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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10
The Negro Question.

Bishop Dudley of Kentucky has a
paper in the June number of The Cen
tury, entitled " How Shall We Help the
Negro?" from which we quote the fol-
lowing: Still the problem remains,
How shall these alien races dwell in
safety side by side, each free and I'M
hampered in the enjoyment of life and
liberty and in the pursuit of its happi-
ness? They are the descendants of one
father, the redeemed children of one
God, the citizens of one nation, neigh
bors with common interests, and yet
are separated by the results of centuries
of Observation-Disclosures, mental and
moral--separated by inherited tradi-
tons, by the spirit of caste, by the
recollection of wrongs done and suffered,
though it may be in general as innocent
in the perpetrator as in the sufferer.
How shall the rights of all be duly
guarded? How shall the lower race be
lifted up to higher stages of human de-
velopm ent, for only so can the rights of
the superior race be made secure for
the present and for the future, and this
is the chiefest right of them who are
now cast down? / answer, by the per-
sonal endeavors of individuals of the
higher race; by their personal contact
with these, their ignorant and untaught
neighbors, exhibiting before their won
dering eyes in daily life the principles
of truth and justice, purity and charity
honesty and courage. Perhaps this
may seem to be but the veriest plati-
tude, the gush of sentiment, the twaddle
of maudlin religion, but, in all truth
and soberness, | mean exactly what
say. Let me try to explain more fully.
These people need help, that they may
be lifted up. / mean, then, that in my
judgment that help must be personal
and not official, the hand of friend
rather than the club of an officer, the
patient counsel of neighbor rather
than the decree of court, the enact
ment of congress, or the proclamation
of president. The solemn sanctions
of the organic law are thrown round
about this liberty, and the robe of citi-
zenship--full, perfect, and complete,
with never seam nor rent--has been put
upon it. The courts have declared its
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10
Notes and Notions.

WHEREVER Mr.. Phelps has appeared
and spoken in London he has produced
a very favorable impression. Compar-
isons with his predecessor, the accom-
plished Lowell, are exceedingly COM
plimentary to Minister Phelps.
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (demo-
cratic); at is generally understood
that the democrats who recommend
bad men for Office are hurting them
selves worse than they are hurting the
president. They will discover this fact
presently and try to reform, but there
can be no reform for democrat who
tries to bring the administration into
disrepute by recommending the names
of those who are VIGOROUSLY unfit to
hold office"
PHILADELPHIA TIMES "The APP
pointmehts made by President Cleve-
land are better than the average APP
pointmehts made by any modern execu-
1--WE, Dut the illlSldhcS iuuut Nv tnt
present administration have become
specially conspicuous by the courage of
the president in revoking commissions
ordered for unworthy men. He was
naturally slow to take so bold stand
against his own official acts, and he de-
layed it too long to wipe out the blem-
ish of several of the earlier bad selec-
tons, but when he saw that the presi-
dent must boss the fools to prevent the
fools from bossing the president, the
order came Fools, sit DOWN."
Boston ADVERTISER; Senator
Sherman's assertion of confident belief
that the Nicaragua Canal will be dug and
in use in 1895 will do much to intensity
interest in this immense project. Ii
should be remembered that the Clayton
Bulwer treaty is said to be held by
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10

AN ardent Logan man incurred the
displeasure of the District of Columbia
officials by firing salute at midnight
on the day of the gallant Suckers cleo
ton. He was fined for disturbing the
quiet of democratic slumber 1t was
not eXhiliarating news for the democ-
racy. 1t was bad enough to be COM
PEELED to have it for breakfast, but to be
walked up at midnight to hear it was in
siderable. So the Z" offensive partisan !"
was punished. Moreover, permission
was refused to a request to be allowed
to fire one hundred three guns, the
number of votes Logan received, on
the occasion of the senatOr-elect COM
ing to Washington. So Field Marshal
Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette started one of his famous dime
subscriptions to raise money to pay the
ardent gunner's fine and buy powder
for him to burn in still further honor
ing Logan. Cunningham, the perse-
SutCu tiiiOliot, SOuiu hOt DolloW
a gun in the District of Columbia, but
he obtained twelve-pound Parrot
from Philadelphia. He got the consent
of Virginia's governor to fire salute
dd Hbitum on the Old Dominion shore
of the Potomac, and from that point he
woke the echoes of Washington with
one hundred three rounds. Returning
across Long Bridge to the White House
park he fired twenty-one more-a num-
Der for which permission was not re-
quired. The keeper of the fish ponds
near the White House protested against
the firing of the salute, as it would, he
said, kill off his fish; but the Logan
boomers threatened to throw him into
his pond if he made any trouble for
them.
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The Bennington Battle Monument.

