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Courtesy i'm Travelling.

He lied, and he knew it, and he saw
that / knew it. His very looks told the
story, and l don't think he will soon
forget it. Sharp language, you may
say, and so it is. But listen. 1t hap
pened on this wise. The car was very
full, and as l entered, saw but one
seat near the middle that had not its
two occupants. In this sat young
man by himself, he filing half the seat :,
and his overcoat and satchel taking up
the other half. Stepping forward, 1
asked him politely, " Is this seat taken?"
Yes" he said, with some hesitation
both of look and voice. " Yes, it is
taken by gentleman who has stepped
out, and may soon be back again. !"
AS he said it, his look and tone salts
fed me that it was not so, and that he
knew it, and that by falsehood he
was seeking, if possible, to keep the
whole seat to himself. every well, !"
1 said, 81 will take it till the gentle
man comes back, and if he comes, /
will cheerfully give it up to him." So
quietly putting his satchel on the floor
at his feet, and moving his overcoat
nearer to himself, took the seat, salts
fed by his very manner, and from the
fact that the train was Just beginning
to move, that the seat had not been
taken, and that should enjoy it to the
end of the trip, which did-tbough
should have enjoyed it more if l had
felt that he was a gentleman, and we
could have conversed on the many
topics that so often beguile the hours
of travelling, and sometimes open the
way to permanent and interesting ac-
quaintance. The occurrence set me to
thinking on Courtesy in Travelling"
and how certainly the department of
the traveller shows the gentleman or
the lady, or, on the other hand, who are
the inconsiderate and selfish, seeking
only their own comfort, regardless of
the comfort, or even the convenience,
of others. And thought if the atten-
ton of those who travel could be turned
to what is due to themselves as ladies
and gentlemen, if they are such. and to
what is always due to those who may
be travelling with us, it might be a
word in season to some who are not as
considerate of others as they would
have others of themselves. The true
lady and the true gentleman are as
much so in the railroad car as in the
parlor at home. And it is as wrong,
and perhaps more mean and selfish, to
lie about seat in the rail-car, than
about what may seem more important
matters in social or business life.-A
Trdreler, IN Evangelist.
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A Firm Legally Dissolved.

John Holmes, although rude in speech
and at times vulgar, was the humorous
champion Of the North. Ever on the
watch for some unguarded expression
by a Southern senator, no sooner would
one be uttered than he would pounce
upon it and place the speaker in most
uncomfortable position. John Tyler
one day thought that he could annoy
Mr.. Holmes, and asked him what had
become of that political firm once men
toned in debate by John Randolph as
James Madison, Felix Grundy, John
Holmes and the Devil Mr.. Holmes
rose at once. 81 will tell the gentle
man." said he, "what has become of
the firm. The first member is dead,
the second has gone into retirement,
and the third now addresses you, and
the last has gone over to the Nullifers,
and is now electioneering among the
gentleman's constituents. So the part
nership is legally dissolved. "-Perley'S
"reminiscences.
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Mexican Scenery.

General Jackson, ex-minister to Mex
leo, says: "The scenery of Mexico ex-
ceeds anything in the world that has
ever come under my observation, either
on this continent or in Europe. The
city of Mexico is Z, 400 feet above the
level of the sea. 1t is in what is called
the cold country. Next to it, towards
the gulf, is the temperate country, and
from there one passes into the hot
country. The country about Jalapa
was pronounced by Humboldt the gar
den spot of the world. 1t is distin-
guished from all other grand and beau
tiful scenery in the world by the fact
that at the foot of Mount Orizava there
reigns perpetual summer, while the
mountain itself rises into the region of
eternal snow. | have seen the noun
tains of Switzerland, but / never saw
one that | thought comparable in gran
deur and beauty to Orizava. l have
watched upon an orange tree the de-
velopment of the fruit from the bud,
through the blossom, to the ripe or
ange, there in the very sight of
the snow-covered moultains. | have
drunk ice water flowing from Orizava,
and at the same time had in reach
splendid ripe pineapples."
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Happy Accidents.

Many accidents, very trhing in them
selves, have led to the most valuable
discoveries and inventions. Some of
them, perhaps, are not so familiar to
all of us as the fact that the swaying
chandelier in cathedral suggested to
Calico the application of the pendulum.
How few know that for the method of
refining sugar with wet clay we are in
debted to hen! Having just return
ed from a promenade over neighbor-
ing moist clay bank, she stepped in a
ladle of brown sugar lying on the floor,
and wherever her tracks were found the
sugar was thoroughly whitened. But
if old Biddy's sojourn that day had
been among those who having eyes, see
not, and having cars, hear not, her val
liable lesson would not have been
learned. 1t is the observant only who
put to use these "trihes light as air. y
Golden Dams.
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The Minister and the Yeast Cake.

