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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-19
RECoLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE.
A tsBummer's" Account OF
Sherman's March from
Atlanta to the Sea.
Preparing for Il Change of Base.
Breaking Camp at Atlanta
---Scenee and incidents in
the Heart of the
Confederacy.

tThe accompanying sketch is the fourth
OF series we have undertaken to publish
coincident with oral historical instruction
given in the city schools by resident ex-soldiers
OF the war of the rebellion. The superinten-
dent of the city schools has adopted this
nethod of conveying to his pupils information
connected. with the war history of the United
States, and orr series of articles prepared by
an ex-seldier, is designed asa part of such in
struction Eds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Arabian Night Fables Surpassed.

We all recall the story of the fisher
man who, dragging a lake with his net,
fshed up small copper box. When
opened vapor came out which finally
condensed into the form of a giant,
whose head fairly touched the clouds.
Science has marvels quite as astonishing
as the widest fairy story. NJ. Camille
Faure of Paris recently sent to Sir
William Thompson of Glasgow a
wooden box, less than a cubic foot in
size and weighing only seventy-fve
pounds. The box contained " electric
energy " to the amount of one million
feet. The marvel in this case is the
possibility of conveying by railway, in
a small box, a sufficient amount of en-
ergy which, if exploded, would tear
down a city. If put to more benelicent
uses it would run engines, make light
and do thousand things valuable for
human uses. Some day we will employ
these motors cOmpacted in small spaces
to open mines, cut tunnels through
mountains, tear up vast masses of
earth to make canals and lakes,
destroy vast ice-fields, so as to clear
a path to the North or South Poles.
But the moral of this paragraph is
that the most marvellous imaginings
of Arabian fiction do not equal the
wonders which modern science is bring
ing to light as mere matters of fact.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Cork.

Cork is the bark, not the wood, of
the cork-oak. The bark comes from
Spain and Portugal, where they keep
cork woods. 1t doesn't kill the tree to
take its bark away, and it can be
skinned every six or eight years.
About 81 100000 worth of the raw bark
is brought to this country every year.
The cork has to be steamed before it is
cut. Corks are made in thousands of
sizes and grades, from the size of a
pin-head up to four metres in diameter.
No fewer than six hundred sizes and
grades are kept in stock. None of the
bark that comes over in the ships goes
to waste. The cork makers used to
burn the refuse, but now they know
better. In granulated state it is used
as roof-packing. The heat can't get
through the cork-protector. The pal
ace car-builders use the same stuff to
pack under the floors of their cars to
deaden the sound and under the roof
to keep the heat out. The finest of the
refuse is used by picture-frame makers
in decorations. They sprinkle it on
their bronzed or japanned frames;
and large models, in the shape of pic
lures, are made from it when pressed
like papier mache. Fruit and egg
cases, ice-houses and ice-machines are
often packed with the graduated cork,
which costs only two cents pound
ETchdnqe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14

sophie insight, nor an Arkwright in in
ventive genius, nor Rothschild in
financial sagacity, nor a Paul in moral
energy. If every man has fair start
and the opportunity to develop all there
is in him, he has no cause for COM
plant, unless he chooses to argue the
matter with his Maker. Society GER
tainly is not responsible for the exist
ence of inequality, any more than it is
to blame that the violet is not an oak,
or the humming-bird an eagle. The
analogy of nature suggests that in
equality in the social organism, so
long as it is pure and unmodilied,
kept free from unnatural and vicious
trammels, is not an evil but good
no more to be regretted than that
all eyes are not blue. But apart from
any attempt to vindicate such an order,
its existence is the plainest and most
stubborn of all facts, granite wall
against which it is vain for any man to
beat his head. And fact so indis-
putable will make its presence and
power felt in any economic polity that
the genius or the fancy of man may in
vent. There never can be equality in
the possession of material goods so long
as there is inequality in human nature
Socialism and christianity, by Rer. DR..
h. j. +. BehrendS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
The Ignorance of Wise Men.

