davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1888-12-21

A fine assortment Of new goods for
Christmas at low prices at lnman' 5 music
store, POI West Sixteenth street.
, 1888-12-21

Geo. f. Inman has just received a new
line OF musical instruments which he is
selling at very low prices.
, 1888-12-21
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK

OF Cheyenne at Cheyenne, in the Terri
tory Of Wyoming, at the Close Of
Business, Dec. IL, 1888.
, 1888-12-21

Rec was ~0rtificially manufactured by
the use uf chemical mixtures as early
Us 1888.
, 1888-12-21

Zehner, BHechner SICO.'s
assortment Of HOUeIties for
the holidays Is large and
their prlces are IOlV.
, 1888-12-21

Fresh oysters received daily at Saddle
Rock,
, 1888-12-21
CHRISTMAS

Comes but once a year. Mer.
chants should make the most OF
It. Let the Public know what
yOu have to sell.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
StOnewall JacksOn's Button.

a remarkable error occurred in a
recent issue of the Century. In illus
trating the operations around Rich
mond and the occupation of the fallen
city by the federals, a finely-drawn pic
ture of the great Washington monu-
ment in Capitol square was given. The
picture was all right. The inscription
under it must have been laughable to
the Virginians who saw it. The line
read: Union cavalry riding around
the Jackson monument" There is
a Jackson monument in the park,
but it is small affair in comparison
TO the Washington group. 1t faces the
north end of the state building-once
the capitol of the confederacy-and is
of bronze, mounted on a pedestal of
stone. 1t represents Stonewall" in
full confederate uniform, and the face
is said to be a striking reproduction of
the original. There is one curious
feature in the statue that is rarely re-
marked by the casual observer. One
of the buttons on the generals military
coat is gone. 1t suggests flaw in the
bronze casting, but it is nothing of the
kind. There is a pretty little legend
connected with the button that is worth
the telling. After one of his battles, so
goes the story, Stonewall" was APP
preached by charming young lady and
besought for trile for keepsake. I" l
hardly think have anything you would
care to take said the general. "Then
give me button from your coat" she
said, with a saucy smile. The smile
was irresistible, and the general gal
lantly tore off a button and presented it
to the young lady with a bow. The
coat went through the campaign minus
a button, and when the cast for the
Jackson statue was made the sculptor
remembered the story and gave it last
ing fame in bronze.-Phila. Ne,CS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Napoleon's Army Before Waterloo.

The army of Napoleon was composed
entirely of veteran troops. 1t was
also in excellent order and condition.
1t was a homogeneous army; all the
men were Frenchmen. The troops
were eager to fight, to retrieve the
reputation of the French arms, to re-
cover their lost renown. 1t was pre-
pared for a desperate struggle. The
emperor, in his address to the army,
dated at Avesnes on the 14th of June,
had reused the spirits and determine
ton of the soldiers to their highest
pitch. He had reminded them that
this was the anniversary of Marengo
that they were about to encounter SUI
perior numbers; he had told them to
conquer or die. Nevertheless it is a
mistake to call this army, as many
writers have done, the finest which
Napoleon ever took into the field. In
two points especially this army was
not the equal of that, for example,
which he commanded at Austerlitz.
In the first place it had not the ines
Unable advantage of being led by
those brilliant officers, then in the early
prime of manhood, who had been
brought to the front in the turmoil of
the revolutionary struggle. OF the two
who were at Waterloo, Ney and Soult,
one, Soult, was performing the func-
tons of chief of staff. Ney was the
only one of the marshals who COM
manded troops on that fatal field. Not
that the corps commanders lacked ex-
perience or devotion. They were I'M
questionably excellent officers who had
seen many years of faithful service.
But Napoleon's earlier exploits had
been to large extent rendered prac-
ticable only by the exceptionally able
men who were his own contem-
poraries-Massena, Lannes, Davout,
Murat and the rest. Secondly, there
was in this army of 1915, and there
could not but be, certain amount of
distrust, of lack of entire confidence
on the part of the soldiers towards
their superiors, the result of the so re-
cent overthrow of the empire in 1914,
which had been associated in their
minds with suspicious of reasonable
conduct on the part of certain officers
of high rank. -Scribner' Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
advertisements.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
LincOln's Military Instinct.

