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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-12-11
The Fogyism Of Protection.
Sunday Times.

1t is the habit OF the protectionists to
declare that there is something pro-
gressive and abreast OF the times in the
protective tariff. Revisionists OF the
tariff are declared to be old fcgies and
grandams. The free-trader is an
accused thing or words to that affect,
and the protectionist is the live wide.
awake practical statesman OF the day.
Let us turn stream OF reason on
these claims The theory Of protec-
ton is about as old as the theory oil
iree-trade. In the early stages oil
American history it might not have
been amiss to protect American indus
tries by means OF tariff; but we are
no longera rag baby. Welcan take care
OF ourselves in the lace of all the ma
tions Of the world. We admit that we
are grandams and fogies when we as
sert that we cannot get along without
protection. ta tt
1t is the free-trsde idea that repre-
sents to-day the progressive spirit OF the
people. II means new life, new indie.
pendence, new thought, and increased
reliance upon ourselves. II protection
does not protect the workingman-the
only ground upon which il can be JUS
tiied-it will, il perpetnated, drive all
OF the pauper labor Of Europe into this
country, because that labor cannot con-
tend abroad with labor that is pro-
tected. AS a matter-of-fact, however,
be American laborer is not protected
~ protection. II be had been, Europe
would have been depopulated of her
laboring classes by This time. Protec.
ton means simply the taxation OF fifty
millions OF people in order that few
industries may add 10 their profits.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-12-11

Pittsburg chronicle:-"H Here. Bill.
take this candle and goafter some coal, p
remarked South side woman to her
hopeful son. 's'Neyer fear, mother, /
can follow The trail by moonlight" re-
piled Bill, who had been reading "The
Bloody Avenaer.i
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-12-11

Obion Democrat :--Gov. Bates SEN
atoral boom has very healthy and
vigorous look. His election would not
be At all surprising.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-12-11

AeESrs Wanted. Everywhere. Most
liberal terms. S. w. PEEK
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-12-11

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21

" think that Paris" she went on, " is
the only city in Europe that an Ameri-
can can live in for years without getting
to like the people. You cannot live
ten years in Florence without liking
the Italians, or ten years in Dresden
or Munich without liking the Germans.
But you can live in Paris nearly all
your life without liking the French
indeed, without knowing them any
better than you did when you first
came" In this last clause lies the
secret of this opinion, / think. Long
as the American may remain in Paris,
he remains a stranger; except in very
rare instances, he does not penetrate
into French family life; like the farmer
in Leach's sketch, he "gets no for
rarder." The Partisan does not take the
American or any other stranger into
his own home-although he tries very
hard and as best he knows how to make
the American feel at home in the cafes
and restaurants and hotels of Paris.
And in this, at least, the Partisan is
not altogether ssful.-Brandon
Matthews.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
A Waif from the Skies.

In throwing out ballast or any small
article from balloon, certain degree
of caution is requisite, as a bottle or
any similar object falls with such We
locity that were it to strike the roof of
a cottage it would go right through it.
We are told that Gray-Lussac, in an as
cent in 1904, threw out a common deal
chair from a height of twenty-three
thousand feet. 1t fell beside q country
girl who was tending some sheep in a
field, and, as the balloon was invisible,
she concluded, and so did wiser heads
than hers, that the chair must have
fallen straight down from heaven. No
one was skeptical enough to deny it,
for there was the chair, or rather its
remains. The most the incredulous
could venture to do was to criticise the
coarse workmanship of the miraculous
seat, and they were busy carping and
faultfinding with the celestial uphol-
stery, when an account of M. Gray
Lussac's voyage was published and ex-
tinguished at once the discussion and
the miracle.-Chambers Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21

crowned with such signal success or in
which more heroic deeds were per-
formed than by the officers and those
whom they led in this. Seventy battles
were fought by that splendid army, and
not in a single instance did victory
perch upon the banners of the enemy.
Such record is unknown in the annals
of war. The results of these victories
to this government are as remarkable
as the victories, which were the acquisi-
ton of California, Utah, Nevada, Col
orado and New Mexico, embracing
100000 square miles, or GAO, 900
acres. BY authentic statistics there has
been taken and added to the wealth of
this country from the mines in those
territories acquired, the enormous sum
of $1,000, 900, 000-a sufficient amount
to give each soldier engaged in said
war his weight in gold, and to the sur
vivor five times his weight in gold.
There were about 10000 volunteers en-
gagged in the Mexican war, of whom it
is estimated there are no less than
10000 survivors, but the number OF
surviving widows not remarked is not
fully known.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Don't be Too Positive.

