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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

WE want to add score of oranges to
the list in this state during the next
three months. Several are already in
sight, and with little personal work by
those who are interested others can
readily be brought into line. Farmers
who read this note and are interested
in organizing a grange should write at
once to the master, secretary or one of
the state deputies for instructions and
assistance in the work. The names
and addresses of the deputies are as
follows: A. A. Edison general deputy,
Chester; G. w. Sargent, Brattleboro;
Clark Chandler, East Wilmington; F.
B. Pier, Rawsonville; w. 1. Kendall,
West Windsor; G. G. Whitney, East
Bethel; William Brown, Berlin, WI.
Park, Lyndon; G. J. Bell, East Hard
wick; A. A. Allen, West Milton. The
master, secretary or any of the deputies
will respond at once to any calls for
help.
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The Difference.

TENNYsON can take worthless sheet
of paper and by writing a poem on it
make it worth $4,000. That's genius.
VANDERBILT can write few words
on sheet and make it worth S5,000,-
600. That's capital.
THE United States can take an ounce
and quarter of gold and stamp it with
an eagle and make it twenty dollars
That's money.
THE mechanic can take the material
worth So and make it into a watch
worth 800. That's skill.
THE merchant can take an article
worth % cents and sell it forS1. That's
business
THE ditch-digger works ten hours a
day and shovels out three or four tons
of earth for 81. That's labor.
MEN and women can combine, and
by the friendly interchange of thoughts
and ideas help, aid, instruct and i'm
prove each other. And that is called
the grange.
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Gra nge Notes.

EX-GovF RNoR Robe, master Of the
Maine state grange, will be member
of the low er house of the next state
Legislature 7
WORTH 4 MASTER BRIGHAM of the
Massachr setts state grange declines to
be cane ida for congress in the ninth
MassachUsei Us district.
GovEPNoR G. G. LUCE, past master
of the Mic igan state grange, was re-
nominated for governor at the recent
state rlepu blican convention and will
doubt ess De reelected.
The work all over the Union is in
creasimg in spurts, but steadily and
satisfactorily. The farmers are learn
ing The necessity of organization and
also the real solid worth of the grange.
A + the late meeting of the Oregon
stat b grange Judge Boise, in speaking
of Aegal advancement, referred to the
predictions of lawyers and others, who
said the grange would not get shadow
Of what it wanted. "We (the lawyers)
get what we want, for we work for it,"
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Stray Shots.

