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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-24

NATURALIZATION. Calvin Shattuck of
Pittsfield, N. H., preached the dedicatory
sermon at the new Adventist church in
this place on Sunday December 14th, from
FIRST Kings tx; 3. The church was filed to
its utmost capacity at the afternoon SER
vice. Revs. A. =. Drown (Adventist) and
w. G. Robinson (Methodis0 assisted in the
service with the utmost cordially and good
feeling. - NJ. II. McCrillis has rented
and now occupies the rooms in the basement
of Edwards & Davison's block for his gro
Gerry business. =C G. l.. Wheeler's resi-
dence was entered, or invaded-not by burg
lars, but by surprise party OF his num-
erous friends in this vicinity-on Friday
evening, the 18th. Report says about fifty
persons were present and participated in
the festivities of the occasion We also
learn that on Thursday evening last Loren
o. FoSs house, in the north part of the
town, was broken into in the same manner,
and, as is supposed, by the same gang"
- Alonzo Crandall reports that he has
opened his silo and finds his ensilage in
fine condition. He says he is feeding it to
his stock three times daily, with the most
satisfactory results In connection with
ensilage, he feeds one light feed Of straw.
He says his mich cows increased their pro-
duct Of milk at least one-third within three
or four days after beginning the use of en-
silage. He considers Sanford corn, cut
when the kernel is in the milky condition,
to be the best variety for ensilage. - j.
j. Burdick has moved his family to his
farm near East Hardwick. - The steam
mill of Eligo Pond is being stocked with
logs for another season. - Duren Parks
recently examined the edge of circular
saw at Judevine's mill with his thumb, and
found it in fine "cutting" condition. He
has taken good care of his hand since that
interview. - b. f. Smith, mine host of
the Central House, advertises a grand social
ball for New Years eve. Burdick & Kit
r. iGh
Temperature record: December 19th--morn-
ing, 1So; noon 16o; evening, 300. Deem
Der 20th-morning, 80; noon, 80; evening,
1872. This record of low temperature has
rarely been equaled in this locality. Friday
was a terrible day to endure exposure,
owing to the extreme cold and strong wind
prevailing. - French & Warren shipped
three cars of potatoes the past week, send
ing them to Providence, X. l., and Fall
River and New bedford Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-24

Roxbury.-Much sympathy is expressed
for Antoine Bell, he having buried six chill
dren since the 9th of the present month.
All died of diphtheria One or two cases
are now reported in town. - James AL
bin was arrested at the residence of his
father, on Wednesday of last week, by
Deputy Sheriff Howe of Mortified, and
taken to Washington county Jail. 1t will
be remembered that James "skipped his
bail while up for burglary, about a year
ago. - Some people called the cold
snap of last week the most severe they
ever experienced. Mercury did not regis
ter as high as it does sometimes, however.
- John Bracket is home from Gin
ton, Mass. - Major Allen Spalding OF
White River junction is visiting his son
Frank. - George Morgan has moved to
the village. Il. S. Stanton attended
court at Chelsea last week. Mrs.
Sarah Johnson visited in Boston the latter
part OF last week. - e. S. Whitcomb of
st. Adams was in town on Monday. -
Will ID. Simonds came home from Chicago
last Saturday
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-24

