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

MORTAR and paint may be removed
from window-glass with hot, sharI|
vinegar.
GRAINED woods should be washed
with cold tea, and then, after bein q
wiped dry, rubbed with linseed oil.
REMOVE hower-pot stains from win1
dow-sills by rubbing with fine wood
ashes and rinsing with clean water.
STRONG brine may be used to adj
vantage in washing bedsteads. Hot
alum-water is also good for this pur-
pose.
DRAIN-PIPEs and all places that are
sour or impure may be cleansed with
lime-water, carbolic acid or chloride
of lime.
CAYENNE PEPPER blown into the
cracks where ants congregate will drive
them away. The same remedy is also
good for mice.
To clean a wringer, saturate a rag
with kerosene and rub the rollers with
it. Any one trying this will be pleased
with the result.
HELLEBORE sprinkled on the floor at
night destroys cockroaches. They eat
1t and are poisoned. 1t should be swept
up each morning.
PLUSH goods and all articles dyed
with aniline colors, faded from expos
ure to light, will look as bright as
ever after sponging with chloroform.
REST a short time after eating, and
the hotter the weather the longer the
rest. Eat slowly and masticate the
! aNI 1 Il.
matter Uhdt we eat as hoD we eat it.
Do not eat too much.
NEARLY all kinds of homework can
be made pleasant if done in a proper
manner and spiced with cheerful
spirit. Women possessing a fair share
of intelligence and "mother wit " will
be careful that their work does not be-
come drudgery or fall into the old ruts
or, as some say, " the good old way -
of their ancestors.
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Some Western Experience.

A western agricultural journal tells
the story of horse railroad in Chicago
into which only $4,000 was put by the
builders. Bonds were issued and the
stock watered until now the revenue is,
at the very least, 100000 net in one
year on an actual investment of one
tenth of that amount; now multiply
this by all the sections of that city,
then all the cities, then all the coun-
try, and we can begin to family realize
what it costs the honest industry of the
country to support its watered :"
wealth.
Yet in spite of all this, says the jour
nal quoted, after the cause of so much
evil is made known, after the terrible
experiences of the past in spite of the
lessons of the present and the ominous
outlook for the future, the United States
senate can so far forget its duty to the
people as to reject proposition to grant
valuable franchise to very rich and
powerful corporation only on the con-
dition that the road to which the fran
chise was to be given should not be
stocked for more than cost of construc-
ton and equipment
The difficulty of borrowing money on
real estate at reasonable rates is illus
trated by such details as follow: The
necessities of a gentleman living not
a thousand miles from Minneapolis
compelled him to raise 5000 at once.
He was possessed of unincumbered
realty worth $4,000, which he proposed
to give as security for the payment of
5000 in one year. After a canvass of
several money-lenders in the city, he
was enabled to effect the loan from
Bell & Nettleton on the following lib
eral(?) basis: " Commission to the
above firm forloaning their own money,
$500; bringing down(O abstract
$3.50; attorneys examination of title,
$1,000; recording first mortgage on
above real estate, S0.75; interest one
year on 5000, $1,000 All the expenses
consequent upon this loan, except the
interest, were paid in advance, so the
borrower actually got Sl70.75, for which
he would be compelled to pay, in one
year, S2l6!
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Mixture for Lining Eggs.

To four gallons of boiling water add
half a peck of new lime, stirring it
some little time. When cold, remove
any hard Jumps by coarse sieve; add
ten ounces of salt and three ounces
of cream of tartar, and mix the whole
thoroughly. Let the mixture stand a
couple of weeks to temper before using.
Pack the eggs as closely as possible,
and they should be kept closely covered
with the preparation. If treated when
newly laid, nine months after they will
taste nearly as good as when fresh.
Eggs to be preserved by any method
should be treated the same day they are
taken from the nest; their quality de-
ponds upon this being observed.
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A COlOred BOtanist---Latin "Breaks'
Him All Up."