BENJAMIN f. SMITH of Barre is at home
from the Soldiers Home at Bennington on
furlough of thirty days. A pension, with
arrears, was recently granted him, but he
prefers to stay at the home.
The death of Gerald Sidney, the fifth vet
eran to die at the Soldiers Home at Ben
nington, occurred the 9TH. He served in
Company f, Fifteenth Regiment, Vermont
Volunteers and was admitted to the home last
February, Having no friends in the state,
iCterment was made in the cemetery of the
home.
THE commissioner of pensions at Wash
ington, ID. g., recently received a letter
saying: 81 am the father of seven sons by
one wife | have been informed by differ
parties that where man is the father of
seven sons and no daughters he was en-
titled to pension. If so how shall pro-
ceed?" The inquirer was informed that
such cases had not been provided for by the
government yet.
THE following officers We're elected at the
reunion of Company H. Sixth Regiment,
Vermont Volunteers, at RoXbury: Presi-
dent, A. j. Stone, Worcester; vice-president,
II. NJ. Washburn, Franklin Falls, n. H.,
and p. II. Murphy New York city: secre-
tary, II. A. f. Richardson Roxbury; ex-
ecutive committee, f. f. Martell, Cam
bridge, Mass. T. A. Nichols, Bellows Falls,
C. ii. Stone, Montpelier, and William X.
Elliott, Waterbury.
Is the president consistent in his treat
ment of private pension bills? He has
vetoed several bills recently for the reason
that it was not clearly shown that the fatal
disease of the soldier was contracted in the
service. He signed the bill granting pen
sion to the widow of DIR. j. b. Woodward,
when the only service her husband rem
dered was few months in n hospital in
Kansas, where he then resided. He died of
blood poisoning resulting from wound on
the hand received while amputating limb
of an injured man at Montpelier in Oc-
| tober, 1879.
| HARRISON NUTTING of Stowe was granted
! pension of 81 a month over four years ago
on account of lung disease. In February,
1884, he took an appeal to the secretary of
the interior, claiming higher rating of his
pension and also a pension on account of
| rheumatism, alleged in his application.
! Waiting over three years without hearing
from his appeal, he applied for an increase
of his pension. August -, 1888, the assistant
secretary of the interior rendered a de-
cision on the appeal, consisting of ten
printed pages, affirming the action of the
commissioner of pensions in rating the pen
sion at 81 month, basing his decision on
the opinion of the medical referee Of the
pension office who first rated the pension u,
This case is a sample of democratic fair
ness and promptness in disposing of the
veterans claims.
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So will the grange, and 80 it has in
more than one instance.
THE grange opens up to the farmer
sure and safe way to secure for himself
and his posterity that recognition, state
and national, that his calling in life i'm
peratively demands should be accorded
him.
WHILE the grange is not political, in
the ordinary acceptation of the term,
every Patron is citizen of the common
wealth in which he resides, invested
with all the duties and responsibilities
of a citizen, and he is untrue to himself
and to the cause of agriculture if he
fails to manifest a lively interest in the
events transporting around him which
so intimately concern his prosperity.
SECRETARY TRIMBLE of the national
grange reports the following grange
progress in Colorado and Oregon:
" Since February 3, 1888, nine new
oranges have been established in Colo
RADIO by the joint efforts of Worthy
Master Levi Booth and r. r. South
worth, late worthy secretary of the
state grange. Since October 10, 1887,
fourteen oranges have been organized in
Oregon-twelve of them by that in
defatigable worker and devoted Patron,
Brother II. f. Hayes, who has lately
been promoted to the mastership of the
state grange. The other two of the
fourteen oranges were organized by
Deputy n. NJ. Kennedy Ga worthy
successor to Brother Hayes in the
month of June. The last one he organ
ized-Fairfield grange, No. 219, in
Wasco county, reports forty-eight char
ter members. l note very interesting
item in the application for this grange.
Andy M. Allen is the secretary and his
name is followed by seven Aliens, some
male and some female. l conclude
that the Allen family is a harmonious
one and unanimous one on the prin-
ciples of the grange"
BROTHER PATRONS, it is not the
strong that rule the world, but the clear
headed. We are like pebbles at the
sea-shore; by rubbing against each other
they become smooth, round and pol
ished. Farmers are too much alone.
The grange was instituted that they
might meet together and rub off the
rough corners and polish themselves.
We want to exchange views and learn to
think. A man who has performed four
teen hours work in twenty-four is in
no condition to think. Unless we
change our tactics and determine to
think for ourselves and cooperate with
each other, politically, financially and
socially, according to the principles
and declaration of purposes as laid down
for us as Patrons of Husbandry, we
may expect forever to be hewers of
wood and drawers of water 1 have
been one of the crew on the grand old
grange ship for nearly twenty years.
Storms and waves have tattered her
sails and dashed her sides, but think l
now see the rainbow of promise. Raise
the flag to the top-mast, mend our sails,
set them full to the wind and let this
year of 1888 leave the old grange ship
moving on in better condition than
ever before.-J. 4. Murray, in Teas
Farmer,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

How TO OVERCOME THE DANGERS OF EX-
PosURE.-Francis O'Reilly, the well-known
liveryman of No. Is Prince street, New
York, says of ALLcoCK's Porous PLAsTERs:
" For the last forty-two years | have been
engaged in the livery and hacking business.
| am greatly aided by my four boys. We
are much exposed to the weather and we
have found ALLcocK's PLAsTERs of very
great service. We use them as chest pro-
tectors, placing one on the chest and one on
the pit of the stomach. They not only ward
off the cold, but act as a tonic. We are fire.
quently affected with rheumatism, kinks in
the back and pains in the side, but one or
two of ALLcoCKs PLAsTERs quickly cure
us. My wife and daughter have been
using ALLCoCK's PLAsTERs for weak back
and think the world of them ! have now
been using them for twenty years and al
ways have box in the house,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

