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Vegetable Clothing.

About two hundred years ago the
governor of the island of Jamaica, Sir
Thomas Lynch, sent to King Charles
ii. of England vegetable necktie, and
a very good necktie it was, although it
had grown on tree and had not been
altered since it was taken from the tree.
A gentleman who witnessed two natives
manufacturing this lace thus describes
it. A tree about twenty feet high and
six inches in diameter, with bark
looking much like that of birch-tree,
was cut down. Three strips of bark
each about six inches wide and eight
feet long, were taken from the trunk
and thrown into stream of water.
Then each man took a strip while it was
still in the water and with the point of
his knife separated thin layer of the
inner bark from one end of the strip.
This layer was then taken in the fin
gers and gently pulled, whereupon it
came away in an even sheet of the en-
tire width and length of the strip of
bark. Twelve sheets were thus taken
from each strip of bark and thrown
into the water. The men were not
through vet, however, for when each
strip of bark had yielded its twelve
sheets each sheet was taken from the
water and gradually stretched sidewise.
The spectator could hardly believe his
ewes. The sheet broadened and broad
ened until from close piece of ma
terial, six inches wide, it became a filmy
cloud of delicate lace, over three feet in
width. The astonished gentleman was
forced to confess that no human-made
loom ever turned out lace which could
surpass in snowy whiteness and gossa-
mer-like delicacy that product of nature,
The natural lace is not so regular in
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Temperance.
Saved by Kindness.

John Roach, the famous ship-builder,
believes in the law of kindness in deal
ing with erring men. Out of the twen-
ty-hve thousand men employed by him,
first and last, there were seventy found
guilty of criminal conduct. He saved
sixty of them. This is his story of the
way he reformed a " confirmed drunk
ard" The man was " master work.
man." He had terrible sprees, and
had them pretty often. He would come
raving into the shops, disgracing him
self and disgusting everybody. When
sober, he was penitent, and / forgave
him and took him back again and
again. l appealed to him till there
seemed to be nothing else to appeal to.
One morning he came in, after one of
his sprees, and said " Mr.. Roach, /
want you to discharge me. You can't
make anything of me. / have broken
my promise and abused your trust over
and over. You took me up when had
nothing to do, and you learned me your
trade and paid me good wages, and
have bore with my faults till it amt
human to ask you to bear any more.
Now discharge me-" mike" says 1,
81 won't discharge you, but I'll let you
resign. I'll write your resignation, !"
for an idea struck me. / went to my
desk and wrote:
"John Roach lSir-You helped me when
| was penniless. You gave me work when
was idle. You taught me when l was ignor-
ant. You have always paid me well. You
have borne with my infrmities over and
over. But | have lost my sef-respect, and
have not enough regard for you or love for
my wife and children to behave like a man.
and therefore l hereby withdraw from your
employment"
L gave it to him, and said, 81 want
you to promise me one thing, that you
will always carry this with you, and
that, when about to take a glass of
liquor, you will take this out, read it,
sign it and mail it to me before you
drink" He promised solemnly that he
would. He stayed in my employ for
years and was never drunk again.
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TAKE hundred young men from
the mill and a hundred from the upper
class families, and there will no more
beer and wine-drinking be found in the
former than in the latter. AS for the
vice of impurity, it is doubtless the
peril of the age, and among our poor,
Woodworking girls, it is sad to know
there is weakness and disgrace; but
there does not seem to be any evidence
that there is more of it in proportion
than in former days. --Rer. Smith Baker,
IN Golden Rule.
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JEFFoRDs, ESTATE.

~ COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Ran
dolph Commissioners, to receive, examine and adj
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Chastina JeffOrds, late of Wamstown,
in said District, deceased, and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid, at the dwelinghouse of
ID. +. Goodrich, in Williamstown ON the 3lst day of
August next from o'clock T.. until four o'clock
p NJ and that six months from the LIST day of March,
A d. 1856 is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to us for examine
ton and allowance.
Dated at Willamstown, this 18th day of April, A. D.
1886. GEORGE CRANE, c,,,,,issto,o.,
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Worked WOnders.
Geeal CLOTHES.
FISHERS ESTATE.

