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Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
EXCITEMENT uNABATED.
That Remarkable Experience or y
Rochester Physician Fully Au
thentEcated.
Cleveland. o.. Herald.

Rochester Physician Fully Au-'
thentIeated.
Cleveland, o., Herald.
Yesterday and the day before we
copied into our columns from the
Rochester, N. Y, Democrat and Chron-
;cle, a remarkable statement made by
J. B. Henion, M. d., gentleman who
is well known in this city. In that ar
ticle DIR. Henion recounted a wonder
full experience which befell him, and
the next day we published from the
same paper second article, giving an
account of the Excitement in Roch-
ester" caused by DR.. Henion's state-
ment. Itlis doubtful if any two arti-
cles were ever published which caused
greater commotion both among pro-
fessional people and laymen.
Since the publication Of these two
articles, having been besieged with let
tiers of inquiry, we sent communica-
ton to DIR. Henion, also one to H. I'll.
Warner & Co., asking if any additional
proof could be given to us as to the
validity of the statements published.
In answer thereto we have received the
following letters, which add interest to
the entire subject and verify every
statement hitherto made
ROCHESTER, n. Y.
GENTLEMEN Your favor is received.
The published statement, over my sig
nature, to which you refer is true IN
every respect, and I owe my life and
present health wholly to the power Of
Warmers Safe Cure, which snatched
me from the very brink of the grave.
1t is not surprising that people should
question the statement made, for my
recovery was as great marvel to my
self, as to my physicians and friends.
J. B. HENIoN. NJ. ID.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
IN THE LITTLE ROCKIES.
Not The Bright Prospects That Had Bee
Painted There.

SSOb AM0 T00PCC1S AAS1N kAksA DCGu
Painted There.
His name was III. FL. Asbury and he
had just come in from the Little Rock
les, and spread his bold. bad autograph
on the register of the Merchants, when
ne was solicited by Day reporter to
talk about the mines there.
II was at Helena when the first init
nation of gold there was given out, y
he said, land ! got an outfit at Benton,
taking the Crow Creek road from there
to the scene of the excitement. 1t re-
quired eleven days to make the trip.
Times were good in the Little Rockies
then, and I got as high as thirty cents
to the pan. The gulch proper is three
miles long and there are places in it
where the bed rock is washed bare for
three hundred or four hundred feet at a
stretch. The general formation is por-
phyry, and there are from eighteen to
fifty men at work in this one gulch. In
the entire mining district there are all
told from eighty to one hundred men.
They are going and coming all the time
and the increase in number, If any, is
very small, most all appearing to think
there is nothing III it. The great draw
back is lack of confidence Il one man
makes a big find 1t sort o. livens up the
feelings of The rest, but it does not last
long. The prosptctors soon settle
down into idle istlessness. do not
think there is single claim in the
mountains that is paying. One hole
was sunk about fifty feet deep but they
had no return, then a drain about nine
feet deep on Peoples Creek was made
and few colors were secured in the
pan. Now there is no one around the
creek. It is utterly deserted. There
was a report circulated that one hum
one day in Little Alder gulch, but it was
all bosh, for at all the different camps
forty dollars was the largest sum that
could be found as having been taken
out in one day. The report that there
are traces of diggings there a number
of years ago is untrue, for could not
find any evidence of them
s.The mountain Looms up in the midst
of a large plain, and branches off from
one gray peak in all directions. There
are many difficulties encountered in
operating these mines, the principal be-
ing lack of water There is none to
wash out the gold except what is OBJ
tanned by the melting of snow during
late spring and early summer at the
heads of the gulches. The only reason
why this senseless stampede occurred
was an attempt to get people into the
country. It is good grazing region,
and on this plan they can alone secure
permanent settlement. "-St. Paul
Day.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06

Try GERMEA for breakfast.
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06

GLOSSY BLACK by single application of
this DYE. Itimparts natural color, acts
instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or
sent by express on receipt of ST.
Office, a. E7urraY ST.. New York,
Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
FOR THE LADIES.