General Sherman, in his paper in the
February Century, on the Grand
Strategy of War;" says of Lincoln
" He never professed any knowledge
of the laws and science of war, yet in
his joyous moments he would relate
his large experience as a soldier in the
Black Hawk war of 1882, and as an
officer in the Mormon war at Nauvoo
in 1916. Neverthele during the
progress of the civil war he evinced
quick comprehension of the principles
of the art though never using mill
tary phraseology. Thus his letter of
April 10, 1862, to General Mcclellan,
then beseiging Yorktown, exhibits a
precise knowledge of the strength and
purpose of each of the many armies in
the field and of the importance of
concentrc action In his letter of
June 5, 1868, to General Hooker he
wrote: In one word, would not take
any risk of being entangled upon the
river (Rappahannock), like an OK
jumped half way over fence and
liable to be torn by dogs, front and
way or to kick the other Again,
June 10, 1868, writing to General
Hooker If left to me, would not go
south of the Rappahannock upon Lees
moving north of it. If you had Rich
mond invested to-day you would not
be able to take it in twenty days.
Meanwhile your communications, and
with them your army, would be ruined.
think Lees army and not Richmond
is your objective point. If he comes
toward the Upper Potomac follow him
on his flank and on the inside track,
shortening your lines while he length
ems his. If he stop, fret him and fret
him. This is pure science, though
the language is not technical. 1t is re-
lated by General Grant in his Memoirs
that when he was explaining how he
proposed TO use the several scattered
armies so as to accomplish the best re-
sults-referring to the forces in western
Virginia, and saying that he had or
dered Sigel to move up the valley of
Virginia from Winchester, make juno
ton with Crook and Averil from
Kanawha, and go toward Saltville or
Lynchburg-Mr. Lincoln said, 90
yes! | see that. AS we say out West,
if man can't skin he must hold leg
Wnlle soneDouy else uOeS. IN MS per-
sonal interview with General Grant,
about March s, 1864, Mr.. Lincoln re-
counted truly and manfully that he had
never professed to be a military man,
or to know how campaigns should be
conducted, and never wanted to inter-
fere in them; but the procrastination
of commanders and the pressure from
the people at the North and congress,
which was always with him, forced him
to issuing his series of military orders
one, two, three, etc. He did not know
but all were wrong, and did know
that some were. All he wanted, or ever
had wanted, was some one who would
take the responsibility and act, and
call on him for all the assistance
needed, pledging himself to use all the
power of the government in rendering
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28

easy in company, but in the long-con-
tested race of life it is the chap that
trudges to school barefooted in sum-
mer and in storms in winter, whose
mother cuts his hair with the sheep
shears, that leads the chap that goes to
the city school, with the starched shirt
front and fancy slippers, and whose
head is shaved with the lawn-mower in
the barber-shops. Such has been our
observation, and we think we know
what we are talking about. Speaking
from experience, we never read any
books with such avidity as those we de-
voured while the horses were resting
at the end of the plowed land. The
boys we envied forty years ago be-
cause they wore cashmere and laughed
at our jeans have dropped so far back
in the race that we have almost for
gotten them. The chaps who had
plenty of money at college and the
city-bred fellows have not been, as
rule, heard from much since, while the
country boys who wore plain clothes
and kept close to their books in the old
college are leading the thought in Iowa
and other states to-day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
A New War Story.

