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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Nempqranre.
Only a Baby.

One sultry day last summer, at time
when children of the poorer class in
Philadelphia were dying by the scores
every week, bloated old man staggered
up the steps of a physicians dwelling.
The boys shouted after him, sod Bour-
bon," the name by which he had been
known in the locality in which he lived
for many years. "The baby's worse"
he said, standing, hat in hand, where he
met the doctor coming out. "You've
been here for me every day for week."
explained the doctor. 81 can't go to-day.
| told the child's mother there was no
chance this morning. II was dying then"
Won't you come now ?" "No; have
not moment to spare. There are pa
tients waiting whom 1 can help. "Old
Borboun followed him to his carriage
door, twisting his rag of hat in his
shaking hands. She's-shes all I've got
DOCTOR" But the doctor, with plying
nod, drove away, and the old man, nearly
sobered by his keen distress, crept home
TO the attic where his little grsndchild lay
dying. Whatever nursing or kindness
little Mary had known, had come from
sold Bourbon" Her mother had six other
children, and went out washing every
day. The poor old drunkard and the in
nocent baby were left to form strange
friendship for each other. She called for
him now feebly, as she lay on her moth
er's lap. daddy daddy Come to
mel He knelt down and put his finger
ran down his bloated cheeks. "God,
leave her to me God, leave her to me -
he muttered. Daddy, come to Maryp
-. r,,,1 ALa. L.
soul, whose taste of life had been SO Bit
ter, passed on into the unseen. 1t was
only baby. It's mother, who had six
other half-starved children to feed, shed
but few tears over it. The doctor sent in
certificate of its death with a dozen
others. In the weekly bill of mortality
there was an item, OF cholera infantum,
seventy" That was all. Her record
was ended. The world was done with
her. But an old, trembling man crept
next Sunday into the back pew of the
little mission church, not far from the
attic in which he lived. He stopped the
clergyman when service was over. Why,
is this you, Bour-I beg your pardon.
What is your real name ?" "John Black,
sir. l want to take my name again. Pm
thinkin' of signin' the pledge m pullin'
up for the rest of the time left" STAN
mered the poor wretch. The clergyman
was wise and helpful. John did "pull
up" He lived but few months after
that, but he did what he could to live
decent, honest, Christian life in that time.
"The Lord is merciful, john" his friend
said to him, as he lay dying. al know
it, sir. I'm not much acquainted with
him. But I've been tryin' to foller little
Mary. l hear her always cryin', Daddy,
come to me- Pm comm. Au' reckon
he'll not turn me back" Even the baby
had its work to do, and had done it,
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

"SENAToR PLUMB has reported to the
senate, from its committee on agriculture
and forestry, bill which provides that
the department of agriculture established
at the seat of government of the United
States shall be an executive department,
with secretary and assistant secretary,
who shall receive the same salary as is
now paid in other executive departments"
The above news item leads us to say that
while we have heretofore opposed making
the agricultural commissionership cabi-
net office, because we did not see the sense
of having it mixed up with politics, yet
if all our presidents are going, in the fu-
ture as in the past, to make use of this
important bureau as place in which to
stick troublesome but incompetent seek
ers for Office, then we say make it more
important, even at the expense of making
it political, so that at least we may have
a good man there. There has not yet
been one really able man in the place, and
the present occupant adds most ludi-
crous pomposity and malice to gross men,
tai and moral incapacity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
The Busy Bee.

The honey.bee has long been type of
the industrious worker, but there are few
people who know how much labor the
sweet hoard of the hive represents. Each
head Of clover contains about sixty dis
tinct fower.tubes, each of which contains
portion of sugar not exceeding the FIVE
hundredth part of grain. Some apia-
rian enthusiast who has watched their
movements concludes that the proboscis
of the bee must therefore be insertd into
five hundred clover-.ubes before one grain
of sugar can be obtained. There are
seven thousand grains in pound and,
as honey contains three-fourths of its
weight of dry sugar, each pound of honey
represents two aud half million clover
buds sucked by bees.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Manual Training.

