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Questions Answered.

G. W. A., Burlington.-Th increase
of pension commences from the date of
the medical examination, and not from
the date of the application.
O. d. E., Mortified. If the soldier
had measles in the army and died of
consumption years after his discharge,
leaving no widow, we think his child
under sixteen years of age is entitled
to pension, for measles frequently re-
suit in disease of the lungs.
S. A. W., Newport section
4,706 of the Revised Statutes, the aban-
donment of the children of soldier by
his widow, or her unfitness to have the
care and custody of them, can only be
proven by the certificate of the probate
court having jurisdiction of such minors.
E. G. S., South Royalton. -Presiden
Lincoln first called for seventy-five
thousand soldiers April Is, 1861 On
the same day Daniel Hough, private of
Battery E, First United States Artil-
lery, was killed by the premature ex-
plosion of a gun at Fort Sumter.
Charleston, S. G. The records show him
to be the first soldier killed in the war of
the rebellion. The confederate govern
ment called for thirty-two thousand
men April 16, 1861.
J. w. g., Franklin.-It would prob
ably be of no benefit to find the sur
geon of the hospital where you was
treated for the disease for which you
claim pension, as the hospital records
are the better evidence and are now
filed in your claim. The surgeon would
not be very likely to remember your
case, if found. If the surgeon of
your regiment could testify as to your
sickness before you was sent to the
hospital, his evidence would be of great
value in your claim.
L. j. R., Waterbury.-The Union
losses at the battle of Gettysburg, July
list, I'd and Sd, 1868, were: Killed, 1874;
wounded, 1900; missing, 6,643. Con-
federate losses: Killed, $500; wounded,
IA 1900; missing, 1861. This was the
only battle in which some of the Yer
mont regiments were engaged while in
the service. The Union losses at the
battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864,
were: Killed, 5,597; wounded, 81 ,463;
missing, 1857. Confederate losses:
Killed, 1000; wounded, 5000; missing,
3,400.
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Caring for What the World SAYS.

Why will you keep caring for what
the world says? Try, O try to be no
longer a slave to It'll You can have little
idea of the comfort of freedom from it
it is bliss! All this caring for what peo-
pie will say is from pride. Hoist your
flag and abide by it. In an infinitely
short space of time all secret things will
be divulged. Therefore, if you are mis-
judged, why trouble yourself to put
yourself right? You have no idea what
a great deal of trouble it saves you.
Roll your burden on him and he will
make straight your mistakes. He will
set you right with those with whom
you have set yourself wrong. Here 1
am, lump of clay; thou art the pot
ter. Mould me as thou in thy wisdom
wilt Never mind my cries. Cut my
life off-so be it; prolong it-so be it.
Just as thou wilt, but rely on thy un-
changing guidance during the trial. o
the comfort that comes from thisl-Gen-
erdl Gordon.
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Living for God.

