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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Language of Animals.

A book was published some years
ago in Vienna which contains many
curious facts in regard to the language
of animals. The author endeavored to
prove that animals make themselves
understood by combinations of sounds,
which constitute the simplest language
a language full of repetitions; that they
try to make themselves understood by
man, and in their turn understand his
language; in word, that it would be
possible to study the idioms of differ
ent animals, and from them determine
the forms and variations of their speech.
The book actually gave the rudiments
of a dictionary of the beasts language.
The author even tried to translate into
German several dialogues of dogs, cats,
chickens and birds, in illustration of
his principles. He recounted a CONVEX
sation composed of little abrupt cries
that he overheard between some cap
tive frogs, the purport of which was to
arrange means to facilitate their escape.
1t may be surmised that the drift of the
conservation was not very clear to the
linguist, for the frogs succeeded in es-
Gaping. There is no doubt that by the
careful watching of animals we may
come to understand their mysterious
language to a certain point and even to
speak it. Hunters initiate the sounds
of different animals to draw them
within shooting distance. The Indians
are particularly well versed in the Ian
guage of the denizens of the forest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
The Last March.

The last march of confederates from
Petersburg to AppomatoX was the most
terrible to the retreating army of any |
have read of in history, except the
French retreat from Moscow. 1t is true
that the weather was generally mild
during the seven days. march, but there
were only four hours of sleep and rest
out of the twenty-four, and for four
days we were entirely out of provisions.
| don't see to this day how the beaten
army managed to sustain any sort of or
ganization under the frightful hardships
they endured. And never did the Cos
sack hordes pursue more relentlessly
the broken columns of Napoleon amid
the Russian wastes and SHOWS than did
Sheridan the veteran army of Lee after
Amelia Court House was passed. The
attacks upon the retreating column
were incessant day and night, and the
noise of rifle and cannon-firing luled
the brave but exhausted men to sleep
and greeted their ears in reveille at
daybreak. Oh! it was terrible time
but, thank God, those who survived the
fearful ordeal can now look back at it
as a troubled dream, and without par
ticle of ill-will to those who caused it.
Mlrrdy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

1t is said of Lord Dunsinnan. as Illus
trative of his peculiar economy, that he
had only one bed at Dunsinnan besides
those occupied by his servants, thus to
preclude the possibility of being put to
the expense of entertaining visitors. 1t
so occurred that the late George Demp-
ster of Dunnichen, one of the most in
innate of the very few friends with
whom his lordship associated, paid him
a visit at Dunsinnan on one occasion.
and having tarried little later than
usual, violent storm arose, which in
duced Mr.. Dempster to think of re-
naming all night. Dunsinnan, unwill-
ing to declare the inhospitable arrange
ment of his mansion, evaded the prop
osition by every means possible, in
hopes that the storm might abate. At
last, finding no likelihood of this, be
sailed forth to the stable to order his
friends coach to the door, as the only
effectual hint to his guest; but Demp-
ster's coachman was not to be so
caught-he positively refused to har-
ness the horses in such night, espe-
cially as the roads were so bad and dam
gerous, preferring rather to lie in the
stable, if he could get no other accom-
mediation, till daylight. Lord Dunsin-
nan, thus driven to extremities. re-
turned to his guest and made known
the dilemma in which they were placed.
George" said he, &" if you stay, you
will 60 to bed at ten and rise at three;
and then shall get the bed after you.'
-kdy'S Edinburgh Portraits"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Actual Battle Not the Worst,

Those who have never been there
generally suppose that the actual con-
tact of battle is the hardest and most
trying to the nerves and pluck in the
phases of a soldiers life. This is a
fallacy. Many time have heard my
comrades express satisfaction, after a
long and distressing march, at having
got at last within striking distance OF
the foe. do not believe that the man
lives, or has lived, who could honestly
say that he never felt fear while on the
eve of battle, or rather when first going
under fire. Any man who can natu-
rally do so should be classed as a crea-
ture without sensibilty and allied to
the brutes who have fearless courage,
simply because in the grand plan of
creation it is necessary for them to have
it to exist, but the veteran soldier has,
in the battle, what may style the i'm
pact of sympathy and cohesion with
his comrades when the bullets are fly
ing thickest. He stands shoulder to
shoulder with his comrades, and the
personal pride of every one operates as
a stimulant on his comrades. The
veriest physical coward is sustained in
such an instance by moral sentiments
the fear of disgrace, the ridicule of
his comrades, and last but not least, the
fear of the punative measures which
will assuredly inure if he deserts his
colors in face of the enemy. Here
there is no mere bulldog courage, I'M
reasoning and brutal, but the courage
that shows the difference between the
man and the brute. The one is as high
above the other as can we'll be.-M,tr-
rag, IN W0shinatOn Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Selett Nlistellamp.
The Weakening Earth.