Manual training has receiveda good deal
of attention at Boston, and Superintendent
Edwin P. Seaver of the public schools
there is out with long argument for
public training school, where boys shall be
taught the use of tools, to go side by side
with the high schools. He recogniz IS the
fact that most of the children that come
out of the public schools have their own
living to earn, and declares that the boys
are only fit for store or office clerks or col.
lege students. The boys of thirty or fifty
years ago were in school less than those of
to-day and were more on the farm and in
the workshop, both of which places devel-
oped their faculty for doing things, and
enabled them to make their way in the
world. The city boy of to-day has no such
training. The old system of apprentice
ships has broken down, and Mr.. Seaver
argues that it is the business of society to
establish something in its place. The
Winthrop school for girls has tried teach
ing girls to cut and make clothing with
great success. The sewing hours did not
interfere with the other work, and the
girls who received this instruction were
able to get good places as seamstresses,
while girls who had been through the full
course of study and then graduated at the
normal school were not able to find work
of any kind. Principal Swan is so en-
thusiastic over this experiment that he
now wants to add cooking school. There
are no free schools for boys, as yet, where
similar experiments have been tried, but
the results in the school for mechanic arts
at Boston and the manual training school
at st. Louis are such that the friends of
the movement are sanguine of its success
in free schools. Boston has been feeling
its way toward that end with some expert
ments at the Dwight school, and is talk
ing about repeating them on larger scale.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Another Side of the Beer Question.

We printed the British eulogium of
beer in the January number of the Ne,cs
as an interesting illustration of John
and did not suspect that any reader would
take it to be the expression of our own
views on the subject. One reader, how.
ever (and, so IA as We are aware, only
one), has Inexperienced our position,
and chides us for encouraging "a danger
GUS form of intemperance" We have
sometimes been accused of taking extreme
ground on the other side of the question,
in certain articles on alcohol in former
volumes of the NeUS That beer in mod
crate quantities is a wholesome beverage,
has been urged more than once by others
than British or German medical writer's
while other professional and non profes-
sional authorities have stoutly maintained
the contrary. One of the most recent and
notable of this latter class is Col. Green,
president of the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company, who says: In one
of our largest cities, containing great pop
ulation of beer.drinkers, had occasion to
note the deaths among a large group of
persons whose habits, in their own eyes
and in those of their friends and physi-
clans, were temperate; but they were
habitual users of beer. When the obseI-
walton began, they were, upon the average,
something under middle age, and they
were, of course, selected lives. For two
or three years there was nothing very re-
markable to be noted among this group.
Presently death began to strike it; and,
until it had dwindled to fraction of its
original proportions, the mortality in it
was astounding in extent, and still more
remarkable in the manifest identity of
cause and mode. There was no mistaking
1t. The history was almost invariable-
robust, apparent health, full muscles, a
fair outside, increasing weight, forid
faces, then touch of cold, or a sniff of
malaria and instantly some acute dis
ease, with almost invariably typhoid
symptoms, was in violent action and ten
days or less ended it, 1t was as if the
system had been kept fair outside, while
within it was eaten to shell, and at the
first touch of disease there was utter COL
lapse every fiber was poisoned and weak.
And this, in its main features, varying, of
course, in degree, has been my observa-
ton in beer-drinking everywhere. 1t is
peculiarly deceptive at first; it is thor
oughly destructive az the last" This
testimony is certainly emphatic enough;
and the fact that it comes from careful
observer and a life-insurance "expert
gives it additional weight. We trust that
our English readers will duly ponder it,
Popular Science Neps
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Care OF HOuse.PlantS.