He who lives for God will find him
self irresistibly impelled to the best and
widest service for his fellow-men. He
who lives for self, however carefully he
may strive to strengthen his position
by maxims of worldly prudence, or by
unitarian philosophy, fails ignomin-
iously of all the highest ends of living.
Reckon from self as center, and your
fellow-men become your obnoxious
rivals in the stern struggle for existence
and advancement. Ambitions law of
life becomes the blood-stained survival
of the fittest, and the highest glories
life can give you in their hollow and
transitory splendor will be yours but
for tremulous moment, until the
younger, the more vigorous, the more
fortunate shall thrust you aside, and
for his brief moment wear the bauble
you strove for until your selfish life
went out in nOthingness. Reckon from
God as center, and your fellow-men
become your brothers. They are in
finitely worthy of your loving interest,
since one Father has made all our
spirits after his image, and one Savior
has died to redeem from sin and re-
store to Condolences all who will turn to
him, even the most debased. Thus
reckoning from God as the center. the
law of loving service and self-abnega-
ton becomes the law of your life. But
| have duty toward myself, you say.
Unquestionably! You will do the best
for yourself, intellectually and morally,
when you subjugate self to the service
of God in the service of your fellow
men. Thus living, the feverish strain
will be taken out of the hot, painting
rivalries of life. The success of all
good and true men will be your success.
The spirit of him who came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister, pos
sessing your souls, failure for you will
be impossible. The very effort for
others welfare and for the defense of
righteousness, which may exhaust your
vital powers, will assure your deathless
victory-your true success. For know
well that truth, of all fixed laws in the
universe the most unalterably fixed, is
the prevalence of that holy and I'M
changing will that makes for righteous
ness--no vague, blind tendency in a
fortuitously evolving universe. 1t is
the personal will of a personal God,
whose eye is now and will evermore
be upon you as person, who claims
from you the personal love of your
finite being, while he offers you the sus-
tanning, personal love of his infinite per-
sonality.-PreSident Merrill e. Gates.
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tightening his coils so as to prevent
Lee from escaping. l remember the
President talking over General Grants
plans, and pointing out on the map how
the plans were to be executed. He
was greatly excited and could hardly
keep quiet; he wanted to get near the
front, where the fight was going on. On
Saturday, April |, one of the three
flags which Sheridan had captured the
previous day at Dinwiddie Courthouse
was received by the President. The
day had been one of suspense, and Mr..
Lincoln had been considerably worried
because of the Fifth Corps losing
ground at Dinwiddie, so that when
Colonel Bowers of the staff came in
near midnight, with dispatches, l hest
tated about arousing the President.
Learning their purport, however, from
Colonel Bowers they announced the
victory of Five Forks, l knocked
at Mr.. Lincoln's door and, with an
apology, gave him the dispatches. 1
can see him now, as he stood there in
his night-shirt that reached barely to
his knees and left exposed his long,
thin legs that were thickly covered with
black hair. He held candle in one
hand, and, while was reading the dis
patches, with the other kept reaching
down and scratching his legs. He was
nightly pleased with the victory, and,
putting his hand on my shoulder, he
said, "Captain, 1 should never have
forgiven you if you hadn't walked me up
to hear such good news" Sunday, the
I'd of April, was an especially exciting
day. Late in the morning we rode out
from City Point to the Entertainments
at the point nearest the battle then
going on in front of the Ninth Corps,
and witnessed the struggle there, when
the Sixth, Ninth and Twenty-fourth
corps succeeded in breaking through
the enemy's lines. In the evening
there was dispatch from Grant that
Lee had been driven to his last lines
about Petersburg, and telling Mr.. Lin
coin to come out. If there was ever
happy man, l think it was the President
that night. He felt that the end was at
hand, and that, after four years of
bloody war, peace was now to bless the
land.-PiOneer Press.
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Christian Workers.

Great Christian workers are great be-
levers. They have great faith in God
and expect great results to follow their
labors. The do not expect to always see
the result of their sowing, especially at
present. But they keep on sowing boun-
tifully, knowing that the harvest will be
bountiful, whether they live to see it
or not God has not told us that we
shall always see just how large the reap
ing of what we have sown will be. 1t
is enough for the sower to have the di-
vine assurance that the reaping will be
in proportion to the sowing. And if it
be for Gods glory that the sower shall
see the extent of the harvest, or at
least so much of it as it is possible for
human eyes to see, he will permit him
to behold it as an encouragement to-
his faith.-Selected.
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"When My Children were About Mes

1t is with tender emotions that many
a parent recalls such time. In the
loneliness of his old age his thoughts
often revert to the years that are past
and gone. Bright scenes rise to his
view. Then his family was an I'M
broken and an undiminished house
hold. The wife of his youth was then
with him, and all his Children young.
happy group. Together, day by day,
they gathered around the common
board, day by day they bowed at the
same family altar, and day by day
they mingled in pleasant intercourse.
dwelling. together in unity. Little
then did they realize how soon
those happy, golden days" would
speed their flight, no more to re-
turn. But so has it been. Death has
invaded the loved circle and claimed
one and another of their number 9th
ers, one after another, as they have
grown up, have gone forth from under
the parental roof into the wide world
and the home of their childhood shall no
more be their abiding home. Some of
them are far away. Occasionally one
and another of them revisits the old
homestead, but it is for only a brief
larry. Soon again farewell words are
spoken, and those who are bound to
each other by the dearest earthly ties
part. The parents, now old and gray
headed, follow the departing ones with
their kindest benedictions and prayers,
realizing from time to time more and
more sensibly the uncertainties of earth
and the doubtfulness of renewed meet
ings. With fearful eyes at the remem-
brance of months that are past" and
of the " days when their children were
about them" they hopefully anticipate
the more blessed time when all parents
and children, gone the way whence
they shall not return, shall meet and
greet each other in the heavenly home.
where partings shall be forever un-
known, and where, in the presence of
the great and good Father, and of
their elder Brother, they shall forever
abide.--Parent, IN Nep York Observer.
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PATE MIS- !
r. n. EDDY.