Again the hungry and plentiful earth brings forth,
Flowed by the frost and loosened by wind and rain;
me spougy meadows are notified with misty green
rivers ana streams are noisy and big with snow
the year has passed amid famine and cold and
death;
Winter was long and bleak on the lonely bills
The pines were heavy with runied and blinking
birds;
Squirrels and heldmce girdled the orchard trees
The pulse was slow as the sap in leafess elm;
Lizards and bees and beetles were sunk I'm sleen,
The woodchuck deep in his furrow forgot the cold,
Foxes and wildcats hid in their dens by day
Happest warmth has pierced to the frozen land
They come forth ragged and hungry to snuff the air,
Setting their wide, wet tracks In the mud and moss
The cattle pant for the grass and running brooks;
Turkeys and guineas clack to the rising sun;
The oxen lower their massive and burdened heads,
Taking the pungent breath of the naked ground.
Once more the laborers look to the steaming soil,
Resolute men of hardy and vital France
They drive the pillow with muscular, rhythmic step,
Leaving the furrow frothy and black behind
They, too have lived the creatures of nature do,
Dozed by the blaze, and eaten and dozed again;
Gone out when iccles drpped from the sunny caves
Slept while the nails and latches were white with
frost,
Once more they wake to the waking Of kindred
things
Theirs is the life of happy and simple man;
For them the EARTH in the season of heat and cold
Teeming with life, responds to the mighty sum
Dora Read Goodaie. in the Independents
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Street Scenes In Naples.

The street scenes in Naples are al
study in themselves, and would enter
tain traveller for days, even if he
never entered building. The curious
CARDS of the ecclesiastics, who seem to-
form large proportion of the inbab-
ltants; the ,grotesque appearance of the
street vendors, with their wares piled
up above their heads, and hanging to
all parts of their bodies; the brilliant
dresses OF the middle-class women, and
the fantastic costumes of the beggars,
VINO are picturesque in their very
nakedness, give variety to the scene.
The cats-meat man, with his viands
strung on long pole, from which he
detaches piece and carves it with his
knife for each of his four-footed clients.
is a most extraordinary sight. The
public scribe, protected from the rays
OF the sun by an umbrella, as he sits at
a table inditing a love-letter, perhaps.
for a Neapolitan damsel as beautiful as
she is illiterate, is useful as well as
picturesque. Another remarkable per-
sonage is the cigar scavenger, who at
night goes about with his lantern hunt
ing for old stumps, which he sells to
manufacturers to be converted into the
filling for fresh cigars. To these may
be added the zampognari or bagpipers,
and host of other curious characters
ranging anywhere from cardinal, at
tired in crimson and riding in gilded
coach, to a baby, bound up, after the
manner of Neapolitan babies, in the
straitest of swaddling-clothes, and look
ing more like roll of linen just come
from Diapers shop than human
heinz
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Questions Answered.

