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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Good Advice.

The Nashville American gives to
country boys the following advice
" Intelligent boys in the country, how
consider their present hardships as a
gymnasium for the development of
their manly qualities of mind and body
Let them practice industry and honesty,
acquire knowledge, cultivate decision of
character, suffer patiently and endure
cheerfully privations and self-denial,
labor with singleness of purpose, and
strengthen their characters by winning
success in every undertaking, however
small. Let them cultivate habits of
thrift, economy and persistency, and
their time of influence and power will
come-come as surely as effects follow
causes, as wealth follows prudence and
industry, as intelligence follows inquiry,
as light follows darkness These are
sage and sound words, and abundantly
verified by the general experience of
the world. Every young man should
commence life, and then conduct it in
conformity with the advice here given.
1t is true that external circumstances,
over which we have no control, have
much to do with the fortunes of ones
life, and also true that the native capaci-
ties of men are not at dead level,
since some have higher gifts than others.
And yet it is equally true that what
we do, or omit to do, in the circum-
stances in which we are placed, the use
that we make of our powers and the
habits we form in childhood and youth,
and carry with us into manhood, con-
stitute vast power in determining the
success or failure of life. Some persons
are poor all their days simply as the
effect of their prodigality. Some are
too lazy to succeed in anything. Some
lack steadiness of purpose. The morals
of some are too low to secure the re-
spect and confidence of others. The
drunkard ruins himself by the indul-
gence of vicious appetite. 1t is sell
dom, indeed almost never, that life is
an absolute failure for this world, eX-
cept by misuse of the powers with
which one was endowed. Nothing can
be more certain than that virtue and
industry, contemplated simply as causes,
constitute the best policy which one
can adopt in shaping the course of his
life.-Independent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
AnecdOte of Senator Sumner.

Senator Sumner took quite an inter-
est in me, and had an especial fondness
for catching me by the ears. Often
have l attempted to pass the senator,
while he was walking to and fro on the
floor of the senate, only TO have both
my ears seized good-naturedly, and to
be asked some kindly question. shall
always remember one of these adj
ventures-for it ,ras an adventure He
had sent me on an errand. Having re-
turned, reported to him the answer
and received his deep-voiced thanks, l
started to move away, but he had caught
me, and continued his slow march, in
front--Indian file. AS he was tall
man, and very small boy in COM
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Questions Answered.

J. G.. g., Wheelock Any soldier
drawing a pension at the rate given for
the loss of limb is exempted from a
poll-tax by the laws of this state.
G. A. A., Derby,-The widow or pa
rent of an officer receives the same rate
of pension as the officer would receive
for total disability. The widow or
mother of a first lieutenant would be
entitled to pension of S17 a month.
j. w. T., Mortified. The address of
Enoch Blanchard, surgeon of the
Seventh Regiment, Vermont Volun-
teers, is Minonk, Ill. DR.. E. w. True
worthy, who was surgeon of that regi-
ment during the latter part of the war,
is in Lowell, Mass.
j. G.. T., Chelsea.-T. ]. Deavitt has
been employed to prosecute claim
under the French spoliation act, before
the courts of claims, that will require
his presence in Washington about the
first of December. He will then attend
to your business in the pension office.
Mrs. E. A. H., Brattleboro.-Theb bill
that you had in congress last winter
will not come up in regular order in the
next congress. All unfinished legisla-
ton expired with the last session, and
it will be necessary for you to have a
new bill introduced at the next session,
which commences December 18th next.
S. J. S., Rutland.-We believe that
Senator Edmunds was not in the army
during the rebellion, except as captain
of company of soldiers organized at
Burlington, soon after the st. Adams
raid, to repel any further demonstrations
of that kind that might have followed.
He was appointed United States sena-
tor by Governor Dillingham;.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Victualling a Steamer.

