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The Washington critic., 1888-06-19
The Old Soldiers Home.

The Old Soldiers Home lies about mile be-
yond Howard University, out Seventh
oonyeyances, namely the,Ninth and Seventh
street car lines. Its main building is of
marble, 200 feet front with very high
any similar view In the nelghborhood, A
statue Of General SCOTT adorns the grounds
There Is also q National Cemetery with sew
eral thousand Union dead buried there The
the finest In the District.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19
The U. y. Fish Commission.
The Botanical Gardens.

Passing eastward over the railroad bridge
that spans Sixth street and the railroad
tracks eadingGko the B. and depot, and
through the pretty park lying between
Maine and Missouri avenues the visitor
comes 10 the entrance on Third street, Just
south OF Pennsylvania avenue, OF the Bo-
tanical Gardens. These interesting
grounds are open daily from In the morn
Ing 70 In the evening. They were estab-
lished 30 years ago, The conservatorles are
hlled with the choicest and rarest foreign
collections OF trees and shrubs. In the cen
tro OF the lawn facing the centre cOnser
yatory is the famous Bartholdi Fountain
that attracted so much attention at the
Philadelphia Centennial.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19

interior reminds one very forcibly Of tho
old, dim English country Episcopal
churches.
The Treasury Department.
The Treasury Department Is Just east OF the
White House and extends the whole length
Of the front on Fifteenth ST, between Penn.
sylvania and New York ayes. IL Is 59e feet
long by 800 feot wide. The central east por-
tion Ia built Of freestone, rebuilt in 1s36-4i;
the other parts were commencedNn 1855 and
built OF granite. The Cash Room in this
building Is beautiful apartment ia the
north wing, the entrance 70 which is from
tho north porch. The vaults are under the
Cash Room and can be seen on written
permit, given by theTreasurer Of tho Uni.
ted States, whose ofhce Is in the northeast
angle. on the first floor. This permit must
be shown the cashier. who will detail
guides 70 take the visitor into the great
bullion chests of the country. The old State
Department used to DO on the site occupied
by the northeast corner of the Treasury
The Rogues' Gallery and Museum Of the Sc
cret Service Bureau are on the second floor
and open 10 the public, and this and the
vaults, including the now steel vaults for
the storage Of silver dollars, are the points
Of most interest. About $500 people are om-
plOyed In this building.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19

The Garfield Statue, which was unveiled May
12, 1887, Is situated at the intersect Of
Maryland avenue and First street, and Is
regarded by its famous sculptor, Mr.. j. q.
A.. Ward, as one Of his most successful
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19
The National Museum.

The National Museum is In the Smithsonian
grounds,a few yards east of the Smithsonian
building; II contains thousands of the most
In terestlng curlositles, samples OF the life,
open daily TO the public from 0 a. m. TO 4
m
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19

Davy Burns Cottage, 'on Seventeenth street,
near the river. II may be reached by the
drive south Of the Presidents House or by
Next door to II Is General Van Ness once
stately mansion, where he brought his bride,
Marcia Burns, one Of the original heresses
OF washington.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19
Medical Museum.

The Army and Navy Medical Museum is on
the corner OF seventh and d streets south
west, adjoining the NationalMuseu The
building was finished this year, and Is In
part occupied by clerks of the Surgeon-Gen.
erals office and the hospital records of the
late war. The Museum Is on the second
les OF the war, and has the largest medl-
cal library In the world. Among the curl
osities within Its walls Is the articulated
skeleton OF Guiteau, the assassin of Presl-
dent Garfield.
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19
The DIatrIct HuiIdIngs.

