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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-01-21

&c nNew Scrap Pictures and 30 Fancy Cards (new)mdea
l0Ofor loo. ESSEX CARD WORKS, Iyoryton, Conn.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-01-21

t2(l NEW SCRAP PICTURES and q New Chrome and
| urr.s CENTERBRooP, CARD CO, Centei brook Conn.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-01-21

Ri. Mcdonald Drug Co., 5s2 Washington st.. NY.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-01-21

gative and tonic. puriiles tho
blood, strengthens the liver
and Kidneys, and will restore
health, however lost.
Vinegar Ritters is the
best remedy discovered for
promoting digestion, curing
heaGache and increasing the
vital powers. =
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
A Computation.

The editor of the Milling World has
made a computation that bushel of
corn, which costs originally thirty cents,
and is converted into seventeen quarts
of Intoxicating drink, is ultimately so
manipulated by the admixture of water
and more harmful substances by whole
salers and retailers as to represent
about eight and half gallons of
" liquid fire." He says, allowing sixty
drinks to the gallon, the official bar av-
erage, the bushel of corn will furnish
two hundred seventy drinks, which, at
an average of fifteen cents to the drink,
will take $4,000 from the pockets of the
consumers. He adds "Subtract the
thirty cents which the farmer received
for the corn, and the balance, $4,000,
will show the amazing profits made by
those who do not till the soil to grow
the corn, but who multiply indefinitely,
by scientific means, the mischievous
powers of the grain, and who, from this
hurtful multiplication, reap easy, large
and reliable profits. The original price
of the bushel of corn is contained one
hundred fifty-fve times in the ultimate
receipts from it," This computation
gives some conception of the great
alcoholic drink-waste. The consumers
pay heavy tribute indeed to the whiskey
manipulatOrs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Total Abstinence.

Each succeeding generation is less
able to carry the drink" Gas the say
ing is) than the former one, therefore
our present race of lads, unless they
are educated up to total abstinence,
will be more pitiable victims than their
fathers are. All these facts prove the
necessity of just the work embraced by
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, the teaching in homes, and
school, and church; the kindergarten
and mission schools. Thank God, the
women, the self-voiced, the self-deny-
ing, are reused to cry out against the
cruel monster. We are satisfied that
the women have struck the right rem
edy, which in time will cure the evil,
providing legislators, school boards, and
intelligent voters sustain and push for
ward the movement. One might think
and hope that the philanthropic efforts
of the women of our land alone will
overcome and subdue this, the most de-
structive and overwhelming evil the
world ever knew.-Enghsh Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
MembranOus Group Conquered.

witnessed novel and decidedly interest
Ing surgical operation at the new ophthal-
mic college this week. 1t consisted Of what
is known as " inturbation of the larynx,"
an operation which is superceding tracheot-
omy, or cutting into the windpipe and larynx.
The patient was little child almost suf-
locating from the effects of membranous
Group. Hitherto children so afflicted or suf-
fering from diphtheria have had to undergo
the painful process of cutting from the out
side. In intimidation the operation consists
of passing small silver tube through the
mouth and down to the vocal cords, through
which it is passed. The handle, or carrier"
is then detached by spring and withdrawn,
leaving the little tube in position, tange
at its superior extremity preventing its slip
ping through the vocal cords into the wind
pipe. BY the introduction of the tube in
slant relief from suffocation is obtained, and
the child falls at once into an easy, refresh
ing sleep. After three or four days the
handle is passed down the throat and at
tached by a simple mechanism and the tube
brought out. By this means the patient is
afforded free breathing and respiration and,
with other treatment of medical kind,
soon RECEIVERS. In explaining the operation
to "a postgraduate class, Professor Greene
said, " | regard this operation as triumph
in surgery, as it is bloodless, painless, rapid,
and leaves no open wound subject to infec-
ton. The old operation of cutting into the
windpipe was horrifying to the mother, who
hesitated between sure death by suffocation
and the obligation TO see her offspring vince
under the oftentimes brutal surgeons knife.
She would not, as rule, submit her babe
To the sanguinary operation until the poi
son had taken hold of the system and all
hope was lost '-Chicdg0 Journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