Farm, Stock and Home, lively con-
temporary which halls from Mime
apolis, Mimi, prints letter from a
colored gentleman who has lived in the
edge of clearing all his life, and
studied botteny" there until, as he
says, " kood cut my two and one-half
kords day and pile my brush, and
kontinued to study it till node more
trees den any oder man on de Arkansaw
riber. About dis time heered of one
Julious Seller Jaxon-a nudder kul-
Tered gemelon-who dey sed had ben to
kolledge and was rite peart on the him
tricate subject of botteny, as well as
myself" He went to visit this scien-
tific brother, and took stroll with him,
with view to scientific edification.
ode fust tree we KUN to was white
oke. Oh course / knowd it as soon as l
sot ize on it, but thought I'd AK de
larned gemelon what it was, jest to see
what he'd say, an he sed it was Queer
KusS Albee. Now was dekon in the
Fust Baptist church in 'Arkansaw
Flats but declar TO gracuS! L koodn't
stand that. Said l:
"' Julious Seller JaXon, you must be
queer cuss yourself if you think you can
pull de wool ober dis niggar's ize in dat
way! l knowd de white oke eber sense
l was boy thirty year od!'
"The next tree we kun to was an
elderberry bush, and 1 axed what he
kalled dat? He replied: Sam BukuS.'
"' Sam Patchn sed I; do you know
dat Pm regldr bottenist, and l knowd
dat elderberry before you was born, an
hev had pize enuff from it to kill half
a doz'n jest like YEP
"We mex kun to hemlock. Says
I, What's dat?' Says he: A Bees, or
Shugar-candy densis.'
" Now, sed 1, Mr.. Seller, you may
think ize green, but ken tell you kan
didly dat | knowd all der was to no
bout dat tree, as l sed befo', a long
while befo' you was horned. l have
zamined ebry mynute parts, hav put up
kords oh de bark oh dat tree and Fam
ined cherry iibur oh de wood, and l de-
clar to you dat dere is no bees, shugar
or candy bout it nowhereH
"We mex run fowl OBJ waite rmelon
patch, an | aXed him what dat wasp
He answered.:
"'Dat is Sit rulis Vulgaris.'
"Sez L. 'Julious Seller JaXon, you
he'd better sit wild us til 20 no better
den to give SIGH vulgar names for SIGH
kommon truck A puson wud think
you neber sawed watermelon 'cept in
de intel!
Mex we KUN to black walnut, an
he sed dat was Jugg-lands Niger
SEE l: Julious, you noze nuthin'
bout b0tteny. You pear to me like de
niger OATS dun nothin' but kary de jug
thro' de lands yourself'
used de kollege-bred man up SC
completely dat he sed nuthin'. Han
ner an l KUN home mex day thinkin'
we he'd learned nuthin, but had i'm
parted much useful knollege."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21
Farm and Garden Notes.

ALsIKE and timothy make excellent
hay, also fine cattle or hog fodder.
FARMERS who do read and think are
vastly more prosperous than those who
do not.
THE tenderest, sweetest mutton is
made from grasses; the better the grass
the better the mutton.
THE first consideration with the
dairyman should be milk. Veal and
beef are his by-products.
No man with head on his shout
ders need be led astray by theories or
blunders because of their number.
A HORSE should not be old until he
is twenty, and we have known many
very vigorous when several years older.
FIVE dollars invested in shade-trees
adds more to the selling value of the
farm than twenty dollars invested in
any other way.
WHEN our farmers begin to COM
plain and demand, it evidences an
awakening which promises infinite
good to the whole country
THE low rates of grain and other bulk
freights, sometimes boosted about by
railroad men, are always obtained after
the produce passes out of the farmers
possession.
The Iowa Homestead says you CAM
steal from your land or your calf with
out being caught in the act. Uneven
crops and thin ribs will not be driver
out of sight.
IT is urged that there is not enough
genuine butter made in the United
States to supply the demand. Amt il
funny that this fact was never fount
out until about ten years ago?
WHAT an advantage it would be t.
farmers, says the analyst, if towns-peo
pie could be induced to take more mill
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agricultural.
T. H. HosklNs, m. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.
ROad-Dust.

We earnestly hope our readers will
not let the present summer pass with
out preserving large supply of road
dust. Fill few old salt or -four bar
rels with il, and in the winter use it on
stable floors, in hen-roosts, water
closets, and every place from which
foul odors arise. Common road-dust is
one of the most effective absorbents
and disinfectants known, costs nothing,
yet it will add wonderfully to the sweet
ness, comfort and health of the farm
er's surroundings if used as suggested.
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Gbe 9ouseboIo.
" Communications for this column should be
sent to Dr. T. II. Hoskins Newport Vt
English Plum Pudding without
Liquor.