Few persons are aware of the extern
sive nature of the victualling on board
the great ocean steamers. Each vessel
is provisioned as follows for the pas
sengers and crew. Three thousand five
hundred pounds of butter, 5000 hams,
1000 pounds of biscuits, exclusive of
those supplied for the crew; 5000
pounds of grapes, almonds, figs and
other dessert fruits; l 800 pounds of
jams and jellies; timed meats, 5000
pounds; dried beans, 5000 pounds;
rice, 3,000pounds; onions, 5,000pounds;
potatoes, 40 tons; flour, 800 barrels;
eggs, 1,200 dozen. Fresh vegetables,
dead meat, and live bullocks, sheep,
pigs, geese, turkeys, ducks, fowls, fish,
and casual game are generally supplied
at each port, so that it is difficult to es-
innate them. Probably two dozen bull
locks and sixty sheep would be fair
average for the whole voyage, and the
rest may be inferred in proportion.
During the summer months, when
travelling is heavy, twenty-five fowls
are often used in soup for single
dinner.-London Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Pension Notes.

THE number of pensions granted at
the pension Office the last week in
August was five hundred sixty-one orig
inal, seven hundred ten increases and
thirty-eight reservations.
FIVE hundred thousand dollars was
the sum required at Concord, N. H.,
to pay the quarterly pensions for the
states of New Hampshire and Vermont,
due September 4th, 1885.
MICHAEL O'DAY of Richmond,
good Irish soldier in a Vermont regi-
ment, contracted disease of the eyes
while in the United States service that
incapacitated him for manual labor, and
he became pauper on the town of
Waterbury. He applied for a pension
and by the assistance of Mr.. Watts, the
overseer Of the poor of that town, the
testimony necessary to establish his
right was obtained, and a pension
granted Mr.. O'Day of $24 month and
over 81 800 arrears. Mr.. O'Day, like
an honest man, paid about $500 of out
lawed debts and relieved the town from
his further support. He recently ap-
piled for an increase of pension, was
examined by the new medical board at
Montpelier, and last week he received
new pension certificate emitting him
to pension of S72 month hereafter.
MARK NEWMAN, who died about a
year ago, has since been granted a
pension, with 49, 39 arrears. He left
no widow or children, and John Par
sons, at whose house Mr.. Newman had
lived for many years, filed claim Of
over 81 900 for expenses in caring for
and nursing Mr.. Newman while living
at his house, and several officers of the
treasury department decided that he
was entitled to all the money due the
pensioner at the time of his death, to
be applied in satisfaction of his claim.
The second comptroller has decided,
however, that this cannot be done. He
says that the phrase "last sickness +"
has always been limited to that which
is the immediate cause of death, and
can never be applied to a long period
of disability, as in this case. The
comptroller allows the claimant $500
for expenses of board, nursing and
care of the pensioner, S92 for bill of
physician and $57 for funeral expenses,
amounting in all to $469. In similar
case-that of Jackson StOckwell-a bill
of 50, 494.82 was allowed and paid out
of accrued pension for the care, ETC., of
the pensioner prior to his death.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Select Mistellamp.
Love and Laughter.

1.-THE authorship of the following poem
is just now matter of controversy between
Colonel John A. Joyce of Washington, d
c., who claims to have written it in 1868
and Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who says
she wrote the verses three or four years ago
Eaugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
This grand old earth must borrow its mirth;
1t has sorrow enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answers
Sigh, 1t is lost on the air,
The echoes bound to joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
BE glad, and your friends many;
BE sad, and you lose them all
There none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
There's room in the halls of pleasure
For long and lordly train;
But one by one must all file on
Through the narrow aises of pain.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by;
Succeed and give, and twill help you live,
But no can help you die
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
A WOman's View of Grant.