Boys, don't be too certain. Remem-
Der that nothing is easier than to be
mistaken; and if you permit yourself
to be so very positive in your mistakes
a great many times, everybody will lose
confidence in what you say. Never
make positive statement unless you
know it is as you say. If you have
any doubts, or if there is room for any,
remove the possibility by examination
before speaking, or speak cautiously.
Don't be too certain. John, where is
the hammer" SIT is in the corn-crib."
No it is not there; have just been
looking there" Well, know it is;
/ saw It there not half an hour ago"
I" If you saw it there, it must be there,
of course; but suppose you go and fetch
it." John goes to the corn-crib, and
presently returns with small axe in
his hand. ooh, it was the axe / saw;
the handle was sticking out from half
bushel measure; l thought it was the
hammer" But you said positively that
you did see the hammer, not that you
thought you saw il. There is great
difference between the two answers.
Do not permit yourself to make posi-
tive statement, even about small mat
ter, unless you are quite sure; for if
you do you will find the habit growing
upon you, and by-and-by you will be-
gin to make loose replies to questions
of great importance. Don't be too
certain. -Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Kerosene and Wax Candles.

Rock oil, having been well refined for
Illuminating uses, leaves behind it in the
stills a black, tarry substance termed
residuum, because it cannot be adj
vantageously distilled for illuminating
oils. 1t is, therefore, converted into
pdrdfine, wax and lubrjcdting oils
by processes entirely different from
those employed in producing kerosene.
Parafline is made into wax candles,
matches, chewing gum, candies, etc.
Anthracite is the basis of the beautiful
analine dyes. Heretofore it has been
derived solely from the coal tar OBJ
tanned by the dry distillation of btu
minous coal. A process, however,
has been patented for obtaining this
anthracine from crude petroleum, or
the petroleum tar obtained as re-
fuse product in the distillation of petro-
leum for the purpose of producing
kerosene. Lubricating oil, for jour-
nails working under light pressure, is as
good as sperm oil. In fact, such rail-
roads as the London Il Northwestern,
the war ships of England and the cot
ton factories of Manchester and New
England use paratfine oils in preference
to animal or vegetable oils. The former
will not spontaneously ignite Mineral
lubricating oil costs only tenth as
much as sperm oil.-Harper's Monthly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Ancient Albany.

Albany has been little modernized
since the city's charter was granted,
two hundred years ago this month, but
not much. The ordinances still re-
quire householder to keep clean not
only his sidewalk, but also half the
width of the street along his property
front. Sweeping days occur once a
week and then either the head of a
family or his domestic, or perhaps both,
may be found busting the cobblestones
and the Belgian pavement. The refuse
is collected in piles in the gutter to
await the arrival of the city cartman
More often a breeze arrives from the
Helderborg's first and the heaps are
whisked into parlors, libraries and
dining-rooms in the vicinity. The
cartman appears to be the most indie
pendent, as he is the LATEST and the
most neglectful, being in Albany. He
comes and goes when he pleases. You
may be assured of one thing-he doesn't
neglect monthly trip to the city treas
ury. There was great CONSERVATION
among this class recently. 1t was ru-
mored that Reform Mayor John Biblio-
maniac Thatcher was about to introduce
an novation-something that hadn't
been heard of in Albany in two hundred
years. He was going to have clean
streets during the bi-centenary week
The loan exhibition opens tomorrow
and the grand celebration itself is only
fortnight away. 1t is feared the
rumor is unfounded; that no such in
novation will be tolerated. that layers
of dust will continue to cover every
visitor who tramps the town in search
of novelties two weeks hence. Another
custom that has come down from the
ages, and is at last legalized, relates tc
the paving of the streets. Each house
holder pays for the paving of the piece
of street in front of his property, from
the curbstone to the very center of the
street. Some of the streets in conse.
quence look like piece of patchwork
Here is a square of Belgian blocks
there is piece of cobblestone paving
and little further on no paving at all
Somehow the city managed to pave
many of its streets with cobblestone
some years ago. 1t proved great mis-
fortune. The stones are of all sizes
ranging from large Lima bean to
cocoanut. Many of the handsomes
streets are filled with ruts and hills ant
holes. Some day-perhaps when tn
three hundreth anniversary is cele
brated-the city will be well paved
well watered, we'll cleaned, and, hes
of all, well governed.-Albany Letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Answers to Correspondents.