S. j. S., Burlington.-If you con-
tracted scurvy in the army that has re-
suited in the loss of your teeth you are
entitled to a pension. Teeth grow and
after becoming loose may become firm
again in healthful person.
G.. II. NJ, Keene, N. H.-Your dis
charge certificate will not be required in
prosecuting claim for a pension. You
ought not to send it to a claim agent
who requests it for the purpose for filing
it in the pension office, unless the agent
is known to you to be reliable person.
In applying for a soldiers bounty the
discharge certificate is necessary to ac-
company the application.
SOLDIER, West Fairlee.-If you was
granted pension and Immediately APP
piled for an additional pension on
another disability and for an increase
of pension on the disability on which
you had received a pension, and the
last application was rejected by the pen
sion office, you could appeal to the sec
rotary of the interior and, with proper
averments, have the original rating of
your pension considered, with the view
of granting a higher rate of pension
from the beginning.
G. w. T., Springfeld.-The Mexican
bill that passed the house last week
was not the bill of that name that was
pending in the last congress. The fol-
lowing is the bill passed by the house at
this session of congress:
BE IL enacted, etc., That the secretary of
the interior be, and is hereby, authorized
and directed to place the names of all the
surviving officers soldiers and sailors who
enlisted and served in the war with Mexico
for any period during the years 1915, 1916,
1S47 and 1913, and were honorably dis
charged, and their surviving widows, on
the pension roll, at the rate of SO per month,
from and after the passage of this act, dur
ing their lives.
SECTION g That the secretary of the in
terror is authorized and directed to make
such rules and regulations as are necessary
to carry this act into effect: " ProUtded, That
where it shall appear that discharge is
lost, secondary evidence may be permitted,
and where it shall appear an applicant has
received land warrant that shall be suffi-
Gent evidence of an honorable discharge,
unless the evidence shows that he procured
it by fraud: and proUidedf further, That this
act shall not apply to persons under polit-
ical disabilities.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
The Times We Live In.

On all hands the cause of the recent
stagnation in trade is assigned by bust
ness men to overproduction. 1t has
been said that overproduction means
simply the clogging of the markets by
too much wealth. 1t is meant that
there is too much wheat, too much
corn, too much iron, too much coal,
too much cotton, too much of the
great staples of wealth generally, pre-
venting those who complain from
getting as much for what they have
for sale as they expect to get, or to
sell as much to others as they ex-
pected to sell, or to make prices fuctu-
ate in manner profitable to modern
speculation. In short, such an album
dance of any of the staples that specu-
lators cannot create corner in the
market, and thereby Cypress the poor
laborers in the interests of questionable
methods, to say the least, in specula-
ton. If we look over the world, we
will find that there never was time in
the history of the race when the luxu-
ries of life were so widely disseminated
and enjoyed by so large portion of the
commonality of mankind as now. The
ability to afford the luxuries and pleas
ures of life is increasing very rapidly
among the working classes, and most
rapidly among the most industrious and
hardest working classes. 1t has beenper-
tinently remarked that quitting aside
the wealthy classes, there never was
time in which more people could wear
silk and broadcloth, have vacations,
take journeys, eat ice-cream, provide
pianos and organs for their families"
ETC., than at the present time. And it
is safe to say that, as a rule, these
classes take advantage of the opportun-
tiles offered. 1t is also equally true
that there is great deal of extreme
poverty existing throughout the coun-
try in connection with crime and igno-
rance and Incidence in many places and
employments; but this is the exception
to the general rule of widespread pros
perity in the middle and lower classes
general tendency all over the world to
an increase in the production of the
luXuries and common comforts of life
cannot be doubted; and if this overpro-
duction is an evil, it is Enthusiastically
an increasing evil. This is necessarily
the case. The constant progress made
in the invention and manufacture of
labor-saving processes, the increase of
the productiveness of labor, with in
creasing intelligence, cannot result 9TH
erwise than in an increase in the sur
plus production. This may in one sense
be an evil, but it certainly is not an
evil when you regard it in the light of
the comfort and progress of the race;
for whatever increases the facilities for
making home more comfortable and at
tractive increases the pleasures of home
and home life, ennobles work, and
makes the ties to government and an
upright living ten-fold stronger. 1t will
also tend to shorten the hours of labor
and increase those of recreation and
pleasure. This cannot be regarded as
an evil by any save those who regard
laboring man as simply drudge, and
his every hour of recreation and pleas
ure, above those actually required for
sleep, as so much precious time wasted.
james M. Kerr, IN Chicago Current.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