Chelsea.-A sad event occurred here, last
week, in the case of Augustus S. Perrie, who
was taken insane about Tuesday and, grad
ually becoming worse, got so bad that on
Friday morning it was deemed advisable
to remove him to the Brattleboro insane
asylum. Accordingly, Constable A. s..
Noyes armed with the proper papers,
removed him to that institution on Friday
afternoon. Mr.. Perrie is young man about
nineteen years of age, and but little is
known of his people and early life. He
came here last June from Montpelier, and
has been attending school and doing barber
work to pay his expenses. He is much liked
by his schoomates and the people of his
acquaintance about here, and it is with a
sad heart we learn of his sudden demency.
- Miss Flora III. Averill, a graduate Of,
and now a teacher in, the Boston Conserv-
atory of Oratory, gave reading at the court
room on Wednesday evening, December II.
She has fine, smooth voice and handles it
with that ease of which she is master. II
she continues in her work, she will occupy
prominent place on the stage of dramatic
elocutionists. - j. L. Bacon is home, af-
ter pleasant trip to Montreal. - G. L..
Hayward has sold his farm to Doyle for
S725. Lyme is going to attend strictly
to his sawing-machine for the present.
:" George f. Reed has taken the Jasper
Laid farm for the coming season. -
Lewis Hovey and daughter Lucy of Jesup,
Iowa, are spending few weeks in town.
Mr.. Hovey was a former resident, owning
the grist-mill here for many years. -
Nellie M. COrwin returned home from Bos-
ton last Thursday. Mrs. DIR. A. b.
Smith is visiting her people at East Burke.
- The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union held sociable, last Friday evening,
trees at all our churches this "wednesday
pVpninD
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
Quite Indifferent.

This, from North Carolina (once
called the Tar Heel State''O, may be
relied on as authentic. The education
al advantages enjoyed by the boys and
girls of North Carolina during the
earlier decades of the present century
were of very limited kind. There
were, however, at that day, few insti-
buttons of learning whose reputation
extended beyond the limits Of the State,
and whose standards of education were
among the BEST Notable among them
was one located at the seat of Justice in
the County of B, which still main
tains its reputation. A certain planter
resided in a contiguous county. whose
eldest son had attained to the age when
at the present day young men are fully
prepared to enter colleges, and whose
education was sadly deficient. What he
had was acquired by occasional and in
termitted attendance at the clog school
house" in his vicinity, at such times as
an old-fashioned school-master ''taught
and birched'' the boys and girls.
The father of the lad in question, pos
sessed of ample means, determined that
his son John should be placed at the
aforesaid school in the village Of A;
and accordingly, accompanied by his
son, carried out his intention, leaving
him with ample means and prepaid tut
ton under charge of the worthy princi-
pal. On taking leave of his son he was
informed that monthly reports would be
sent him by mail of his sons progress
in study, etc., etc. At the expiration OF
the first month the report was accord
ingly sent, and a note, as follows, ac-
companied the report; "When you
placed your son John under my charge
you forgot to direct what branches you
desired him to be put in" This note
of reminder rather confused the worthy
old gentleman, whose own education
barely enabled him to read and write
(the latter by no means an easy task fo1
him). Consulting his wife, and after
with her reading and re-reading the re-
port and note, he replied thereto az
follows:
SUR.-We got ylTe letter and see you want
to kit0l0e what branches lce want John put
inter we doant care what thGy ar so you kenpt
him 0lten Tar Riyerl
--HGrper'S MGQdzi1ae.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
MYTHS About Stones.

According to one theory it was pre-
cious stone in Paradise that fell to the
earth at Adam fall, and was then lost
in the slime of the deluge till it was re-
covered by the angel Gabriel 1t was
originally iacinth of such extreme
whiteness that it dazzled peoples eyes
at the distance of even four days jour-
ney. and only gradually became black
as it now is from shame and sorrow for
the sins of the world. But, according
to the better opinion, it was not merely
a iacinth of Paradise, but the actual
guardian angel, who, having been sent
to watch over Adam therein, was at his
fall, and as a punishment for not hay-
ing more diligently executed his trust,
changed into a stone, and driven from
Paradise, but destined to resume his
angelic form when the days of the
world are all numbered and finished.
Both Germany and France still bear
vestiges of the same capability Of
thought. In the former you may still
be shown upon certain heath large
stone, embodying a bridal pair and
their followers, who were thus trans
formed because the musicians VINO at
tended them continued TO play festive
airs, though thunderstorm broke over
them as they were driving over the
heath. You may still learn a lesson,
too, from the petrified form of girl
who. when once gathering fax on a
Sunday, swore she would be turned in
to stone sooner than go home; or from
two great stones, which are really
boys, so transfxed for quarreling over
so sacred thing as piece OF bread.
the gift OF God to man. orshiR Mag
Gzs7ae.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
Simple Musical Method.