J. S., MIDDLEBURY.-If you served
n both the Mexican war and the rebel
ion YOU would not be entitled to two
pensions. If you was pensioned at
Eate less than IS per month for disability
contracted in the rebellion you would
be entitled to enough pension under
he bill that recently passed congress to
make you a pension in the whole of IS
per month.
II. M. H., instrumentation can To-
cate one hundred sixty acres of gov
ernment land that sells in the market
! t 50. so an acre. You will have to oc-
|cupy it in person at least two years be-
fore you can obtain good and COM
.plete title to it. You can select the
Hand by an agent, but you will have to
be on it in person within six months
from the time your agent makes the
selection. The Washington attorney
Imisinformed you. An attorney can do
VERY little for you. You had better go
land make the selection yourself, unless
| you have friend residing near where
! you wish to locate your land who would
locate it for you. There is government
land in Dakota, and by addressing Cap
tain l.. M. Hutchinson, Loyalton, Ed
munds county, Dakota, you will obtain
answers to the other questions you ask.
A. X. S., WATERBURY, CENTER.-If
you put your pension claim in the hands
of an attorney nine years ago who neg
lected to file an application for you in
the pension office. and no application
was filed until you employed another
attorney, who filedyour claim two years
ago, you will be entitled to pension
only from the time your application was
received at the pension office. William
Smith of Barre, who was recently
granted pension, placed his claim in
the hands of Washington agent some
seven or eight years ago. He became
tired of waiting for his pension and
employed home attorney, who wrote to
the pension office, and was informed that
no claim had been received there for
Mr.. Smith. A new application was
then made, and when the pension was
granted it commenced from the date of
filing the last application.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
More About the Presidents VetOes.

Congressman Lyman of Iowa, in his
remarks on the bill to pension Joseph
Romiser after it had been vetoed by the
President, showed the inconsistency of
the Presidents action in his refusing to
approve bills granting pensions. Mr..
Romiser was member of Captain Frank
Mason's company of volunteers. On
the 10Th of June, 1861, before the COM
pany had been mustered into the United
States service, claimant was with said
company when they were ordered to
proceed to Cumberland, Md, to repel
threatened attack of the confederate
forces. Upon the arrival of the COM
pany in Cumberland the men were or
dered to uncap their muskets. While
doing this duty musket in the hands
of another member of the company was
accidentally discharged, and mimic
ball with which it was charged struck
claimant in the left side of the neck,
coming out near the left eye, entirely
destroying the sight of his eye, the hear
ing of his left ear and the hinge of his
jaws. The wound was dangerous one,
but, after long sickness, he recovered,
but has lost the hearing of the injured
ear, the sight of the left eye and his
face is deformed. The claim was rejected
by the pension bureau because claim
ant was not in the military service of
the United States. Mr. Lyman referred
to the case of granting pension to the
widow of Alexander Poland of Lees
burgh, Va, of S12 per month when the
husband of The pensioner was never in
either the military or civil service of the
! United States. He was a citizen of Vir-
ginia during the late war and furnished
food and shelter to the troops of the
! United States. He was murdered by
Mosby's band because of his loyal SEN
timents. Congress had passed a bill
giving his widow a pension and the
President had approved the bill only a
short time prior to vetoing Mr.. Rom
iser's bill, and made no objection be-
cause the husband had never been mus
tered into the military service.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Select Mlistellanp.
The Old Home.