the Yankee manifested itself even at
that early day of the war. When he
had satisfied himself that / had not
come from across the river, he gravely
said to me, 'as he gave the salute, All
right and L passed up to the bluff
above. From the direction of the sounds
l heard from the river surface OWNED
the intention of the confederates to
cross at the shallowest ford. ! hastily
massed my troops in field at the head
of the ford, though concealing them
from sight, with my little battery of ar
tillery on the right. AS 1 expected, the
appearance of the confederates was not
long delayed, for within five minutes
from the time we were in position the
head of their column showed in the
road on the opposite bank. We waited
until they were just about entering the
water, their muskets held high above
their heads. Then / gave the order to
open fire, and there and then was fired
the first of the millions of shots that
marked the course of the war in Vir-
ginia. My men were, as / have said
before, mostly from New England, and
were as cool and collected as veterans,
and displayed none of that nervousness
so common among soldiers first under
fire, for, let me tell you, 1 am fully of
the opinion of Marshal Lannes, that
none but coward ever boasts that he
never was afraid in battle. Every one
is, and l suppose my troops were, too,
but they were thoroughly in earnest
and never finched. At the sound of
our artillery the rebels fell back in a
confused way, and as none of our shots
took effect, there was nobody hurt on
either side; but the little affair that day
was the beginning of actual hostilities
in the field"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Modern ROmanticism.

A marked feature of modern roman
ticism is love of the past, that passion
ate regret for by-gone fashions which
prompts the attempt to patch the new
garment of to-day with the old cloth
of former wear. The feeling which,
early in this century, found inspiration
in medieval lore, and loved to present
the old chivalrics in novel and song,
is the same which inspires the prac-
tical anachronisms of recent time.
which in England seeks to reproduce
the old ecclesiastic sanctities, which
astonishes American cities with a MINI
icry of Gothic architecture; which now
ransacks secondhand furniture stores
and remote farm-houses for claw
footed tables and brass-handled bu-
reaus, which drags from the lumber
room the obsolete spinning-wheel,
which rejoices in many-cornered dwell
ing-houses with diminutive window
panes-the more unshapely the better,
because the more picturesque. A ma
mia, innocent enough in these mani
festations, but in its essence identical
with that which inspired the knight of
La Mancha, the typical example for all
generations of romantcism now gone
wild. 1t would be unjust, however, to
maintain that the reaching back after
old things is the sum of romanti-
cism, as if what we so named were
mere conservatism or reactionism.
This worship of the past is only an ac-
cidental manifestation of principle
whose most comprehensive term is as
piration; a noble discomfort and dis
dain of the present, which, in the alb
sence of creative genius, of power to
originate new forms, seeks relief in the
past from the weary commonplace of
the day. The essence of romanticism
is aspiration. Whether it look back
ward or forward, there is in it a spirit
of adventure; as much of it in the cru
saders who sought a sepulcher in the
East as in the Spanish navigators who
sought an Eldorado in the West; as
much in the Arctic explorers who would
force way through eternal frost as in
the Knights of the Holy Grail; as much
in the nineteenth century as in the !
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
The SuWanee River.

Once over the bar at its entrance
from the gulf the Suwanee river holds
its way with deep current, in places
of forty feet, far up through the forests
of the best hard pine in the state. 1t
is the Penobscot of Florida. 1t has
some good land upon it where planta-
tions have heretofore been made but
after awhile generally abandoned.
The mosquitoes and malaria guard in
the main entrance against others than
lumbermen, anglers and intrusive tour
lists. This dark river has, too, its ro-
nance as being the place which gave
rise to melody which, like "Sweet
Home" the affections of the heart will
never let go. For it was here that a
French family in the time of Louis
XIV. came over and settled upon the
Suwanee and made a plantation. At
ter awhile the father and mother and
all died save one daughter, who, dis
heartened and desolate, returned to
France and there wrote, adopting in
part the negro dialect, which she had
been familiar with on the plantation in
her .girlhood, feeling tribute to the
" old folks at home in their graves in
a far off country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
Gbe Soldiers Ruoget.
Pensions Granted.

