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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-04
MI LIME.

offer an unlimited lot Of FIRST CLASS
NORTH CAROLINA HEART PINE SAW
ED SHINGLES, 4 IS inches, which I guar
antee to be as good as any Shingles offered in
this market. I will furnish them in any
number from ONE to ONE MILLION at $2.50
per thousand, cash.
First Glass Limestone Lime ats % per barrel.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-04
SMITHS I L BEANS.

You can see "Smith's Beans" on every fence,
tree and clubhouse in town, but it is useless to
ask "What Smith it is?" for MAY q MAY
have about a peck Of his beans and they are
certainly good for biliousness.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-04
TObaccOS. TObaccOs.

1 have just received a consignment of IS
BONES TOBACCO which 1 offer to the trade
by the BON at % cents per pound. 1 have n
full line of other goods at all prices up to Is
cents. JOHN K. ASHE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
A WOman's Way with Turkeys.

The eggs are Matched by common
hens or by turkeys, as happens to be
most convenient, but as soon as Matched
the chicks are put with turkey-hens, if
possible, in patches of twenty or more
with each hen, according to the season
and state of the weather. A small
grass Enclosure is set apart for the
young birds, with numerous matches, in
which they are separately shut up at
night, as well as when it rains or when
the grass is wet. For several weeks
feed with boiled egg, milk curds, barley
flour, oatmeal, maize-meal, bread
crumbs, etc., with plenty of vegetables,
such as dandelion, mustard and cress
all chopped fine and mixed with the
general food The whole of the chicks
are fed early in the morning and late at
night, and as often during the day as
they care to eat, given plenty of sweet
milk to drink and fresh water always
at hand. The nursery Enclosure is an
orchard, extending to about half an
acre, shaded and sheltered, and during
summer Astounding with flying and
other insects, all of which is, believe,
most important for the young birds.
AS the birds get stronger more free
dom is allowed, and as a large field of
grass lies quite into the buildings, this
is conveniently got at and the broods
are always in sight, and are regularly
fed as they move about, without being
gathered together until night or when
rain falls. AS the broods get strong
coarser feeding is supplied, such as
broken rice boiled in milk, and also
given raw and dry; dandelion, mustard
and cress always in abundance, chopped
and mixed in soft dough, or rather por-
ridge made of ground maize, barley
flour and oatmeal. With abundance of
fresh, clean grass run, the broods do
not require much hand-feeding from
the time they are six to say fourteen
weeks old, but great watchfulness and
attention is at all times needed to pre-
vent accidents and other losses. AS they
grow older l feed on boiled vegetables
chiefly potatoes, but few Swede
turnips and mangolds are also put in
the boiler. These are finely mashed
and mixed up with ground maize
ground barley and ground wheat, until
the whole is formed into dry, crumb.
ling dough. This feed is given three
times daily and feed of mixed whole
maize and wheat is given in the even.
ing before going to roost. A few fresh
cabbages are always within reach
during the day.-A Scotch Farmer S
Daughter, IN Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
will This be a Hot Summer?

The impression seems to prevail
pretty generally that we are to have a
hot summer throughout the country.
The Indiana Pharmacist predicates it
upon the following theory, which has
been advanced by others: The weather
seems to run in cycles of about seven
years-that is, when we have hot sum-
mer it is always followed by cold one,
and it takes about seven years to reach
another equally hot. 1t will be remem-
bered by many that the summer of 1867
was very hot and so dry that during
August the grass crumbled under the
feet when trod upon. The summer of
1868 was noted for its GOODNESS, the
thermometer very seldom getting above
eighty-tive degrees, and we did not
reach the top wave of thermality again
until 1874, when it was extremely hot.
The following summer was cold to a
remarkable degree. From then on the
summers grew gradually warmer until
1881, which was excessively hot and
very dry, no rain falling for over nine
weeks, and there were more sunstrokes
that summer than there has been in all
the summers since. The summer of
1882 was quite cold. a few flakes of
snow fell on the morning of July 4,
followed by hail in the afternoon, and
during the rest of the month and
through the month of August the tenn
perature was so low that overcoats were
necessary for comfort, particularly at
night. The summers since 1882 have
grown warmer and warmer, and last
summer was moderately hot one, but
unless all signs fail, the coming sum-
mer will be the climax of the cycle, and
a hot, dry season may be expected. So
far the signs have been against the
theory here advanced, but possibly the
GOODNESS of the spring may be sue
ceeded by regular old scorching sum
mer, with temperature unrivaled for
holiness
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
Gagged.
BY EILEEN NORTH.