The new tonic sofia system of teach
ing music is not patented, and is quietly
being adopted in Eastern cities. Prof
Carl F. Kroeb, of the Stevens Polytech.
mic at Hoboken, describes it as follows
sit abolishes the signs for notes al
present in use, and all the old staff no.
tation,' said he, ''and represents the
tones by simple method which any.
body can understand. The musical in
tervals are the same in all keys, conse-
quently no flats or sharps are needed in
writing music for the voice. They are
confusing and do not represent any
reality. In place of the pictured notes
simple letters are used-sd for do, sr
for re, M for me, etc. odd Hundred
written is as follows, t. meaning s.:
dld:t,l s,Id:rIm IN m m r:dI
m r: r:m lr:d l.: t, IS m: Il
:fIm:rld
This is written the same in every
key; it is only necessary to have the
key right at the beginning. The
learner needs careful drill on the in
tervals, so that he can strike them al
will. The method does all this in q
novel and philosophical manner. With
the new method no time is lost in
pulling when the key changes. The
letters above indicate what the notes
are, the long lines are the bars, the
short ones are the middle of the bars
the colons separate the pulse or beats,
and the commas denote half-beats. The
inventor was Rev. Mr.. Curwen, an En-
glish clergyman, who died recently.
It is called the Tonic Sofia system, be.
cause all the symbols show their rela-
tion to the tonic or keynote. People
who have sung well all their lives and
are getting good salaries are just find
ing the very a b of their art. Musi-
clans generally do not look favorably
upon the new waY.-EGch0asqe.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
Curing Hams and Shoulders.

The curing of hams and shoulders is
q simple process well understood by old
farmers, but inexperienced ones may re-
neatly trim the hams; cut closely so
there will be no large, loose masses of
fat remaining in folds at the lower ex-
tremity of the ham. Hams prepared
for the city trade are carefully selected
and trimmed to suit the demand of the
market. In some localities the shank
is left long and the edge bone taken out.
In others the ham is cut longer on each
end, the edge and part of the rump
bone are left in and the clip" and
"cushion" are left on. These are
known as s'long-cut" hams Shout
ders are cut more nearly square, leav-
the shoulder bone. The ragged edges
are trimmed and the blood-veins are
carefully removed.
Make pickle strong enough to float
an egg; stir into this sufficient amount
of sugar or molasses to give it slight
ly sweet taste. Cover the hams with
this pickle and let the packages stand
where the temperature is uniform and
above freezing. For hams of twelve
pounds four weeks will be sufficient;
larger hams must remain in the brine
longer In general way, it may be
said that from four to seven weeks en-
brace the extremes of time required for
domestic curing of hams, varying as to
size of the hams, temperature and time
when they are designed for use. When
the hams are to be kept through the
summer they must not be removed from
the brine too soon.
Hams may also be cured with dry
sailing. This is done by rubbing them
often with salt and sugar and punching
them up on platforms or tables covered
with salt and covering each ham with
salt. When taken up to rub over with
salt, which ought to be done about half
dozen times, have a shallow box at
hand in which to do the work. z.
H0rld
"Culture, = says Matthew Arnold,
consists in being something rather
than having something
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