yellow corn in the dusty roadl Run,
run, quickl" And off marched Mamma
Fluff with little chicken Puff to the
wide road in front of the barnyard. A
wagon loaded with big ears of corn had
trundled by early in the day; and from
it had dropped along the road great
handfuls of shining grains, more beau
tiful than gold. Little greedy Puff ran
into the road Mamma Fluff came too;
and, when she had eaten her fill she lay
down in the thick white dust at the side
of the road to have dust bath. How
her legs flew, how her wings beat the
dust through her feathers! The sun
shone very warm and bright The dust
was warm and comfortable. Puff was
quietly happy. So Mamma Fluff shut
her eyes, and soon was fast asleep.
But her nap was not long one. With
a loud cry she started from her dusty
bed, shaking the dust about in a great
shower 81 thought heard horse
coming" said she to herself. "Thudl
thud! thud!" far off was the soft sound
of horse's hoof upon the dry loan
road. She looked, and saw the black
Indian pony coming at full gallop.
Cluckl cluck, cluck, cluckl" cried
she. 60 Puff, come quick, come
quick!" But Puff was too busy with
the yellow grains of corn TO hear his
mothers warning. Again she called,
louder and louder, but Puff ate the
faster, and the pony came nearer and
nearer One step farther, and no little
Puff would eat any corn more. Sud-
denly Mamma Fluff flew out into the
road, right up into the black pony's
face. He jumped to one side of the
road, but went on galloping to the vii
lage. Puff never knew that the black
pony had gone by. The black pony
never knew that there was a little
yellow chicken on the road just where
his hoof might kill it. Only Mamma
Fluff knew all about it; and-she
didn't tell!-Treas,tre TrOue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Beef.Tea Better Than Wine.

A young lad was knocked down by a
team in a London street and taken to
a large hospital. One morning the
doctor examined him, and said, "Nurse,
give him two glasses of port wine daily"
And, looking kindly at the lad, he said,
" You will get on very well, my boy"
The young patient looked up, and re-
piled, Please, sir, don't order me the
wine" "Why not, my boy?" "If
you please, sir, I belong to a Band of
Hope" "Oh!" answered the doctor,
"do you? Well, nurse, give him a
pint of new milk in the morning, and
as much beef-tea as he likes" And,
laughing cheerily, he said to the boy,
" You will get on very well, my lad"
And he got quite well without the
wine.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
A FOur.Year-Old Collecting
Specimens.

The " Life of Frank Buckland,n by
his brother-in-law, George G. Bompas,
gives some interesting glimpses of the
childhood of another naturalist and stu
dent of fishes. Frank Buckland's early
years are described in his mothers
journal, rejecting in miniature his
character in maturer life. Through
life he pursued visible facts, not alb
stract ideas. For facts, especially of
natural history, he had from childhood
a most tenacious memory. AT four
years of age he began collecting speci-
mems of natural history. His mother
was woman of rare intellectual ac-
complishment, whose scientific tastes
and power of accurate drawing enabled
her to share in and help forward Dean
Buckland's geological pursuits. cat
two and a half years of age" his
mother wrote, " he never forgets either
pictures or people he has seen. Four
months ago, as well as now, he would
have gone through all the natural his
tory books in the Radcliffe Library
without making one error in miscalling
parrot, a duck, kingfsher, an owl,
or vulture." When at this age he
was taken to see the camelopard and
kangaroos in Windsor Park he ran
about with the latter and other live an
imals without the least fear, though he
got thrown down by them. He is ro-
bust, sturdy child, sharp as a needle,
but so volatile that / foresee some
trouble in making him fix his atten-
ton. / can get him to learn nothing
by rote. He will not give himself the
trouble to do so. His mind is always
at work on what he sees, and he is very
impatient of doing that which is not
manifest to his senses. In December,
1880, his mother gave him small cab
met, which now bears this inscription ::
"This is the first cabinet / ever had /;
my mother gave it to me when about
four years old, December, 1880. 1t is
the nucleus of all my natural history
work. Please take care of the poor old
thing" About this time clergyman
travelled from Devonshire to Oxford to
bring DR.. auckland some " very curious
fossils" When he produced his treas
ures DIR. auckland called his son, who
was playing in the room, "Frankie.
what are these?" "They are the YER
tebre of an ichthyosauras, lisped the
child, who could not yet speak plain
The dumbfounded clergyman returned
home crestfallen.-BabYhood.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Temperance.
What Men Have Not Fought For.