The Egyptian question-Are the camels
coming2
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
The Important Period Of Mans Life,

From the age of forty to that of sixty
a man who properly regulates himself
may be considered in the prime of life.
His mature strength of constitution
renders him almost impervious to the
highest attacks of disease, and all the
functions are in order. Having gone a
year or two past sixty, however, he ar
rives at the critical point of existence.
The river of death flows before him,
and he remains at standstill. But
athwart this river is viaduct called the
Turn of Life" which, if turned in
safety, leads to the valley of cold Age"
around which the river winds, and then
flows without doubt of causeway to
affect its passage. The bridge is, how
ever, constructed of fragile materials,
and it depends upon how it is trodden
whether it bends or breaks. Gout, apo
plexy and other maladies are in The
vicinity to waylay the traveller and
thrust him from the pass; but let him
grid up his loins and provide himself
with perfect composure. To quote a
metaphor, the "turn of life " has turn
either to prolonged walk or into the
grave. The system and power having
reached their utmost expansion, now
begin either to close, like the flowers
at sunset, or break down at once. One
injudicious stimulant, single fatal ex.
element, may force it beyond its
strength, while a careful supply of props
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
Five Cents a Day.

The cumulative power of money is
fact very generally appreciated. There
are few men living at the age of seventy
five, hangers on to existence by some
slender employment, or pensioners, it
may be, on the bounty of kindred or
friends, but might, by exercising the
smallest particle of thrift, rigidly adj
hered to in the past, have set aside a
respectable sum which would materi-
ally help them to maintain their indie
pendence in their old age. Let us take
the small sum of five cents, which we
daily pay to have our boots blackened,
to ride in car the distance we are able
to walk, or to procure bad cigar we
are better without, and see what its
value is in the course of years. We
will suppose boy of fifteen, by black
ing his own boots or saving his cher
ished cigarette, puts by five cents day.
In one year he saves $1S.25, which,
being banked, bears interest at the rate
of five per cent per annum, compounded
semi-yearly. On this basis, when our
thrifty youth reaches the age of sixty
five, having set his five cents per day
religiously aside during fifty years, the
result surprising. He has accumulated
no less sum than $3,9S3.1S. A scru-
tiny of the progress of this result is in
teresting. AT the age of thirty our
hero had 1896; at forty, 1877; at fifty,
ST ,667; at sixty, $2,962. After fifteen
years. saving his annual interest more
than equals his original principal; in
twenty-five years it is more than double
in thirty-five years it is four times as
much, in forty-five years it is eight times
as much as the annual amount he puts
by. The actual cash amount saved in
fifty years is $912.50, the difference be-
tween that and the grand total OF
1888 = namely, $2,970.6S is &C
cumulated interest. What magnifcen
premium for the minimum of thrift
that can be well represented in figures
-1nO1
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17

A PERSON more famous for inquisi-
tiveness than for correct breeding-one
of those who, devoid of delicacy and
reckless of rebuff, pry into everything
took the liberty of questioning Alex
ander Dumas rather too closely about
his genealogical tree. g You are a
quadroon, Mr.. Dumas?' he began.
am, sir" quietly replied Dumas, who
had sense enough not to be ashamed of
his descent. " And your father ?'
Was mulatto." " And your grand
father?" " Anegro," hastily answered
the dramatist, whose patience was
waning. "And may inquire what your
great-grandfather was ?" :" An ape,
STRIP Numbered Dumas, with fierce
ness that made his impertinent inter-
rogator shrink into the smallest pos
sible compass. " An ape, sir! My
pedigree commences where yours ter
minatesr'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
A Huge Wave.

The White Star line steamer Ger
manic encountered terrific wave in a
gale about five hundred miles from the
coast of Ireland on her way to New
York, April 5, and was obliged to put
back. Had she not been stanch vessel
she would never have been heard from
again. Captain Kennedy gives the fol-
lowing thrilling account: The air was
so filed with flying spray that could
not see distinctly a hundred yards.
When the water appeared like a wall
as high as the tops of our smoke-stacks,
right in the course of the ship, it was
not more than a hundred feet away.
We pointed right into it and the boat
was buried from stem to stern. The
winch for hosting was wrenched out
and dashed down through the deck. II
weighs ton, and stove a big hole in
the deck, A sailor was washed over
board. The life-boats were swept
away and the iron railing around the
deck, the wire half an inch thick, was
torn up and twisted like Irvine. / was
in the wheel-house when it was stove
in and was unconscious for minute OF
so. The vessel was trembling all over
when recovered, but was riding the
sea well. But my compasses were gone
and the ship was stripped. Heavy seas
were still running and it took three
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17