No. 10 State Street, opposite Kilby, Boston.
Secures Patents in the United States also in Great
Britain, France and other foreign countries Copies
of the claims of any Patent furnished by RENTING
one dollar Assignments recorded ut Washington No
agency "a the United States possesses superior Jdcites
ror OBTAINING Patents or dscertdiRRg The pateRtabihty
or Intentions.
r. II. EDDY. Solicitor of Patents.
TSTIMONIALS.
regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most capable and
suecesQut practitioners with whom have had oficiai
intercourse.
"CHAS. MASON, Commissioner of Patents"
" Inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy or more capable OF securing for the an early
and favorable consideration at the Patent Office
EDMUND BURKE late Commis ioner of Patents"
BOSTON October 10, 1870.
"R. H. Eddy, Esq. Dear Sir-You procured for me
In lS4O my first patent. Since then you have acted
for and advised me in hundreds of cases and pro
cured many patents, reissues and extensions have
occasionally employed the best agencies in New
York, Philadelphia and Washington, but still give
you almost the whole of my business In YOUR ilnee
and advise Others TO employ you. ''
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPFRp
Boston, January l. 1885, sa.ss
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04
Pensions Granted.

To Joseph Rowe, Montpelier, 81 a
month and $477 arrears; Nettie Je-
rome, Mortified, $14 month and $40
arrears; Chester w. Coleman, East
Orange, "a month and $500 arrears
w. w. Bacon, Cabot, an increase of
pension from IS to S12 a month
George Papineau, Berlin, an increase of
pension from 81 to ga month; George
Pierson, Wardsboro, an increase from
81 to S4 a month and $3.50 arrears
James A. Dickey, West Corinth, an in
crease of pension from IS to SIG a
month.
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8sligiuus Mistellanp.
Gone at n Time.v


One step at time, and that well placed,
We reach the grandest height;
One stroke at time, earth's hidden stores
VIII slowly come to light;
One seed at time, and the forest grows;
One drop at time, and the river flows
Into the boundless sea.
One word at time, and the greatest book
Is written and is read;
One stone at a time, palace rears
Aloft its stately head;
One blow at time, and the trees cleft through,
And city will stand where the forest grew
few short years before
One foe at time, and he subdued
And the conflict will be won
One grain at time, and the sands of life
VIII slowly all be run;
One minute another, the hours fly;
One day at time, and our lives speed by
Into eternity.
One grain of knowledge, and that well stored;
Another, and more on Them
And as time rolls on your mind will shine
With many garnered gem
OF thought and wisdom. And time will tell.
" One thing at time, and that done WE'LL"
Is VISIONS proven rule Golden Days.
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darling, without waiting to be older.
All you have to do is to love and trust
and try to please the One who says,
Let the little ones come unto me-. s
Don't you want to begin nowP" The
child whispered eyes" Then they
both knelt down, and the mother
prayed, and in her prayer she gave to
Christ her little one who wanted to be
his.-Morning Star
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-04

A COUGH or cold taken between now
and Christmas frequently lasts all win
ter. This is certainly the case with
people who have weak lungs. The
most convenient, reliable and inexpen-
sive remedy is Johnson's Anodyne Lin
inent. II is to be used internally and
externally.
LAST winter we warned our readers
against buying the large packs of worth
less horse and cattle-powders, and, as
it is now time to begin to use them, we
again urge them not to throw away
their money. Sheridan's Po,oders are
strictly pure, but we know of no others
that are.
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The Guns of Shiloh.

