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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
Burdette's Advice About Marrying.

r. j. Burdette gives the following
advice to young men: You say you
demand a domestic, useful woman as
your wife. If that is so, marry Nora
Muligan, your laundress' daughter.
She wears cow-hide shoes, is guiltess
of corsets, never had sick day in her
life, takes in washing, goes out house
cleaning and cooks for a family of
seven children, her mother and three
section men who board with her. |
don't think she would marry you, be-
cause Con Reagan, the track-walker, is
her style of man. Let us just examine
into your qualifications as model hus
band after your own matrimonial ideas,
my boy. Can you shoulder a barrel Of
flour and carry it down cellar? Can
you saw and split ten cords of hickory
wood in the fall, so as to have ready
fuel all winter? Can you spade up half
an acre of ground for kitchen garden?
Do you know what will take the lime
taste out of the new cistern and can
you patch the little leak in the kitchen
roof? Can you bring home a pane of
glass and wad of putty and repair
damages in the sitting-roOm Window
Can you hang some cheap paper on
the kitchen? Can you fix the front
gate so it will not swag? Can you do
anything about the house that Con
Reagan can? My dear, dear boy, you
see Nora Mulligan wants a higher
type of true manhood. You expect TO
hire men to DO all the mans work
about the house, but you want your
wife to do anything any woman can do.
Believe me, my son, that nine-tenths
of the girls who play the piano and
sing so charmingly, whom you in your
limited knowledge set down as mere
butterflies of fashion, are better fitted
for wives than you are for husband.
If you want TO marry a first-class cook
and experienced house-keeper, do your
counting in the intelligence Office. But
if you want wife marry the girl you
love, with dimpled hands and a face
like the sunlight, and her love will
teach her all these hings, my boy,
long before you have learned one-half
of your own lesson"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
Household Suggestions.

HOUSE plants will not thrive when
kept in a draft.
DIFFERENT havors of cake should e
kept in separate boxes.
USE silver spoon in cooking mush-
rooms. The silver will be blackened
if any injurious quality is present.
If cream soups are to stand any
length of time after being prepared,
place damp towel over the dish to
prevent a scum from rising.
DARK carpets do not need to be
swept oftener than light ones if you
give them good busting twice week
with flannel cloth tied around an or
binary broom.
If you are obliged to leave basket
of clothes that have been dampened
for ironing longer than usual, put them
in dry place, away from artificial heat,
and they will not mildew or sour for
days.
WHEN one has been so unfortunate
as to get machine oil stains on white
sewing saturate the piece of work in
cold water immediately, soak for two
hours, dry in the sun and then wash in
the usual way.
If you are building put the hooks in
children's bedroom closets low enough
to be easily reached by them. 1t is
also a good idea to have a closet so ar
ranged that sleds, rocking horse and all
large playthings can have place.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
The Antiquity of Baking.