A WoMAN's DISCOVERY. Another won
derful discovery has been made, and that,
too, by a lady in this country. Disease
fastened its clutches upon her and for seven
years she withstood its severest tests, but
her vital organs were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months she
coughed necessarily and could not sleep.
She bought of us bottle of DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption and was so
much relieved ON taking the first dose that
she slept all night and with one bottle has
been miraculously cured. Her name is
Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write w. c.
Hamrick & Co. of Shelby, n. G. Get a free
trial bottle at G. Blakely's drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

How's Your LIvER?-The old lady who
replied, when asked how her liver was,
God bless me, | never heard that there
was such thing in the house," was noted for
her amiability. Prometheus, when chained
to a rock might as well have pretended to
be happy as the man who is chained to a
diseased liver. For poor Prcmetheus there
was no escape, but by the use of DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets the disagree
able feelings, irritable temper, constipation,
Indigestion, dizziness and sick headache,
which are caused by a diseased liver,
promptly disappear.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

IT Won't BAKE BREAD.-In other words,
Hoods Sarsaparilla will not do impossi-
bilities. Its proprietors tell plainly what it
has done, submit proofs from sources Of I'M
questioned reliability, and ask you frankly
if you are suffering from any disease or af-
or low state of the system to try Hood s
Sarsaparila. The experience of others is
sufficient assurance that you will not be
disappointed in the result.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

PILES! PmEs ITCHING PILEs!-Symptoms
Moisture intense itching and tinging, most
at night; worse by scratching. II allowed
to continue tumors form, which often bleed
and ulcerate, becoming very sore. SwAYNE's
OINTMENT stops the itching and bleeding,
heals liberation and in most cases removes
the tumors. At druggists, or by mail, for
fifty cents. DR.. Swayne & Son, Philadel-
phia, Penn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

WE wish to assure the old friends of
The Rural Vermonter that a plan for
the revival of that paper is under con-
sideration. If it succeeds we think
the paper will much more strongly than
ever recommend itself to members of
the order and to all the farmers of the
state.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

WHEN farmers become convinced
that the grange is a desirable and
necessary organization, it is their duty
to join the order at once or see that a
grange is organized in their midst.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

MONROE, n. G., October %, 1851,
THE POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co:
Gentlemen MIR. VIM. S. Stephenson OF this county
brought his son to town to-day to let him and
to show us what CUTICURA REMEDIES had done for
him. This Is the referred to in letter to
you some time ago. To look at the boy now one
would suppose that there had never been anything
the matter with him. He seems to be In perfect
health. We have written and herewith enclose
what his father has to say about the matter We
wrote 1t Just as he dictated,
We selling quite a quantity of CUTICURA
REMEDIES and hear nothing but praises for them.
We regard the CUTICURA REMEDIES the best in
the market and shall do all to promote their
sale. Yours truly,
STEVENS q BRUNER
Druggists and Pharmacists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

MERE talk will not amount to much,
whether in starting or supporting a
grange. 1t is actual work that ac-
complishes results.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

A LARGE volume would not contain the
mass of testimony which has accumulated
In favor of DIR. WIsTAR's BALsAM OF WILD
CHERRY as a safe, efficient and reliable
disease Many OF the cures are truly Won
derful.
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advertisements.
A FriShtful Skin Disease
Sufferings Intense.-Head nearly Raw.
Body covered with Sores.-Cured by
the Cuticura Remedies.
,IEssRs. STEVENS & BRuNKR, Monroe, n. G..