The New York Evening Post states that
a lady, whose beautiful plants are the de-
light of her life and the envy of all her
acquaintance, revealed the secret of her
success the other day. The soil is, she
says, about two-thirds good gsrden.soil,
and the rest sand. 1t is kept light and
loose about the roots. They are watered
as they appear to need it, and not accord.
ing to any particular rule. But the chief
reason for their wonderful growth and
bloom is this When any of the leaves
wither aud fall, instead of picking them
up, and throwing them away, make lit
tie rolls of them, tuck them down in the
earth, and let them decay and this is the
only fertilizer l have ever used. This
she added, modestly, "seems to be natures
way. And the plants that have only the
afternoon sun grow, and rival those that
have the morning sum-"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Metu eIdrerfissmsnfs.'
Three PeCuIiarities

popularity of Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
is obvious to all, is one hundred doses one
dollar, - an unanswerable argument as to
strength and economy. If you are sick, try
this excellent medicine; it has given health
and happiness to many, and you may reason
ably expect 1t will to you. The cures effected
by Hoods Sarsaparlla speak volumes in its
praise, and are constantly adding to its in
fuence. No better evidence of its worth is
needed, than its enormous sale. An article
without merit cannot attain the popular de-
mand Of this medicine.
II have frequently tested Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and know 1t to be an article of merit"
| NJ Bixby, Holland, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

BROTHER TINKHAM quotes our remarks
on ensilage butter, in which we said that
call kinds of butter can be made from
various kinds of feed" and says: "No,
we don't think everybody knows that
all kinds of butter can be made from va
rious kinds of feed; for instance, strictly
fancy butter from various kinds of cab
bage leaves and turnips, and rye straw
and ensilsge. 1t may be that it can ; but
the point is that not everybody knows it
in fact, but very few" We are not sur
prised that Brother Tinkham feels nerv-
Gus about the fool-killer," if he don't
know the odds between "various" and
call"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
How to Save Sugar.

Sugar is undoubtedly Objectionable to
many; but it is by no means necessary
to add sugar to stewed fruit; If the acid.
ity be neutralized by an alkali, little or no
sugar is required. Thrifty housewives
have long been familiar with the fact that
the addition of small quantity of the
bicarbonate of soda to stewed fruit re-
duces the acidity, so as to save the neces-
sity for much sugar. If about as much
bicarbonate as will lie ON twenty-five.
cent piece be added to each pound OF
fruit, it will be found sufficient to neu.
tralize the acidity, and bring out the
natural sweetness. Milk puddings and
stewed fruit are excellent for the dys.
peptic, the bilious, and the equity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

said of Duchess of Oldenburgh, Maiden's
Blush, and other well.known varieties.
In the last report of the Maine society
(1SS2), all members living north of the
Baldwin range spoke highly of the
Wealthy as its best substitute. The re-
marks of one of them, Mr.. Spra yue of
Charlotte, Maine, were recently quoted by
us in these columns. His praise of the
Wealthy, both for dessert and cooking,
led us recently to again test it as pie
apple, and we we're surprised at its excel
lence for that purpose. From test of
the unripe fruit we had condemned it.,
but we now know that ripe Wealthys
make good pies and sauce.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Rye Meal for Cows.

Rye meal is often given to cows after
calving, for its supposed medicinal effect
upon the system, especially the bowels,
and from this custom the belief may have
gained currency that this kind of grain
would be unsuited for ordinary feeding.
This, we believe, is mistake, and while
we would rarely recommend any one kind
of grain to be fed alone to cattle, we
should not hesitate to feed rye quite freely
with other grains, whenever the prices
we're such as to make it's feeding economi-
Cal from the money point of view. The
chemists give the following figures,
showing the relative proportions of nutri-
tive elements in rye and corn in one hun
bred parts:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
A Birds Appetite.

