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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03
A Druggists Story.

Mr.. Isaac c. Chapman, druggist, New
burg, N. T., writes us: az have for the
past ~ years sold several gross of DIR.
william Hairs Balsam for the Lungs.
car say or 1t what cannot say Of any
other medicine. 1 have never heard .
customer speak OF 1t but to praise It's
virtues In the highest manner. / have
recommended IL In q great many cases
OF whooping cough, with the happiest
ELECTS. have used 1t In my own family
for many years In fact, always have \
bottle In the medicine closet"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03
Good Results in Every Case.

ID. A. Bradford, wholesale paper dealer Of
Chattanooga, Tenn, writes that he was seri-
Ously afflicted with severe cold that settled
on his lungs; had tried many remedies with
out benefit. Being induced TO try DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, did so and
was entirely cured by use of few bottles.
Since which Z ne he has used 1t In his FAM
fof all Cougl and Colds with best results.
This is the experience of thousands whose
lives have been save1 by this Wonderful Dis
covery. Trial Bottles free at A. Dreiss Drug
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03
Paul Levy's Birthday.

Mr.. Paul Levy, the handsome young
gentlemanly clerk ut A. Kahn & Co.'S,
celebrated his 10th birthday last Sunday
by setting up the refreshments for his
friends. Quite number of the MikadO
club were present, and after partaking
freely of the cool beer and Ice cream,
wished Paul many happy returns Of the
day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03
BARGAINS NEVER BEFORE OFFERED.

Ladies', look hereI No preparation ever dis
covered has been so successful as Morley's
T-x-s Tonic Cordial, the great system renovar
tori n the cure of all diseases 70 which tn.
women of this climate are subject, such az
weakness, debility, melancholy, whites fallin'
OF the womb, and every form of nervous pro
tratiOn. Only try one bottle and you win
entirely satisfied of the truth of our ASSERT
For sale by Y. Kalteyer & Son.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03

Mr.. A. Kahn has gone to New York on
his annual buying trip. Besides taking
in Saratoga, Long Branch and other de-
llghtful watering places, he will keep
his best eye on the markets and will buy
q heavy fall and winter stock OF goods.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03

The knight Templsr commandery had
considerable work last night, among
which was instructing and giving the
degrees to candidate who came all the
way from Monterey, Mexico, for that
DurDORe.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03

Frank j. Caldwell left this morning
with the soldier boys to take In the big
drill at Galveston. Frank will keep the
readers Of the LIGHT posted Of happen-
Ings In the Island City while there.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03
Republican Precinct No. "a.

You are hereby requested TO meet at
Schmidts hall on Austin street, Saturday
night, August 18th, at O'Clock.
VIM. HoEFLIS0, SR.,
~ Chairman Prec. No. D.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-03

There is nothing that adds so much to per-
sonal beauty as set of pearly white teeth and
pure, sweet breath. By using M0RLEY'S
0RID0NTO the teeth and gums are kept in
perfect order and fragrant breath assured.
Only SO cents a box. Liquid and powder.
For sale by II. Kalteyer 4 Son.
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sas-Subscribe for the WEEKLY LIGHT
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Rext 80 Days.
Our SC. Fancy Dress Lawns
at SC. per yard.

900 LADIES' FANCY BORDERED HANDKER-
CHIEFS AT IS CTS. PER DOZ. EVERYTHING
ELSE AT CORRESPONDENCE LOW PRICES.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30

that Mr.. Templeton is now receiving is
sufficient to fully cover the aggregate
of his disabilities from all causes. If
there are other similar cases in Yer
mont we shall be pleased to mention
them in this department.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston
Journal says " the President continues
to work until after midnight each night
examining pension bills and preparing
veto messages. He reads the bills and
the reports and many papers from the
pension Office which relate to each case,
and writes the vetoes with his own
hand and turns them over to the secre-
taries to be transcribed for congress
and the printer. Usually messages are
not printed before they are sent to con-
gress, and the copies which are sent to
the respective houses are, of course, in
manuscript, in the due official form.
But the President sends to the senate
each day, to be given to the press, a
few copies of these veto messages in
print. He seems to be anxious that the
people should not wait until congress
shall authorize their printing in the
regular way. 1t is yet to be determined
what disposition shall be made of them,
and whether either house will attempt
to pass any of these pension bills, not
withstanding the Presidents objec-
tions.n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Two Blind Men.