4 TAIEB FTSHEKTS ENINTF II. =. :. : -
- COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District OF Wash
ington, Commissioners, to receive examine and adj
Just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Caleb Fisher late of Cabot, in said
District, deceased, and all claims exhibited in
Offset thereto hereby give notice that will
meet for the purposes aforesaid, at the town clerks
office in Cabot, on the nth day of June and nth
day of September next, from nine o'clock A. NJ until
four o'clock p. NJ, each of said days, and that
six months from the 18th day of March, A. D.,
1856, is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to for examina
tion and allowance.
Dated at Cabot, this lst day of May, A. d. 1886.
5l-53 HIRAM WELLS, COMMISSIONERS
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CALEn FIsHER's ESTATE.


IN Probate Court held at Montpelier, in and for
said District, ON the 4th day of May, A. ID 1856:
Luke &. Fisher, Executor of the last VIII and Tes-
lament of Caleb Fisher late of Cabot in said district
deceased, make application to said Court, with the
consent and appreciation, in writing, OF the devisees
and legatees OF the deceased aforesaid, for license
TO sell all of the real estate of said deceased situated
that the sale thereof would be beneficial to the de-
visees and legatees of the aforesaid deceased
and those Interested in his estate. Whereupon,
4 is ordered by said Court that said application
the Probate ONCE. lin said Montpelier on the 22d
day of May, A. ID. lss6 for hearing and decision
theron; and II Is further ordered, that all persons
Interested be notified hereof by publication of no.
tice of said application and order thereon three
weeks successfully in the Vermont Wdfchnan A
State JourRdh newspaper published at Montpelier.
and which circulates y the neighborhood of those
may appear at said time and place, and, IL they SEQ
cause object thereto.
by the Court.-Attest
5l-5S A. G. AVERILL, Register
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MARY F. TENNEY's ESTATE.

NJ STATE UF NFK NUN 7, BraUfOru Dlstrlct, IS.
In Probate Court, held at West Fairlee in and for
said District on the 23d day of April A. ID. lss5:
An instrument purporting to be the last VIII and
Testament of Mary f. Tenney. late of Vershire,
in said District, deceased being presented to the
Court by Sarah Elizabeth Tenney, the Executrix
therein named, for Probate: 1t is ordered by
said Court, that all persons concerned therein
be notified to appear at session of said Court
to be held at the Probate Office in West Farlee,
the 18th day of May, A. ID. 1856, and show cause,
If any they may have, against the Probate of said
will: for which purpose it is further ordered that
weeks successfully in the Vermont Watchman d
State Journal, a newspaper printed at Montpelier,
previous to said time appointed for hearing.
By the Court.-Attest,
bO.52 ALVAH BEAN Judge
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MY w. sABIN,s ESTATE.

In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said
District on the 26th day of April, A. ID. lSS6.
Melville L, Smile Administrator of the
tate of Henry w, Sabn late of Montpelier, in
said District, deceased, presents his administration
account for examination and allowance, and makes
application for decree of distribution and partition
OF the estate of said deceased. Whereupon, it is
dered by said Court that said account ana said appli
cation be referred session thereof to be held at
the Probate ONCE in said Montpelier the 2lst day
of May, A. ID. 1856, for hearing and decision
thereon. And, IL is further ordered, that notice
hereof be given to all persons interested by publica
ton of the same three weeks successfully i'll the
Vermont Watchmaa g. State Journal, newspaper
published at Montpelier previous to said time ap,
pointed for hearing, that they may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, II any they may
have, why said account should not be allowed and
such decree made.
By the Court-Attest,
5O-52 A. G AVERIII Repister
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A Good Example.

In eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
a young girl having saved a sum of
money, less than one hundred dollars,
deposited what she could spare in the
Dartmouth Savings Bank, and has
since, from time TO time, added to her
account, of her earnings, as she could
spare, until, with interest added, her
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l BELIEVE in moral suasion. But
where you have the majority it is your
duty to apply the law. A landlord said
to me, in Kansas, Il" thank God every
night before l go to bed that we have
prohibition in Kansas. have my house
full of the best people, and l can now
look any man in the face" | travelled
three months in the state of Maine and
never saw a drunken man.-Ed,oard
CaSDeU.
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LANES, CALpER,s ESTATE.

o SIAIE Of NEKMUN T, WasHIngtOn D1strlct, So
In Probate Court held Montpelier in and for said
District, ON the 26th day of April, A, D. 1885
John ID. Sanborn Executor of the last VIII and
Testament of James Calder, late of Cabot, in said
District, deceased makes application to said Court
for license to sell all of the real estate of said de-
ceased, situated in said Cabot, to wit: The Home
Place representing that the sale of part thereof
is necessary for the payment of the debts of
said deceased and the expenses Of administration
of his estate, and that such part cannot be sold
without injury to those interested in the re-
mainder Wherenpon, 1t is ordered by said Court.
that said application he referred TO session
Montpelier, on the 22d day of May, A. d. 1886 for
hearing and decision thereon and II is further or.
dered that all persons interested be notified hereof
by publication of notice of said application and order
thereon three weeks successfully In the Vermont
Wdfchmdn a. State Journal, newspaper published at
Montpelier and which circuates I'M the neighbor-
hood of those interested, before said time of hear.
ing that they may appear at said time and place,
and II they see cause, object thereto.
5O-52 A. c. AVERlIL Register
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DOSE l.. GEORGES ESTATE.

IL STATE OF VERMONT, Washington District. IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said Dis
trict, on the LIST day of May, A. D. 1856
John Trow, Administrator of the estate of
Rose l.. George, late of Barre in said District,
deceased, presents his administration account for
decree of distribution and partition of the estate of
said deceased Whereupon II is ordered by said Court
that said account and said application be referred
TO session thereof, to be held at the Probate
Office, in said Montpelier, the LIST day of June
A. ID. lss6 for hearing and decision thereon; And,
1t is further ordered, that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested by publication of the same
three weeks successfully In the Vermont WatchDdn
d. State Journal anewspaper published at Montpelier,
previous to said time appointed for hearing that they
may appear at said time and place, and show cause,
II any they may haye, why said account should not
be allowed and such decree made.
by the Court.-Attest
5l-59 A. c. ANERILL, Register,
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DRUNKENNESS is not only the cause
of crime but it is crime; and if any en-
courage drunkenness for the sake of the
profit derived from the sale of drink
they are guilty of form of moral as
estimation as criminal as any that has
ever been practiced by the braves of
any country or of any age.-RuSkin.
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EVERY days experience tends more
and more to confirm me in the opinion
that the temperance cause lies at the
foundation of all social and political
reform. -Richdrd Golden.
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SOCIETY has the same right to pro-
tect itself from any general cause pro-
ducing crime, pauperism and disease
that the individual has to protect him
self from bodily harm and death. -
Judge Fontdine T. Foe.
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JAMES CALDER's ESTATE.

~ COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington, Commissioners, to receive, examine and adj
just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of James Calder late of Cabot, Vt, in
said District, deceased and all claims exhibited in
offset thereto, hereby give notice that will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the residence of Her
mon Osgood, on the 29th day of May and I'd day of
October next, from one o'clock z. NJ. until four
o'clock p. NJ each of said days, and that six months
from the I'd day of April, A. ID. 1856, is the
time limited by said Court for said creditors to pre-
sent their claims to us for examination and allow
ance.
Dated at Cabot, this 2lst day of April, AID 1856.
HERM0N oSG0oD, Commissioners
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81 HAVE no Appetite" complains
many sufferer. Hoods Sarsaparilla
gives an appetite, and enables the
stomach to perform its duty.
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How is your back? Does it ache?
The Hop Plaster is certain cure. In
sst on having it. Twenty-Five cents.
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NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
Montpelier a Wells River Railroad will be held AT
their railroad Office at Montpelier, W.T. Thursday
the 2th day of May, 1856, at hafpast two O'clock r.
M.-First to choose five Directors for the ensuing
year; second to hear and act upon reports of its ont
GERS hfrd to transact any other business that may
come before the meeting
by order OF the Directors
JOEL FOSTER, CLERK.
Montpelier, W.T. May ith, 1856.
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Stockholders will he passed free over the Mont
peler Wells River Railroad to and from Stockhold
ers Meeting exhibition of their stock certificates
to train conductors. ID. X. SORTWELL President
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