dyspepsia. And what evils are they, /
wonder, that dyspepsia will not give
rise to or lead to? 1t would be easier
far, methinks, to answer that question,
than to recount all the diseases, the
troubles and sorrows, that indigestion
does induce. And how is this to be
altered =? Where are we to look for re-
form in diet and cookery The labor of
reforming nations cuisine is one from
which Hercules might shrink. You
and l, reader, may write on this subject
till fingers cramp, back aches and brain
grows giddy; we may preach till we are
hoarse and apbonic, and yet do no APP
parent good. But when we have re-
tired, disheartened, from the arena,
probably there will recur to us the old
truism--example is better than precept;
and we will forthwith proceed to effect
some change for the better at our own
fireside. For reform in diet and cook
cry, it seems to me, is like charity, in
that it should begin at home. The
greatest foe that reform of this kind
has to fight is fashion, and another
enemy is tradition. Ways and plans of
cooking and serving meals have been
handed down to us, and we are 10th to
give them up, even for those that our
judgment tells us are better. AS rule,
that has few exceptions, most people
in the matter of eating just jog along,
day after day, in the same old style, un-
til, perhaps, some form of dyspepsia
warns them that everything is not right
in their method of living; that they
either eat too much or drink too much
Q'm not referring to stimulants); that
the food is served in bad style or at
wrong times of the day; that dinner and
supper are too late, and that, in conse-
quence, breakfast is a mere passover.
1t may be the liver that gives the first
signal that mischief is brewing; it may
be the brain, as evinced by irritability
nervousness, perturbed sleep, or want
of sleep; it may be the stomach itself
as proved by slowness of digestion OF
acidity, or both; or it may be the blood
which is invariably poisoned and clogged
by over-eating.-CosSelps Family Mag.
dzine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
Linc0ln's Poverty.

1t was while Lincoln lived at New
Salem that he managed to buy a sec
ond-hand copy of Blackstone's Com
mentaries and began to study law.
Other books, however, he had none,
nor would he have had any means of
getting any had not an old friend and
fellow-soldier in the Black Hawk war,
who had become successful lawyer at
Springfield, offered him the use of his
collection, which, for a new country,
was respectable. In order to exchange
one book for another, however, he had
to walk from New Salem to Springfield,
a distance of fourteen miles, and, it is
said, would often master thirty or forty
pages of the new volume on his way
home. He was often seen seated
against the trunk of tree, or lying on
the grass under its shade, porting over
his books, and changing his position as
the sun advanced so as to keep in the
shadow. He very soon began to make
practical application of his knowl-
edge, buying an old form book and es-
saying to draw up contracts, deeds,
leases and mortgages for his neighbors
He also began to exercise his forensic
ability in trying small cases before JUS
tees of the peace, and soon acquired a
local reputation as speaker which gave
him considerable practice. But he was
scarcely able to earn in this way money
enough for his maintenance from day
to day. On one occasion an impatient
creditor seized his horse, which was in.
dispensable to a lawyers practice in
those parts, and sold it under execu-
ton. Lincoln was discouraged by this
blow; but, luckily, some friends bid in
and restored to him the property.-Se-
lected.
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AT about three o'clock, one morning,
according to Toby, M. p, T. p.
O'Connor was Grating in the house of
commons to twelve or fifteen members
lying about in various stages of drowsi-
ness. Sir Patrick O'Brien was among
them, and now and then, rescuing him
self with a start from falling asleep,
audibly engaged in conversation. ~
protest against this disorderly conduct"
exclaimed Mr.. O'Connor, at length /;
the honorable baronetis constantly in
terrupting me-" " Sir" replied Sir Pat
rick, with graceful bow, the honor
able gentleman misinterprets my mo-
tive. interrupted, it is true. But it
was with the intention of waking the
honorable gentleman's audience"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
Dreams.