There was once in Rome two blind
men, one of whom cried in the street of
the city, " He is helped whom God
helps" The other on the contrary cried,
" He is helped whom the king helps"
This they did every day and the emperor
heard it so often that he had loaf of
bread baked and filled with gold pieces.
This gold-filled loaf he sent to the blind
man who appealed to the emperor's
help. When he felt the heavy weight
of the bread he sold it to the other beg
gar as soon as he met him. The blind
man who bought the bread carried it
home. When he had broken it and
found the gold he thanked God, and
from that day ceased to beg. But the
other continuing to beg through the
city the emperor summoned him to
his presence and asked him. What
hast thou done with the loaf lately
sent your" sold it to my friend be-
cause it was heavy and did not seem
well risen" Then the emperor said:
" Truly he whom God helps is helped
indeed" and turned the blind man
from him,-F'r0m the German,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Widows with Great Pensions.

The mother of General Mcpherson
receives $50 month, and that amount
is paid to the widows of twenty-five
other deceased generals of the late war
-Hackleman, Richardson, Wallace,
Plumer, Stevens, Baker, Whipple,
Sumner, Bedwell, Harris, Berry, Lowell,
Anderson, Candy, Thomas, Heintzle-
man, Stanley, Mitchell, Casey, Taylor,
Rosseau, Custer, French, Ramsey and
Warren. The widows of Admirals
Wood, Reynolds, Hooffe, Bell, Davis,
Winslow, Paulding, Rodgers, Spots
and Goldboro, and Of the Commodores
Gallagher, Frailey, McCaulley, Nc
Caver and Quest of the navy, receive
similar amount, as do the widows of
Colonies Harris, Delaney and Twiggs
of the marine corps. The only widow
of civilian drawing pension is Mrs
A. B. Meacham, whose husband was a
chief of the Modoc peace commission,
and was crippled for life in the massa-
ere of 1873, when General Candy was
killed. She receives a pension of $50
a month, granted by congress in 1888.
The pension of $4,000 year that has
been voted to Mrs. Hancock is the
largest paid to the widow of any SOL
der except Mrs. Grant, who receives the
$4,000 a year granted to the widows of
presidents-Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler and
Mrs. Garfield. The widow of General
and ex-senator Shields receives the
next largest sum, 81 200 year, granted
to her by special act of congress in
1879.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
What Is In Your House!

When the long-buried city of Pom
peii began to be uncovered men were
introduced into the very scenes of its
home and business life in the days of
its glory. The houses were opened to
view, and the pictures and utensils and
statuary and architecture and hun
dreds of things disclosed the character
and habits of the life of the people.
And the stranger now visiting the I'M
buried city and walking the streets and
going into the houses and shops, and
forums and temples, and theaters that
were crowded with a busy, active,
pleasure-seeking population, can see
for himself Just how they lived and
what was the nature of their pursuits.
And it is deeply impressive lesson to
mediate upon how, after lying for
eighteen centuries in the grave, these
things have been disclosed to us, and
especially how, among the freshest of
the things preserved, are numerous
evidences of the sensual and vicious
pleasures in which the people INDUCED.
The very works of art which ministered
to their vices now rise from their grave
to testify against them. What was
done in their houses is now brought to
the light of day. Suppose now that
our home life could be put into some
permanent forms, and then our houses
should be buried by similar catastro-
phe, and at the end of eighteen Gen.
turtles be brought to light. What
would they disclose to the curious in
vestigator of that day? If, at the great
Judgment, when the world has risen
from the grave, there shall be a reve-
lation of all secrets and an exact pic
ture of our homes as they are at pres.
ent, what shall they see as they gaze
upon it? What does God see there
now? Let it be remembered that every
member of family has an influence
on the home life, and therefore re-
sponsibility for the character of the
family. Our homes are what you and
l make them. Parents and children,
husband and wife, brothers and sisters,
master and servant, mistress and
maid-each and all make up the family.
Each bears part in the daily influences
which 90 to make the home. Let it be
repeated: Our homes are what we
make them. And we are what oul
hearts are. And so it comes to this
What does God see in our hearts? Is
the spirit of Jesus there?-Dr. j. Fec-
| smith
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30