General Alexander told another story:
AT the battle of Manassas he was fight
ing near farmhouse, which he dis
covered to be the house of Mr.. Lewis
McCabe, a relative of his wife. Be-
fore the battle was over the house was
literally riddled and the farm ruined.
General Alexander never saw McCabe
again until at Appomattox. While
fighting there his artillery was near a
farmhouse, which he found out to be
the house of Mr.. McCabe. He met that
gentleman a few moments later and he
said: my home at Manassas was
ruined by battle and left it and came
two hundred miles away. l thought |
was clear out of reach, but now this
home is ruined" 1t is curious that the
first and last battles of the war should
be fought on Mr.. McCabe's farm.-At-
ldnta Constitution.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
The Country Boy.

The country lad, says the Iowa
Homestead, who is trained to simple
ways and homely virtues, and who
learns what a dollar is worth by ac-
tually earning it under the laws of i'm
perative necessity, has tremendous
advantage over the town boy. The
country schools are far inferior to the
town or city schools, but this is coun-
terbalanced by the fact that the coun-
try boy is trained to work from the
time he can pick up corn-cobs to run
the kitchen stove until he goes out to
his own home. The country boy has a
mile or so to walk to and from school,
which gives him vigorous appetite
and health. The country boy is face
to face with practical realities. He
sees how slowly money is made on the
farm; he is taught from youth up the
need of economy; he has the nature of
saving first explained to him every day
in the week; he is not exposed to the
temptation of the saloon or the ball
room; he is not tempted so much to be
lady's man before he has occasion to
use razor on his downy cheeks. He
may be trifie rude, he may not feel
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Questions Answered.

p. D., NoRTHFILD.-The dependent
pension bill that passed the senate does
not provide for arrears of pension.
The bill to restore the arrears law has
not yet been reported from the COM
mittee in either house of congress.
G. W., BARRE.-The commissioner
of pensions does not acknowledge the
receipt of testimony forwarded to him
in pension cases. If the testimony is
regarded insufficient the call will after
time be renewed, without any allu-
sion to testimony already received He
sometimes answers claimants letters of
inquiry. The only sure way of getting
information concerning the condition
of your claim is to ask congressman
to call for it.
G.. H., RUTLAND.-Before criticising
Senator ingalls, you should look over
the pension speech of Senator Vest
which drew Mr.. ingalls, out. Mr.. Vest
made violent attack upon every ex-
soldier. 1t was fitting that some reply
should be made, and it was also fitting
that it should be made by brilliant
man like ingalls,. The references to
General Hancock do not constitute Mr.
Ingalls, speech. They are merely in
cidents in it drawn out by Interruptions.
Unhappy things are often said in
heated debates that were not contem-
plated. Mr.. ingalls, has not said
whether he intended referring to either
Hancock or Mcclellan in his speech.
II. R., MIDDLEBURY.-We do not see
indications of the passage of the {" one
cent-a-day pension bill by either the
senate or house. 1t has no merits over
other service pension bills. 1t EXCLUDES
all drafted men and substitutes from its
benefits, even if they served long and
well. 1t includes those who spent their
term of service in the Invalid Corps,
where they were allowed to remain be-
cause they needed the pay from the gov
eminent. There are numerous other
objections to the bill which will be dis
closed if the bill is ever reported by the
pension committee. The numerous pc
titions that are being presented to con-
gress are procured through an organ
lied body of men who are sending
printed petitions and circulars to every
Grand Army post in the country for
signatures and for money to pay for
printing and postage and other Incl
dental expenses. We think the real
object of pushing this service pension
bill is to defeat the passage of the de-
pendent bill which has passed the sem
ate. The dependent pension bill, with
all its defects, is great deal better than
nothing. 1t gives pension to soldiers
widows where the soldier died of any
cause and to his dependent parents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Barnum and Wall Street.