1t stands upon the hillside with the tall elms bend.
ing DER It.,
The homestead with the lilacs by the door,
And the quaint, oldfashioned garden, gently sloping
down before It;
see 1t Just as in the days of yore.
remember how the sunshine fell across the golden
meadows,
Beyond the wooden doorstep, old and worm
And how the summer cloudlets cast their quickly.
iieeting shadows
On distant fields of rustng ripening corn.
In the pleasant, roomy kitchen see my father sit
ting
with leather-covered Bible open wide;
While my sweet-faced mother listens, as she lays
away her knitting,
And rocks the old red cradle by her side.
Three browneyed little children, with tangled
golden tresses
When evening prayer in simple words is said,
Come clingng round her neck with loving soft ca.
resses,
Then merrily 20 tripping off to bed.
o happy years of childhood, with thoughts so true
and loving,
And sweet and guileless days so full of restl
our old hearts love to nger, after all years OF
rowing
And clasp fond memory's pictures to our breast.
Shall we ever in that countryside bright and gori
Gus heaven
Win back the simple innocence and bliss
We knew when in childhood, in the dear ole
home at even,
We received our angel mothers goodnight kiss?
-EB1ily g. Wetherbee,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Shakespeare as a Lawyer.

Shakespeare's writings will prove
him bishop, privy counselor,
soldier, traveller, an apothecary, a
painter, forester, an artiticer and a
husbandman. Even for Shakespeare
the year had only three hundred sixty
five days, and we know that his life was
too short for all this. What Shakes
peare's varied knowledge does prove is,
in the first place, the unequaled insight
and facility with which his genius as
simulated every kind of matter that was
fit for his purpose. But his technical
knowledge of law in particular is by no
means without parallel examples in
other dramatists of the time. Add to
this the fact that Shakespeare was a
country gentleman, with legal business
of his own to attend to, and consider
that he would not have introduced in
acting plays, for the sake of showing
off his knowledge to few, points not
likely to be ineligible to the majority
of his audience. Then the natural in
ference, which it would not be difficult
to confirm from other sources, is that in
the sixteenth century the lay people,
and especially landowners, knew a
great deal more of the law than they
do in the nineteenth. 1t must be re-
membered that England, in this respect,
now stands alone in Europe. Nowhere
else is the law such mystery. Various
causes may be assigned for the different
state of things down to Shakespeare IS
time; among others, there was not only
much less law to be known, but it was
much less easy for jewellers in the
country to command skilled advice.
People who could not write to town for
counsel's opinion as matter of course
had of necessity to be their own law
yers to some extent. And we fully
believe Shakespeare to have been a
lawyer, probably very competent one,
to that extent; but no further or other
wise. -London Saturday RevieW.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
MOscOw's Great Cathedral.

What must, without doubt, be con-
coded as the most magnificent church
edifice in the world is the great cathe-
dral at Moscow, " The Church of ST.
Savior" recently completed there. The
foundations of the church are of Fin
land granite, and the whole edifice is
faced with marble, the door being of
bronze, Ornamented with Biblical sub
jects and lined with oak. The princi-
pal entrance measures thirty feet high
by eighteen feet broad, and the two
doors weigh thirteen tons, the total cost
of all the doors being S350,000. The
building is erected in the form of a
Greek cross, three of the broad ends of
which form the corridors, the lower and
upper surrounding three sides of, and
open to, the central square, or temple
proper, while the fourth end is occupied
by the altar and its appurtenances. The
total cost of all the marble in the build
ing exceeded - 900, 900. Lifting ones
eyes, the galleries are seen to contain
thirty-six windows and the cupola six
teen, all of which are double, with
frames of bronze. Round the cupola is
one row of six hundred forty Candida
pia, DliNCi u Nost VI &i-OsppVi
with a second row of six hundred, cost
ing an additional 100000. There are
four lusters weighing four tons each,
and the total number of candles to be
lighted throughout the building is up
ward of three thousand. At the top of
the cupola is a painting by Professor
Markoff, representing in colossal pro-
portions the first person of the Trinity
as an old man, with the infant Jesus.
The height of the figure is forty-nine
feet, the length of the face seven feet,
and the height of the infant twenty-one
feet. Also, below the cupola are num-
Der of figures of apostles and fathers,
each twenty-one feet high. Great ex-
pense has, of course, been lavished on
the eastern end of the church. The
cost of materials and workmanship for
the altar space, apart from the icons or
sacred pictures, amounted to Sl5O,OOO:
In this part of the church are some of
its most remarkable paintings, most, if
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Stray Shots.