Interest in the determination of the
character of the monument to comment
crate the battle of Bennington is re-
vived by an earnest letter from the
venerable Ex-Governor Hiland Hall to
the members of the monument associa-
ton. Mr.. Hall is stoutly opposed to
the sculptural design favored by the
committee, and particularly to Professor
Weir's creation, described in THE
WATCHMAN of January p. The old
governor argues the matter and en-
forces his views with patriotic force
and convincing clearness. In conclud-
ing his letter, he says: 81 submit
to your consideration and Judgment
whether the proposed structure would
be proper and just compliance with
the terms of the act of incorporation
which requires the erection of a suita-
BILE monument commemorative of the
achievements of General John Stark
and the patriot soldiers of Vermont,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts at
the decisive battle of Bennington.
And also whether, in view of the char
acter of the battle and of the inland
rural nature of the country where it
was fought, it is possible, in your judg-
ment, to represent and properly typify
its magnitude and importance by any
sculptural figures of the small dimen-
sions of those of the proposed struc-
ture, however artistic and however
skilfully executed the work might be.
l can but think you will answer both
these questions in the negative, and
that you will come to the conclusion,
with the people of Bennington, that the
only suitable monument to the event of
the battle must be one of conspicuous
dimensions. The northern brow of
Bennington Hill. where stood the old
continental storehouse, which it was
the object of Burgoyne's expedition to
capture, furnishes a commanding posi-
ton for such structure. A monument
erected there, raised high in the heav-
ems above all surroundings, overlooking
rich and extensive valley, and visible
from three states of the Union, would
command the admiration and awe, and
inspire the patriotism of all beholders
of the present and succeeding genera
tons, and would be fit type and rep
resentation of the great event it was
designed to commemorate. That such
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10
The Offices.

A spectator, looking at the opera
ton of free institutions through the
medium of the press and the conversa-
tons of the people at this time, might
reasonably reach the conclusion that
distributing offices is the chief end of
government in this country and office
seeking or holding the sole aim of the
American citizen. For months before
and since the change of administration
Office has been the burthen of mems
thoughts and discourse, and the offices
have monopolized the time of every de-
partment of the government. The time
the president and heads of departments
should have to familiarize themselves
with the complex affairs of government
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10

THE New Hampshire legislature con-
vened last week and organized by the
election of Edgar Aldrich of Littleton,
speaker of the house of representatives,
and Chester Pike of Cornish, president
of the senate. Two years ago there
was long and bitter fight over the
election of successor to Hon. f. II.
Rollins in the United States senate. A
similar contest is on for the vacancy in
the senatorship occasiOned by the eX-
piration of the term of Hon. III. w.
Blair. The entries are Blair, Chandler,
Rollins and Ray. Chandler and Roll
Inns were candidates two years ago and
Mr.. Ray has been representative in
congress. None of the candidates has
any decisive strength and none of them
possess any distinctive ability. Mr..
Blair has some prestige by reason of
the association of his name with the
education bill which was before the last
congress, but which had become Sc
changed by amendments that very little
of Mr.. Blair except the name was left
in the measure. He has also some
rather unsubstantial basis of notoriety
in the association of his name with pro-
posed temperance legislation. 1t i;
generally believed, however, that as {
senator he ranks rather below the aver
age in ability and in actual services
rendered. He has posed as a mora
statesman and has acted his part will
so much success that among certain
elements he has following more o.
less numerous and influential in New
Hampshire and in the nation. In poin
of native ability and integrity he i,
probably the peer of the leading entries
and by virtue of one term of experience
and good disposition would probabl,
render to state and nation service a
good as, or better than, his leadin!
competitors. The way for New Hamp
shire to do is to institute a revolution
in her political methods, send petty
selfish, scheming politicians to the rear
bring forward her best men for the sen
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10
Preservation Of Our Forests.