Gods children down. Work strength
ems sinew, promotes appetite and in
duces wholesome sleep. The ague fiji
of worry consumes strength, disorders
the nerves, and banishes sweet, refresh
ing slumber. A life consecrated to-
Christ, that oils all its joints with cheer
full faith and tones its blood with the
iron of its promises, never grows pale
in the cheek or crippled in its gait.
Look at that glorious old giant of Jesus
Christ who drew the gospel chariot
from Jerusalem to Rome, and had the
" care of all the churches " on his big
heart. He never complained of being
tired. He never chafed his limbs with
the shackles of doubt, or loaded one
extra ounce of goddess anxiety on his
brawny soldiers, and so he marched on
to glory shouting. Knowing whom he
believed, he was only solicitous to do
his Masters will and finish his Mas
ter's work; he knew that his strength
would be equal to his day, until he had
won the everlasting crown. Lean on
Jesus, and he will rest you. Labor for
Jesus, and he will bless you. Live for
Jesus, and your soul shall mount UP as
on an eagles wing; you shall run and
never weary, you shall walk arm in
arm with him and never faint.
Tred2 No. not tiredl
While leaning on his breast
My soul hath full enjoyment
or his eternal rest"
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
The Long Suffering Of God.

Is not the divine forbearance the
miracle of miracles? l am sure when
/ stood for few minutes at the bottom
of Pilates Staircase in Rome, and saw
the poor creatures crawling up and
down it on their knees, and the priests
looking on, l thought that if had the
loan of thunderbolt or two l would
have cleaned out all the impostors and
their trumpery in the twinkling of an
eye; and then.I recollected that they
were dealing with God, and not man,
He looks down ON antichrist and all it's
blasphemies, and still stays his hand.
He sees in this city of London sins
which I dare not mention; yet does
his thunder sleep. He hears man curse
him, and even defy him to his face, and
still do his compositions 60 forth, and
he beareth with them still. Wonderful,
wonderful is omnipotent long-suffering
of the Lord. Oh, then, my brethren,
we ought surely to have patience with
the trihing affronts which we have to
put up with in the service of God, and
we ought never to grow weary in we'll
doing.-Spurgeon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Gbe Soldiers Budget.
Pensions Granted.

To Mrs. Mary Murray Ga dependent
mother), Montpelier, s12 month and
~, 160 arrears; Henry L. Edison, Brook
field, IS month and 81 ,140 arrears;
Elisha Goodspeed, East Warren, S2 a
month and 1918 arrears; Robert A.
Spencer, Marshfield, an increase from
S4 to So a month and $500 arrears !;
Lucy Seymour Ga dependent mother),
Burlington, S12 month and 2,140
arrears; William Smith, Barre, "a a
month and $75 arrears; Horatio N.
Scott, Braintree, an increase from SO to
s slO month nc Henry Murray T. More
month; Dana Fifeld, Chelsea, an in
crease from "a to SO month and $65
arrears
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Answers to Correspondents.

II. r., TRoY.-There is no law au-
thorizing the government to refund the
$500 you paid when drafted
G. II. N, BENNINGToN.-New Jersey
has Home at Newark where disabled
and destitute soldiers are provided for
at the expense of the state.
II. L. NJ, BARRE.-Shay's rebellion
grew out of burdensome taxation, was
confined to Massachusetts and was sup
pressed by the state militia. 1t occurred
in December, 1856, and January, 1877.
J. L., RICHMOND The states of
Massachusetts,, California and Connecti-
cut furnished soldiers who served in
the commands of their respective states
with finely-engraved certificates of serv-
ice similar to those furnished by
Vermont.
j. S., ROCKINGHAM.-Aso soldier serv-
ing in the regular army and disabled
in the military service of the United
States is entitled to the same pension
he would be entitled to had he con-
tracted his disability in the Union
army during the war of 1868.
w. S., NoRTHFIELD.-The law pro-
hibiting the payment of pensions to
soldiers while in the employment of the
government was repealed in 1866, since
which time pensioners holding office
have continued to receive pension.
Pensions withheld under the act of
1865 were restored by an act approved
March /, 1879
N. j., WHITE RIVER JUNCTION.
An attorney has no right to charge and
collect 800 for prosecuting a claim for
a pension. He cannot escape the pen
atty for taking unlawful fees by prose-
cutting the claim in the name of the SOL
der without being appointed ttorney
in the case. The law reads: " Any
agent, attorney or other person instru-
mental in prosecuting any claim for
pension who shall receive any greater
compensation for his services or instru-
mentality than 1875 shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor," etc. If you
know that the person you name is in
the habit of procuring pensions for
regular fee of 500 you ought to report
the facts to the pension office and have
the matter investigated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
8eligious MlisteIlamp.
The Return.