1t was at the home of the late Mr.. w.
ii. Cherry, at Savannah, Tenn, that
General Grant made his headquarters
just before the battle of Shiloh " The
federal chieftain," says the Nashville
american, " was sitting at the break
fast table of Mr.. Cherry when the first
cannon of that eventful contest was
fired. The general was little late in
leaving his apartment that morning, and
presented his apologies therefor to Mrs.
Cherry, remarking that he had not re-
tired as early as usual the night before,
and consequently had a headache.
Though battle was known to be i'm
minent, neither the general nor his
stall expected it that day, and they sat
down calmly to a breakfast which was
destined never to be completed. Mrs
Cherry, lady of great refinement and
culture, was extending the courtesies
OF her home in manner which by its
uniformity seemed to have won upon
the respect of the foeman chieftain.
He occupied seat Immediately to her
right, his staff arranged around him.
Mrs. Cherry poured out cup of coffee,
which the general received and placed
in front of him with 60 thank YOU.
madam" He was in in the act of rails
ing it to his lips when the boom of a
cannon was heard in the distance. The
cup was for moment poised in the air,
while the general, half turning his head
and eXclaiming," What's that?n seemed
to be listening intently. The words
were hardly uttered before the ominous
sound was repeated. The general sprang
to his feet. " Gentlemen, the ball has
opened. We must be going" he ex-
claimed. And in five minutes he, his
staff and orderlies were aboard the
small steamer anchored at the foot of
the hill and steaming up the Tennessee.
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He who hath health has hope, and he
who has hope has everything.

THE pain and misery suffered by
those who are afflicted with dyspepsia
are indescribable. The distress of the
body is equaled or surpassed by the
confusion and tortures of the mind,
thus making its victims suffer double
affection. The relief which is given
by Hoods Sarsaparilla has caused thou
sands to be thankful for this great
medicine. 1t dispels the causes of
dyspepsia and tones up the digestive
organs. Try Hoods Sarsaparilla
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Pension Decisions.
CAUSES OF DISABILITY.

In the case of Reuben E. Backus,
certificate No. 176,6SS, the commits
sioner decided as follows: Pension
was allowed November 10, 1880. by
certificate No. 17S,6SS, but the pen
sioner's name was dropped from the
rolls June IS, 1888, upon the ground
that " the disability was incurred prior
to enlistment" This action appears to
have been based upon testimony adj
duced by special examination show
ing that the claimant received three
separate injuries of the right arm be-
fore his army service, and the disa-
bility for which pension was allowed
was believed to be properly referable
thereto. 1t will not do to offset the in
jury admitted to have been incurred in
the service by some other disability
contracted either prior or subsequent
thereto, and if the medical referee
after careful review of the evidence :,
can fix rate for the injury admitted to
have been received in the service, the
claim for restoration will be favorably
considered. In cases similar to this
the medical referee will in future be
called upon to distinguish between the
different causes of disability, and eX-
press an opinion as to the existence of
a pensionable disability arising from
the disease or injury shown to have
been contracted in the service and line
of duty.
ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
The woman was married to her first
husband in September, 1868. Her
Oldest child was born in the following
December. She was divorced from
her husband in 1870, and then she mar
ried the soldier as whose widow she
now claims pension. Shortly after her
marriage to her last husband she had
another child, and she filed proof at
tempting to prove that the soldier
recognized this second child as his off
spring. The facts being brought to
the commissioners attention, in con-
nection with the provision of section
4,704, Revised Statutes, he decided
" that the statute has never been
framed which will legitimatize an
adulterous brood gotten from unknown
sources.n
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How Lincoln Received the News.

Those were indeed exciting days.
The iron-clads were laundering away at
the Notifications at Drury's Bluff, while
Grant was pounding at Petersburg and
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Gage cannot wither it nor custom
state its infinite variety" Flesh is
hardly heir to an ache or pain which
cannot be cured by using Salvation Oil.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-31
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL



Ehe New York Market Very Dull, and with
out Special Features.
New YORK, March 30.-Money easy on call at
Rper cent
Prime mercantile paper, 405 per cent
Sterling exchange very dull; sixty days, 81 50;
sight, $4s7.
Governments continue quiet and strong,
there being further gain Of in the quotation
Tor four-and-a-half-p per- cent, registered; others
unchanged
State securities quiet but where quotations
are made they are generally strong and in some
eases show an advance of to 8.
Railways quiet and about steady for every
thing except Erie seconds, which have been
more active and heavy on pressure to sell. West
Shore was also weak.
The stock market was very dull all day, and
developed nothing of special interest, except
weakness in the Vanderbts The total sales
were only Isl, 900 shares the smallest business
done since March II. Prices at the opening were
from to per cent. lower than they closed on
Saturday, except Lackawanna, which showed
slight gain, and from that time until late in the
afternoon the general list was simply featureless.
IN the late part of the last hour, recovery of
a fraction occurred, leaving final quotations
within to per cent. Of the lowest prices of the
day in majority of cases. OF the transactions of
to-day, sc. 600 were Lackawanna $4,000 Lake
Shore, It, GOO Northwestern, $1,000 New York
Central, "a, 600 Pacific Mail, $1,000 ST. Paul
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-31
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Produce Markets.