There are few mental processes which
form more fascinating study than the
involuntary action of the mind during
sleep. Kant says that we can dream
more in minute than we can act dur
ing day. This truth is well illustrated
in the following instance, related by the
late DR.. Norman Macleod, chaplain to
the queen: every late one night"
he says, when, wearied in body and
mind, was debating to friend what
required to be sent to press early next
morning, l spoke sentence and sud
denly fell asleep. dreamed very long
and complicated dream, and then l
awoke, feeling quite refreshed, but for
a moment utterly confused as to where
| was, or what had been doing. Re-
covering myself, began to apologize
to my friend for having so long detained
him at that hour of night, expressing
the hope that he had been able to en-
ploy himself proftably in preparing his
college exercise, when at last, turning
round-for he had been writing with
his back to me-he asked me, with an
expression of wonder and alarm, if ]
felt unwell, or what did it mean ? !
wondered much more when | heard he
had never lifted his pen, nor had ceased
writing, and that | was reused by his
repeating the last word of the sentence
so that l could not possibly have SLEPT
more than two or three seconds! And
thus long dreams, which seem to occupy
night, have often been found to have
occupied, perhaps, but few seconds
before waking. This may account fol
fact often noticed by men recovering
from drowning, that, just before becom
ing unconscious, their whole life seems
to suddenly pass before them like {
panorama, and time was nothing in thu
rapidity."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17

OLD DR.. Johnson was benefactor.
Seventy-fve years ago he invented what
is now called JohnsOn's Anodyne Lini-
ment, the wonderful success of which
in the cure of diseases of the head
throat and lungs is truly astonishing.
No family should be without it.
THOUSANDS of dollars might be
annually saved to farmers if they would
give freely of Sheridon's Caralry
Condition POWDERS to their horses.
cattle, sheep, hogs and fowl. They
prevent disease and promote the growth.
We said Sheridan's. Those put up in
large twenty-five cent packs are utterly
worthless. Sheridan's, in large cans, 81
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17

A TEN-YEAR-oLD Rochester boy on
the cars coming to Troy, the other day,
became hungry about eleven O'Clock,
and began an attack upon the bounti-
full lunch that had been prepared for
him. A gentleman who sat behind him
was moved to remark My boy, if
you eat much now you won't have any
appetite for your dinner" To which
the smart little fellow replied: "Well, /
guess if havn't any appetite | sban't
want any dinner" The gentleman had
no more to say.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
MARX FRENCH's ESTATE.

WI STATE OF VERMONT, Washington District, IS.
In Probate Court held at Montpelier, in said Dis
trict, on the 9Th day of June, A. ID. 1885:
Arthur ID. Farwell, Administrator of the estate of
Mark French, late of Montpelier, In said District
animation and allowance, and makes application for a
decree of distribution and partition OF the estate of
said deceased Whereupon, II is ordered by said Court
that said account and said application be referred
TO session thefe9i, TO pe heu AZ me PROBATE
July, A. d. 1855 for hearing and decision thereon;
Aud II is further ordered, that notice hereof be given
all persons interested, by publication of the
three weeks successfully In the Vermont Wdtchmdn
a. State Journal, newspaper published ut Montpelier,
previous 10 said time appointed for hearing, that they
may appear at said time and place and show cause,
II any they may have, why said account should not
be allowed, and such decree made
by the Court.-Attest,
Oi-O6 A. G. ANERlLL, Register
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
The Groundwork OF Dyspepsia.

| say it, without much fear of contra
dictiOn, that very large amount of the
dyspepsia from which, as a nation, we
sufferso much, is attributable to the bad
cooking of the food that is placed on
our tables. 1t matters little to my ar
gument who the cook is-mistress or
servant, wife sor daughter, or mother
there is the food, and-yonder is the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
5-.-COnundrum.