" f man could eat as much in proper
tion as bird, he would consume whole
round of beef for his dinner. The red
breast is most voracious bird. 1t has
been calculated that, to keep redbreast
up TO its normal weight, an amount of
animal food is required daily equal to an
earthworm fourteen feet in length. Taking
a man of average weight, and measuring
bulk for bulk with the redbreast, l tried
to calculate how much food he would con-
sumo in twenty-four hours, if he ate as
much in proportion as the bird. Assum.
ing sausage nine inches in circumfer-
ence to be a fair equivalent of the earth
worm, / find that the man would have to
eat sixty.seven feet of such sausage in
every twenty.four hours"
So says DR.. Wood. All very well, but
how when this voracity is transferred to
the strawberry bed ? Earthw orms are no
disadvantage to farmers, and we know of
no benefit whatever that we receive from
the robin. By the way, we commend the
following, from the Boston Transcript, to
the attention of some of our lady cor.
respondents who are put out with us on
the robin question
"She-T think it's a sin and sham
to kill the dear little feathered songsters.
If had my way, I'd make law against
killing birds. Guess people wouldn't
starve if they let the birds alone He
But what would the ladies do without
hat ornaments p She-'Oh, that's an
entirely different thing. OF course when
there's an actual necessity for shooting
the dear creatures, one must stifle ones
feelings, you know"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

THAT the recognition of the degrade
ton which comes through drunkenness is
not matter of the present only, is known
10 every reader of the Bible and of an
cient authors. One of the earliest refer
ences, however, is in an extsnt fragment
of the old Egyptian literature, in which
the drunkard is addressed in these words :
Thou art as temple without its god,
rs house without bread" Those who
are familiar with the convivial scenes fire.
quently depicted on the Egyptian monu-
ments know that total abstinence formed
no part of the popular creed in ancient
Egypt; hence the comparison of the
drunkard to temple Compare /. Co
rinthians, iii l6, ~ forsakcn of its god
is the more noteworthy. The figure of
ga house without bread" is one which
needs no explanation to a drunkard's
family.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

WE have number of communications
about Mrs. Lizzie f. Cotton, and most of
the writers claim to be victims" One
sends us the following resolution, passed
at recent meeting of the Maine Bee
keepers Association: RESOLVED, That
the Maine Bee-keepers' Association, here
assembled, denounce in the strongest
terms the transactions and the teachings
of Mrs. Lizzie E. Cotton of West Gorham,
Maine, and warn all persons from having
any dealings with said party" 1t really
looks as though Mrs. Cotton were a bad
egg"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

The superior qualities of Hoods Sarsapa-
rllla are secured by three peculiarities; viz;
First. The combination of remedial agents
used.
Second. The proportion In which they
are mixed
Third. - Tho process by which the active
medicinal properties are secured.
These are peculiar to Hoods Sarsaparilla,
and are unlike any other. The result of these
pecullarities is medicine of unusual strength,
which effects cures hitherto unknown. A
trial. or even glance at the article, inspires
confidence, because it bears unquestonable
indication of a thorough understanding on the
part of those who originated it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Unknown TO Others

Henry Dickson, wholesale grocer, and pro-
prietor of Dickson's Opera House, Benton, O.,
writes: "My wife has been troubled with in
digestion, and her blood has been in a poor
condition. She has used several bottles of
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and it has been great
benefit to her"
"For the last twelve or fifteen years have
been a sufferer from milk leg; was almost
helpless, and could walk only on level floor.
Hoods Sarsaparilla has certainly made me
all over new, and cured me of my lameness.
L feel twenty years younger than 1 did"
Harriet Vim, Burnham, Me-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
eAarifnMnraI.
T. H. HosKINs, Newport. VT, Editor.