MEssRs. STEVENS q BRUERR, Monroe, n. c.
Dear SirS About two months ago, on your
recommendation, bought bottle OF CUTICURA
REsoLvENT, one box Of CUTICURA ShLvB and one
cake of CUTICURA SOAP for my son, aged thirteen
years, who has been afflicted with eczema for long
time, and am pleased to say that believe the
remedies have cured him. His sunerings were in
tense, his head being nearly raw, his being
gone except the gristle, and his body was covered
with sores. His condition was frightful to behold.
healthy eyes bright, cheerful in disposition and is
working every day My neighbors are witnesses to
this remarkable cure, and the doubling ones
quested to call on or write me, or any Of my neigh
bors. VIM s. STEPHENSON,
Winchester ?. o., Union Co, N G.
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Datruns of 9usbanorp.

Grange news, notices reports Of grange meet
ings, to secure prompt insertion, should be sent
direct to the Office Of publication Communications
contributed articles should be sent to A, MEssRR,
Rochester Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

THERE is not weakness, there is not a
sorrow, there is not a grievance for which
the love of God, as seen in the life and death
of Christ, does not offer some remedy
Dean .StdnieU.
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Sold everywhere. Price, CuTICURA, 50 cents;
SOAP. Is cents; REsoLvENT, 81. Prepared by the
POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co., Boston, Mass.
~ Send for " How to Cure Skin Diseases" g.
pages, 81 illustrations and 100 testimonials.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

nlNIII ljREwAkDKD those who read this and
Ru'AI vthen act they will find honorable em-
HUH | poyment that will not take them from
their homes and families. The profits
large and for every industrious person, many
have msde and now making several hundred dol
lars a month. 1t s easy for any one TO make S. and
upwards per day, who is willing to work Either ser,
young or old capital not needed we start you.
Everything new. No special ability required you,
reader, can do 1t well any one. Write to us at
once for full particulars, which mail free, Ad.
Dress srssos h Co., Portland, Maine.
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CUTICURA the great skin cure, and CUTICURA
SOAP, prepared from 1t, externally, and CUTIcURA
REsoGvEET, the new blood purifier, internally, are
positive for every form of skin and blood
disease from pimpes to scrofula.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

No man ever served God by doing things
tomorrow, If we know Christ and are
blessed it is by the things which we do to-
day.
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Soldiers Bnoget.

Contributions TO this department are solicited
from veterans and from members OF the woman's
Relief Corps. Address THB wAToHNAs PUBLISH.
ING COMPANY. Montpelier. Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

pIMPLES, black-heads, red, rough, chapped and
iiU oily skin prevented by CUTICURA SOAP.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

"Was the baby bruised at all when it fell
into the cistern?" Not the slightest. 1t
was soft water, you know"
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ARMY OFFICERS.

Byanew act of congress the time for officers to
apply for and arrears of pay under the act
OF June ;, 1854 ALLOWING pay from date of commits
sion to date of muster has been extended and such
nav and allowances can now be be collected. Claims
Tor pay for horses lost in the service also he
collected Heirs of deceased officers and soldiers
are entitled to the pay and allowances as the
men would be entitled to II living. All claims under
these new laws collected for the legal fee, and no
charge unless successful, by
Il. j. DEAVITT,
Attorney Law, Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

A MAN can see his way into fight better
than he can see his way out.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-22

Five courses OF study. Experienced teachers In
struction thorough and practical The best Com .,
mercial School in the state. College preparation
receives special attention. Expenses low, Send TO
the Principal for Catalogues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-19

