnp-p0st
one company is paid So 5O another company does
the same work for So and still another for ~ 80.
For reRlling Il column the prices paid are: New
York and Manhattan companies, So 90; Metropoli-
tan. So; Central 81 80, and YOnkcrs 81. When
there is no competition, as is the case with these
bids II il altogether unlikely that company offers
10 do any work except at price which furnishes
large margin of profit. This being the case, 1t Is
nlon that some of the companies must be getting
outragcously high prices for any work they do for
the city or lor any material furnished to it.
The National Republican Committee, which meets
soon in Washington, would do u wise act oy ueclu-
ing to hold the next Convention in this State.
Now-York is entitled to the honor. There are sew
eral places in the State that offer to provide the
necessary facilties,-among them Chautauqua,
Richfcld Springs and Saratoga. The atmosphere OF
any one of those places in June would BIO far SUI
peror to that Of Chicago. Cincinnati or any other
large city. And the Convention would be better
of without the great crowd of spectators that
usually nterleres with its business. Under the new
regulations for electng delegates by Congressional
Districts, the next Convention will happily be re-
leved of the large unit delegations, and will be able
TO deliberate with less show of factiOnal feeling
than was exhibited at Chicago. quiet town with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

Services were held in Grace Church yester-
day in celebration of the eleventh anniversary
of the founding of the Mission for Deaf Mutes
in this city. The Rev. DR.. Gallaudet, who has
charge of this admirable work, made an address
which is of peculiar interest in connection with
some of the views recently advanced at the last
meeting of the National Academy of Science in
New-Haven. Professor B ell, in his paper on
"The Formation of Deaf Variety of Human
Race" seemed to think that,as the sign language
was of French origin, the use of it was to give
q certain French bent to the minds of deaf
mutes. Dr.. Gallaudet apparently dissents from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

Tn former letters Mr.. Robert P. Porter gave
an outline of the general situation through
ont Industrial France. In his communication
in to-day's issue of THE TRIBUNE he devotes
his space to sketch of the rise and progress
of textile manufactures in Normandy. III VIII
be seen from what he says that cotton spinning
in this part of France has only flourished when
safe from British competition 1t was SO
whenthe Norman workmen protected them
selves against English importations by violence,
ms well as at present when the government
protects them by tariff. The Improvement IN
their condition of late years is especially note
worthy. While wages for work on cotton
goods have steadily declinedin Free Trade Man
chester they have increased Just as steadily IN
Protected Rouen Between 1860 and 1870 the
rate of pay for French spinners advanced 80
per cent during the last twelve years the in
crease has been even greater.
The fourteen delegates from the Paris trades
unions, who are now visiting this city, seem to
be an intelligent lot of men. Their object Is TO
inform themselves as to the condition OF labor
in America, and, if possible, to establish
throughout the United States Now among
American wOrkmen there are some exceedingly
intelligent men, and if the French visitors
conld only meet them they would undoubtedly
gather many excellent ideas and much valuable
information. But unfortunately the delegates
have fallen into bad hands-the Central Labor
Union. This organization is managed by lot
of good -for-nOthing fellows, who pay less at
tention to labor than they do to politics and the
furtherance of their personal schemes. 1t Is
rare that any one of them advances sensible
idea. In the Amalgamatcd Trade and Labor
Union, however, there are some exceeding
wcll-infOrmed and conservative men, who
actually work for living and yet study care
fully many of the laborprOblcmS which this coan-
try presents. The International Cigar makers
Union also contains intelligent and respected
men. These and certain others, who might
readily be named (whO let the Central Labor
Union severely alonc), are the men by whom
the French delegates should have been taken
in charge. Then the visitors might have learned
something to their advantage.