The District Buildings, in which are located
the various departments OF the District
Government, are situated on First street.
two squares north Of the Peace Monument.
The edifioo Is q handsome four.story brick
building, In which 100 people are employed
and repays a. visit, having been admirably
reconstructed for Its present uses. Pass.
ing from here up First etrect and Indiana
avenue tha visitor will coma tO
The Washington critic., 1888-06-19
EDUCATtONAt

GPLNCERIAA BUSINESS COLI.ggH, con.
~ 7th and y sts. ~ w.. the frat Hoor over
the Bank OF the Republic. recently
secured tor addtional college ball and
new college ofiice. Three entire floors n ,yy
occupied by this Institution New classes Tor
spring session In six departments. Practical
business Course; Stenography and Tvpewrt-
Benn Pitman Photography; Rapid Business
Writing. Day and Evening Sessions for Gen.
tlemen and Ladies'. Tuition by the year,
quarter or monthly installments Circnlar5
SPENCER, Vice Principal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
The Memory.

There is no better way to strengthen
the memory than by the habit of speak
ing the exact truth. In some minds
there is a strong tendency to exaggerate
or diminish, to magnify to minify. Va
rious motives operate to encourage this
tendency. Aside from its moral bear
ings, the habit of eXaggeration is inju-
rious as affecting the memory. 1t is
not enough that one is able to recall
facts in general way. Too much mi
nuteness, indeed, may not be desirable.
But whenever it is important that de-
tails should be given, eXactness is alb
solutely essential, not the least color
ing of the fact is justifiable. You may
draw upon your imagination to any rea-
sonable extent to illustrate principle
or sentiment, for the cases are not
supposed to have necessary existence,
save in the imagination, and if the
principle or sentiment is thus brought
more distinctly to view the precise OBJ
ject sought is gained, the principle and
not the imaginary or illustrative facts
being the central point of observation.
But it is otherwise with the relation of
events that have transpired or objects
seen; the imagination has nothing to
do with the relation and should be ut
terly excluded, and the naked facts only
presented christian AdU0cdte.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Lack of Imagination.

"But the Imagination is rebel and
breaks bounds. She can not be silenced
or denied; and if any man holds her in
his heart she will find voice, whether
he wills it or not,' says the New Orleans
Times Democrat. Howells has so reit-
Grated his opinion that there is no
doubt he would regard such would-be
commentator as dire insult. In
common with many worthy people he
seems to fancy that imagination means
a mere lying about facts, unconscious
that its office is not to distort but to
beautifv. 1t adds curves of beauty to
the straight, hard lines in which life
reveals itself to the prosaic. When the
skies are flushed with sunset the poet
discerns something more than light and
color, for he pierces to the soul of
things; so, perhaps, his matter-of-fact
friend, who can not see with the same
heaven-sent vision, is pardonable for
accusing him of Justification. Leaving
the question of Imagination, any COM
parison between Daudet and Howells
must be dismissed as absurd. The one
is man of genius and the other a
man of talent who believes that genius
means simply industry, and proves his
mistake in every line he writes. As far
as he goes Howells is exceedingly
clever, and the critics error lies in try
ing to prove that he goes very far.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Make the Rugs, but Keep Up
the Mending.

To-day we have been braiding for
rugs, Milly and l.. This is ,Cork, to be
sure, but not so like necessity as our
usual days work are, so it is truly a
recreation. The fall sewing is just
done, though it is January, and from
now until sugaring we hope to have
some more time to visit, read and
recreate." A really nice rug is both
useful and pretty, beside being keep
sake, as we make them of the WORKOUT
garments of the children and men-folks.
Soft, fine suits, bright flannels and all
wool dress goods work in nicely and
may be colored beautifully with dia-
mond dyes. If one has an eye to the
harmonious arrangement of colors it is
very fascinating work. q had to get a
friend to plan mine for me.) But we
will not neglect the mending, for l
often say there is no way the average
homekeeper can earn so much money
as by faithfully repairing all garments
in season to make them last as long as
possible. How often pair of gloves,
for instance, perfectly useless as they
are, can, with little time and skill, be
made serviceable as long as new ones
would be; and have we not earned their
price? Just so with all other things,
and they are indeed too numerous to
mention. The little girls are happy
quite time each day cutting out the
patterns and pictures in the fashion
quarterlies and Jordan Il Marsh's cata-
logues. They are only six years
old, but they cut nicely and have quite
box full of treasures-napkins, fans,
clothing, jewelry, etc. But still think
their happiest hour is when they keep
school," and read, sew and write, and
sometimes learn the Sabbath-school
lesson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
The Bastile Rebuilt.