My dear boy, men have fought, bled
and died, but not for beer. Arnold
Winkelreed did not throw himself upon
the Austrian spears because he was or
dered to close his saloon at nine o'clock.
William Tell did not hide his arrow
under his vest to kill the tyrant because
the edict had gone forth that the free
born Switzer should not drink keg of
beer every Sunday. Freedom did not
shrek as Koziosco fell over a whiskey
barrel. Warren did not die that beer
might flow, as the brooks murmur,
seven days week. Even the battle of
Brandywine was not fought that wbis-
key might be free. No clause in the
Declaration of Independence declares
that a Sunday concert-garden, with five
brass horns and one hundred kegs of
beer is the inalienable right of free
people and the cornerstone of good
government. Tea-mild, harmless, in
nocent tea; the much-sneered-atte temper
ance beverage, the feeble drink of effem-
mate men and good old women; tea
holds higher place, it fills brighter,
more glorious page, and is a grander
figure in the history of this United
States than beer. Men liked tea, my
boy, but they hurled it into the sea, in
the name of liberty, and they died
rather than drink il until they made it
free. 1t seems to be worth fighting for,
and the best men in the world fought
for it. The history of the United States
is incomplete with tea left out. As
well might the historian omit Faneuil
Hall and Bunker Hill as tea. But
there is no story of herosm or patriot
ism with rum for it's hero. The bat
ties of this world, my son, have been
fought for grander things than free
whiskey. The heroes who fall in the
struggles for rum fall shot in the neck,
and their martyrdom is clouded by the
haunting phantoms of the jim jams.
Whiskey makes men fight, it is true,
but they usually fight other drunken
men. The champion of beer does not
stand in the temple of fame; he stands
in the police court. Honor never has
the delirium tremens, Glory does not
wear red nose, and Fame blows a
horn, but never takes one.-Robert j
Burdette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Parental Affection Of a "HOrse-
HAIR"

A gentleman having just received
from friend present of one of the
long, thread-like worms often found in
brooks, and called gordius" by natur-
alists, and horse-hair" by common,
unlettered people, sat intently studying
it. When he first saw it it had coiled
up in close roll at the bottom of bot
tie filled with fresh water, and looked
more like tangle of black sewing silk
than anything else; but Professor
Agassiz-for he was the naturalist who
had received the present-soon trans
ferred it to a basin of fresh water, that
it might more conveniently answer the
questions he intended to put to it. Let
us listen to the examination of the pro-
fessor and the answers of the creature.
First, what is your length, and why are
you wrapped up so tightly? For an
swer the professor proceeds very gently
to disentangle its coils. Before that is
entirely done a bundle of its eggs is
revealed, held fast in close embrace.
In unwinding, the eggs drop away and
float to little distance, although still
holding together in mass. AT pres
ent no further account is taken of the
eggs, which still float in the water, but
the creature itself is stretched to its en-
tire length, and found to measure about
half yard. Now, thinks the profess
sor, let me see if that long, black thread
in the water will give any signs of life.
Almost Immediately it creeps toward
the bundle of eggs, and begins to sew
itself through and through the little
white mass, passing one end of its body
through, then returning for another
stitch, till the eggs are wound up quite
as intricately as at first. 1t cannot be
possible, thought the professor that this
creature loves its offspring, and is try
ing to care for its eggs! Then he again
disentangled it from the eggs, and
placed them at greater distance from
it. Once more the horse-hair crept up
to the mass and once more sewed itself
an intricate coil about them. For a
third time the professor disentangled
them, but now the eggs no longer held
together in close mass. A few of
them became loosened and dropped off
singly into the water. The creature
again attempted to secure them. 1t
easily wound itself around the mass
which still remained undivided; then
attempted to recover the missing ones,
but failed. There is something pathetic
in the professors description of its at
tempts to restore the missing eggs to
the fold, and of its final failure. Few
of us, after reading this description,
but will acknowledge, with Professor
Agassiz, that even a being so low in the
scale of animal existence as this So
called horse-hair has some dim con-
seriousness of a relation to its offspring.
-Sau,day- Clossmate
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
pussle Corner.
1-..Hidden WOrd.Square.