1t has been noticed as a peculiar fact
that whatever may have been Barnum's
sad adventures he never was lured into
Wall street speculation, but the public
never got correct view of the case
or, in other words, they never knew the
peculiar influences operating on him
and constituting the true inwardness in
this matter. Barnum might have been
decoyed into trying his chances among
the bulls and bears, just as he was led
into the clock speculation, had it not
been for the cold way in which Wall
street treated him in his hour of need.
The facts are as follows: Nearly forty
years ago Barnum consummated an en-
gagement with Jenny Lind which he
knew would be a fortune to him. The
contract, however, required that he
should Immediately deposit $4,000 in
the hands of banking house as security
against failure. The famous vocal
list, indeed, knew nothing of Barnum,
except that he was a Snowman, and she
would not cross the Atlantic unless
there was enough money put up to
meet all risks. At tina. time $4,000
was very large sum, and Barnum was
unable to respond to the demand, which
admitted of no delay. He Immediately
went down to Wall street and applied
for loan. The money kings asked
his object, and when he told it they
laughed at him-S50,000 for a singerl
Barnum turned away in silent indigna-
ton and with heart set against Wall
street He Immediately worked up
his own resources and got within S. 900
of the amount, when he met Rev.
Abel G. Thomas, an old friend and
able preacher, who told him he had just
that amount, which was at his service.
So the money was put up and the time
came when the money kings saw their
mistake, but Barnum never forgot the
treatment he received in Wall street.
The preacher was we'll repaid for his
loan, and not only the money was re-
turned, but with it were other advan-
tages which rendered it lucky affair
all round.-Ne,o York Letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
An Adirondack Family.

Early in the day we entered upon the
Blue Mountain stage-road and passed
some dismal-looking black ash and cedar
swamps, while higher up on the hills
was hardwood timber, with occasional
openings where could be seen wretched
looking log-huts. shantes and half
finished houses. AT one Lighthouse l
saw half-clad, barefooted woman with
several small children as poorly clothed
as herself There were two front win
dows to the house that had originally
contained twelve panes of glass each,
but in one window there was only one
whole pane left. A few potatoes and a
small patch of belated corn were all the
crops l saw growing. The tinkling of
a bell, however, in the bushes near by,
suggested the probability that the fam
lily was blessed with COW. Ny cicer-
one informed me that the husband and
father was an Incorporate man and
that the love of strong drink was the
cause of this abject poverty and want
of thrift, as was the case with several
other families whose squalid habita-
tions he pointed out to our party. Near
by we crossed high point in the road
and saw Blue Mountain in the distance
At the foot of the mountain on the lake
in the fashionable hotels, said, are
hundreds of wealthy tourists who passed
by this wretched family without SYM
pathetic thought or the contribution of
a cent for relief. Then Iasked myself,
What good would money do the poor
woman and children? The man would
seize it and spend it for whiskey, and
as for sympathy:
Sympathy without relief
Is like mustard without beef.
II 1irOD1nck Sketches
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
The Chinese Wall Not a Myth.

