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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
A Baby and a Locomotive.

Twenty years have passed since
certain Bath sea-captain, entering the
port of New York, telegraphed his wife
at Bath to join him at the metropolis
prepared for sea voyage. Accord
ingly day or two after the arrival of
the message saw the wife embarked
upon the through train from Bath TO
Boston, accompanied by an infant child
scarcely two years old This car was
shunted on to the end of the Portland
train at Brunswick, and, leaving the
child asleep, the captains wife seized
the opportunity to fill the baby's bottle
with milk in the depot restaurant.
While the mother was intent upon her
errand the train slipped quietly out of
the station, and when the mother
emerged from the restaurant door it
was fast disappearing under Spring
street bridge. Eagerly she explained
the situation to the sympathizing group
of railroad men who gathered around
Baby and her purse, containing all her
money and tickets, were in the fatal
disappearing train. A hurried council
followed and a plan was instantly
formed. Old No. %, the It" Brunswick, !"
was side-tracked, waiting the passage
of the train just gone. Uncle Thomp-
son, the station baggage-master at the
time, ran hastily to this engine and
asked her to overtake the flying train.
The genial Charles, ever ready to aid
the cause of any female in distress,
volunteered to catch the robber. Hastily
filling the fire-boX with wood from the
tender while Thompson was assisting
the woman to mount the engine, with a
command to the switchman to "give
us the main line" and his hand upon the
throttle, No. % flew quietly over the
switches and commenced her run. An
empty engine chasing heavy train up
Oak Hill grade" which extends four
miles straight away from Brunswick,
had an easy task, and before they had
covered more than half that distance
they could see ahead the object of their
pursuit. To sound his whistle, calling
the attention of the trainmen to the
chase, and thereby stop the train, was
not part of his programme, fearing
that he might run into them should
they suddenly stop. So, quietly running
along, the roar of the train deadening
the pursuit, he is soon Immediately be-
hind them. Then his tender-for they
are running backward-rubs against
the rear platform of the train, and
while the engineer holds her there
Thompson assists the woman over the
tender, down upon the platform of the
car containing the baby, still fast
asleep, the mother clasping tightly the
bottle of milk which cost such effort
The captain attempted to reward the
men who came to his wife's relief sc
nobly, but they, with true nobility, re-
fused to accept money for such serv.
ice.-Le,ciSton (Maine) Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Havana's Markets.

The markets of Havana, as well as
those of other large Cuban cities, are
undoubtedly the finest in the world.
Those of New York, Philadelphia,
New Orleans and San Francisco are
surely deservedly famous, but when
one considers the actual size and con-
venience of the market-houses them
selves, the countless necessities and
luxuries attainable aside from an
actual food supply, and especially the
bewildering variety of everything in
flesh, fowl, fish, fruit, vegetables and
flowers procurable at any one metro
politan Cuban market-house in any
coastwise city, it is only honest to
confess that the most noted in the
United States fares but i'll by contrast.
There are no places in Cuba more
worthy of repeated visits than the
Havana markets. The visitor is
astounded at the vast varieties of food
that can be found in this market.
There is nothing to compare with it in
a single market of any American or
European city. Briefly, every article dis
played in the most sumptuous American
markets, including every known brand
of American canned goods, is here, and,
besides this, every fruit, vegetable,
herb and flower produced in this land
of indescribable luxuriance, and that,
too, not in brief seasons, but every
hour in every day in the year. Think
of twenty-six varieties of sweet potatoes
constantly exposed for sale There
are between forty and fifty varieties of
herbs and vegetables used in salad
making. Nor can one form any con-
ception, until it is seen, of the Cuban
supply of food-birds. 1 was shown,
and counted myself, eighty-three diff
ferent kinds of birds, comprising thirty
seven distinct species, while the mag
nificence and lusciousness of vegetables
and fruits are positively beyond COM
prehension by us who exist in rigorous
chimes. AS over 100000 Havanese are
daily supplied from this market, the
vast place, which has upward of 1000
booths, stalls and stands, is con-
stantly thronged, and here, more than
in any other way or at any other place,
can the fne-faced men and women of
the gay Cuban capital be studied all
unconsciously to observation-disclosures
| Letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Real Homes.