lnJThe origin of baking precedes the
~ 1eriod of history, and is involved in the
8bscurity of the early ages of the human
race. Excavations made in Switzer-
)land gave evidence that the art of maxi
ing bread was practiced by our prehis-
toric ancestors, as early as the stone
period. From the shape of loaves it
is thought that no ovens were used at
that time, but the dough was rolled
into small, round cakes, and laid on hot
stones, being covered with glowing
ashes. Bread is mentioned in the Book
of Genesis, where Abraham, wishing
to entertain three angels, offered to
"fetch a morsel of bread" Baking is
again referred to where Sarah has in
structions to make ready quickly
three measures of fine meal, knead it
and make cakes upon the hearth"
Lot entertained two angels by giving
them unleavened bread. The mere
mention of unleavened bread shows
that there were two kinds of bread
made even at that time. The art of
baking was carried on to high perfec-
ton among the Egyptians, who are
said to have baked cakes in many fam
tastc shapes, using several kinds of
flour. The Romans took up the art of
baking, and public bakeries were nu-
merous on the streets of Rome. In
England the business of the baker was
considered to be one so closely affect
ing the interests of the public that in
1866 an act of parliament was passed
regulating the price to be charged for
bread. This regulation continued in
operation until 1929 in London and
until 1886 in the rest of the country.
The art of making bread has not yet
reached some countries in Europe and
Asia. In the rural parts of Sweden no
bread is made, but rye cakes are baked
twice year and are as hard as flint.
1t is less than century ago that bread
was used in Scotland, the Scotch peo-
pie of every class living on barley BAN
nocks and oaten cakes. Owing to the
fact that bread is sold very cheaply in
Great Britain, the bakers of that coun-
try are poorly-paid class of laborers.
For years the employers made use of
child labor to such an extent that par
lament in 1868 passed a law making it
a criminal offence to employ young
person under the age of eighteen years
to work in a bake-hOuse between the
hours of nine O'Clock p. NJ. and five
O'Clock A. NJ. AS most of the work
done by bakers is in the night, this
statutory law in Great Britain virtually
prohibits child labor in bake-houses.
In all countries of the world wheat
flour is the principal material for max
ing bread, although rye is used largely
among the peasantry in some parts OF
Europe. The price of bread has always
followed the market price Of wheat
very closely, and recent rise in wheat
advanced the price of a pound loaf in
Chicago twenty-five per cent Chicago
NelrS
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
Bible Names for Presidents.

The United States will soon have a
Benjamin for president, Levi for vice
president and an Elijah for presidents
secretary. The good old Bible names
are coming to the front. But it has
always been so with our neighbors
Among former presidents there have
been three Johns, one Thomas, five
Jameses, two Andrews, one Zachary
one Abraham, one Abram (Garfield's
second name), and one Stephen. Out
of the twenty-three presidents fifteen
have Bible names, which shows what
bold the Bible has on the family life
of the United States.-1'oronto (Cdn.
ada Globe.
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Libby Prison as a Literary Center.

Chaplain Louis n. Baudry Qate of the
Fifth New York Cavalry says, in ZiOR' s
Herald, that the summer of 1868 was
the /" Augustan age" in the history of
Libby prison. AT that time among the
lecturers like Neal Dow, editors of pc
riodicals, poets, judges, lawyers, and
nine chaplains representing four of the
leading denominations of the land
Early in August debating society
was organized, which we facetiously
dubbed with the significant title of the
Libby Lyce-I see-'em.'" August 81
the men began to publish the Chronicle.
A selection from its columns will give
us an idea of another phase of life in
Libby: Occasionally we are visited by
gentlemen of the city, some of whom
have shown us slight favors. The most
notable case of this kind was the visit
of Rev. DIR. McCabe, who was doubt
less attracted to Libby by his namesake,
the chaplain. Through the kind offices
of DR.. McCabe channel was opened
for us to the bookstores of Richmond,
and the prison Immediately became
one of the best literary institutions of
Dixie. Glasses were formed in higher
arithmetic, algebra and geometry; also
in philosophy, theology and medicine;
while the nguages-namely, Greek,
Latin, Spanish and French-number
their students by hundreds. Army tao
tics, especially such as are used for cav
airy, are taught by Colonel Cesno la
Our curriculum is by no means meager.
The star study, however, is phonog-
raphy, which can boast, in its first
class alone, of at least two hundred stu
dents. No books on this subject could
be secured in Richmond. Chalk crayons
were obtained, and on a blackboard
made of piece of rubber poncho the
simple though apparently mysterious
characters are delineated and easily
learned by the eager students. The
editor of the Chronicle, who is also the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Waterbury National Bank, for the choice of III
rectors for the ensuing year, will he held at said
Bank, In Waterbury, ON Tuesday. January s. 1857 at
one o'clock r. NJ. CHARLES WELLS, Cashier.
Waterbury, Vt, December 3, 1883
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worth any ones heed, because of their
lack of reason. The man of science
who pretends to study cause and effect
shows himself an inaccurate observer
when he fails, in matters concerning
the physical nature of man, to take ac-
count of the immense variety of that
nature A lesson has been given for
all time, to whoever seeks to follow
the proper study of mankind, by the
great master of human nature:
Some men there are love not gaping pig;
Some that are mad If they behold cat
And Shylock continues his argument
by pointing out the inability to detect
the reason
"why he can not abide a gaping pig;
why he harmless necessary cat
Rather than to conclude that all cats
must be slaughtered because some are
made mad on seeing them, the scicn-
tific man is justified only in advising
those whose brains are thus so easily
disturbed to keep away from cats. If
oatmeal disturbs anybody's digestion
let that man so afft cted avoid it. But
because he can not eat it without dis
comfort, he has no right to prohibit its
use to all the rest of mankind, for
among the large remainder there are a
few millions who thrive on the grain,
and who would be equally justified in
making their experience the rule for
everybody else; all of which is but a
roundabout way of saying that what is
ones meat is another mans poison, a
homely axiom to which the food crank
pays no attention, either through ig-
norance or obstinacy-perhaps BOTH
Boston Transcript.
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Gbe 9OusebOlO.