T'OR RENT "A BEAUTIFUL 3D-SrORY
II front room; furnished; southern exposure;
references required. 1853 Mass. ave. 7-B)
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

the clerks Is grounded In mature observa-
tion. They have scen fidelity and capacity
hustled out in order that rawuess aud hun
ger might come in. And they can sec, and
do see, every day Democratic ignorance and
iucomrttency holding the rank and draw
ing the pay Of positions the duties of which
are still performed by their former Repub-
licon incumbents who have been reduced
in rank and pay to satisfy Democratic
greed. These are notorious facts, but the
Mugwump papers persistently ignore them.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28


The following appeared in Washington
paper Monday morning:
In his great speech in Plttsburg Senator
Logan seems to have chewcd up the nine
dlgits aud oXpectorated them at random, ITJ
casually remarked, for instance, that "the
property of the nation during the twenty years
ofRepublican rule has increased in vdlus s3),.
OO0,0O0O00" According to DE-. Behreud's csti.
mate, we find that the total estimated wealth
ofthc whole United states In 1889 was sI3 jO)-
COO,OOO. This makes the whole property of the
country worth in 1860 only sl3 500 0)),OOO, But
the census of that year gives the total properly
at morethan twice these figures. When Logan
gets to exuding information, the mere census.
taker has to stand back.
Passing by the scurrilty as unworthy
notice, let us examine the figures. On pare
1G, volume Of the Census for 1850" will
be found the "estimated true valuation" Of
the property in the United States. It Is
S43, ,G42, 900, 900, or only $l42 2,0O0, 900 more
than the figures Of DIR. Behrend, quoted In
the above article. In the "Compendlum Of
the Ninth Census" page $50, will be found
the true valuation OF the property in 1860
and II is SIG, ,159, ,6l6,06S, and not "more
than twice" $l3, 800, 900, 600. Senator Logan
used round numbers, and was nearly cor
rect when he said the increase was $3O,0OO,-
100000. Had Senator Logan said this In
crease was made in the ttcenty;foT gears Of
Republican rule, his figures would have
been more under the fact than they were
over 1t for the twenty years alluded to-
Misquoting census figures to try and make
a point against Republican speaker is, to
say the least, foolish.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

ANENT the report that some thousands or
millions Of the vast sum contributed for the
relief Of Chicago at the time Of her great
calamity was still on hand, the Herold Of
that city says that all the money con.
tributed by a generous world to the needy
In Chicago at the time OF the gre at fire was
nsed for the relief of distress there aul in
shat vicinity. "The last Of that fund van
ished in 1881. Since that time the Relief
and Aid Society has depended on the con-
thbutIons of the charitable In Chicago for
the moneys It has dIsbursed. The eyes of
the country, which have been fixed on Chit
cago since this report got out, may now be
withdrawn" There is not the slightest
reason TO suspect that there was crooked
ness anywhere in the disbursal Of the funds
referred to. The only great charity fund
which has been triled with in recent years
was the vast amount sent to Spain for the
cholera and rthquake sufferers.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28
%EVE EEF/fW
BUSINESS COLLEGE, COR: NINTH AND D

A practical business education that qualities
and successfully perform the active duties OF
life. Thorough instruction given in Rapid
Writing the English Language, Correspond
ence, Rapid Calculations, bookkeeping, Busi-
Economy. Steuography, and Type Writing.
Regular day and evening sessions resumed
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. !, at . a. m. and O p. IN.
DAY, AUG. %. A full corps of teachers. TUT.
tion fees-Day sessons-Regllar business
course, one year, $40, payable $40 on entering
and balance In monthly installments of $40
$50; tuition per quarter OF ten weeks, $40, paid
on entering. Night sessons-Year scholarship.
$50 on entering; three months, SIS, payable Sc
on entering and balance in monthly install
ments of So each, or SIG IN full on entering.
illustrated circular sent free on application.
HENRY @, SPENCER, Principal.
MRS. SARA A. SPENCER, Vice Princlpal
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