Rev. j. II. Roberts of Kalgan,
North China, writes to the Missionary
Herald that to one who has lived close
by the great Chinese wall, seeing it
every day and often climbing over it
and examining it infinitely, it is very
amusing to see its existence questioned.
He says that the wall is no more a
myth than are the pyramids of Egypt
or the Bunker Hill monument. He
gives this interesting description of it:
i" AS one goes northwest from Peking
he first sees the great wall when in the
Nankou Pass, at distance of thirty
seven miles from Peking. 1t is made of
earth, faced with several layers of large
brick, and rests on foundation of cut
stone, like the walls around cities COM
monty seen in China. But this wall
asserts its individuality by stretching
right away on each side of the valley,
up steep slopes and from peak to peak,
till it is lost to view at the top of those
high and picturesque mountains. One
sees at glance what herculean efforts
must have been put forth to raise
so much brick and mortar to such
nights and build it there-a great work
of national defence at the time and
wonder for all subsequent ages to be-
hold. Going on up the valley one sees
several forts built like the great wall,
but not extending far up the noun
tains. AT the summit of the Pass is
another branch of the wall, which fol-
lows the highest ridge of that great
mountain chain, stretching off to right
and left as far as one can see, climbing
every peak of the divide. The wall
here is not much ruined, and has about
the dimensions given in Williams
Middle Kingdom namely, twenty. We
feet thick at base, fifteen feet thick at
top and from fifteen to thirty feet
high. The varying hight is due to
the fact that the top of the wall does
not follow all the inequalities of level
at the base. On the south side are a
few arched doorways to admit the SOL
diers who were to defend it. AS one
passes the little city of Cha Tao and
follows the road toward Kalgan, he be-
gins to cross a gravelly plain about
twenty miles wide. Then looking
back toward the east, he has distinct
but fine view of the great wall. If the
weather is good the wall almost
CLEANS in the sunshine, extending like
light gray ribbon along the ridge of
the mountains, waving up and down,
reaching from summit to summit, sur
rounded at its highest points by a
square tower that stands out against
the sky, defying wind and weather as
it once defed the Mongol hordes. The
wall stretches away from Cha Tao to
the southwest, and the eye can follow
it for twenty or thirty miles, except
where it crosses deep valleys or is hid
den behind the nearer peaks. At the
foot of the mountains is row of towers
only about two hundred feet apart,
which the eye can trace for distance
of nearly thirty miles, to point where
it enters valley and is lost to sight
among the Mountains Mr.. Roberts
mentions nine different points at which
he has crossed and carefully examined
the great wall, the extreme distance
between these points being over two
hundred sixty miles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
Soloisrs' Budget.
Pensions Granted.

To Charles E. Weeks, Montpelier,
SO a month and 5000 arrears; Allen E.
Cults, Barre, so month from Septem-
Der, 1887; William r. McCue, Soldiers
Home, Bennington, $40 month and
81 ,230 arrears; Mason B. Jenkins,
Barre, an increase from SO to S12
a month and $3.50 arrears; Betsey
Wrinkle, Groton, Sl2 month and $3.50
arrears; Winslow G. Rollins, South
Woodbury., charge of desertion re-
moved from record and allowed back
pay at 1865; Charles S. Goodrich Will
Jamestown, balance of back pay, S2S.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28
mistellanp.
VI s'V "
Borrowing Old"
ny II. N. H..

ny II. N. H.
"Old LADY," did hear you say2
oh, no; don't call me that to-day.
For am sure it can not be
Those careless words apply to me-
How long ago--now let me see;
Not long, I'm sure, can it be
Three sisters went through snow and cold
To yonder school-house, rude and old.
And two were left all safe at home,
Too young and frail abroad to roam
The sister frail, our youngest one,
The brother dear, the only son.
I am not old; 1t can not be
Those careless words apply to me.
I'll seek the early home to-day
And drive the troubled dream away.
l can not find it there to-day,
For childhood's home has passed away;
The later one is old and gray
And everywhere see decay.
Where are the friends who once were here2
And echo only answers, Where2"
Through empty rooms my echoing tread
Gives out the words, IAN dead all dead"
But glstening in the evening light,
out yonder see those tomb-stones white;
I'll to the graveyard next repair,
Perhaps I'll find my darlings there.
All, yes an yes they all are here
Those cherished ones to me so dear
Father, mother, sister, brother;
They all are lying here together.
Two sisters from our little band
Went long ago to distant lands;
Their place is now beside another
And bearded men call each one mother.
And so the truth must needs be told:
can but see we're growing old
With slower steps and staff in hand
We're going toward the rivers strand.
But Jesus lives and loves me STILL
He will each aching heart-void fill.
He bids me come to him and rest
My weary head upon his breast
l. too, will soon have passed away,
For am ffty-nine to-day;
But when walk the streets of gold
No one will say =" You're growing old"
HUFF, Mimi, February 25. 1855