" Authorizations to this department may be sent
e1her to DR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt, or di-
II Etly to THE wATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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SIT WAS INHERlTED."

Tho Fearful Effect of Heredity Upon the
Lives of Men and Women-A
tril Cae
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GNRES A. EEgIMNHS,

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"White Swellings," Goitre, or Thick Neck,
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for Treatise on Scrofulous Affections.
"FoR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE"
Thorourhly cleanse it by using DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and good
digestion, II fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital
strength and bodily health will be established.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

BUCKL1N's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
ami all skin eruptions, and positively
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WI Salu INC d.iNAhe' go, as. 4,
"Pure blood" continued the doctor, Z" is the
great cause of health impaired blood the source
of most diseases. 1t may even go back to the
grand or great grand parents"
" have in mind a prominent man" said the
reverend gentleman, General Alfred @. Mon
roe, of No l Pemberton Square, Boston. He
inherited kidney troubles from both parents,
one of whom died with it. He suffered terribly
from pains in the back and head, AMI at times
when walking the dizziness became so bad
that he was compelled to lay hold of some con-
yenient post for support. He was in most
desperate condition"
"And is he so still2" asked the doctor.
NO, he is in perfect health. DR.. McGregor,
/ believe of Maine, who had amputated an arm
for the general, cured him."
"Do you know what medicine he used ,"
81 understand it was Hunts Remedy"
cob Hunts Remedy know it very WELL"
said DR.. Vaudeville. I" consider it the best
remedy for kidney, liver, heart troubles, and
female difficulties in the world. 1t is in no
sense patent medicine, but a standard RENE
dy, which deserves to be used by all intelligent
people The fact is no blood-taint can exist
when the kidneys are in perfect order, and
there is where Hunts Remedy shows its mar
yeous superiority"
81 only wish, said Rev. DIR, Brooks "that
all people who inherit tendency to disease
could know Of this remedy of which you speak
so highly and use it. / am positive it would
greatly lessen suffering and death"
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GIVE not a hair. breadth OF truth away, for
it is not yours, but God's.-S. Rathert0rd
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teacher of photography, is able to re-
port that, after about three weeks of
teaching, he is receiving articles for
his columns written in good shorthand.
The progress made in all our classes is
simply astounding"
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Anti-ApOplectllne
TRADE MARK.

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to Medical Science for preserving the Fludty and
PURITY of the Blood and the Integrity of the
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feeling Of suffocation Ringing Sound in Ears,
Numbness Pricky sensation of Limbs, especially
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1.-THE man or woman
does not live who is free
from hereditary inhu-
Iences." This remark
was made by the cele-
DR.. Vaudeville,
of New York, to the Rev.
DR.. Brooks, at a recent
convention of scientists.
81 agree with you, doc
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Dr. Peters, in lecture before distin- guished audience at Berlin, said that the rising in East Africa had a close connection with the Mahdi movement. It was struggle of Mohammedanism against invading Christi snity. In the interest of humanity all civil fixed powers should cooperate. Dr. Holub holds the same opinion as Dr. Peters.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
Tuesday, October 23, 1sss.
A sOUTMRRN APPEAL.