The "Old Bastile" is. in course of
construction on the Champ de Mars,
and owing to the progress which has
been made with the works much of the
illusion which is intended to be effected
may be realized at the present moment.
The constructions are at the corner of
the Avenue de Suffren and that of La
Motto Piquet. The grim fortress APP
pears, with its crenelated towers above
and bitches below. BY its sides is the
Porte Saint Antoine, and not far away
the Church of st. Mary, a master
piece of the architecture of the seven
teenth century. AT hand also is the
Hotel de Meyenne, and all these old
fashioned and picturesque places do
certainly recall what they are intended
to represent, although much of their
retrospective interest is somewhat
marred by the very modern surround
ings of the adjacent Trocadoro, the
high nineteenth-century houses, the
mass of iron which will soon be Eiffels
Tower, the Military School, and the
steamboats, which run, snorting and
putting, over the surface of the Seine.
Letter from Paris.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Simpler Social Life Desirable.

In all this we wish to show that with
the pleasure and comfort of keeping
ones own house there is in the very
structure of modern households, and
in the effects of its relations to modern
civilization, reason for intense cerebral
excitement in those women on whom
the burden rests. With vigorous
constitution and well-balanced mind a
woman may carry on her life-work with
out suffering or wasting away. But if
a wife begins her life's campaign with
but slender resources of health, and
children spring up rapidly around her,
each year will increase her duties, while
her power to perform them is dimin-
ished. The sensitive, overtaXed nerves
will incite complaining tongue, and
that in turn will provoke irritation in
others and recrimination instead of
sympathy. Thus, instead of bear
ing each others burdens, both hus-
band and wife are in danger of making
the burdens heavy and calling. Then
domestic wretchedness reacts and in
creases the strain on the tired brain
until strength gives way and the sad
struggle is over Thus every year many
die from ignorance of how to bear the
cares and duties which little systema-
tized labor and an effort to fully I'M
derstand how to handle them would in
a few years have made pleasure.
Yet, after all, we believe very much more
true happiness would be insured if fash
ion, which will doubtless rule, would
ordain simpler style of social life as
well as of housekeeping, when COM
forts and conveniences should be in
creased and ostentatious display dimin-
ished. More certainty of purer, higher
enjoyment, bringing far more unal-
Logged happiness, would be the result.
If we could be more easily taught to
live less for show and more for sub
stantial pleasure, half the burden of
housekeeping would be removed, to say
nothing of the shattered nervous sys-
tenn of those who seek those social
pleasures which turn night into day,
steal the roses from the cheeks and the
light from the eyes of the young,
making them prematurely old and
broken-down. - Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher, IN Boston Journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25

peevish and have a row with your wife.
Don't go into the mortgage businessl
Don't 90 into debit Live within your
income, be industrious, and when you
do build your barn and own it you'll
be as proud of it as an Englishman is
of his CASTLE For moment the young
farmer hesitated. On each side were
interested spectators and all was
silence. Gradually the head lowered
and tear rolled down the cheek. The
man took pride in his occupation and
wanted that barn. AT last he said:
Thank you, sir. To tell the truth, my
wife was crying when l left home be-
cause l was going to mortgage the place.
I'll take your ADVICE and go home as l
came down, and she'll be glad to see
me- There said the Bangor man,
that fellow came to good, wise con-
clusion.'"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
The Place of Danger.

| met a well-known all-around-town
man yesterday with one arm in sling.
An inquiry in regard to the cause clio
tied this statement: have travelled
all over this country and good portion
of Europe; have been in jams and
panics and burning hotels; escaped
from the Newhall House fire in Mil
waukee, and at one time | was near
enough the borders of insanity to make
balloon voyage. l never received a
scratch in my life nor had sprained
ankle. Last week arrived home, after
an absence of three months, and on
Christmas eve my wife asked me to
hang picture. | climbed up on a
chair for that purpose and it slipped
out from under me, sprained one wrist,
barked shin and the blow stunned
me so badly that was picked up and
carried to bed in an insensible condi-
ton. The very place of all others which
to me was secure, as thought, proved
to be the place where almost lost my
life. Chicago Mail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Misery by Mortgage.