Cotelle, in his 90 Life of Coleridge,"
relates an essay on grooming on the
part of that poet and Wordsworth. The
servants being absent, the poets had
attempted to stable their horse, and
were almost successful. With the col
lar, however, difficulty arose. After
Wordsworth had relinquished as i'm
practicable the effort to get it over the
animals head, Coleridge tried his hand ,
but showed no more grooming skill
than his predecessor; for after twist
ing the poor horses neck almost to
strangulation, and to the great danger
of his eyes, he gave up the useless task,
pronouncing that the horses head must
have grown since the collar was put on
for he said it was downright impossi-
bility for such huge oS fronts to pass
through so narrow collar! Just at
this moment servant girl came up,
and, turning the collar upside down
slipped it off without trouble, to the
great humiliation and wonder of the
poets, who were each satisfied afresh
that there were heights of knowledge
to which they had not attained.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
The Pleasures of Sin.

That sin has its pleasures it were
idle to deny. 1t would be a greater
folly to claim that its pleasures are
perennial. AT best they can be enjoyed
only "for season." The keener the
enjoyment they afford, the more speedy
comes the disgust it begets and the
Standardization which it breeds in
the conscience. Yet such is the fas-
cination of the pleasures of sin that
they enslave while they disgust. They
bind their disguised victims with the
chains of tyrannical desires to their
chariot wheels. Hence it has been
well said that the pleasures of sin are
only the DEVILS scaffolding to build a
habit upon, and when the habit is once
formed the pleasure of the sin ceases,
and the hell of bondage to a despised
practice, to remorse and to godlessness,
begins in this life, and to become per-
petual in fearful hereafter. How
foolish, therefore, is he who, having
entered the service of Christ, permits
his lukewarm affections to look with
desire to those pleasures which he
abandoned when he sought the Lord .
How supremely wise was Moses when
he refused the guilty enjoyments of the
Egyptian court, and chose I" rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for
a season!"-Zion'S Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
How the Continent Grew.

The opinion is expressed by an emil
nent American scientist, in a recent
lecture, that the North American CONT
nent had the beginning of its formation
in islands of matter rising out of the
immense ocean, which grew until they
finally touched each other. Many of
these islands were volcanoes that threw
up matter that had formed below the
surface of the water, and were larger be-
low the water than above it. The
Hawaiian Islands have had many volca-
noes, and were much formed by them.
Their whole area above the sea is no
more than that of the State of Massa-
chusetts, but their combined bases
must be equal to the whole of New En-
land and New York united. Thus the
original islands of this continent could
easily have been made to enlarge and
join each other, and the granite rock so
abundant was doubtless once erupted
from volcanoes, like flowing lava.
Among the first volcanic islands must
have been Greenland, Canada east of
Winnipeg, the Atlantic district, the
Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Ne
vadas; but as the islands rose and
enlarged, great depressions would natu-
rally commence and 90 on, and in this
way the depressions of Hudson's Bay
the Mississippi valley and the Salt
Lake and Nevada basins were formed
These depressions would fill with mass.
i've sediments, which would eventually
become rocks, and the depressions
would have a saucer or platter shape.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
The Heart.


We are admonished to keep the
heart in all diligence, for out of it are
the issues of life, Keep the heart as
we would the house, in good order, so
that it may be a fit temple for the liv-
ing God to dwell in. AS a gardener
would keep garden as free from weeds
as possible, so the heart should be kept
as free from evil influences as possible.
AS brave soldier would hold the fort
as best he could, so the heart should be
protected from the assaults of the evil
one. 1t should be kept in tune as a
musical instrument, so that it may rem
der acceptable worship to God. Keep
it we'll furnished with Bible knowledge.
heavenly wisdom and pure love, then
Satan would not care to intrude. Keep
it well guarded, as a sentinel would the
camp; be vigilant and watchful. Guard
it as you would the apple of your eye.
Keep it free from covetousness, selfish
ness, deception, cruelty, revenge and
pride. Keep it submissive to Gods
will, and grateful to him for all his
mercies. Keep it pure, for it is the
pure in heart who shall see God, A
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
BILl0USNESS,