The Oh arleston News and Courier makes somewh at hysterical appeal to the people of South Carolina. It says: 'fIt is best to speak plainly. There is no need to multiply words Unless the National Democratic com mittee receive liberal additional eontribu- tions immediately the success of the canvass will be imperilled." The campaign has been expensive, and "although the amount of money already contributed has been surpris-
 y iarge," the News and Courier says, sit has all been expended in the printing and circulation of campaign documents and in other legitimate ways" The legitimate ex- penses having been thus provided for, A large sum is now needed, we suppose for other purposes, to meet the enemy at every point, as this southern organ of the Dsmoo- raey emphatically expresses it. The Repub
 fcans, the same paper says, will mass their forces in New York, Connections and Indi- ana, and "debauch enough voters to give them at any cost majority at the polls. :" Therefore, under the pretext of suspicion of corrupt purpose on the part of the Repub- lioans, the Democratic committee must be supplied with an enormous fund ''to meet the enemy at every point. Otherwise the chances on election day will be against us. " "This State with Harrison as president and congress in Republican hands would be in worse care than it was under Grant or Hayes or Aurthur. These had their alleviations.
 With Harrison there would be none."
 This declaration, as the Worcester Spy points out, seems to be inconsistent with the reasons given by the northern deughfaces for their protest against making the rights of the black citizens at the South an issue in national politics. The Spy continues: These doughfaces say that neither congress nor the national administration could do anything for these citizens, even if it is true that they are now deprived of their rights, and there fore it Is better to ignore them than to ex- asperate the white Democrats of the South by reminding them of their duty towards their colored fellow citizens. But, aside from the fact that public opinion is more powerful than laws, and that the resolute determination Of the North to allow no party ] whose strength is based upon the systematic suppression of the colered vote to control the ] national government would surely have de l cisivs effect, the Charleston newspaper evi. \ dently believes that the election of Harrison
 and Republican majority in tae house O
 representatives would give the negroes theil \ rights. That and nothing else must be wha
 it means by saying that South Carolina't | stake in the result is so momentous
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
1EIHdiCaI.
ELY'S CREAM BALM

CIeanSeS | h 0 NasalPassages, Auays P 8 i n and TndaMma- tiOn, Heals the Sores, , Restores lhe Senses of T a g t c 9 m d Smell.
 TpV TuF NTJpE
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
FORGE OF oHARAoTER.
The Bully or Other Pretender Does Not Attain a NIerIlorIOus Position.
 fi,nI IlaItrn Snnrnl