All day the land in golden sunlight lay
All day happy people to and fro
Moved through the quiet summer ways; all day
Wandered with bowed head and footstep slow,
stranger in the wellremembered place,
Where time has left not one familiar face
knew long years ago.
BY marsh-lands golden with bog asphodel,
saw the iitful plover wheel and scream;
The soft winds swayed the foxgoves purple bell;
The iris trembled by the whispering stream;
Gazing on these blue hills which knew not change,
All the dead years seemed fallen dim and strange,
Unreal dream.
Unchanged as in my dreams lay the fair land,
The laughter.lovilg lips the eager feet,
The hands that struck warm welcome to my hand,
The hearts that at my coming higher beat
Have long been cold In DEATH no glad surprise
wakens for me in any living eyes,
That once made life so sweet
Slowly the day drew down the golden west;
The purple shadows heightened on the plain,
Yet unresting through n world at rest,
Went silent with my memory and my pain;
Then, for little space, across the years
To me- bowed down with time and worn with tears,
My friends came back again.
By many spot where summer could not last,
In other days, for all our Joy too long,
They came about me from the shadowv past;
At last saw them, young and gay and strong;
And she, my heart, came fair as in the days
When at her coming all the radiant ways
Thrilled into happy song.
All me once here, on such summer night
In silent bliss together, she and
Stood watching the pale lingering fringe of light
Go slowly creeping round the northern sky.
All, love, II all the weary years could give
But one sweet hour of that sweet night to live
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Country Ministers.

In a paper read recently before one
of the anniversary meetings of Boston,
the Hon. George M. Stearns of Chic
opee, Mass, drew life-like picture of
the country New England minister.
" His house," says Mr.. Stearns, =" is not
his castle. Anybody and everybody
may invade it at pleasure, and all ex-
pect to find it in good clerical keeping
at all times; and when a knock comes
on the door the minister's wife sweeps
with hasty glance the room to see
that it is all in good ministerial shape
and that no stray ace of spades or dis
placed dice-box from the backgammon
board are visible. need not speak of
the financial annoyances of the minis
ter and the liberty that the subscribers
to his little salary take of unloading
upon the poor parson everything of
which they have an unmarketable eX-
cess, and of requiring that it be cred
tied against their subscription; how his
little income is abridged in the winter
by forced credits of wood, all sled
length, and all such complications of
fibre and knots that nothing but super
natural wedges and miraculous billets
can ever cleave it, and the poor minis
ter and the boy have to fight hard to
keep up with the fire; nor how in the
spring his pantry, from the showers of
veal that come in from the neighbors,
looks like the return of whole drove
of prodigal sons at once. Neither need
say how in the fall, when the process
sion comes and casts loads of pumpkins
in his dooryard day after day, it causes
that yard to resemble the gardens of
golden fruit. These are some of the
annoyances-perhaps you might think
| country minister -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
An Interesting Case.