In an article upon the above subject,
in the June atlantic, Francis Parkman
says: " There are reasons entirely in
dependent of economic value which
make the preservation of our forests
matter of prime importance, and would
make their ruin national calamity. 1t
is not that they have much influence on
the rainfall. Those who hold that they
do so mistake effect for cause. The
rain produces the forest, and not the
forest the rain. A forest growth may
not of necessity follow an adequate sup
ply of moisture, but the supply of
moisture is an indispensable condition
Of it. The utility of forests, aside from
their marketable value, lies in their
power not to cause the rainfall, but to
regulate its distribution. In this they
are of incalculable benefit. When they
cover the ground about the sources of
great rivers and their tributaries, the
porous soil, with its MOSES and its accu
mutations of fallen leaves, acts as a vast
sponge to retain and slowly deliver the
water that falls from the clouds in the
form of rain or snow. When the shell
tering trees are destroyed and the
ground is laid bare, all the water runs
off at once-the brooks that had before
flowed continuously and with compare
tive regularity become roaring torrents
in spring and dry channels in summer,
while the rivers that depend on these
sources of supply swell into freshets at
one season and shrink into insgnifi-
canoe at another. The recent destruc-
tive floods in the north of Italy, and no.
tably along the river Pc, with all the
misery they have, are ascribed, and
no doubt with truth, to the partial de-
mutation of the mountainous country
about the sources of streams. The arid
and comparatively valueless condition
of certain parts of Spain is due to SINH
lar causes. 1t is for us to see, while
there is yet time, that similar evils do
not fall upon us. That wonderful re-
gion of the West known as the Great
Divide gives birth to the Missouri, the
Yellowstone, the Columbia, the Colo
RADIO and the North Fork of the Platte.
The preservation of it's sheltering for
ests is of vital interest to all the regions
watered by these rivers. The same is
true, in different degree, of the sources
of many lesser streams within our ma
tional territory. Sometimes, as in the
case of the Hudson, the source of the
river and its whole course lie within the
limits of one state, and the local gov
eminent is therefore master of the stu
alton. If New York should permit the
Adirondack forests to be destroyed she,
and she alone, would be answerable for
the consequences. But, in most cases,
our great rivers rise in one or more
states or territories, to flow through or
by the domain of others on their way
to the sea. Here the state authorities
are powerless, and, if the remedy is to
be applied at all, it must be applied by
the federal government Momentous
interests are at stake, and the welfare
of the whole nation demands careful
consideration of them"
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The Russian Glacier.

The Christian Union thus sketches
the measures Great Britain is taking to
check the glacial movement of Russia
toward India -: Zone good result of the
recent events in Afghanistan is prob
able change of feeling in England in
regard to the defence of India. This
was very fully brought out in recent
notable debate in the house of lords,
in which the Duke of Argyll and Lords
Kimberley, Salisbury and Cranbrook
took part. Although differing radically
on many points, these English states
men were agreed in their Interpretation
of the Russian movement toward India
Something very like manifest destiny
is pushing Russia forward in Asia, and
this movement is beyond the control of
the Russian government itself. The
London Spectator well describes it as
the glacial movement of Russia to-
ward India and declares that it is in
dependent of the Russian government,
and can be arrested only by line of
impregnable defences. Even if she
wished to be honest-which is doubtful
it is probable that Russia could not
observe any treaties which she might
make, binding her against further adj
vance. The impetus which has been
pushing her through Asia will carry her
to the confines of India, and there the
English must prepare to meet her. The
old notion of keeping Afghanistan as a
buffer or neutral zone, is fast being
abandoned, and the force of events, if
nothing else, is bringing all parties to
an agreement as to the proper mode of
defence. British forces may be used
in Afghanistan, but they cannot be
relied upon there to arrest Russian
movements, nor can the Afghans be
counted upon as allies. Lord DUFF
fern, man of great practical sagacity
and admirable judgment, has recon-
mended the construction of strong forti-
fications at Quota and on the Indus,
and the building of a series of military
railroads uniting the whole frontier
with the body of the Indian Empire.
This scheme, so far as it involves the
railroads and great military road, has
already been sanctioned, and the OK
penditure of S25 100000, appropriated
to the work, has already been begun.
1t is proposed to establish thorough
system of defence, involving fortresses
railroads, and standing army, at cost
of not more than S5,000,000 a year
This done, England, standing on hel
own ground, and with the moral power
of purely defensive attitude, can await
the attack of Russia. Sooner or later
the struggle must come; nothing viii
now stop the Russian movement except
a vigorous and successful war against
it. Under the pressure of the cumula
tive force of conquest and movement
treaties, however sacred, will afford nc
lasting protection"
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If the present favorable conditions
are maintained, the dispatches say,
General Grant will travel to Mt.
McGregor on Tuesday, June %. Presi-
dent Rutter of the New York Central
& Hudson River railroad has placed
his special car at General Grants dis
posal for the trip. The general will be
accompanied by his family and DR..
Douglas. On Monday the general was
suffering with rheumatic pains and was
reported not as well as he has been.
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a structure will eventually dignity and
adorn that old historic hill, 1 can but
hope and believe" Governor Hall is
right. Such monument as he advo-
Gates we have favored in our discus
sions of this subject, and we, too, hope
and believe that the structure for
which he pleads SO fervidly will event
ually dignity and adorn the old historic
ground at Bennington.
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atorship and keep them in congress.
The Green Mountain state sets her
Granite sister and neighbor good ex-
ample in this respect. If she will fol-
low the teachings of the remainder of
the New England states she may, in
time, advance a stage or so from the
rear rank.
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On Monday the British house of com

ON MOHUdy UlU DTIIISH HUUSU UI UUIII-
mons discussed the question of the duty
on beer and spirits and motion for the
second reading of the budget was de-
feated by a vote of two hundred sixty
four to two hundred fifty-two. Intense
excitement prevailed on the announce
ment of the result, and it is rumored
that Mr.. Gladstone will tender his res
ignation to the queen.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-22
THREE STAGES OF LIFE.