IT Is Il Whimsical belief OF the Mugwumps
that Whenever Mr. Cleveland does u goo
thinghe i'a Mugwump, ana that whenever he
makes mistake he is Il Demoordt--Ne,V YOrs
SUR,
1t IS the "strango Story Of Dr. JelSyl and
Mr.. Hyde" over again, aud, as in the orgi
nal, we are paIned to obseryo that tbs gool
doctor grows more dim, faint, aud shldowy
every day, while tue bad Mr.. Hyde
comes out stronger and stronger by tie
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

THE Washington REPUBLICAN, appeals TO
Editor Grady, OF the Atlanta Constitution, to
turn loose an essay on the southern cOnvic.
system. Why doesn't the REPUBLICAN, appoa
directly to Senator Joseph Z. Brown What
is the use ofappealng to an amanueusis while
the chief is in iew?-GdircsiOn Nc,Os
Repeatedly and in the most moving man.
ner this journal has "appealel directly to
Senator Joseph 4. Brown" to let fly on the
southern convict system. We have even
Offered to hire hall II the senator would
lecture on that theme. But the senator
has persisted in the maintenance Of pro.
found silence on the great topic, although
he has been moved to express his deep con-
ccrn about the social status of Senator
Iloar's constituents
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

rr.t. D.. ,,.- a. =, .
turning from A'Nahsas 10 her sweet
sister Mississippi, we ma state oil things
to which the attention Of the administration
is respectfully invited. Our authority I'm
this case is the North iu,crican. M pb,la-
d.lohIo n iournoI -, ,,,o hos, ra,,,,a -
oS,ta 80. A. v,a,.,I., pt,, I"voo ~
oui.oi guU'es .no 'ieNeuu'H He'N"' .ne
euitor Oh "hich Is postmaster-appointed In
place OF an "oiIenslve partisan" 1t has be IN
announced by telegraph that the Republi-
cans OF the s'shoestring districtn in Mis-
sissIppi lately nominated judge simroll for
Congress ond tho candidate o,,no,nooa ht,
inton,ion 10 oonuoss tha dIs,,to,. h,,, ~ n'S
w 'no u''''io'' ou' Z" h's
ho' peeh teieeraph'caiiy reported that
"thereupon"-we quote the North Ameri-
co"-''ne euItor Oh Tue He'a'a, VINO IS also
postmaster, ueciares IN MS paper tnat 'udge
oimroil ,nusS leoonS,uoi MS PuIpose 10
e"n'"s' 'ne uSs'S, o suys 'naC vue Doui.
N'"uo p@,'S -''''9'pp 'a""o. Po''niV
,, aS eauu'uu'e W uo ueieu'eu, ahu 'in1 IL
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

WE regard It as favorable symptom that
Tr, Sdcnt Cleveland docs not claim to have
seen anything resembling Il seaso;pcn; during
his soitum in Tie mountains. chicago Til
6UbC.
1t is, perhaps, as well that the stock of
"JefTersonlan simplicity" taken into the
woods by the presidential party WAS ex-
hausted before the conditions became favor
able for the discovery OF mammoth snakes,
marine or otherwise.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

II the clerks in the Treasury Department arc
alarmed because they fear removal to make
room for personal fayorltes Of another sO3ra-
tary, they show an unbccOming and unneacs.
sary lack of confidence in the President
BrO0NUl Lai0R,
No fact in relation to the public service
is better known than that hundreds of
capable, experienced, and faithful clerks
have been removed since the present adj
ministration came in to make places, not
for personal fayorltes Of secretaries, but
for the henchmen Of bosses. The fear Of
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

THE first Democratic campaign document
gotten out is an argument that the peuslon bu-
reRu was run as political machine. Inasmuch
rs 1t has leaked out that the document was
gotten up in the pension bureau during ollce
hours by a force of clerks at au expense to the
government Of several thousand dollars, 1t is
pretty clear that the pension bureau is politi
cal machine now AT any ratc.-PhtsJurg CJm-
mcrcidt Gazette.
What is the President going to do with
this most serious charge against the man
agement Of the pension bureauH VIII this
nisapplication OF public funds be made up
by the veto Of some old soldiers pension
hill
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-28

LNOR BENT-1lH N ST. N. W.--PARLOR
II on lSt floor aud several sleeping rooms on
2l floor: iirst-claSs caterer in house. 7.S0