1-Jessica secretly left her home, taking
with her some of her fathers precious
ducats.
2-The view from the top of the hill is
very grand and inspiring one.
3-Did you ever see New York, that great
and busy city?
4-Uncle Jasper never visited us at the
house where we now live.
In the above find words hidden with the
following definitions:
1-Something that lawyers are delighted
to have.
ITO express decided opinion.
Slave observed with the eye.
Where the eagle is found.
These words arranged in order form a
word-square. ETHYL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
4...DecapitatiOnS.

1-Behead an article used in building and
leave a stack of hay.
2-Behead part Of a house and leave sub
sequent.
3-Behead to pillow and harrow land and
leave to grant.
4-Behead to hesitate and leave to change.
5--Behead to long for and leave to gain
by labor.
6-Behead collection of trees and leave
to wander
7-Behead look of discomfort and leave
something worn by a monk.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

WHEN Christ calls to many in their
bondage to come to him to be made
free, they would bargain with Christ
that they should enjoy freedom from
crosses, and troubles, and sufferings,
which, because Christ doth not free his
followers from, they had rather have
their freedoms from sufferings in their
bondage, than sufferings with spiritual
freedom. Thomas DoORule.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
The Story of Puff.

Once there was little chicken named
Puff. He was round as ball, soft as
silk and yellow as gold. His mother
was the fat old white hen, so soft and
downy that she was named Fluff. One
morning Mamma Fluff called loudly
to little Puff "Cluck! cluck, cluck,
look! Come here, come quick! quick!
cluck, cluck!" And Puff ran as fast as his
short legs could carry him. " See here,
see here! cluck! cluck. cluckl Lots of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Piles Piles! Piles !
BENTON's NERVE and BRAIN TONIC.

If you are so nervous that minutes seem
like hours, or days seem like weeks and
years. let not moment pass before you try
this great vitalizer, as its effects in all such
cases are prompt and reliable. If the g Doc
tors give you DovERs POWDER and NOR
PINE to make you have quiet sleep, you
will find this better than all the doctors. If
you become restless and nervous, so you
cannot sleep, Opium and its kindred allies
are the worst things you can possibly take.
A few doses of BENToN's NERVE AND BRAIN
Tonic is sure to relieve you, and in no in
stance has it ever failed to cure.
Sold by all Druggists, and sent by express
on receipt of price, 500.
DIR. G. o. BENTON, Proprietor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

THERE is no one article in the line
of medicines that gives so large a re-
turn for the money as a good porous
strengthening plaster, such as Carter's
Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache
Plasters.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

ONE HUNDRED DOSES ONE DOLLAR is in
separately connected with Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and is true of no other medicine. 1t is
an unanswerable argument as to strength
and economy while thousands testify to its
superior blood-purifying and strengthing
qualities A bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla
contains one hundred doses and will last
month while others will average to last not
over "A week Hence, for economy, buy
Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
3...Enigma.
(Composed of "a letters. J

Composed of "a letters)
Ny 16 81 is a fowl.
My 80 90 10 "a % 2S is hot spice root.
My "a 10 II II is to dart.
Ny IA 81 IS 9 is a small bone in the
head.
My 26 SO 80 II is to exalt.
My 10 4 8 9 27 33 20 is imprisonment
My % 3 Is % 8 is a mean cottage.
My whole is holy commandment.
E. j. w.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
fer tbe CHILDREN.
BE Kind to Mother.