Bilious symptoms invariably
arise from indigestion, such as
furred tongue, vomiting ofbile,
giddiness, sick headache, ir-
regular bowels. The liver Sc
cretes the bile and acts like a
filter Or sieve, to cleanse impu-
rites Of the blood. BY ipregu-
larity in its action or suspen-
sions Of it's functions, the bile
is liable to overflow into the
blood, causing aundice, sallow
complexion, yellow eyes, bill
ious diarrh@a, & languid,
weary feeling and many other
distressing symptoms. Bilious
ness may be properly termed
an affection Of the liver, and
can be thoroughly cured by the
grand regulator OF the liver
and hillary organs, BURDOCK
BLOOD BITTERS. Act upon the
stomach, bowels and liver,
making healthy bile and pure
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Nervousness.

a lady, writing in one of the papers.
gives a bit of her experience as suf-
ferer from nervousness, and confesses
it was simply bad temper. Very natu-
rally, therefore, she concludes that the.
nervousness of many other people, if
not all of them, is due to the same
cause, or one like it. She advises peo-
pie so afflicted, or rather tempted, to
think of their mercics and blessings,
to look out at the sunshine and study
the beauty of the world, where there is
so much that is good, assuring them
that their peculiar form of trouble will
not visit them. No one who has had
much observation of nervous people
will question the substantial correct
ness OF her theory. There are persons
living distorted lives, miserable them
selves and making everybody else mis-
cradle, who claim all kinds of sympathy
and receive unlimited pity upon the
ground of their nervousness, when
they are victims only of soured DISPOSE
tons. The coddling they get confirms
and increases their distortions. Some
of them are cured by fright, some by
severity, some by " faith" while some
are never cured at all. They all die
under the delusion that has Swallowed
their lives.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
An InlideES Mother.

After an infdel had succeeded in sap
ping the foundation of his mothers
faith in the Christian religion he re-
ceived letter from her one day inform
ing him that she was near death. She
said that " she found herself without
any support in her distress; that he had
taken away that only resource of COM
fort upon which in all cases of affection
she used to rely, and that she now
found her mind sinking with despair.
She did not doubt her son would afford
her some substitute for her religion;
and she conjured him to hasten to her,
or at least to send her letter contain
ing such consultations as philosophy
could afford dying mortal" He was
overwhelmed with anguish on receiving
this letter, and fastened to Scotland,
travelling day and night; but before he
arrived his mother expired. Such is
the only work the infdel can do. He
can destroy the faith of some, but he
can afford nothing in the place of the
faith he destroys Certainly we would
caution any reader of ours who is
tempted to depart from the faith of
Christ to make diligent inquiry con-
corning what they are to receive in the
stead of Christ. -Erchdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14

l cannot tell what are the forms of
its material beauty and sublimity. [
cannot catalogue the new powers with
which the redeemed and glorifed
spirits have been endowed. l cannot
describe the engagements in which
they are now employed. But we are
within the limits of revelation when
we affirm and rejoice in the blessed
truth that, when at last death shall re-
move us from this world, we shall not
only be made perfectly holy, but shall
also be admitted to home; we shall
not only be free from sin, but shall
enter house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. Let us take
the comfort, friends, which God so
lovingly offers to us. Let us not fail,
as we anticipate our future state, to
anticipate also the blessedness of our
future home. AS we think of those
who have gone before us let us not
think of them as merely perfect in holt
ness, but as rejoicing also in material
surroundings, formed by him who has
made all things beautiful, to be the
residence of his redeemed. John De
Witt, u. ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
The Science of Silence.

l have read somewhere the following
arrangement for avoiding family quar-
rels: 50 You see, sir" said an old man
speaking of couple who lived in per-
feet harmony in mis- neighborhood,
" they'd agreed between themselves
that whenever he came home little
contrary and out of temper he wore
his hat on the back of his head, and
then she never said a word; and if she
came in little cross and crooked she
threw her shawl over her left shoulder,
and he never said word" AS it takes
two to make quarrel, either the hus-
band or the wife might often prevent
one by stepping out of the room at the
nick of time; by endeavoring to divert
attention and conversation from the
burning question; by breathing an in
Simultaneous prayer to God for calmness
before making any reply-in word, by
learning to put in practice on certain
occasions the science of silence. Robert
Burton tells of a woman who, hearing
one of her " gossips - complain of her
husbands impatience, told her an ex-
cellent remedy for it. She gave her a
glass of water, which, when he brawled
she should hold in her mouth. She did
so two or three times with great success,
and at length, seeing her neighbor, she
thanked her for it, and asked to know
the ingredients. She told her that it
was " fair water" and nothing more
for it was not the water, but the silence,
which performed the cure .-ETchonge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
4 Sad Joke.