Mrs. Harriet L. Gleason of Tun-
bridge, the divorced wife of Russell
Gleason, late of the Twenty-first Regi-
ment, Maine Volunteers, was granted
a pension few years since, after a
sharp contest with her husbands
mother, who had previously been pen
stoned by showing her dependence upon
her son, and that he had been divorced
from his wife and had therefore left no
surviving widow or child. The widow
proved her marriage to the soldier at
Lowell, Mass, in January, 1868, where
she continued to live with him until
July of the same year, when she came
to Vermont, hoping that change of
climate would improve her impaired
health. After brief time she returned
to Lowell, but did not again live with
her husband In November, 1869,
Russell Gleason obtained divorce from
his wife at Cambridge, Mass, and in
April, 1870, he died at Waterville,
Maine. His mother Immediately APP
piled for pension and filed in the pen
sion office duly certified copy of the
record of the divorce from the court
records in Cambridge, Mass, on which
the commissioner of pensions ruled that
no widow survived the soldier and
granted pension to the mother. After
few years Harriet L. Gleason con-
suited T. J. Deavitt, Esq, of Mont
pelier, who advised her to apply for a
pension and to claim that the divorce
obtained by her husband did not sever
the marriage relation, but permitted
separation only. The application was
accordingly made and the claim duly
rejected by the commissioner of pen
sions on the ground that the applicant
was not the legal widow of the soldier.
Her attorney appealed to the secretary
of the interior and insisted that di-
vorce from bed and board, granted
under the laws of Massachusetts, did
not sever the marriage tie; that she was
the lawful widow of the soldier and en-
titled to pension; that the unlawful
granting of pension to the soldiers
mother could not impair the Widows
right to it. The secretary of the in
terror rendered decision reversing the
action of the pension office in rejecting
her claim and held that she was the
lawful widow of her husband, notwith-
standing his divorce from her. A pen
sion was granted the widow and the
mothers name dropped from the roll.
Recently the widows claim has been
investigated on charges that she was
living with man to whom she was not
married, and on the report of the
special examiner who investigated the
charges her pension has been stopped.
1t is said the mother of the soldier has
applied to have her pension restored
| to her.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Seeing With One Eve.

Among my friends and acquaintance
there is missionary of city mission
and tract society who is remarkable for
his skill and tact in dealing with indi-
vidual cases. AT one time Christian
master of large carpenters shop
sought his services in behalf of his
foreman. "He is profane, a scoffer
and skeptic," he said. g I cannot do
anything with him, and / cannot get
along without him, he is such an ex-
cellent worker" The missionary prom
ised to see what he could do. FIRE.
quently he visited the shop, speaking to
one and another of the journeymen,
but sedulously avoiding the foreman,
until his curiosity was thoroughly
aroused. AT last the opportunity waited
for came. Seeing the foreman squint-
ing along a board to see if it was
straight, the skill and tact of the mis-
sionary seized upon this occasion.
Stepping up to the workman, he said,
Now, is it not strange that man
with two good eyes can see better with
one?" With hearty laugh, the fore
man answered, " Well, l never thought
of that, but it is true sometimes. )"
"Yes, it is true; and that reminds me
of verse in the Bible, If thine eye
be single, thy whole body shall be full
of light; but if thine eye be evil, thy
whole body shall be full of darkness
l guess you had better think of that; :"
and the missionary left him. However,
the wedge was in, the workman's re-
spect was won, and his mind set to
thinking. AS he said afterwards, he
could never run his eye along board
without the words coming to mind, and
an inquiry as to their meaning. Slowly
and patiently the missionary followed
up his advantage, until at last the heart
yielded, and the scoffer became hum
BILE but Jealous follower of Christ The
last heard of him, some years ago, he
was a faithful steward in church and
superintendent of the Sunday-school.-
E'Tchdnqe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Flag OF the Fearless Free.

The following beautiful lines, writes
ID. p. Perkins of Manchester in an ex-
change, were found by Frank G. Mink
Ter on one of the battlefields during the
Peninsula campaign, in scrap of
newspaper wrapped around dead SOL
dier's broken loaf. Mr.. Minkler was
the bugler of the Sturgis Rifles, COM
pany consisting of one hundred picked
men from Illinois, who followed the
fortunes of General Mcclellan and
guarded his headquarters. He was an
accomplished musician and was so kind
as to leave at my house in Washington,
in 1862, copy of the song. He subse-
quently set it to music of his own COM
position, published in the" Bugle Call, "
a collection of war songs, at Chicago.
Flag Of the fearless freel
Sacred to Liberty
In faith unfurld;
Pure field of snowy white,
Red with the blood of right,
Azure with stars of light;
Hope of the world.
Emblem of purity,
Refuge from tyranny;
Wave In thy might;
Stout hearts will fight for thee,
True hearts viii bleed for thee
Herald of right