Will it not be well for parents to recog-
nize thoughtfully the question of home
making? Do your children love their
home? Do they prize it? Is it the dear
est spot on EARTH" or a mere board
ing-house? If there is fault, whose
is it? If lack, whose is the blame?
Home-making, be it remembered, is a
work in which all have part. Fathers
may not shirk their duty by saying that
it is woman's business" Neither
can it be done without forethought,
direction and effort. Oftentimes it in
wolves the sacrifice of selfish comforts
and pleasures. The happy tumult of
the youngsters play may disturb your
after-dnner doze. A " chidren's hour
in the early evening, given up to games
and entertainments, in which you are
their companions and leaders, may not
be so agreeable as to spend the time at
the play, the club or in neighborhood
gossip. But you are under bonds,
morally, to give yourselves to your
family as the need requires. If you do
no more than to "raise" your chill
dren, you have, before God, no right to
have any. Make your home real
home-cheerful bright, happy, beauti-
full in spirit.-Golden Rule.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

to the expression he desired to recall.
Valuable as the faculty is when associ-
ated with sound understanding and
clear discernment, it is comparatively
useless if it merely retains words and
forgets ideas, processes of reasoning
and creations of the imagination. Idi-
OTIS have been known whose memory
for names and words was so retentve
that they could repeat sermon ver-
batim, and indicate where the preacher
blew his nose and coughed while deliv-
ering it. An English clergyman men
tons man who could remember the
day of every burial of every person
who had died in the parish during
thirty-fve years, and could also repeat
the name and age of each deceased per-
son and the names of the mourners at
his funeral. But so weak was he intel
lectually that he could not be trusted to
feed himself. DIR. Moffat, the distin-
guished African missionary, and the
father-in-law of DIR. Livingstone, once
preached long sermon to crowd of
negroes. Shortly after he had finished
he saw a crowd of negroes gathered
about simpe-looking young savage.
He went to them and discovered that
the savage was preaching his sermon
over again. Not only was he repro
ducing the precise words, but initiating
the manner and gestures of the white
preacher Youths Companion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Egyptian Customs.

Some of the customs strike foreigner
as rather queer, to say the least. For
instance, in salutations they never
think of doffing hats. The omnipres-
ent fez graces the back of the head al
ways-in the house, at the table, in the
very presence of the khedive. The
proper thing, however, is to pat the
forehead once or twice, then the chin,
again the forehead, perhaps the breast,
and finish the performance with slight
bow. More lively and interesting is the
meeting of intimate friends, who rush
at each other and kiss, a Ia espagnol-
only with more barbarc gusto. Right
side of the mouth, left side, right side,
left side-bang! This last, a resound-
ing impression in the center, is like the
explosion of toy pistol, but not as
dangerous, for those who salute are
great, burly fellows, far from attractive,
and one has no means of knowing how
the gentler sex behave under similar
circumstances. Curious eyes gaze up
in vain at the lattice windows, which
hide the faces of the women of the
Weather classes in the towns-Cor.
Buffalo Commercial.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Great Memories.

Grotius and Pascal forgot nothing
they had ever read or thought. Car
dinal Mezzofanti, the linguist, who is
said to have known hundred languages,
declared he never forgot word he had
once learned. While DR.. John Leyden,
the orientalist, was in Calcutta there
arose case which turned on the exact
wording of an act of parliament. A
copy of the act could not be found, but
Leyden, having read it before leaving
England, made copy from memory.
Nearly year after a printed copy of
the act arrived from London, and it
was found to be identical with the
transcript Leyden had made. To a
friend who congratulated Leyden on
his remarkable memory, he replied that
he often found it a source Of great in
convenience. On the friend expressing
surprise, he explained that he often
wished to recollect a particular express
sion in something he had read, but
could not do it until he had repeated
the whole passage from the beginning
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Hungarian Centenarians.

Talk of longevity! Here is a we'll
authenticated little story of family of
centenarians in Hungary, oil paintings
of several members of which are now
in the possession of family at AiX-la-
Chapelle. AT the back of the life-size
picture of the old gentleman there is an
inscription in the quaint old-fashioned
German to this effect: "Janos Robin
at the age of l72 years Graeci Ritus;
has been married 147 years; was born
and lives at Szodora; his children, two
sons and two daughters, are still alive;
the youngest of them is one hundred
sixteen years old, and has two great
grandchildren, of whom one is thirty
five and the other twenty-seven years
DID," The inscription at the back of the
old lady's picture is: "Sara, his law
full wife, age 16S; born at Szodora. !"
And this happy family actually emil
grated from the scene of his long labors
as tiller of the soil and ended his
days, if the old chronicles are right, in
some corner of Silesia.-PaU Mall Ga
zette
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Stories for Children.

came across something recently in
an old copy of the Rural Ne,o- Yorker
that is so good and sensible that l copy
it for the benefit of those who have
young children 10 care for. l have
never known child but was fond of a
story, and how much better it is to tell
them something that is true and will be
benefit for them to know. This is it.:
" Little folks can be taught great
deal before they go to books for infor-
nation that will make study easier for
them when taken up. Children love
stories, and if mamma, sister or brother
will tell them true stories the history
of our own country is good subject.
Tell them of the long years that it
waited, an unbroken wilderness, for the
coming of white men and civilization
of Columbus voyage at last, less than
four hundred years ago; of the COM
ing of people from every nation to the
land of freedom; of the revolution and
its greatest hero, Washington, and pic
ture the days when railroads and tele-
graph were unknown. All this can be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
A Question of Health.
WHAT BAKING POWDER SHALL WE US