 Not Attain MerIlOr1Ous Position
 From the Baltimore Sum-
 There are two essential elments of force of chsractersseldom possessed by pretenders- self4control and spirit of fairness. No man can be really strong who has not learn ed to control himself. He can not master others, except in brutal or dishonest way, until he has first mastered not merely learn ed how to conceal, his own temper. In fact the bully or any other pretender rarely ever attaiHs permanently a position in life which belongs to real merit. He is oftener seen in subordinate positions, and is recog- nized by his propensity to give instead of take directions; to complain when In some exigency more IS required of him than usual; to criticise when he can not shirk, and to impose in various other ways upon those around him. Nor can his influence be of 8 lasting kind unless he is disposed to be fair and honest in dealing with antagonists. He may have these qualities and yet be without force of character; but having them, he is possessed of two of the primary clements that make up the leader or ruler of men. Contrary to general belief, then, the man of real force is never bully, is never arbitrary or unjust, is never passionate. though he be and generally is aggressive, and may as occasion requires, give exhibitions of temper that is nevertheless, kept in perfect control Force of character brings with it tself-reliance and an imperturbable manner. Just as the really courageous man remains cool in the presence of danger, the self-reliant man keeps his temper under provocation because he l feels confidence in himself. The coward grows excited and loud-mouthed to concleal his real feelings. The arbitrary man, accus- l toned to force his views upon others, loses confidence in and control of himself when be | fails to make his usual impression. It is at | such 8 moment that real force of character begins to tell; it is then that the self-eontain- | ed and self respecting man dictates his terms and asserts his power. But it is then also that he must exercise that forbearance which comes of honest purpose and spirit of fair ness if he must retain his ascendency, for req son must approve the terms of peace, els< there will be repeated revolts. The consid- | eration of what is the true and what is the
 misleading sign of force of character is oi advantage not only in enabling one to put [ l just estimate upon men, but because all ot us conscientiously or unconscientiously adopi 1 types which we seek to initiate, and it be hooves us not to make the mistake of follow ing bully instead of brave man, of look ing up to the overbearing instead of thost
 who are just, self-reIiant, persistent ant
 whose force of character is shown not by thu
 way in which they trample upon other peo
 pie, and ignore their rights and opinions
 but by their manner of obtaining aseendenc,
 through the constant exercise of justice req
 son. hrmneas and self-control.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
REPUBLTCAN NOMINATIONS.

REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
 FOR PRESIDENT. BENJAMIN HARRISON, Of Indiana.
 FOR VICE PRESIDENT, LEVI P. mORTONs of New York.
 State Electoral Ticket.
 ELEcToRs-AT-LARGE, FRANK W. CHENEY, of South Manchester. JOHN H. WHITTEMoRE, of Naugatuek.
 DISTRICT ELECTORS, 1st District-HENRY R. K1BBE, of Somers. 2d District-E. F. JONES, of Branford. 3d District-W. A. SLATER, of Norwich. 4th Distriet-W. 0. HARDING, of Stamford.
 For State Officers.
 FOR GOVERNOR, MORGAN G. BULKELEY, of Hartford.
 FOR RLIEUTENANT-aovERNoR SAMUEL E. MERWIN, of New Haven.
 SECRETARY OF STATE, R. J. WALSH, of Greenwich.
 FOR TREASURER, E. s. HENRY, of Vernon.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, JOHN B. WRIGHT, of Clinton.
 For Congress. 2d District-H. WALES LINES, of Meriden.
 For Senators. 9th Dis.-HERBERT E. BENTON, New Haven.
 For Representatives. New Haven-FREDERIcK B. FARNswoRTH and WILLIAM s. BEEcHER.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
An EeI'Play Possum wish a Snake

An amusing encounter between water snake and and eel occurred in the Hudson river, near dosk at Glasco, day or two ago. A party of fisherman noticed com-
 motion fn the shallow water on one side of the dock, and, leaning over, they saw large water snake moving landward with an eel nearly half the size of the snake. The reptile had the eel by the throat and the slirny thing was evidently making for dry ground, where it could more easily despatch it's prey, which
 was making 8 frantic effort to get free.
 Twice the eel equirmed itself free from the snake and made for the water, but each time it was recaptured and brought to land After third chase after the eel the snake seemed to lose all patience, and, winding it, self about the wriggling esl, pressed nearly
Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23

all the life out of it, and then dropped it on the beach apparently dead. The snake wound itself in and out of little opening under the dock, returning every now and to smell of it's dead prey, for which the snake was evident- iy getting up an appetite. The latter had just disappeared under the rock @ secoud time, when the eel, which had been playing possum, began moving toward the water. When the snake returned to the spot and found no eel it's movements were like those ot an angry, disappointed child. It lashed it's tail furieusly, ooiled itself half dozen times as though preparing to attack an enemy moved rapidly round and round the spot where the eel had lain, and then made rapid ly for the water, where it was soon lost to view.