If you wish to add months to the
active life of your broom dip it weekly
in hot suds. Detroit Post.
-Corn-starch Cake: Half a cupful
butter, one cupful white sugar. half
cupful sweet milk, half cupful corn
starch, one cupful flour, whites of three
eggs, one tablespoonful of baking-pow-
der. Household.
oil may be removed from carpets
upon which you do not care to put ether
or ammonia by laying a thick blotting
paper over it and pressing hot fiat
iron on it. Repeat the operation sew
eral times, using clean paper each
time. Boston Globe.
-Carbolic acid is death to all insects.
in every stage of their growth. A fruit
grower in Duchess County, N. Y,
whose ounce trees were being destroyed
by borers, used a mixture of one gallon
of soap, two of water and gill Of car
boic acid.-Albany Journal.
One of the wisest precautions to
take when you are bakil is to have
the oven perfectly clean, I'd yet it is
one that is often neglected. and many
an otherwise faultless dish has been
spoiled by the sitting of ashes from the
upper CRATE in the oven.-N. Y. Post.
The best soil for currants is a good
strong loan, quite deep and rather
moist, but not wet; but sandy soil will
do, if made rich and cultivated deep.
Bearing bushes on sandy land should
have annually good dressing of old
manure worked in about the roots in
spring. - Chicago Journal.
For seriously chapped hands try
this: Scrape cake of brown Windsor
soap until it is all as fine as powder;
mix it with an ounce of cologne water
and an ounce of lemon juice. Stir this
very thoroughly together, shape it into
cakes, let it harden, and then use it
when you wash your hands.-M Y.
Herald.
The best soil for plants, says John
Thorpe, in the Gardeners Monthla, is
turf from rich pasture, cut two and q
half inches thick, laid closely together
till it has somewhat decayed, then
broken up and mixed with one-third
very rotten manure OF leaf-soil. The
leaf-soil can generally be found under
large trees where standing thickly to-
gether
Farmers should turn their atten-
ton more to butter and egg production
in winter than they generally have done
hitherto. Cows may be SO fed as to
make as good butter or nearly
so in the winter six months as the sum-
mer six months, thus dividing the year
into two equal parts. Some are doing
it; more would if they studied what is
most productive of profit in the dairy
business. So in respect to eggs. Fowls
may be so cared for as tolay all winter,
when eggs sell from thirty three to fifty
per cent. higher than in summer CHI
cGgo Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
Temperance Reading
JOHN BARLEYCORN.

John Barleycorn, my 10 John,
When we were fret acquainI,
Your face was rather yellow Johns
You smelt of peppermint;
Yet, began to love you, John.
And soon I loved you 50,
I'd share my only cent with you,
John BSrleycOFn, my 10. u
But now the time has come, John,
For me that love TO smother; =
And you must take one road, John,
And will take the other;
For We may tumble down, John,
If hand III band we so,
When all the damage will be mine,
John Barleycorn, f1y 10.
You have not used me well, john
While journeying together;
You said you'd be my friend, John,
In fair or stormy weather;
But when the rain came down, John,
And fierce the wind did blow,
You left me in the roadside ditch
John Barleyeorn, my JCs
Your fellowship is bad, John,
Tho jolly tbs sometimes;
1t leads the way to wrong, John,
AND frequently to crimes;
An, many are the scrapes, John,
You've got me in, you know,
But never once have helped me out,
John Barleycorn, my 10.
With sorrow you have caused, John.
My loving wife to sigh;
Ny children to wear rags, John,
With hunger made them cry;
And then if l rebuked them, John,
Which added to their VOC,
You always said l served them right,
John Barleycorn, my 10.
You've bleary made my eyes. John,
Put blotches on my cheek;
And painted red my nose, John,
My once strong hands made weak.
] think you must have aimed, John,
In death to lay me low;
And none too soon I've found you out,
John Barleycorn, my 10.
Chicago Express.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18
WONDER WHAT MAUD WILL
SAY