IHE committee on pensions of the
senate reported favorably the house
bill increasing the pension of William
H. H. Buck of Worcester from Sc to
SD a month.
RICHARD DODGE, who served through
the Mexican war and through the re-
bellion, and who is now living in Mont
pelier's poor-house, will be entitled to
pension under the new act of congress
granting pensions to Mexican soldiers.
IT is estimated that ten thousand
men who wore the blue, who fought
beneath the flag, who were in most
cases good soldiers and who escaped
the death which befell so many of their
comrades, are in the alms-houses of the
country or receiving aid as paupers.
JAMES SULLIVAN of Middlebury, who
served in the Mexican war and all
through the rebellion in the SiXty-ninth
New York and the Second Vermont
Regiments, has not been pensioned yet,
although badly injured at Petersburg,
Va. He was a good soldier, but his
claim for pension is still pending in the
pension office.
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES made speech
at Toledo, Ohio, recently, in which he
was severe upon President Cleveland
for his pension vetoes, the spirit of
which he characterized as a rapidly
growing feeling among the men who
did nothing to put down the rebellion.
The Presidents action, he said, was
contrary to every tradition of the coun-
try and one which would meet with no
approval from the patriotic and the just
HARRIET l.. GLEASON of Tunbridge
sends an additional statement concern
ing her pension, and complains that
the payment of it was stopped on the
testimony of unfriendly witnesses. Her
article is too long for us to publish, but
if she feels that injustice has been done
her she should make her statement in the
form of an affidavit, and take the testi-
mony of few witnesses showing that
the charges against her are not true,
and forward them to the pension office,
Washington, ID. c., and ask for another
investigation Of her case.
THE President has signed the bill
increasing the pension of Thomas j.
Slayton of Worcester from "a to S15 a
month. The increase of pension was
claimed on account of disease of the
eyes resulting from an injury of the
back. His claim was rejected in the
pension bureau because the medical
boards who examined Slayton reported
no connection between the injury OF
the back for which he was pensioned
and the disease of the eyes. President
Cleveland evidently places no reliance
on medical opinion, for he only a few
days before vetoed bill granting an
increase of pension for disease of the
eyes resulting from chronic diarrh@a
when medical experts were of the
opinion that the diarrhna was the cause
of the disease of the eyes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Tbe Soldiers &uo9et.
Pensions Granted.

To Azariah Barnes, Chelsea, S4 a
|honth and 5000 arrears; Robert Cook,
Montpelier, 50 a month and $500 ar
ears John A. Harrington, Cabot
guardian of children of a. GetchelD,
lis month and $3.50 arrears; Benja-
han f. Gould, Worcester, deceased, IS
month from date of filing application
10 date of death, S27, payable to his
widow, Lucinda Gould 0his pension
| nded with the death of Mr.. Could
|Seorge w. Jones, West Randolph, 50
month and $3.50 arrears; Mrs. John
Roach, Middlebury, so month and
h 900 arrears; Benjamin f. Petten-
kill, Montcalm, n. H., $40 a month
Ind 500 arrears; Walter S. Sulham,
Waterbury formerly of CaboD, "a a
Month and $500 arrears.