To Asahel w. Baker, Waterbury, 80
q month and $500 arrears; John Stone,
Montpelier, "a a month and S36 arrears
Aaron Goss, Moretown, SO month ;
Luke NJ. Lewis, North Duzbury,
an increase from 80 to SO month
and 1887 arrears; John A. Martin,
North Montpelier, an increase from
81 to 50 a month; Andrew j. Dud-
ley, Barre, an increase from SO to S16
a month; William Hutchinson, Pom
fret, an increase from so to "a month
and Sl10 arrears
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

twelfth, in Garibaldi and Gordon as i
Godfrey and Tancred. The romanti
schools of German and English litera
ture were transient phases already out
grown; but the principle of romanti
cism in literature is immortal-it is tn
spirit asserting itself through tn
form. Classicism gives us perfection
of form, romanticism fulness of spirit
Both are essential, seldom founc
united, but both must combine to con
stitute masterpiece of literary art
Frederick Henry Hedge, in Auanti
MonthM.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

MORE than three-quarters of CEN
fury has passed since Joinson's Ano-
dyne Liniment was invented, and it is
to-day the most widely known as well
as the most valuable internal and ex-
ternal remedy in the world. No fam
lily should be without it day.
IT is said by reliable persons that
Sheridan's Cavdlry Condition POWDERS.
fed sparingly to laying hens, will in
crease the quantity of eggs two-fold.
Try it. 1t won't cost much. Don't
throw away your money on the large
packs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

A MANS wife should always be the
same, especially to her husband; but if
she is weak and nervous and uses Car
ter's Iron Pills she cannot be, for they
make her "feel like different per-
son." at least so they all say, and their
husbands say so too!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14
A Gard.

To those having colts to castrate the coming sea.
son we would say that we can confidently recon-
mend to you Ezekiel skinner of Painheld. Vt, he
always with good success and for a reasonable price
Erastus bateheder L q Batehelder, Arthur N,
William Martin OF Marshfeld. Please make early
application by mail or otherwise, that work may be
done In season -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

PRAYER, meditation and temptation
make minister. To pray well is to
study well.-Martin Luther.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-06-30
S.. 0raeae,.;

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i'm neuen Store, empfeblt fein rei@s
baltiges 2ager BON giienz lnb 8le9@
Waaren, Sefen unb 6ausgerdtbf@afz
ten aller Nrt. Ngent fiir bic ereellenten
Gaborite 2o6 : Oefen. Man fpre6e
Dor un0 eraminire bic neue 5erie Gas
borite Oefen pel@e auf ber ieBten
Nem Orleans @eltausfelung bic golz
bene Mebaille erbielten. 9ie beften
S9reiner 9onbmert5euge eine @pe=
cialitdt. @rDBie Nusmabl bon 8ogels
Gdfigen aller Nrt. 9tuBerbent fets an
9anb elm bOllitdnbiges 9lhortment BON
Garben, Del, SirniB, Pinleln, @las,
Gitt &C., iotpie frii9en 2anbretbs 8
@arten : Sam IN. Cine &lempner=
Mertitatt III nit benz @el6dft perbun=
ben unO tueroen ale In bies Sod i9la=
genbe Mrbeiten prompt beiprgt.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-06-30
M9n,ter ,tto sSra,te,t,

tpel6e befGnbis nerbos finb. leiben in neunsebn
bon spansis Gallen an Dbspepiie, ipabrenb
man BET senauer l1nterIu9uns fnben ipirb,
bab i'm sipanatsftem Galle Sbmsptome BON I'm.
ss1oaIasal s nnans sSss Maa e ages sRa Isa
0breniaufen, eine Reisuns bein, plOtIi@en
SaIieben elmer gbire fi6 gu erldreden, 8it.
tern ber SdnSe, befonbers bet re6ten Sanb,-
bies finb bic Mnaeiden, bab Die Nerben fdpa@
iinb. Softetters Masen tt er 8
ftdrtt unb berubist bic gterben. 8iefe 8irfums
1T cine fdueae Golse bet Rrdftisuns unb Int
terfiibuns bes gerbauunss. uHb gtdbrprosefes.
Go befOrbert Die 8Iutbilbuns, iiberipirbet cine
9ronifde Senbens fiir @allenleiben, entfernt
nerb0ie &Opffdmerden una reselt ben Stnbl,
obne bic llnterIeibs .Orsane anaugreifen. Gin
Observation-Disclosures MitteI sesen Tieber sibt
es nidt; unO es beieitist cine Neisuns gum
unb sm Rieren- unb 8laien.
Ieiben. 8or benz Sdlafeneeben eingenominen,
fiibrt es einen fefen S9laf berbei.