One of our good city pastors knows a
good story, if he did furnish the basis
for it. He was conscious all through
the sermon, on recent Sunday morn
ing, of an obnoxious odor from the
pulpit. In his spasms of oratorical
flight it forced itself on his senses, and
almost overpowered him. Occasionally
he would get as near the elegant bou-
quet of flowers at the pulpit as he could,
and then as he slightly bent over it, a
fresh puff of the smell greeted his nos
nostris. This satisfied him that his
good friend who brought in the bou-
quet, as usual, had made mistake and
put in some ill-smelling herb. After
the sermon, as he leaned over his class
in the Sunday-school to put stress on
some urgent point, up came the vile
odor again. He asked the class if they
didn't smell it. But, no, they didn't.
AT home, he told his wife how it had
troubled him during the sermon, and
almost made him sick. "Take off your
coat said she, after she had come
close to him and got a Whit of it,; and
when she went down in the good man
inside pocket, she brought up yeast
cake which she had sent him down
town for, the middle of the previous
week, but which he had forgotten to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-03
The BOat.Dwellers of Japan.

Young people who live in London or
New York may fancy that our cities are
crowded, and that many families must
live without very much air to breathe
or space for the boys and girls to play
in. What would they say to the boat
jewellers of Japan? In that crowded
country hundreds of families spend
their lives and bring up their children
upon the water and know nothing of
the land, except as they make an occa-
sional visit to it when obliged to pur-
chase supplies or attend to some I'M
usual business. In every bay along the
coast are found hundreds, if not thou
sands of small craft called Chunks"
These are small, fiat-bottom boats, and
are owned and inhabited by a man and
his family, just as houses are in other
parts of the world. Their business is
the transportation of goods and mer-
chandise of all kinds, and their naviga-
ton is sort of family affair. One
traveller says: 81 have seen a boat
twenty feet long most adroitly man
aged by children, all under seven years
of age. ! am told that, notwithstand-
ing their aptness at swimming, many
boatmen get drowned, for no boat goes
to another's aid, nor will any boatman
save another from drowning, because,
he says, it is all fate, and he who inter
feres with fate will be severely pun
ished in some way" Among these
wonderful aquatic families children of
three years will sometimes swim like
little fish, and if one is backward in
learning, he will be thrown overheard
and leased and tormented until he Is
obliged to learn the art in self-defense.
All! it is in reading and learning
about the people of other lands that we
find how much we have to love and be
thankful for in the broad, free. life of
our own. But even here there are
children who would be the better for
such frequent baths, and perhaps you
would have great difficulty in persuad-
ing the little Japs that life in the hot
and crowded streets of our great cities
was to be preferred to that of the Junk
men on the rivers and harbors of their
own country.-Anon.
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A Western LAWYER.

" Not long ago lawyer from one of
the Western states, who had never
visited Washington before, came here
to argue case before the supreme
court" writes the Washington cores
pendent of the Boston Traveller. d" He
created a sensation which made the
chills creep up and down the backs of
the venerable justices who had to listen
to him. When he came into court he
wore red flannel shirt, coarse wooden
clothes and cowhide boots. His hair
hadn't seen the scissors for several
seasons, and the razor was stranger
to his face. AT first he was taken for a
crank, but when the case was called the
court soon found out that he was a
man of great ability. The question at
issue was involved in patent suit,
and was quite intricate and compli-
Gated 1t took the country lawyer two
days to argue the case, and he finally
won it. After adjournment on the first
day one of the court officers suggested
that white shirt, collar, cuffs and
cravat would make an improvement in
his personal appearance. The lawyer
told him that he didn't own one. The
next day, however, he wore a paper
collar about the width of an ordinary
cuff pinned on his red Shirt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-03
The Judge and the Bandbox.


The famous English ef-justice,
Lord Peterborough, was on one occa-
sion about to start on circuit, when his
wife expressed desire to accompany
him. Very WE'LL" said he, " but re-
member there are to be no bandboxes
tucked under the seat of the carriage,
as have too often found when honored
before by your ladyship's company"
She promised to meet his wishes, and
they set out together. They had not
gone very far when the Judge, stretch
ing out his legs under the seat in front
of him, kicked against one of the fimsy
rieceptacles which he had expressly for
hidden. Down the window went with
a bang, and out went the bandbox into
the ditch. The startled coachman at
once pulled up. "Drive on" said the
judge, sternly; "and let the thing lie
where it is" They reached the assize
town in due course, and his lordship
proceeded to robe for the court. "And
now where's my wig?-where's nv
wig?" he demanded, when everything
else had been found. "Your wig. my
lord" answered the servant, tremu-
lousy, "was in the handbook your lord
ship threw out of the window as we
came along. "-Selected.
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Whence Our Great Fortunes.