There are many sad Jokes which
cause far more sorrow than Joy: and
some of them are followed by shame,
regret and lifelong remorse. The San
Antonio Express gives an instance of
a practical joke played upon pupil in
high school. Her friends solicited
her to be candidate for their votes
as "Queen of the May" She yielded
to their solicitations. Her mates prom
ised to vote for her, even writing her
name on slips of paper and showing
them to her, until the ambitious child's
hopes were raised to the highest pitch.
When the hour for counting the votes
arrived it showed only one rote for her.
The poor child, almost broken-hearted
laid her head on her desk and cried bit
terly. She went home and was taken
i'll. The illness, though slight at first.
soon developed into brain fever.
Through all her sickness her heated
brain constantly turned on the cruel
joke that had been played by her school.
mates, who even yet said that she was
sick from disappointment. But, as she
grew rapidly worse, their smiles were
changed to tears of remorse. Too late
In few days she died, her illness be.
ing brought on and aggravated by the
duplicity and double-dealings of hel
schoolmates. Young friends, beware
of cruel jokes. "Just for fun " does
not mend broken bones, broken health
or broken hearts. Just for fun - has
caused all these. 1t may cause them
but it cannot cure them. -Little Chris
tj0n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
George WashingtOn's COurtship.

Near the end of May, 1853, Washing
ton was ordered by the quartermaster-
general of the British forces to leave
Winchester and make all haste to Will
liamsburgh, there to explain to the gov
ernor and council in what a desperate
condition the Virginia troops were as
regarded clothing and equipments.
Accordingly, he set out on horseback
accompanied by his servant, Billy
Bishop. The two men had reached
Williams Ferry, on the Pamunkey river,
and had crossed on the boat, when they
met Mr.. Chamberlayne, Virginia gem
tleman living in the neighborhood.
The hospitable planter insisted that
Washington should at once go to his
house. 1t was forenoon, and dinner
would be served. as usual, early: and
after that Colonel Washington could 90
forward to Williamsburgh, if 90 he
must. Besides all that, there was a
charming young widow at his house.
Colonel Washington must have known
her, the daughter of John cambridge
and the wife of John Parke Custis
Virginia hospitality was hard to resist.
Washington would stay to dinner if his
host would let him hurry off immedi-
ately afterward. Bishop was hidden to
bring his masters horse around after
dinner in good season, and Washing
ton surrendered himself to his host.
Dinner followed, and the afternoon
went by; and Mr.. Chamberlayne was
in excellent humor, as he kept one eve
on the restless horses at the door and
the other on his guests, the tall, Indian
like officer and the graceful, hazel-eyed,
animated young widow. Sunset came,
and still Washington fingered. Then
Mr.. Chamberlayne stoutly declared that
no guest was ever permitted to leave
his house after sunset. Mrs. Martha
Gusts was not the one to drive the sol
der away, and so Bishop was hidden
to take the horses back to the stable.
Not till the next morning did the young
colonel take his leave. Then he dis
patched his business promptly at Will
liamsburgh, and whenever he could get
an hour dashed over to White House,
where Mrs. Custis lived. So prompt
was he about this business also that,
when he returned to Winchester, he
had the promise of the young widow
that she would marry him as soon as
the campaign was over.-Horace E.
Scudder, IN st. Nicholas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Wanted a Minister.