A Maine farmer asked in Bangor
store about negotiating a loan of $500
This led to inquiries and advice, of
which the Lewiston Journal makes eff
fective use: I" 1t seems that the man
had worked hard all his days-had
bought and paid for 81 200 farm, had
taken wife, furnished a house, and
now, envious of some of his neighbors,
wanted to build $500 barn. To do
this he proposed to borrow the cash,
giving mortgage on his farm. Said
the druggist, after the story was told
Your farm is clear now?' Yes, SIR
You love your wife?' 'Yes, SIR
Well said the merchant, this is
what you should do: Go home and
earn the $500 first and then build your
barn. If you borrow now you will
think each night as you lie on your bed
that you are in debt. You will fret
and worry; your wife will do the same
sickness and accidents may come, or a
poor crop be your portion; there will
be $500 skeleton in your house, and
ten to one you don't fret and grow
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Nothing to Eat.

A careful housewife who prides her.
self on " setting good table often acts
as if her company had come to see her for
no other purpose than to get something
to eat. She makes such an ado over
the dinner that sensitive guest is
tempted to say that he will never repeat
a visit which causes so much trouble.
A gentleman went with few friends
to visit family living some distance
in the country. This mistress of the
house was famous cook and noted for
her hospitality. When the unexpected
guests arrived she greeted them most
cordially, but professed to be greatly
chagrined because, as she said, there
was "nothing to eat in the house."
" Here, Bobby" she cried to one of
her bows; "you run and kill three fat
chickens. Mary, bring up ham from
the cellar. Ideclare, Pm clean out u
Now please don't go to any trouble on
our account" said one of the guests.
No trouble at all-not bit. But
declare, if l only had word you was
comm I'd got up something for you
to eat. Martha, you run down in the
cellar and bring up jar of them peach
preserves, and one of spiced pears, and
a can of cherries and glass of cur
rant jelly. You'll have to take what
I've got on hand, for II "Now, Mrs.
H, "urged one of the visitors, "please
don't" Well, well, I'll try and piece
you out bite of something in the
shape of dinner, though l amt got
but two kinds of pie in the house. l
declare, if you folks don't 60 home
hungry I'm mistaken. Seems as though
l never was quite so put to it to get you
dinner. Youths Companion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
mtstellanp.
Home.

There lies little city in the hills;
White are its roofs dim is each dwellings, door,
And peace with perfect rest its bosom fills
There the pure mist, the pity Of the sea,
Comes as a white, soft hand, and reaches DER
And touches its still face most tenderly.
Unstlrred and calm, amid our shifting years,
Lol where 1t lies, far from the clash and roar,
with quiet distance blurred, as If through tears.
oh, heart, that prayest so for God to send
Some loving messenger to go before
And lead the way to where thy longings end,
BE sure, be very sure, that soon will come
His klndest angel, and through that still door
Into the infinite love will lead thee home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Deathless.

There lies in the center of each mans heart
A longing and love for the good and pure,
And If but an atom, or larger part
tell you this shall endure-endure
After the body has gone to decay
Yea, after the world has passed away.
The longer live and the more see
OF the struggle of souls toward heights above,
The stronger this truth comes to me
That the universe rests on the shoulders of love
A love so mtless and broad
That men have renamed 1t and called 1t God.
And nothing that was born or evolved,
Nothing created by light or force.
But deep in its system there lies dissolved
A shining drop from the the great Love Source
A shining drop that shall live for aye,
Though Kingdoms may perish and stars may die,
Ella Wheeler Wilcor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
May to Bell.