When" Commodore " Vanderbilt be-
gan the railroad business in 1868, the
railroads of the country had not emerged
from the character in which they were
originally conceived-they were i'm
proved turnpikes chiefly for local bust
ness. Rivalry with the canal for the
transportation of heavy articles was
hardly thought of. The shipment of
freight for any great distance was
matter of no small expense, delay and
risk. In short, the present railroad
system of the country, by which Dakota
exchanges her wheat, produced at an
expense of about thirty cents a bushel
Gnstead of about sixty-fve in New
York;, for eastern manufactures, pro-
duced under equally advantageous cir
cumstances, was yet embryonic. In
the transformation of local lines into
highly organized and efficient systems,
which give the public much better SER
vice at much less cost, two men were
especially OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Van
derbilt and Thomas A. Scott. More
discerning than the rest, these men saw
the need and the possibility of improve
ment, and organized the New York
Central and Pennsylvania systems. The
ultimate result is well known. Rates
from Chicago to New York in 1868
were from five to ten times as high as
at present, and the service given was in
every way inferior to that now fur
nished. But this in itself is compar-
atively trifiing matter. Without the
cheap transportation thus furnished,
the world would be without the ma ior
part of the rich product now annually
pouring from Texas, Kansas, Dakota,
and the rest of our inland territory.
The earnings of every man in the
United States and England have thus
been increased. Even the eastern
farmer has been benefited, paradoXical
as it may seem; for Mr. Atkinson has
shown that the value of the product of
Massachusetts, farms has been greatly
increased by the fact that the farmer
no longer has to raise his own cereals,
but can devote his entire farm to per-
ishable fruits, etc., which bring high
prices. Large as were the gains to the
great corporations thus organized, and
to Mr.. Vanderbilt and his compeers,
they were almost infinitesimal when
compared with the gains of the public.
This is the outline of the history of the
Vanderbilt fortune. The substance of
it is, that his organizing and construc-
tive ability enabled him to offer great
boon to the public, and he succeeded
in securing share of the result of his
labor-a much smaller proportionate
share than the laborer ordinarily re-
ceives. His reward was based on the
value of his service and not on his eX-
DenSes Similarly with other branche s
OF business. The manufacturer and
merchant most prompt in meeting the
new economic conditions outstripped
competitors, and the public were bene-
fitted, Notwithstanding the discontinue
of the less efficient.-Popular Science
Monthly.
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Sm General.
Harry of the West.

Mr.. Clay made good secretary of
state, but his place was in congress, for
he was formed by nature for popular
orator. He was tall and thin, with a
rather small head, and gray eyes, which
peered forth less luminously than would
have been expected in one possessing
such eminent control of language. His
nose was straight, his upper lip long,
and his under jaw light. His mouth,
of generous width, straight when he
was silent, and curving upward at the
corners as he spoke or smiled, was sin.
gularly graceful, indicating more than
any other feature the elastic play of his
mind. When he enchanted large audi
ences, his features were lighted up by
a winning smile, the gestures of his
long arms were graceful, and the gentle
accents of his mellow voice were per
suasive and winning.-Perley's RENT
1iScenceS
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Like the Wandering Jew.

The Chicago Times records an ex-
traordinary case which seems to throw
a new light on the romantic story of
the Wandering Jew. In the case cited
man named John Snyder, sixty years
old, residing in the state of Illinois,
thirty miles east of Chicago, has been
subject for two years to an irresistible
desire to walk, the effort being kept up
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-03

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There sounds rustng in the standing corn,
There hangs bright-cheeked apple on the bough
And later fingers now the tardy morn.
And evening shadows gather sooner now.
One crimson branch flames mid the maple wood
One red leaf hides amid the woodbine's green,
And clean raked fields lie bare, where lately stood
The tawny grain amid the summer scene.
-IHOHUtnOus
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-03

A PATENT has been issued to George
Westinghouse, Jr., of Pittsburg, Penn, in
ventor of the Westinghouse air brake, for
new system of distributing electricity, to be
used in lighting and for other purposes.
The new invention will, it is alleged, effect
saving of about ninety-fve per cent in
distributing main wires as compared with
the present system.
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deliver. 1t had begun business on its
own account, and was in an advanced
state of utrefaction.-Hampshire Ga
zpffp
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THE combination, proportion and
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THERE is nothing more living than
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"R, H. Eddy, Esq: Dear .Sir-You procured for me,
In lS4O my first patent. Since then you have acted
for and advised me in hundreds of cases and pro
occasionally employed the best agencies In New
York, Philadelphia and Washington, but still give
and advise others to employ you.
Boston, January l. 1885. Ass
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How time is hying We October meet
Flinging around bright leaves of gold and red
Pausing to make a crown of bitter-sweet
And mmortelles, to place upon her head
While nuts from opening burrs fall thick and fast,
As gay October brushes quickly past
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Select NltstelIanp.
An Autumnal Sheaf.

The summers throbbing is done
And mute the choral antiphon;
The birds have left the shverng pines,
To fit among the trellised vines,
Or fan the air with scented plumes
Amid the lovesick orange blooms,
And thou art here alone-alone-
Sing, little bird the rest have flown.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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PATENTS !
r. n. EDDY.

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for obtaining Patents or dscertaining the pdtenabtt
Of inventions.
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As the last wave upon the beach breaks loudest,
As dying day puts her best bravery on;
While yet the earth In your array is proudest-
Through the gay masks mark the summer gone
". c. Richards.
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TESTIMONIALS,

81 regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most capable and
,uecesVui practitioners with whom have had oflcal
Intercourse.
"CHAS MASON Commissioner of Patents"
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The Great Rock Island Route

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