The following memorial address was
delivered before Grand Army post in
Columbus, Ohio, August 81, 1885, by
Mrs. Mary E. Bancroft, who has rela-
tives and friends in Washington county,
Vt. Mrs. Bancroft is active in the
Woman's Relief Corps; and her hus-
band, who is native of this county, is
commander of Grand Army post:
g In the many memorial services held
in honor of General Grant his achieve
ments and his character as a soldier, a
statesman and a citizen have been dwelt
upon by those to whom these have
seemed the most sterling traits of his
greatness. The more his character is
studied the more clearly it is seen that
its greatest popularity is its wonderful
symmetry, which gives no place for the
prominence of any one trait or quality
Other men are celebrated because in
some one respect they have eXcelled all
other men with whom they are com
pared. General Grants greatest claim
to the place he holds is that in what
ever line responsibility was laid upon
him, and whatever temporary reverses
he may have met, the outcome was the
success which can result only from the
well-balauced plan, wisely and patiently
carried out in every detail. 1t is emf
nently fitting that the women of the
land, and especially the wives and
daughters of the soldiers of the repub-
lie, in bringing their leaves to weave
the laurel wreath of the great hero,
should dwell especially upon the man
who must needs be greater than his
deeds. General Grant was a great
soldier and good ruler, because in him
were the essential elements of all true
greatness, real manhood He was noted
for his love of truth, for his purity of
speech and conduct and for his reliance
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
abe Suloiers' 8uoget.
Pensions Granted.

To Charles F. Russell, Mortified, so
a month from September 18th, 1884, the
date of fling his application in the
pension office; A. p. Osborne, North
Tunbridge, ga month and 800 arrears;
Edwin N. Bowman, Montpelier, resto-
ration at SO a month and 1915 arrears;
Joseph p. Aikens, Hartford, an increase
from $12 to S15 a month; Joel G.
Bailey, Holland, an increase from SIS to
S12 a month; Franklin Bixby, West
Topsham, an increase from ga to $40 a
month; Henry M. Day, Burlington, an
increase from $12 to S16 month;
George Green, Waterford, an increase
from IS to S12 a month; Michael
O'Day, Richmond, an increase from
1924 to S72 month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

A GENTLEMAN in neighboring town
who had suffered two years with chronic
diarrhGa, and was so reduced that he
could not walk, was cured and restored
to sound health by Johnson'S Anodyne
Lniment. This liniment is worth its
weight in gold.
THE blighting effects of impure
blood are sad to behold in those we
meet day by day. This ought and need
not be so. Parsons Purgative Pills
make ne,o, rich blood; taken one night
for twelve weeks, they will change
the blood in the entire system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

No preparation could have made
such reputation as Salvation Oil has
Gn so short time) without intrinsic
merit of the highest order. 1t kills
pain. Price, twenty-five cents bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

ALWAYS avoid harsh purgative pills.
The first make you sick and then leave
you constipated. Carter's Little Liver
Pills regulate the bowels and make you
well. Dose, one pill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

PEOPLE seldom improve when they
have no better model than themselves
to copy after.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
HOODS SARSAPARILLA

Works through the blood, regulating, toning
and invigorating all the functions of the body.
Sold by druggists. Price 81, or six for SIS.
c.. HOOD & CO.. Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

mad. 80 years experience in COM
Its ingredients are purely vegetable
herbs, banks, seeds and flowers, the
given on the label of every bottle.
cine in the world for aged people,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
New York Stock Market.

New YORK, February 2S.-WalI street.
Stocks more active during past hour.
Prices dropping. noon prices of most
active stocks very close, closing quota
lions yesterday.
Stocks less active prices steady until
last hour when there was moderate de-
cline and slight reaction Just at close.
Market closed firm.
Stocks opened a shane lower than yes
terday's closing figures, and at II rallied
to fraction higher than last nights
closing, business dull.
New YORK, February 2S.-Govern-
ments strong, Il higher for IS. Stocks
less active than at any time since last
Saturday, and the extreme fluctuations
are generally within the range of little
over per cent. The day passed with
out the development of any important
rumors tending to influence values. THE
market closed firm, at prices which, in
most cases, show gains for the day of
only small fractions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
LOCAL BRIEFS.