Take two pounds of beef suet, chop
it fine, remove strings and hard pieces {;
put it in large pan and add the fol-
lowing: Two pounds of well-washed
currants, two pounds of seeded raisins,
quarter of pound of candied citron
sliced very thin, three pounds of G.
sugar, one tablespoonful of ground
allspice, one grated nutmeg and two
quarts of flour. Mix thoroughly. Beat
ten eggs and stir them in with sufficient
sweet milk to make the mixture stiff
batter. 1t is now ready for the pudding
cloth. To make this take yard of stout
cotton cloth and hem the ends; also
wash it. This will last long time and
will be of no use for other purposes, as
the fruit will stain it. But as the pud-
ding is ready, scald the cloth, place it
in the colander and dredge il thickly
with flour. Pour in the batter, gather
up the edges and tie it so as to leave
the pudding room to swell Use a good
stout string and tie in bow-knot.
Have ready the boiler with plenty of
boiling water; put an old plate in the
bottom, put in the pudding and boil six
hours, replenishing the water if it boils
away. Lift the pudding out into the
colander placed in pan. Pour dip
per of cold water over it, unite the
string, and gently turn the cloth back
lay a large platter on the pudding and
by deXtrous movement turn the plat
ter over with the pudding and colander
on it. Remove the colander and the
cloth, and you have dish that the boys
will relish. This is the way my mother
makes it, and it is as she did in En-
gland. We use no sauce with it. 1t is
good warm or cold; though if / make
one to eat cold, use fat pork instead
of suet, as it is not so clammy to eat.
You can make these puddings and keep
them some time in the cloth hung
where they will not freeze, and heat
them when wanted by boiling an hour.
Correspondence Farm and Home.
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French Apple Fritters.

Peel three large apples, core then
with an apple-corer, and cut then
across in slices rather less than one-hal
inch thick; put them in a fiat dish will
one-half tumbler of strong cider an
strew them plentifully with powders
loaf-sugar Let them remain covere
for couple of hours; then take eac
piece separately, dip it in batter so tina
it is well covered with it, and fry
golden color in plenty of hot lard. La
the fritters in front of the fire, an
when all are done pile them up on
napkin; shake plenty of powdered loaf
sugar over them and serve.
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Selected Recipes.

HOLLISTON COOKIES.-Two eggs,
two-thirds cup of butter, one cup of
sugar, one-half tea-spoonful of soda,
two tablespoonful of milk, one tea
spoonful of cream of tartar. Dissolve
the soda in the milk and sift the cream
of tartar in flour sufficient to mix hard.
Roll very thin and bake carefully. They
will be crisp and brittle.
CLIFF CAKE.-One-half cup of sugar,
two eggs, twO-thirds of cup of flour,
one tea-spoonful of cream of tartar,
one-half tea-spoonful of soda, three
tablespoonful of cold water. The
cold water is to be added the last thing,
the cream of tartar and soda having
been sifted with the flour. Bake quick
in two layers. Icing.-One-half cup of
sugar, one tea-spoonful of vinegar, one
tablespoonful of water. Flavoring.
Boil together and spread each layer with
the icing while it is hot.
LEMON SHELLs.-One cup of sugar,
one lemon, one egg, one coffee cup of
starch. Line two pie-plates with a
nice crust, and while it is baking pre-
pare the filling as follows; To the
grated rind and juice of the lemon add
the yolk of the egg and the sugar; stir
the corn-starch into the cold water and
add to the other ingredients. Cook the
mixture until it becomes straw-col-
ored jelly. Fill the crusts and for one
make frosting of the white of the egg
and set in the oven a few minutes.
Decorate the other with some narrow
strips of the crust laid across, which
should have been baked ON another
plate with the crusts.
CREAM PUFFs.-One-half cup of but
ter, one cup of cold water, one cup of
-four and three eggs. Boil the butter
and water together and add the flour
when it begins to boil. Stir constantly
until the mixture has cooked smooth,
Cool and then add the eggs well beaten.
Butter a dripping-pan and drop the
mixture on it in twelve spoonfuls.
Have very hot oven and as soon as
the cakes have been placed in it let
the fire slacken, and bake them about
twenty minutes. Filling for PWfS.-
One-half pint of milk, one-half cup of
sugar, one egg, one tablespoonful of
corn-starch. Flavor with lemon or va
nilla. When the puffs and filling are
cold, cut slit in the side of the puff
and put in the filling. T.. Farmer.
POTATOES A LA NEIGE.-These are
nicely mashed potatoes pressed through
sieve or colander into the dish in
which they are to be sent to the table.
As they are apt to cool somewhat dur
ing the process, place them in very
hot oven for two or three minutes be-
fore sending them to the table.
COTTAGE PUDDING.-One cupful OF
sugar, two eggs, two cupfuls of cream
one pint of flour, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the
eggs and sugar together; add the cream
and flour, with the powder sifted in
and pinch of salt: mix into smooth
batter, as for cup-cakes; put into long
narrow or oval buttered mould; bake in
hot oven over thirty minutes.
COOKING ONIoNs.-Different meth
DDS are recommended. Boiling in two
waters well sailed, or letting them lie
in cold water, is thought to be eff
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21