Dear Harry, will not dissembe,
4 Ff A candid confession is best;
My fate-but alas, how l tremblel-
My fate must put to the test:
This morning gathered in sadness
A strand from my locks slightly gray;
To delay any longer were madness
wonder what Maud will sayl
The deed it were well to do quickly
Macbeth makes kindred remark:
Iwonder If Mac felt as sickly
When hecarved the old King in the dark
The follows who marry all do 1t,
n N But what is the usual way?
Heighol don't / wish were through It'll
wonder what Maud win say!
Pray advise. Would you fix up letter
With rhymes about roses and trees?
ftn To tell it perchance would be better:
Alas, must get on my knees?
No; kneeling is now out of fashion
Except in q novel or play.
All, love is q Protean passioni
wonder what Maud will say!
Would you give her pug or pony,
A picture or only book;
A nove-say Buwer's "Zanoni,"
Or poem-"Lucile," Italia Rookh";
Bonbons from Maillard's, or necklace
IU. OF pearls, or mammoth bouquet?
at.N BY Jovel am perfectly reckless
wonder what Maud will sayl
Shall speak of the palace at Como
l. Which captured the heart of Pauline?
H There's a likeness of Claude in achromo;
Would you buy it and practice the scenef
But mol I'm no Booth, nor an Irving;
My fancy has led me astray.
To q lover so true and deserving
wonder what Maud will sayl
Could / MARBLE like Sienor Galassi
In passionate song would soar
recall she applauded him as he
Serenaded the fair LeonOre;
My strain should resound love-compelling,
Far sweeter than Orpheus lay;
Already my bosom Is swelling
/ wonder what Maud will say!
Shall tell her my love very graYey,
Or propose in moment of mrth,
Or lead to the sub ject suavey,
And mention how much am worth?
Old fellow, know | shall blunder;
When she blossoms as bright as the day,
My wits will be daZzled Oh, thunder!
wonder what Maud will sayl
Samuel MtntlUp Peck, IN CenttTy
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18

The WINE CUP is the father -of sin,
and the whisky Jug is the step farther.
IN z. Commercial,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18

-"Culture," says Matthew Arnold,
consists in being something rather
than having something.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-18

i
replied, eyasiyely.
Comfortable, and with that haunt
ing presence? Heaven forgive me for
the subterfugei As to Justine, she was
continually urging me to quit what she
termed see villain pays attributing
my depression to the climate, to the dull
life | led, to anything rather than to the
true cause. But at length her persist
ency, added to beseeching letters from
my guardian, prevailed, and | returned
to Paris.
There | renewed my acquaintance
with Mr.. Weston. 1t was impossible
to be blind to his feelings, his inten-
tions. Every word and look told me
that he loved me, and the day came
when he asked me to be his wife. To
his evident surprise, and to my own in
expressible sorrow, refused to marry
him. Could l join my life haunted
life-to that of the man loved with all
my soul? True, / had had no visitation
from the beautiful, reproachful face
since / left Crowsnest; but might it not
return at any time, at any hourp Oh,
why had my fathers wife cast this
pllgnG upon my lIe! why dld she
haunt me? Was it such a heinous
crime not to have gone in time to see
her die?
Suddenly | became possessed with a
strange longing to revisit Crowsnest, to
see again the weird apparition that had
exercised so subtle an influence on my
life. With the persistent waywardness
of a spoilt child insisted on going to
Crowsnest. / insisted also that no one
but Justine should accompany me. Ny
indulgent guardian yieldedto my wishes,
and went. But not once during my
month S visit did see the haunting face.
l believed then that my persecution was
ended,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-07-31

thick paint, with the addition OF q EtrorR
solution Of washing aoda, makes one OF
the moet lasting washes. A solution Of
one pound OF commercial potash, in from
two to four gallons Of water, Ia slso very
good.
All lovers OF flowers should RENT mber
that one blossom allowed TO mature or go
TO seed Injuries the plant more than
dozen new buds. Cut your flowers, all
Of them, before they begin to fade. Adorn
your rooms with them; put them on yonr
tables send bouquets to your friends
who have no flowers, or exchange favo.s
/ with those who have. You will find
that the more you ont off the more you
will have. Ali roses, after they have
ceased 10 bloom, should be ont back, that
the strength OF the root mar go to forming
new roots for next year.
A correspondent OF the Agricultural
Epitomist says In 1860 l act out AZ
pear trees then had ten trees /;
some OF them were 30 years old,
and In ten years l had a fiue orchard,
| with abundance OF fne fruit, numbers
from abroad prUnouncing my orchard the
finest they had ever seen. At the first
fair at CORY l swept the board on
premiums. Wishing to keep my orchard
| in first class condition / MANFRED the
greatest part with sawdust horse. bedding,
worked Il we'll into the ground. Result
Soon every tree thus MANFRED was killed
with pear blight, and remains so yet fol
10 years. Since the blight every year
give my trees liberal dressing Of nm
bleaohed wood ashes, and have fine crop
of truit growth, OF tree very thrifty.