Miss Susanna Dede owned several
houses, which she let at extremely high
prices. One man who hired house of
her had been unfortunate and was I'M
able to pay his rent when it became
due; accordingly his landlady ordered
him to leave. Why was he like school
boy who had been sent home because
he refused to obey the teacher?
MINNIE A. CHURE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17

PAT, Union soldier, went into a
lawyers office to make application for a
pension. The lawyer asked: " What is
your disability" Pat: " A wound, sir"
Lawyer: "Where were you wounded 2"
Pat: " Here, sir" placing his hand on
his breast over his heart. Lawyer:
=" Impossible, Pat. The ball would have
pierced your heart" Pat: All! be-
CORA! Me heart was in me mouth at the
time, sir"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
4-.-DOuble AcrOstic.

1-One who is frequently a martyr to
the truth.
2-To insult.
"a town in New York.
A small cord.
"a fruit.
every publisher likes TO have this,
and many more like it.
The initials are the same as the first
word in the acrostic, and the finals the
same as the last word. SIMPLE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
2---Charade.
partly Phonetic.)

partly Phonetic.)
My first is an abbreviation often seen
on calendars, in letters, ETC.; my second
is common expression of surprise or
fright; my third was an obstacle in the
way of little pig of whom Mother
Goose tells us; my fourth denotes capa-
bility, and l doubt not that you are my
fourth to readily answer this charade.
The whole is the kind of words that
children learn to read first. BENNIE.
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40 Adoni-bezek.- Judges i: 6.
(2) Samson's.-Judges xiv: IA. (3) A
charitable woman of Joppa.-Acts tx: 36.
(Q God sent an earthquake that opened
the doors.-Acts xvi: 26.
5-O Indiana, (2) California, (3)
Massachusetts, (4) Maryland, (5) Wis
cOnsin, (6 Minnesota.
6-Strap, trap, rap.
Look before you leap.
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hours to get turned around and pointed
back to the shore. The cabin was full
of water, waist deep, and many passen-
gers and sailors were hurt. If the bull
warks had been solid instead of ratings,
which let the water off more rapidly,
we should have been swamped."
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FACETIoUs party (the local lawyer
who likes to have a joke with his CLIENT:
:" say, Pat, suppose the devil were
suddenly to appear now, which of us
would he take first, dye think ?" Pat:
" Me, of course; for sure he knows he
can have your honor at any time, bad
luck to him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
MARTHA \. G0gRLEY's ESTATE.

STATE Or Il, washington District SIS,
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in and for
said District, on the I'd day of June, A. ID. 1885:
An instrument purportng to be the last VIII and
Testament of Martha n. Gourley, late of Northheld
in said District, deceased. being presented TO the
Court by Genevieve and Mary Jane Gourley,
the Executresses named therein, for Probate ;
II is ordered by said Court, that all persons
cerned therein be notified to appear at "A SEES
sion of said Court to be held at the Probate
ONCE In Montpelier, on the 2gth day of June, A.
ID. 1855 and show cause, any they may have against
the Probate of said will for which purpose II IS fur:
Their ordered that notice of this order be published
three weeks successfully In the Vermont WdtchmaR
a. STATE Journal, printed at Montpelier previous to
said time appointed for hearing
BY the Court.-Attest,
O3O5 A. O. AVERILL, Register.
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3---Enigma.

Composed of Is letters.)
My 3 Ia 8 II is to boil.
My l 7 s Is is fish.
My 6 II 10 4 is part of ship.
My 13 5 2 6 is fissure in rock.
My whole is proverb.
MARY BROWN.
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Eegal Notites.
WEALTHA w. LETS ESTATE,

w STATE OF VERMONT, Washington District, SIS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said Dis
trict, on the LIST day of June, A ID. 1885:
William L. Dillingham;, Executor of the last VIII
and Testament OF Wealtha w. Leet late of Water
bury, in said District deceased, presents his admins
makes application for decree of distribution and
partition of the estate of said deceased Whereupon
1t is ordered by said Court that said account and
said application be referred to session thereof to
be held AT the Probate ONCE, in said Montpelier
the 26th day of June A. ID. 1855, for hearing and
decision thereon And, II Is further ordered, that
notice hereof be given to all persons interested by
publication of the same three weeks successfully
In the Vermont Waterman g. State Journal a news
paper published at Montpelier, previous to said
time appointed for hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and show cause II any they
may have, why said account should not be allowed
and such decree made. BY the Court.-Attest
A c. AXLRIII. Register.