This plain question comes home to
every housekeeper. We all desire pure
and wholesome food, and this can not
be had with the use of impure or
poisonous baking powder. There can
be no longer question that all the
cheaper, lower grades of baking pow
ders contain either alum, lime or phos-
phatic acid. AS loath as we may be to
admit so much against what may have
been some of our household gods, there
can be no gainsayng the unanimous
testimony of the official chemist In
deed, analysts seem to find no baking
powder entirely free from some one of
these Objectionable ingredients except
the Royal, and that they report as
chemically pure. We find some of the
baking powders advertised as pure to
contain, under the tests of Professors
Chandler, Habirshaw and others, nearly
twelve per cent of lime, while others
are made from alum with no cream of
tartar. This, we presume, accounts for
their lack OF leavening power, as some
times complained of by the cook, and
for the bitter taste found in the biscuits
so frequently complained of by our
selves. But aside from the inferiorty
of the work done by these powders, the
| physicians assure us that lime and alum
taken into the system in such guam
titles as this are injurious. Their
physiological effects are indigestion,
dyspepsia or worse evils. The ques-
ton naturally arises, Why do these
cheap baking powder makers use these
things? Alum is three cents pound,
lime still cheaper, while cream of tartar
costs thirty-6ve or forty. The reasons
Baking Powder were recently given in
the New York Times in an interesting
description of new method for refining
argols or crude cream of tartar. 1t
seems that it is only under this process
that cream of tartar can be freed from
the lime natural to it and rendered
chemically pure; that the patents and
plant for this cost the Royal Baking
Powder Company about half million
dollars, and that they maintain eXclu-
sive control of the rights. Professor
McMurtrie, late chief chemist of the
department of agriculture at Washing
ton, ID. c., made an examination of this
process and reported upon the results
attained in the refined cream of tartar.
The following extract from his report
would seem to answer the question re-
peated at the head of this article and
which is so frequently propounded by
the housekeeper: 81 have examined
the cream of tartar used by the Royal
Baking Powder Company in the manu-
facture of their baking powder and find
it to be perfectly pure and free from
lime in any form. The chemical tests
to which | have submitted the Royal
Baking Power prove it perfectly health
full and free from every deleterious sub
stance. The Royal Baking Powder is
purest in quality and highestin strength
of any baking powder of which have
knowledge"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Bargains.

We ladies of fashion, who range the stores through
Alike in the sunshine and wet,
Look sharply and see in the shopping you do,
If bood's on the bargains you get.
You hear now and then OF an elegant line
OF garments so cheap and so NICE
And greatly you marvel that clothing so fine
Can ever be sold at the price.
You hasten to buy them, but what do you buy?
The blood that is wrought in the stuff
The lives of your sisters, who suffer and die
That you may have bargains enough.
II raiment you find that is fit for your wear,
In texture and finish gem,
Look closely, look sharply and what see you there
Starvation from collar to hem
The bargains you get, do you know what they cost
Though plainly the price-marks he set?
The lives of the starving, the souls of of the lost
Yes those the bargains you get
just think Only Think You have money enough
And home pleasures wait for you, yet
just think of starvation worked into the stuff
Aud blood on the bargains you get
New FORK Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Mistellanp.
The Cancels Nose.


The Arabs have this proverb to war;
ainst letting bad habits begin: Beware
a camel's nose" Mrs. Sigourney has ex
aimed the proverb in the following lines:
once in a shop workman wrought.
with languid hand and listless thought,
When, through the open window space,
Behold, a camel thrust his facet
my nose is cold" he meekly cried;
" Oh, let me warm it by thy side"
Since no denial word was said
In came the nose. in came the head;
As sure as sermon follows text
The long and scraggy neck came next
And then, as falls the threatening storm,
In leaped the whole ungainly form.
Aghast, the owner Razed around,
And on the rude invader frowned,
Convinced as closer still he prest,
There was no room for such guest;
Yet, more astonished, heard him say:
If thou art troubled go thy way,
For in this place choose to stay"
Oh, youthful hearts, to gladness born.
Treat not this Arab lore with scorn
To evil habits earliest vile
Lend neither ear nor glance nor smile;
Choke the dark fountain ere it flows,
Nor cen admit the camel's nose. -Selectet
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
Strawberries Continued.