THE CENTRAL Pacific demanded Sc, SOC
for taxing the Mapleson company
through special. The Colonel declined
to pay this, and he was hitched on be-
hind the regular.
The You've Democracy go to Ogden
on March 4th, to startle the inhabitants
OF that berg with one of their meetings
Tickets for the round trip, including adj
mission to the show 81, with stop-oyer
privileges. The speakers will be Messrs.
Sheeks, Rawlins, J. NJ. Young and A.
b. Taylor, the frebrands being kept in
the background.
AT THE agency of the D. & R. G. w.
coal company, las s., Main Street,
orders for the Pleasant Valley, Colorado
anthracite, and Ell Moro black
smith Goals, coke, charcoal and wood,
Will be filled promptly and satisfactorily
by Sells, Burton & Co., the agents. The
Goals handled by these gentlemen are
thoroughly screened and clean. See adj
yertisement in this issue.
A BEAUTIFUL model of the Gilpin
sulky pillow is now to be seen at THE
HERALD Office. The little continuance
is fac simile of the large one to be
given away in THE HERALD distribution
in April. The Gilpin is an A No. l
plow, warranted of lightest draft, and
wherever and by whomsoever used is
praised for its superiority. The list
price of the Gilpin is $50, and Grant,
Odell & Co. are the agents for its sale
in Utah. Call around and see the
model,
THE SILLY Chinaman, Sing, who has
been in Jail for several days, was fur
nished with pass to Ogden yesterday
and early in the afternoon was taken tc
the depot by brother Celestial, with
instructions to see him off. In couple
of hours afterwards he was back to the
City Hall, and requested to be i'm
prisoned for any length of time from
ten days to ten years. He didn't want
to go to Ogden, as he was afraid, he
said. of somebody killing him. He
was a pihble sight, and is evidently de
mented, as he didn't eat anything be
tween last Sunday and yesterday noon
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
Practical Value of "scienee."

While the characterization "cranks"
are protesting against the method of
protecting the public against the small
pox, the process has actually stamped
out the plague in localities where it had
taken hold, And while Ruskin and
other yivisection "cranks" were de-
claiming in one part of London against
experiments on live animals, a man
was having his life saved in London
hospital by a surgical operation that
depended upon vivisection. For Pro-
fessors Farrier and Yeo, by experiments
upon the brains of live animals dis
covered, that certain symptoms were
the result of pressure upon a particular
part of, the brain. So when patient
betrayed these symptoms they boldly
cut into the right place in his brain and
removed a tumor which they found
there. It's growth would inevitably
have killed the man. Its removal saved
his lite. 1t was the first operation of
the kind ever performed, and would
never have been possible but for the ex-
periments upon the brains of live
animals.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
NO GO.
An Attempt to Escape Arrest
Frustrated.

An amusing incident occurred in con-
nection with the raid on places of pros
titution on Friday night. One of the
inmates of En-. Davis establishment
gave the police to understand that she
was sick and unable to go to the City
Hall with them, and was allowed to re-
main at home, the officers informing
her OF their distrust and suspicion that
she wanted to give them the Slip, adding
that they would set watch on the
house. A sentry stationed himself in
the vicinity and after lapse of
time-between and 5 O'Clock
yesterday morning-the invalid, -"
attired in masculine garments and
accompanied by two well-known male
citizens, emtr. ell from the house,
walked to the White House corner and
turned south, when the police were
observed. The men who were with the
disguised female ran off at 2.40 gait,
leaving the unprotected" to the mercy
of the minlons of the law, who pounced
upon and escof ted her to the city prison
and lodged her behind the bars. Her
own apparel was sent for during the
morning and later on she was released.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
The Utah Soldier LAWYER

The following is from the New York
Tribune, sent by its regular Washington
correspondent. 1t refers to Lieutenant
r. W. Young, and.win be of interest to
his many friends here:
WASHINGTON, February 14.-One of
the numerous grandsons or Brigham
Young is somewhat conspicuous here
Just now as an assistant in the Swain
court martial to Judge-Advocate Asa
Bird Gardner. This young scion Of
polygamy is an artillery officer, sta
toned at Governors Island. He studied
law and was graduated at Columbia
College. He is tall and is considered
good-looking. He has. of course. but
Zone wife, for though Mormon he is not
polygam;st. Judge Advocate Gardner
sent for him to assist the prosecution,
which in itself is compliment, as that
officer is considered the ablest lawyer IN
the army. On Thursday Lieutenant
Young distinguished himself by his
readiness in prompting the Judge
Advocate, and a smile of admiration
passed oyer the ordinarily solemn faces
| OF the uniformed court about the table.
a son of Brigham Yonng, graduated at
West Point, is an officer in the Engineer
Corps, and is, am told, above the aver
age In brains. He too, is married 10
one wife only.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
For Beaver