HAVE you a gardening apron? If
not, get two yards of common ticking,
cut off about foot of the cloth and sew
it across the bottom, making four deep
pockets out of this. Put two smaller
pockets higher up. Now you have
places for seeds, trowel, strings, tacks,
sticks, hammer, weeder and the like.
The cloth is so thick it keeps the dress
dry, and the knife and scissors are al
ways handy. A lady writes that her
temper has improved amazingly since
she has worn the gardening apron
Popular Gardening.
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advertisements.
100 Doses

One Dollar. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only
medicine Of which this can be truly said
and IL is an unanswerable argument as to
the strength and positive economy Of this
great medicine. Hoods Sarsaparlla is made
Of roots, herbs, barks, ETC., long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood !;
and in combination, proportion, and process,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself.
For economy and comfort we use Hoods
Sarsaparilla." Mrs. G. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
floods Sarsaparilla takes less time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
preparation I ever heard of. l would not be
without 1t in the house." Mrs. c. A. M.
HUBBARD, North Chilli. IN. Y. 100 Doses
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fective. Boiling in milk used to
thought the best way to remove IL
rank flavor, but the onions we are alb
to purchase now, even in the countr
are not so strong in odor or taste
was the onion of our fathers. III
Bermuda, the ideal onion of the Spal
ish, needs nothing beyond boiling
two waters.
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One Dollar

Hoods Sarsaparilla cures scrofula, salt
rheum, all humors, boils, pimples, general de.
bility, dyspepsia, billousness, sick headache.
catarrh, rheumatism, kidney and liver COM
plants, and all affections caused by impure
blood or low condition Of the system. Try 1t.
81 was severely afflicted with scrofula and
for over year had two running sores on my
neck. l took five bottles of Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and consider myself entirely cured"
G. E. LovEJoY, Lowell, Mass.
floods Sarsaparilla did me an immense
amount Of good My whole system has been
built up and strengthened, my digestion i'm
proved, and my head relieved of the bad feel.
ing. / consider it the best medicine have
ever used, and should not know how to do
without it." MARY L, PEBLE, Salem, Mass.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S. Made
only by G. I. HOOD g. CO., Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar.
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WITHOUT PAIN !

1t is positive fact that you can get teeth ex-
at the office of DIR. A. CLARK without
pain by the of cocaine applied to the Jaw. He
makes record of every tooth so extracted, and he
has proof from the testimony of others so that you
need not depend entirely upon what he says in re.
gard TO its merits. Please go and become satisfied
for yourself in regard to It's efficiency. ONCE on
South Main street. MOntpelier, VI.
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AHONE
The World of Song.
Selected Gems and Modern
Themes.

The new book of Organ music answers for either
pipe reed organ. All the selections are excellent
and will tend to elevate musical taste No songs in
ia hook Price. Al
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American Ballad Collection.

Only so cts; by mail, 60 cts. Large book
sheet-music size Contains all the standard and pop
ular ballads of the day Sent by mail to any address.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-12-18
The Bland Dollar.