Ante-Nuptial |
Sweet love, know that must 60;
IT'S late; the noon Of night is nigh;
Time speeds away and yet stay.
A lingering lover sweet am +
All! how hate to say good-by.
Good night, my own when you're alone,
Ere slumber seals those starry eyes,
o. give tender thought to one
Who takes his leave of you with signs,
Whose heart still for your presence cries.
One -adieuI wish for you
Dreams roseate and slumbers light,
The time is nigh when you and
No more viii need to say goodnight.
Nuptlals
How radiant in her bridal dress!
How sweet the love light in her eyes!
To-day she crowns my happiness,
And earth becomes paradise.
marvel as look upon
Her now arrayed in beauties pride,
By what strange arts of love l won
This wingless angel for my bride,
And need go from her no more
Nor dread her irate fathers frown
When parting from her at the door
Nor fear his sudden coming down.
No more to leave her at the gate,
And signing wander home alone,
For where she is-that's home; thank fate,
She's mine at last, my wife, my own.
Post-Nupitals.
What's that you say' Ills FELIX'S aa height
To come home at this time of night,
Pretending I've been to the lodge!'
"Where-hic-do you suppose I've been?
IN some saloon" Your quite Joker: Joker,
You "know that pve been playing poker?"
'l'm chewing cloves?" yes, for cough:
I've got cold. What's that you said?
''TOo bad?" 0, yes; what now, take or
My boots before go to bed?"
Of course, my dear, quite forgot
Ihad 'em on. Hic-there they go.
''Take off my hat!" ''I'm drunk?" I'm not,
wonder at your talking SO.
'sYou won't put up with"-hush that child,
The peace-disturbing little elf,
o stop its noise; it sets me wild.
What's that-hic-'hu the child my
self?'
Well, let me have her-by-lo-by-
Here l am in my stocking feet
Safe in your papa's arms you lie;
By-lo my baby-slumber sweet.
And this is matrimonial life
TO walk the floor like this, alack!
He is a fool who takes wife
Great Scott: I've stepped upon tack.
Great Julius Caesar! look at that!
o who would wed for love or pelf-
MY foot-Here take the squalling brat
And try to make her sleep yourself.
o, 'Tm brute!" o, yes of course
| That blasted tack! What's that-Im
| rude!,
| ssYou'll sue at once for a divorce"
| wish to goodness that you would.
Curtain.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-22
A Trusting Fox.

A well-known member of Parliament
and M. F. H. recently related to us the
following, which being strictly true,
may not be without interest to our
readers.
In the year 49,, the huntsman of the
Wirrall (Cheshirc) Harriers had a
young fox offered to him by laboring
man, and effected it's purchase for the
modest sum of thirty shillings. He
Immediately set about making arrange
ments for days run with the barriers
with all the enthusiasm of an old fox
hunter, and gloried in the prospect of
a rafting burst across country. But
just as everything was settled a severe
frost set in and continued for more
than a month, so that all prospects
of sport was at an end. Meanwhile,
however, the fox must, of course, be
fed, and this duty devolvcd upon the
huntsman, who made him as COM
Portable as a fox in confinement could
possibly be. He soon became quite
the pet of the household, and the
children grew so fond of the furry
little fellow with bis bright eyes and
kittcnish ways that they could not
bear the thou ht of parting with him,
and Reynard himself seemed to feel
quite at home, in blissful ignorance of
the future. Even the huntsman
himself grew quite attached to him,
and when at last the frost broke up, it
was with very different feelings to those
he had previously entertained that he
set about the preparations for the run.
In due time, however, the field
assembled, huntsmen and hounds all
the more eager for the enforced delay.
A ''southerly wind and a cloudy sky"
the landscape glittering with the morn
ing dew, and gay with scarlet and
green.
The fox was turned out, and after a
few minutes "grace" the whole field
started in hot pursuit. Poor Reynard
soon took in the situation, and with
that cunning for which he is celebrated,
! not unmixed with a certain other
quality with which he is not usually
credited-I mean trustfu1ness of dis
position-he doubled upon his pursuers
and made straight for the horses.
With wonderful sagacity, considering
his terror and distress, he singled out
his quondam friend, the huntsman, and,
without moments hesitation, which
would have cost the poor brute his life,
for he was then almost in the very jaws
of the dogs, he leaped upon the saddle,
and nestled closely against his red
coated protector. His painting breath
and piteous eyes were too much for
the heart against which his own was
beating, and his life was spared.
Under these circumstances the hunt
was abandoned, and Master Reynard
was reprieved. He was once more
installed as the family pet.-Leisure
Hours.