My Dear Blank:-O. by the way, if
you learn of any one with energy, tear
full interest in the conversion of souls,
attractive in preaching, great-hearted,
unseltish, merry-in fact holy-let me
know. Paul was much the kind of
man we need. We want man who
knows all about the enemy; has some
capacity for working miracles; is ready
to be stoned; can teach the women,
interest the children, make princes
tremble, confound the Jews, convert
kings, pick up sticks, earn his own liv-
ing, go through fire and water for the
good of others, with the expectation
that they will interest themselves in
him-and, in general, lead forlorn
hope of dependent followers. Serb
nel'S MOnthhL
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Photography as a Detective Agent.

In 1877, on the trial of the suit
brought by Austin, Black e Co. against
the Continental Bank to recover some
$50, 1000 on a check upon the bank, the
certitication to which by A. II. limp
son, the paying teller, was alleged to
be forgery, some interesting photo
graphic experiments were made in the
presence of the jury, with a view to de-
termine the fact of the certiication in
question, and Judge Van Brunt, who
held the supreme court circuit. After
being on trial for nearly three weeks,
the defence closed their case by offer
ing the testimony of Professor Chand-
Ter of Columbia College, Professor
Laudy of the School of Mines, and
Professor Morton of the Stevens Insti-
tute. These gentlemen, from photo
graphs taken of the check in dispute
and other checks, the genuineness of
whose certification was undisputed, in
Dictated what they claimed to be differ
ences in the writing. In order to give
ocular demonstration to the jury, a
megascope, using two OXy-hydrogen
Jets, was made use of, the room being
properly darkened for this purpose. 1t
was quite a novel exhibition in a court
room, as well as a beautiful illustration
of the efficacy of scientific knowledge
in legal investigation. Upon large
ground glass were pictured mammoth
copies of the check in dispute and
other checks, and then still more mag
nified portions of the same checks, thus
enabling the jurors with their own eyes
to trace out line by line and curve by
curve all the angularties and sinuosi-
ties of the Photographic checks thus
presented to view.-Anthony's Photo
graphic BMLLetin.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Select Mlistellanp.
The Newspaper Press.

What sound on the listening ear ever rang
And gave to the heart quicker beat
Than the newspaper press with its clatterand cang,
And its hundreds of hurrying feet?
The rattle of wheels of the swift moving car
Tell the ear that man manages might;
But, with rumble and roar and terrestrial jar
1t vanshes into the night.
The organ inspires with its powerful strain,
But that is a memory soon
And the reaper triumphantly moves through the
grain,
But is quiet at night and at noon.
You may search the world over for sounds that in.
spire
But will surely come home to confess,
There is naught farther reaching more fit to admire
Than the clash of the newspaper press.
-COiumbVS Dispatch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Moral ano Religious.


II Is not in the crowded city.
Where the hot sun flashes down.
with no great trees for shelter
As there are In a country town
1t is not in the country even
Where the trees sway to and fro,
Where the water sparkles in sunlight
And the beautiful flowers grow.
IT'S place where the flowers never fade,
And a tree Of life is there;
And river of water of life,
Like crystal, pure and clear.
The beautiful gates are made of pearl,
The streets of purest gold;
There is no pain, no WEAKNESS,
No loneliness nor cold.
There in the midst of the throne of God.
The throne of my Father, the King
And angels, with crowns and snowy robes,
The song of triumph sing.
So 1t is not in the great, crowded city,
Nor in the country even,
1t is in my Heavenly Fathers home,
The happy land called Heaven.
And he is leading me homeward,
The pathway to me showing;
He will welcome me with his loving smile.
Dear brother are you going?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14

THAT terrible drain which scrofula
has upon the system must be arrested,
and the blood must be purified, or seri-
GUS consequences will ensue. For
purifying and vitalizing effects, Hoods
Sarsaparilla has been found superior to
any other preparation. 1t expels every
trace of impurity from the blood, and
bestows new life and vigor upon every
function of the body, enabling it to en-
tirely overcome disease.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14

" My brethren" said western Yam
kee minister, the preaching of the
gospel to some people is like pouring
water over sponge: it soaks in and
stays. To others, it is like the wind
blowing through chicken-coop. My
experience of this congregation is that
it contains more chicken-coops than
SDOnpeS