oils lines-the Evansville e. Terre Haute and
the Lake Erie g Western-but on Southern
roads they are run extensively. That the Wae-
ner company is to become powerful competi-
tor Of the Pullman il daily becoming more APP
parent.
so little c.. B. g. O. freight ia handled by In
dianapolis roads that the belief has prevailed,
and does still, that the roads here will rot be-
come involved in the strike troubles. The light
grain traffic, as result ef last years drought,
Is about enough for the Western roads to meet
and Keep up both ends wi thout strikes In fact.
1t Is stated that three INDIANAPOLIS lines are not
now earning enough to pay operating expe nses
and fixed charges
One of the officials OF the Pennsylvania Com
pany says that the talk of the c.. B. g. Q. hiring
incompetent engineers lie a mistake. On Tues
day last he visited the headquarters where they
were examining the who applied for
positions. and they had to pass an examination
fully as thorough as that given to men VINO ara
given an engine to run on the Pennsylvania
lines, and If they were not eompstent the c., 3.
q @. did not employ them.
The lines in the Central Traffic Associatio n
have granted excursion rates on the certificate
plan to persons attending the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite annual convocation, Indianapolis,
April IL to 90 Joseph ". Smith, Indianapolis,
Ind, will sign the certificates from points in
Indiana only. Also to Grand Chapter, Order OF
the Eastern Star, Indiana polls. April IL to Is.
VIM. h Smythe, secretary Indianapolis. Ind,
VIII sign the certificates, from points in Indiana
only.
The strike which was declared off on the Phil
adelphia & Reading road on Saturday last had
been on eighty-hve days. commencing Dec.
%, 1887 AS result men who had run engines
the road for fifteen To twenty. five years are
ont of employment and their places have been
filed by other men. These who can get places
on the road will try do so, and those who can
not will have to seek work elsewhere. 1t is
simply an irretrevable loss for the men and
nothing to show for IT,
Now that the Chicago east bound railways
have decided that it is iInpracticable to discon-
tinue the milling-in-transit system. and consent
ed to its continuance. it would seem possible
for the Indianapolis roads to come TO similar
conclusion. and thus give Indianapolis another
chance to be something of grain center. At
Chicago q condition Is imposed that the rate on
grain milled in transit shall not be less than
three cents per hundred poundsioversthe through
tariff rates from the original point of shipment
to destination.
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AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

The Lie htsst Freight Traffic for Many Years.
The train record shows that the ear move
nent of the week ending March IL was the
iightsst Of any week since the strike troubles of
1877. There were received and forwarded b.
s35 loaded cars, which is Col fewer than in the
week ending the 10th inst. In going back for
This exhibit is due largely TO three causes;
First. the strike in the Northwest and other ex-
listing troubles second. the snow blockades IN
the East; third. the effects of the light grain
crops in the territory which usually snips lts
grain over Indianapolis lines. The lnuianapo-
lis, Decatur q Western, the Ohio. Indiana q
Western. the indianapolis 81 St Louis and the
Vandalia are the principal sufferers from
the light grain movement. Shipments of ium-
Der eastward are down to minimum. while
the shipments of live stock are somewhat IN ex-
cess of those at the corresponding period OF
1887 Westb bound tonnage shows up more
favorably than would be expected under
the circumstances The eHects OF the snow
blockade will be more apparent on west-bound
business the early part of this week, but
Friday and Saturday the business dropped off
sharply Traffic with the Dorth-and south
roads 10 also somewhat disturbed by the
favorable conditions in other sections. yet the
tonnage averages well with the last few years
Mt the corresponding period, their business being
more local in it's character than that of the
and west lines. The last few days local bust
ness both IN and outbound has been quite salts
depots a spring activity is noticeable. The
volume of business for some weeks to come.
however. depends largely on what turn the strike
troubles take. Below is given the number of
the week ending March H. as compared with the
corresponding weeks 1887 and 1886:
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A Clear undarstanding.

The general manager of one Of the systems a
large portion of which lies in Indiana, few
days ago. when the grievance committee of en-
Rineers and fremen called him for confer
ence regarding the hauling of c. b. & @. cars,
said to the committees that before the confer
ence began he wished to say that the officers of
that road were ready and willing to meet any
reasonable demands and treat their in all
branches of service honoraby and fairly, bat
wished it distinctly understood that if any
gineer or fireman left his footboard in conse-
ouence of the company refusing TO grant them
all they demanded, that not one of them would
be given service on the lines long the pres
ent management controlled them. Fortunately,
the men took the general manager at his word,
and. although not granted all their requests,
they still remain mt their posts, and indications
are that they will continue TO do.