NEW YORK, March 3O.-Flour steady and I'm.
changed; receipts, 81 600 brls; exports, 300 brls
options declined I0lasc, and closed steady:
receipts, 10000 bu exports. SO 900 bu; No: 2
spring Gle; ungraded spring Sac; urgtAded red, 83
No 1 white Western, 91lac; ungraded white
Western 95lec: No. red, April, sales of 264, 600
bu at 90@90lec, closed at o0c; MAY, sales Of
1884 900 bu at 913s092c, closed at 913sc; June;
sales of $4,000 blu at 927s0SSa oc closed at
927sc; July, sales of 36S,00o bu at 940945sc,
closed at 94lec; September. sales of $4,000 bu at
95Ac. Corn-Spot lots 401ac lower; options Il q
5sc lower closed steader receipts, 293 900 bu; ex-
ports. 142 600 bu ungraded, 49050s4c; No. 3
Western 49atc; steamer white 49lo 05Oase; No. 2
Western 493l as lie; steamer white, 5034c ungraded
497sc, closed at 49a.c; April 495s05 SOC, closing at
5o4 lac closed at SO ssc; July 81 4 sc closed
at 81 lac; steamer April 1880. Oats l4012c lower
and moderately active; receipts 49, 600 bu exports
SO bu; mixed Western 81 03Sc; white Western SO ID
42c. Stock of grain in store March o. Wheat A.
$40 600 bu; corn 232 900 bu; oats, 967 600 bu:
barley. las, 200 bu; rye, 5000 bu: malt 123, 600
covada 4l2c; molasses sugar, 4c yellow 4le 5sc;
standard A, 91605osc Molasses dun and ui,-
changed. Rice steady, Petroleum firm: United Pipe
line certificates, 81 5sc; refined Use. Tallow steady
Resin weak at 81. 17la al 20. E9gs-Western fresh
heavy aid lower at 14lo0 l5c. Pork steady. Lard
weak Msstern ste steam Nav spot lots o. 1S s
726c; July, 1908 $50; August 7.3S az .:s9c
Butter dull Cheese quiet; Western flats, 8@1Oiac.
Other articles unchanged.
CHICAGO. March 30.-Flour weaker and unchanged
Wheat closed 1ssc under SATURDAY,. Sales ranged:
March, 75l4 076ac closed at 1850; April, 75Ia0
7614c. closed at 76076lsc May, S04 6s1 lsc, closed
at S07se; june 823s0s3e, closed at s27sc; No. 2
Chicago spring, 757sa7Siac; No. 3 Chicago spring
csc. Corn in fair demand; opened weak closed lac
under Saturday, Sales ranged: Cash, 37A04Olac;
March and April, 37la037a4c, closed at &c: May,
41l2041sAc, closed at 1osc; June 420423sc
closed at 42l4c. Oats good demand; ruled easier
Sales ranged: Cash, 275sa30c; April, 275sc May.
3lss0315sc. Rye duh at 62lac. Barley dull and
nominal at 81 063c. Flaxseed quiet at $l.3S. Pork
irregular Sales ranged: Cash FL .90Ol2; March,
$l195; April, sll;9o@l1.95; May, $ll95 q
IL 12la closed at $l2.O2l20 Il. 05; June, $12. 05
a 12.22le: closed at ST.. 12ia012.15 Lard in fair
demand and 02iac0. 05c lower. Sales ranged:
Cash and April, 6S006.S2iac; May. 6S5 30c.
closed at 6.87ia069oc Bulk meats in fair de-
mand; shoulders, 4.507460c: short ribs, 6 06 O5c:
short clear 6.45 10000. Whisky, $1l5 Butter
steady; creamery Csc. Eggs steady at i3c Receipts
Flour, 29, 900 brls: wheat, ~ 600 bu, corn 25s.
900 bu; oats, 106, 600 bu; rye 5000 bu; barley.
20 ooo bu shipme1t so 20 900 brs; wheat
5000 bu; barley, is. 900 bu. On the afternoon
board Wheat reasicr declined ie 4c. Corn easier;