suppose the best way to raise straw
berries, even if one only wanted enough
for their own use, would be to set them
out in the spring in the open field,
where they could be cultivated the
first year by horsepower mostly. The
plants should be set in rows far enough
apart so they can be hoed or cultivated
like corn or potatoes. Land that has
been plowed and planted a year or two
is better, because there is not so much
danger from grub-worms, and the sod
is subdued, so that grass will not keep
growing up among them. Most people
recommend stable manure for fertilizer,
but would not apply it on account of
the seeds it contains. The main thing
the first year is to keep the weeds out
and give the plants chance to grow
1t is good plan to cover the earth be-
tween the rows with straw in the fall
or the next spring, before the berries
begin to set, to keep them from being
covered with dirt every time it rains.
l say | suppose this is the best way,
but it is not the way do it. have set
them in little patches in the garden,
until there is not much room left for
anything else and the garden will have
to move on. But that is of no account:
it has moved five times in the past
fifteen years, and it is about time for
another change any way. Miners
Prolific occupies the ground which was
once devoted to peas, Sharpless has
spread over the cabbage plot, Peter
Henderson reposes in the onion bed
and Old Iron-clad, Kentucky Cornelia,
Prince of Berries, Longfellow, Cumber-
land Triumph and one or two other
kinds are scattered about over the
corn, beans and vines. When | buy
new kinds l generally get them in the
spring, but if | use those / already
have | transplant any time after they
have finished bearing, taking up as
much earth with the plants as | can
conveniently. l then dig hole to set
them in, stirring into the soil good
big spoonful of phosphate, water them
well and then keep the weeds down.
This is only getting ahead of the spring
setting so much. generally get few
berries this way the first bearing sea-
son, but the main crop comes the next
year. If you have as many hens, birds
and mice as | have to eat strawberries
you will need good large patch in
order to have any left for yourself
l sometimes shut up the hens after the
berries begin to ripen, but can not
shut up the birds nor the mice, except
with a trap, which 1 have more than
once resorted to in order to save the
plants, for they will not only eat the
fruit, but the leaves, or carry them off.
| rely on wood ashes and the COM
mercial phosphates for fertilizers, but
the plants do not get enough to hurt
them of either. Oh, yes; it is some
work to raise strawberries, but there is
also pleasure of very substantial kind
to go with it. OF most kinds new
bed should be set every year, but some,
like the Charles Downing, will grow on
year after year in the same place and
hold the ground if the weeds are not
allowed to gain the mastery over them.
. -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
advertisements.

Reaoer, an you have lively
wit, resolve us this - spell
you happiness with five
letters.
HONOR?
Nay, It's a wise but wrong
reply.
PEACE?
Aye, marry, you do hap
PLY but It's not yet.
MUSIC?
Now do you wax exceeding
nigh unto a proper answer.
It's not Music nor Peace but
i faith you shall have both
an you have what the five
letters spell.
ORGAN, organ.
Aye, verify, you do 1t
rightly speak but do not
rightly spell. You shall in
deed with Peace and Music
both abound an you spell
your organ E-S-T-E-Y.
Spend you but a cent and
you shall from Brattleboro,
his book suddenly receive.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

How CAN THE PLATES BE SWEET
ENED?-A. b. B. asks "Can any one
tell me how to remove the rancid odor
from dinner plates? They are not very
old and have never been heated, except
with hot water, but are quite badly
cracked in very fine cracks"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

IT is no wonder that invalids lose
faith in all specifics when so many
worthless medicines are advertised TO
cure various diseases, but which, when
tried, are found wanting" We have
yet to learn, however, of the first fail
ure of DIR. WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD
CHERRY to cure coughs and pulmonary
disease.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

SOMETHING from nothing can't be
done. Next thing to it is to make a
new dress of fashionable color from a
faded dress and package of Diamond
Dyes. These dyes are true to name,
do not fade and are used by all econom-
ical women.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

A LADY died in the City of Mexico,
April Z, who was directly descended
from the Emperor Moctezuma. Her
full name was Urbana De Horcasitas Y,
Palaclo Cano Moctezuma de Sierra.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

A GOOD many people know just what
is the matter with others, but never
find out what the matter is with them
selves.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02

DIRTY boots are as much out of place
on the hay as on the carpet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-02
DIR. RICHARD Z, CROSS,
Cures Cancers and Tumors,

External and internal, without the knife caustic
and without pain. Call or send for book on Cancers,
with references from twelve states of the Union.
PILES and FISTULA cured without a surgical
operation or detention from business.
CATARRH quickly and permanently cured.
Quick of private and delicate diseases of both
sexes. Difficult cases of all kinds that have baled
the skill of other doctors are the class of patients
he feels most competent to treat. He locates the
disease without delay or needless questions and his
treatment is positive, giving immediate relief and
speedy cure.
Chronic Diseases, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Fits,
Neuralgia, Catarrh, Nervous Disease cured. In
many cases the blind recover their sight and the
deaf are cured of their deafness.
DIR. CROSS prepares his own medicines from roots,
barks gums, seeds and flowers. and his charges for
them are in all cases very moderate and within the
reach of all.
Treatment given which cures-not helps, but
cures. Hours: ITO II, to and to q.
Consultation Free,