Josiah Rogerson goes to Beaver to-
day, after an ats,nte OF three months.
He has made application for the posi-
ton of photographic reporter in the
Second district Court, to Judge Bore
man, before whom he; reported the
famous Lee trial" in 1874 .aid all the
civi! and criminal trials from 1874 to
1881, that have been reported Including
all the Iron County mining suits, the
Leeds (Silver Reef mining suits, and
all the cases tried under Judge Twiss.
He is endorsed as to competency by
Williams 81 Young, MARSHALL ~ Royle,
Bennett, Hardness g. kirkpatrick
Sutherland & Mcbride, Arthur Brown,
and all the members of the bar of the
Second District Court.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
Grand Opera in Chicago.

CHICAGO, February 2s.-The Chicago
Opera Festival association. under whose
auspices, two weeks season of grand
opera is to be given, beginning on April
6, has about completed all preliminary
details and is out with the announce
ment of the programme for the first
week. An opera hall has been lmpro-
vised to accommodate an audience of
$500 people. The audience room is
provided with sixty-ive private boxes,
is handsomely decorated, and lighted,
and possesses ample foyer and large
dressing rooms. The festival chorus
includes 300 voices. The or
chestra will number 100. The
chief management of the opera is
resting with Colonel Mapleson. Among
the artists to appear are Adelina:Patti,
Scalchi, Nevada, Fursch-Madi, Stein
bach and Dotti. All the railways which
centre in the city have agreed to issue
round-trip tickets at reduced rates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
THE DRAIN.
The Surplus Water of Jordan to be
Carried Off.

A meeting of the committees of the
county and city was held yesterday
afternoon, in the Office of the CITY
Watermaster, at the City Hall, but
nothing further than arranging for q
meeting of the two committees with the
committee of the people, to be held at
the same place on Monday evening,
was done, except to talk over the pro-
posed route for the new drain. From
what we could learn, the survey thus
far made is one of the most feasible ones
heretofore suggested, and is that pro-
posed at the meeting of citizens held in
the Nineteenth Ward few weeks ago.
The ditch, if the line is followed as now
contemplated, will pass through a num-
Der OF alkall lakes, draining off the pois-
onous water in them and filling them
with pure, wholesome fluid from the
mountains, and this, in itself, should
induce landowners in the line of the
contemplated drain to do all they can to
| aid its projectors i'll its digging and
pushing through to completion.
The gentlemen present at yesterday
afternoons session are among the most
experienced in the matter of controlling
irrigation waters and canal making, and
their labors for the speedy relief of
those who suffer from Jordan's over
flow, as well as for the increase of the
cultivation of some of the now-idle
lands west of here. will be accepted by
the people asthe best that can be done.
The rising of the waters in Utah Lake
and the Jordan river, at this time of the
year, is unprecedented and.the demand
for immediate action is imperative. 1t
is said that Utah Lake is two feet higher
now than in any month of February
before, and Jordan is eighteen inches
higher.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-03-01
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus
NJ. Cannon, president; Joseph E. Tay-
lor and Charles w. Penrose, counsellors.
Services in the Tabernacle at p. m.
METHODIST misunderstanding at II
am. by Rev. T. C. Tiff. Sunday school
at 1920 pm. Young peoples meeting
at $50. At 7.30 there will be held in
the large audience room gospel tenn
perance meeting Rev. T. c. Tiff and
Mr.. Scott Anderson will preach. All are
invited. ~
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL. = Morning
prayer at 9.45. Litany, holy COM
munion and sermon at II a. III. Sunday
school, 245 p. m. Evening prayer and
Catechising, $50 p. m. Evening prayer
and sermon, 7.30 p. m.
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Services in the Synagogue, Third
South, two blocks west of Cliff
House, at II o clock q. NJ. Preaching by
Rev II. a. Newell. Sabbath school at
12.15. Seats all free. All are welcome.
Camp Chapel, Fourth West, between
First and Second South. Sabbath School
at 8 pm. Preaching by Rev. H. A.
Newell at 7 O'Clock pm. The public
invited.