My boy, be kind to mother,
For she's been kind to you;
She's sought to lead you safely
Your life's brief pathway through.
She's cared for you and loved you
And tried to save you pain,
And given kindly counsel
Ihope not all In vain.
She wants to see you happy,
She wants you to be true
Her hope and pride are conferred,
Believe 1t, boy, In you.
How much of joy and comfort
Is in your power to give
This faithful, loving mother,
II rightfully you live.
Be manly, true and honest
In everything that's done,
And show her that her counsel
Is treasured by her son.
Be kind when old age sprinkles
Its snowflakes In her hair,
And make her last days happy
With loving words and care. Selected
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
STOP THAT COUGH!

BY using BENToN's PINE TREE TAR
TRocHEEs, sure cure for Cough, Colds and
Sore Throat No cure, no pay. Sold by
Druggists, twenty-five cents per box.
Wholesale Agent, JNo. III. FRANCIS, 20
Maiden Lane, New York City.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
2---Charade.

BY means of my second the turner fixed
piece of my first in the lathe at which he
was at work. He was making a trap for
farmer to set for my troublesome whole.
EYE EN- Els.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

FAITH is the only bunch of hyssop
that applies the blood of Christ to us
and our spiritual sacrifices. -FronciS
Roberts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

A STORY OF ANIMALS.
Animals are things that have life about
them or breathe: nothing is an animal that
does not breathe. They are respectfully
called bipegs and quadrupegs; the bipegs
are people, and the quadrupegs are dumb
animals. Some have two feet and some
have four. There are great many classes
of animals, such as bears, tigers, goats,
foxes, dogs and cats; all these and many
more have four feet; but people, chickens,
canaries, pigeons, and birds generally have
two feet.
The following was one ofthe compositions
handed to Professor Stats recently by
John g. Walsh, Jr., of Goshen, youngster
who has evidently got the labor question
down fine:
hate work so do great many other peo-
Pile / know 1t is good thing to get rid of
when you can. Generally those people that
work the hardest git the least pay. Men
are now striking to work very little & git
pay very big. A handy way to git rid of
work is never to be round where it is. A
CRATE many people are asham to work for
their living & say they don't hat to work,
but do it for there helth In this town some
men let there wives work for what they eat
while they say they are looking for work &
where any can be found they charge so
much that they don't git it. When l say L
don't like work l tell the truth. But if l do
hat to work l shall do it like a man & not
run away from it like some people do.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

"My mother-in-law is walking adj
vertisement for DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup"
a subscriber remarked yesterday; " she
recommends it everywhere. !"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

AT this season of the year a man who can't
carry hoe handle hundred yards can lug
a fishing rod twenty miles The rod is so
much lighter, you know.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Answers to Puzzles of Last Week.


THE mill can never grind again with
water that is past.
2-School-house.
3-Rolling stones gather no moss.
A c c
A S o U r c E
r E S c 1 n d
Z r A
E NJ n
Answers to Prize Puzzles.
Annapolis, Washington, Rochester,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Sacramento, San
Francisco.
2-For / do always those things that please
him.
3-Forget.
A o + e s
l E C e
C r
7
T U d
m r A d or
r t L i t
Prize for the best and most neatly ar
ranged list of answers is. awarded to Mrs. III.
S. Davenport, Williamstown, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

KNOWLEDGE is that which, next to
virtue, truly and essentially raises one
man above another.-AddiSOn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Homestead of the late Mrs. ". B. Hubbard.

These lots are all near the Union Schoolhouse and
Vermont Methodist Seminary, and within few min
ntes, walk of churches, PosoHce, railroad stations
By seuer be supplied with excellent spring Ber
lin water and are the choicest locations in town.
Apply to GEORGE w. WILDER, Montpelier Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

Insurance Co. of State of Penn.
OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN,
Organized In Assets, IS $3.50
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23
Original Compositions.
A STORY OF ANIMALS.

This little composition was given in by
little Baltimore girl as class exercise. The
mistakes are rather droll:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

70 Large risks placed at a mo-
ments notice, and at equitable rates.
70 Correspondence and orders by
mail or telegraph promptly attended to.
u Losses adjusted and paid at
this office, and due notice of expira-
ton of policies given.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

The Phenix Insurance Company
OF NEW YORK,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

Prize for the best and most neatly ar
ranged list of answers is awarded to Mrs. II.
S. Davenport, Williamstown, VT.