Gagged bird before me! Tiny, beau
teous thing, thy atom-like proportions
speak of lightness and flight. Is thy
drinking-cup deep and capacious? Is
the chickweed seed and other edibles
savory and plentiful? Is the aviary
large enough to stretch thy worn, broken
pinions? How kind the hand, birding,
that gave this narrow house, freed from
the storm, sun and wind! Dost thou
ever desire the grass plat almost within
thy reach? Dost ever long to taste the
green leaf and scented bud just outside
the door? Dost thou ever in magma
ton battle in the mountain brooklet and
larger river or skim the measureless
waters of the ocean? Dost ever sing
thy song of freedom or stretch thy
wing far in the azure blue beyond the
sight of human eye, and, albatross-like,
sleep upon the wing? Tiny aliferous
bird, methinks thou art emblematic of
struggling humanity, which is bound
and restricted by fashion, law and GUS
tom; which holds in check with an iron
will many noble endeavors and i'm
pulses that would rise above present
creeds and articles numbered, but fear
ing loss, humiliation, remain inert and
stupid. All! humanity, dost ever de-
sire freedom from olden dogmas and
theories? Dost live in the hope of
reaching the summit of thy highest as
pirations? Dost desire purer realm, a
more exalted life than this, where in
harmony, sel6shness and sorrow never
come? Art ever grieved at mans Sin
humanity to MANI" Art thou burdened
with the mystery whittier thou came
and whittier going? Dost dread
to grow older-to grope unsteadily
through these days of misunderstanding
toward that narrow bed where all must
lie at last? Gagged birdlings, the cage,
the form, the old dress will, we know
dissolve and disappear, but the inmate,
the ego, whittier is it tending? Per-
chance to heaven very far away or one
near at hand; perhaps learning to feel
sorrow and not sink under its oppres-
sion, witnessing the false and bad with
out being sullied by any; disappointed,
yet not without hope that eventually
all works for good.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
Marketing in China.

A Chinese market is noisy and ami
mated. You ask the price of shad, for
instance, or of crabs, and the dealer
raises the price of an ounce by so many
cash, which you have to beat down.
What Adam Smith called the "hig-
Cling of the market exists here in its
perfection. After wasting consider
able time talking and splitting differ
ences, you at last decide to buy or the
trader concludes to sell. But however
much you may congratulate yourself
on having made a good bargain, you
can not be certain that others may not
make much better bargains with the
same man. Vegetables are sold by
other dealers, and the same process
must be gone through before you can
make fair purchase. Grocery stores
are plenty, and there you will find on
sale all sorts of sauces, preserves,
sugars, etc., in fact whatever is dealt
in by grocers in America. Beef is not
often eaten by the Chinese on account
of their religious scruples, most of
them being tinged more or less with
Buddhism, but especially because the
OK is used in blowing. Occasionally
you will find stall for the sale of beef.
Through the same prejudice little cows
milk is used by the people, and that
little is made into cakes, we'll sailed, to
be taken as relish. But kind of
cheese is made from bean curd. The
beans are ground in hand-mills and dis
solved in water, then strained and
steamed. The result is a perfectly
white cake, something like blanc-mange.
1t is eaten with shrimp sauce. This
cake is also dried. There is also a
sauce made from beans. You may per-
haps wonder why l have not described
the cats, kittens and dogs which are
said to be the common food of the
Chinese people. The reason is because
no such things are to be found in the
market. In fact know of no place
where such articles of food can be had
except in the lower part of Canton,
where people who are almost starved
will buy almost anything to sustain
life. The Chinese people live on
wholesome food, as you will learn from
good authorities. They eat rice as you
eat bread. They make cakes of wheat,
too.-St. Nicholas for May.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
The Romance Of Welded Life.

james, dear, will you bring me up
a hod of coal from the cellar?" said a
busy wife. "That's Just the way with
you" said James, with black frown,
as he put down his book and rose up
from the lounge. "Just the way with
me?" YES" he snapped. AS soon
as you see me enjoying myself you
have some chore or another for me to
do. Didn't you see l was absorbed in
my reading?" Well, dear, will do
it myself" eyes, and tell every
body, your mother especially, that you
have to carry your own coal up from
the cellar. No, III do it. Let me
mark my place" So he marked the
place in the book at which he had
ceased reading and when he went down
to the cellar, grumbling all the way,
she picked up the volume and found
it was love story, and that the pas
sage he had been absorbed in was
as follows: "My darling, when you are
my wife l will shield and protect you
from every care; the winds of heaven
shall not visit your face too roughly,
those pretty hands shall be my law,
your happiness" Just then he re-
appeared, and dumping the hod on the
floor said, "There's your coal; give
me my book" Is life worth living?-
Boston Courier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

MoXIE CRAZE AMONG THE RACERS.
During the great walking-matches in
New York the leading men-Peter
Panchott, 56S miles; E. G. Moore, 531
miles; Sinclair, the Scotch champion,
and Fred. Miles, 5l3 miles-used Moxie
throughout the week and declared it
the most marvellous invigorator they
ever saw. Some took three bottles
each day. They were surprised that it
left no reaction like stimulants, and did
not seem to lose its effect after large
use. Some say that they are going to
use it more freely next time and be-
lieve they can clear the 600 mile limit
quite easily, as they did not put forth
their best effort from fear of a reaction
and breakdown the last of the race.
Most of them believed it was a stimu-
liant in disguise, as they did not know
what nerve food meant. They all
believe it will be the great nerve
and muscle support in future races.
The actresses are as enthusiastic over
it as the foot-peds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
Canning Strawberries.
ny DOLLY.