Dear BeH-Ill write you a short letter
To say I'm wonderfully better;
How much that means you ought to know,
Who saw me just one month ago
Thin. nervous, fretful, white as chalk,
Almost too weak to breathe or talk;
Head throbbing, as II fit for breaking,
A weary, eyerpresent aching.
But now life seems a different thing;
feel as glad as bird on wing
| say, aud fear no contradiction,
That Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Is grand Why, I'd have died without i'll
Ma thinks there's no mistake about II.
It's driven all my ills away;
just come and seel Yours ever, MAY,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25

CoCoANUT PUDDING.-Grate the
meat of a large cocoanut. Roll fine
five Boston crackers and mix with the
cocoanut; add milk enough to beat and
a tablespoonful of butter. Beat five
eggs, add cup of sugar; mix and bake
like custard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
What a Ounce !

suffered with fever, hot head and foul breath,
With stomach disordered-was sick unto death.
bore II a week surely was a Ounce;
Then took few Pellets they cured me at once.
What Ounce, indeed, to neglect such
remedy and suffer week, when
quick relief could have been found in
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25

THAT tired feeling and loss of appe-
tite are entirely overcome by Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the peculiar medicine.
Try it and see.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25

DUsTING-CLoTHs must be washed
often, or they will carry more dirt into
the rooms than they take out.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Gbe 0ullseboIo.

to this department should be sent to
the agricultural editor, North Pomfret. Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25
Land for Sale in MICHIGAN.

Dr. Il. ID. Sargent of Eastlake, Michigan,
dealer in Timber, Fruit, Farming and Stump
Lands in Michigan. From fifty cents to ten
dollars per acre Correspondence invited
now at Washington, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25

HE outline illustrations Of the IVORY SOAP advertisements have
much favorable the for
have the demand bound in the form
of Drawing and Painting Book ize nches) twentyour of
the most spirited and pleasing of the advertisements We will send
these books with pad of sheets drawing paper
stpa who will mail fifteen Ivory Soap wrappers
Please write your and full address plainly Proctor Gamble
Cincinnati
A WORD OF WARMING
There white each represented be Just good the Noy
ARE NOT but like all counefs lack peculiar and remarkable qualities
of the genuine. Ask for "voy" Soap and insist getting it.
Co1yrgh b Procer& Gamble
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-25
First Publication May "a.
Doa@l-xs~

A resolution for the construction of q sidewalk
on the west side OF Burleigh street In front
OF and along lots Nc. II, II, 10, IA, is and 10,
block 90, Lower Yankton.
Be it resolved by the mayor and council of the
city of Yankton:
Section l.. That it is, and is hereby declared
necessary. that the following sidewalk should
be constructed in the said city of Yankton, to-
wit: On the west side Of Burfeigh street in
front of and along lots No Ii, II, is, IL, is and
III, block 80, Lower YanktoU.
Sea- That said sidewalk shall be six feet
vide. tho outer edge thereof to be laid within
the curb lire of said Burleigh street. six feet
distant from the adjacent lots above described
wood and in all respects in accordance with
the requirements of the ordinances of the city,
and plans and specifications to be prepared by
the city engineer, and approved by the mayor
in front of any OF the aforesaid lots, situated
on a corner. made by the intersection of two
streets, shall be extended to the curb. line OF
the crosslng street. or SO IA to meet and con-
nect with any sidewalks now laid down, or that
may be laid down hereafter, upon such GROSS
ing streets.
SEQ: 5. That the cost and expense of making
Inc aforesaid improvements shall be betrayed
BY spectral tax, to be levied upon the aforesaid
lots, OF parts of lots, bounding or AUDITING on
the same, in proportion to the feet front OF
said lots or parts of lots SO Astounding or abut.
ting.
SEQ. 4. That said sidewalk may he laid on an
approximate grade to conform to the surface
of the ground, as designated in the said plans
and specifications to be prepared by the city
engineer.
Sec. s. That this resolution shall be pub
llshed for four consecutive weeks in the official
newspaper of the city.
Adopted Mao 2lst, 1888.
JAMES KINGSBURY, City Clerk.
Approved this 22nd day of May 1888
JAMES 81. TELLER. Mayor.