ANY of our readers who would like
copy of the Seventeenth Annual Gaia.
logue and Pice-list of the agricultural
editors Seed Farm and Nursery (lSoD
can have one gratis by sending his address
to T. II. Hoskins, Newport, Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

ONE KIND OF MAPLE SUGAR,-It is
said that the flavor OF maple syrup may be
communicated to cane or glucose syrup by
tincture of guaiacum deprived of its resin
by precipitation by water. A great deal
of the maple sugar and syrup now sold is
said to be nearly pure glucose prepared
in this way.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

A TEMPERANCE association for women
is forming branches throughout England.
1t combines the principle of the temper
ance and the beneficial societies, and the
organization is known as Daughters of
Temperance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
LOOK

at the bargains in Overcoats at
Head of State Street. Mems Grey
Overcoats, $3.50, $500 and $500;
Mems Black Overcoats, $3.50, $500
and $1,000; all nice coats marked
down $500 and $500; Horse
Blankets, seventy-fve cents; nice
Jap Robes, plush lined, $500 and
$1,000; Odd Coats from $500,
Pants from $1.O0, Vests from
seventy-fve cents, upwards. All
very cheap For Cash. A. d.
FARWELL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

There is nothing in these figures to indi.
cate that rye is not a good grain to feed
whenever the price is as low, or lower,
than the price of corn-meal.-New En-
gland Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Purify Your Blood

Hoods Sarsaparilla is made of sarsaparilla,
dandelion, mandrake, cherry bark, iva ursi,
dock, and other valuable medicinal agents
long and favorably known for their power in
Graduating disease and purifying the blood.
A Druggist says: 1t is fortunate to have a
preparation like Hoods Sarsaparila, that you
can recommend to your customers, confident
it will suit them"
If you are suffering from Scrofula, Salt
Rheum, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, or any blood dis
ease, and are DESTROYS of more information
regarding the value of Hoods Sarsaparilla,
we shall be glad to send you a book containing
a few Of the wonderful cures effected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

"My little girl was afflicted with scrofula.
SO virulent was the disease, that her neck had
been lanced ten times. AT the time she began
to take Hoods Sarsaparlla, there was very
large bunch on her face. This we ex-
pected to open with the lancet; but to our
surprise the bunch began to shrink, and now
it has entirely disappeared. Baby is in good
flesh; sores all gone; her appetite is good,
and she seems as well as any child"
William ii. Conant, Lyme Centre, n. II.
Attest: / live neighbor to Mr., and Mrs.
Conant, and have always known them. The
above statement is true. Theodore Balch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12
Scrofuia

Hoods Sarsaparilla will cure, when in the
power of medicine, Scrofula, Salt Rheum,
Dyspepsia, Headache, Constipation, Bilious
ness, General Debility, Pains in the Back,
Kidney Complaint, Catarrh, Female Weak
ness, Cancerous Humors, Humors of the
Face, Ringworm, Pimples, Syphiltic Affec-
tons, Ulcers, Sores, Tumors, Scald Head,
and all diseases arising from an impure
state or low condition of the blood.
appetite poor, bowels all out of order,
scrofulous sores on my face and back. COM
menced taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and with
three bottles my sores healed, and 1 am at
business again" j. Amberg, Chicago, Ill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-12

To suffer through those we love is ten
times worse than to suffer ourselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-06
Theatre Burned.

Cleveland, 5-The beautiful New
Park Theatre, built to be freproof
burned ct o'clock .his morning. The
fire, it is said, oriQ mated on the stage
from lamp explosion; loss perhaps
100000; par ly Insured. George 81.
Adams "Humpty Dumpty" company
loses $4,000 to $4,000 worth Of property.
Wick's Bank block, Immediately in
front of the theatre, the FRS. P:esb =
terrain church on one side, and the
county courthouse on the other, are in
great danger at 10 o'clock.
Cleveland, 5.-The Park theatre
is d mass of ruins, nothing but the
walls standing. Wick block. in
front, is Quilted. The First Presby-
terrain church adjoining. is damaged
$4,000, insured for $4,000. The
Park theatre loss is variOusly stated
from $4,000 to 100000; insured
for $4,000. 1t will be rebuilt at
once. Manager HartZ loses everys
thing. The oregon of the fire is in
dispute. The most proable explana-
ton is that a Waterman exploring
under the stage for gas leak with
a light caused an explosion, and be-
cause the theatre was supposed to
be freproof. tried to extinguish the
flames without alarm.