1t seems strange that Congress cannot
move more speedily than it does In enact
ing legislation, about the need Of which,
when they come to the point OF decision, the
members do not seem to debate. In point
just now is the bill for the redemption Of
the trade dollar, which the Senate has just
passed without debate or division. The
merit Of the measure is by no means 50
conspicuous now as it was when the trade
dollar was dishoDored. Then 1t was in the
hands Of the people generally, who have
since suffered the shave upon the face value
of the trade dollar and passed it in to the
banks and spectators who are now the
keepers of the coin and 10 whose exer-
tions probably is due the realization by
Congress at this late day of the injustice
Of issuing a dollar as dollar and then
discrediting it, though its intrinsic worth
is greater than that Of the dollar that Is
circulated.
The course Of Congress upon the cur.
rency is steadily such as to discourage the
belief that the simplest principles of f.
nance are comprehensive to the average
Ahihu shop aoPlco W
craftsmanship. Nothing could seeming.
ly have been clearer than that the
trade dollar, being of more worth than the
Bland dollar, should have been redeemed
with the Bland dollar, if the holders of the
trade dollars 50 desired. They were appar-
emily the ones to object to being given less
silver for more; but owing to the power of
Congress to give or take away the circulat.
ing value OF coin, the richer trade be-
came Of less value than the meauer Bland
dollar. Only now does Congress consent to
remedy its wrong, and now, as we said, the
injury has been irreparably done to the
major part of the sufferers.
The silver dollar seems to stand con.
stantly in the way Of the comprehension By
Congress of seemingly very plain principles
Of finance. The fact that there are many
more dollars coined than are demanded for
currency does not persuade Congress to
stop the coinage. A business man who
would manufacture Ii greater stock than
he had any prospect of selling would not be
deemed wise ;>which apparently shows
that congressman who vote for continued
silver coinage are not business men.
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Ne canfastcr Jntelliget,tsi.
LANCASTER. DECEMBER Is, lsss.
Important College Decision.

A most interesting legal decision has
been made In the case of John NJ Hill
against the Dickinson college faculty at
Carlisle. Young Hill was expelled re-
Gently and he asked the Cumberland
county court for writ of alternative
mandamus for his reinstatement. In his
petition he sets forth that he is y years OF
age, citizen Of Pennsylvania, and that on
November 16 he was expelled without just
cause. He AYERS that he is wholly innocent
of the charges made against him; that no
witnesses were brought before the faculty /.
that none of their own number testified
before them as TO his guilt, nor did he
make any confession thereof, nor was he
offered any opportunity to be heard in his
own defense, and that his conviction was
not had in proper manner.
Judge Sadler in granting the writ re-
views with much legal acumen the history
Of the alternative writ of mandamus. He
finds it proper mode of opening the ques-
tion whether the young man was properly
expelled. He says the writ has been in
voked successfully to restore trustees to
the boards of educational institutions and
professors to their chairs. 1t has been
granted to reinstate members in church
corporations, to social clubs, to medical
societies, to fire companies, to aid societies,
10 city councils, and pew holders to their
sittings. The courts have used it to CON-
pei the admission of pupils TO schools who
have been unlawfully excluded therefrom
and to secure the readmission of those un.
lawfully expelled.
There may be few to dispute the wisdom
of Judge Sadler's decision. \ young mans
expulsion from college is TO him very sc.
rious thing, as it may throw cloud over a
good portion of his subsequent career. To
be dismissed without hearing, therefore,
is not fair play TO the party most seriously
affected by the decision of the faculty, and
he may have right to appeal to the courts
to obtain for himself the opportunity TO
plead in his own behalf
The question, however, is not without
doubt. 1t may be strongly urged that the
proper discipline of a school requires that
the. students presence in 1t shall be at the
option Of the faculty, and that it would be
destructive OF all control of the business Of
teaching, if the student may appeal to the
courts against the refusal TO further in
struct him,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-12-18


TIE story comes from London OF an sp.
peal to tho Mscedonisns published in a Bul.
garian paper by Stoainof, a leader of Prince
Alexanders party. He urges them to rise
against the Turks and to Join Eastern Rou.
melis and Bulgaria in forming a nation with
Prince Alexander for their king, or If they
could not get the ruler OF their choice to
proclaim republic, There are many
schemes sfoot with tie support Of reckless
sdventurers, who hope to profit by the mis-
fortunes of the people OF the country that
seems destined TO become the battlefield OF
the great powers, but they are hardly worth
attention except as indicating the direction of
tho current OF popular feeling. OF this the
demsgogues must be close observers and the
fact that this appeal to the Mscedonians hints
al republic as possibility shows that
ideas Of popular sovereignty have pene-
tra.ed even to the remote corners OF Europe.