In reply to Alice's question about
canning strawberries, 1 would say that
1 have put up strawberries cold and
uncooked two years. think they are
much nicer whole and they keep equally
well. 1 use little more than half
granulated sugar. Take deep dish
and put in layer of sugar, then layer
of berries, till you have enough to fill
your can. Let them stand in cool
room till the juice starts out of the
berries, so as to dissolve some of the
sugar and pickle the berries through
(Which may take fifteen hours or more) I;
then fill your can carefully, so as not to
break the berries. If your can is tight
and you get the air all out there is no
trouble about their keeping. They will
not fade if you keep them in the dark
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

general resources are superior. You
see the most pitiable women here be-
cause the sex is forced to feminine en-
ployment. Coming down town lately,
saw woman carrying coal from the
sidewalk upstairs in pals. She had
been lucky enough to get load and
was then storing it in her room in the
tenement-house. You see women car
rying heavy baskets of vegetables or
drawing hand-carts, and in other ways
engaged in very severe toll. 1t is, of
course, better than idleness or crime,
but at the same time it is not pleasant
sight. AS contrast with this frequent
and wretched degradation of the sex 1
may mention a statement made to me
by dealer in fashions that there are
hundreds of women in this city who
spend annually from $25, 900 to $4,000
in dress, and that there is still greater
number who spend $4,000 in the same
manner. 1t is very difficult to imagine
the feelings of one of this fashion-wor-
Shipping clique, and it is, perhaps, still
more difficult to enter into the expert
ence of the poorest class. Taking it in
its general view, the city is certainly
unfavorable to women. Among the
rich the idle luxury of high life leads
its victims into effete helplessness,
while among the poor the sex suffers
that disproportionate degree of hard
ship so often noticed"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
How Much Of Principle Is
Self.Will!


That Jerusha is shamefully treated
there is no doubt, but is she not allow
ing her husbands unkindness to make
her hard and bitter, so that she behaves
towards him as a wife and Christian
should not? Can she not learn more
fully the lesson of submission? She is
not to be servile or cringing, but the
giving up of her own will is not slavery
it is the highest kind of liberty. To
possess strong will and yet be able to
yield to the will of others is not weak
ness; it is strength. Her husbands
injustice and unmanliness do not give
her the right to do wrong also. If she
can not assent to the creed of her hus-
bands church can she not commune
and fellowship with its members, mas
much as they and she are children of
the same Father, for l believe in every
church there are those who love God
and work righteousness? How much OF
what we call principle is only self-will
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
A POlynesian Idyl.

Ordinarily life on Quiros Island is
idyllic, and he must be restless spirit
indeed who, having home and wife
and children there, should sigh for
life in some other cline. A perpetual
summer; just enough to do to keep off
that Nemesis, ennui, blenty to eat and
cocoanut milk galore to drink, with or
without dash of bourbon in it-what
more could a man desire? He does not
see the last paper, but he may revel in
the company of good books. The latest
kilograms do not puzzle him with their
contradictions or irritate him by substi-
tuting the individual opinions of weak
ling intellects for news, but his Shakes
peare, his Longfellow, his Carlisle, EN-
erson or Herbert Spencer, his Dickens
or his George Eliot are the same for
him as for the dweller in great cities,
only more priced, because he has more
leisure in which to prize them. Should
he be fond of star-gazing, then surely
he is in the right place. Above, around,
on every side the great canopy of the
glittering heavens broods over him.
He is near enough the equator to add
almost all our northern stars to those of
the south. Not star of the largest
magnitude but comes some night or
other into view. Lying on the sand on
that little speck of land, with the great
plain ocean all around and the great
heavens above, roofing all in, the man
who has been born with the soul of
poetry within him should feel the di-
vine atflatus come over him and pour
forth his spirit in song.-.San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
Vicious Literature.

All the quaintness and innocence
of childhood-its originality, its ten
derness, its sprightful tricks, its
infinite, unconscious drollery, the
serious earnestness of its fun, the
natural religion of its plays, the de-
licious oddly of its sayings-all, all
disappear when the child has fed its
mind on that pernicious literature
which the great cities spread over the
country. 1t is next to impossible to
reform those who have lost all faith in
the sincerity, honor or goodness of
pie in general are all bad, who have
been taught that all criminals are
heroes. In such hearts there is a reser-
voir of age and vice, invisible save
when some flame, hotter than usual,
bursts momentarily forth. And if our
national life is growing worse, if
society is growing more corrupt, it
is because our young men and women
who are entering into manhood and
womanhood have in childhood fed
their minds on pernicious literature.
Childhood is the time when the ideals
of life are formed. In the dreams of
childhood are found the germs of many
mans career. The seeds sown in
the mind of the child will terminate
into the character of the man and ripen
into the pleasant fruit of good deeds or
the Dead-Sea apples of sin. And so
if we would have citizens capable, by
voice and vote, of wisely governing
and directing the affairs of the nation,
we must see to it that the children of
the land are early taught to be manly
and honest, pure and true.-Arthur
Vmton, in North american.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
ADVERTISEMENTS.
.JnouRaent (Reaoer, We cry

JnoafSent Reaoer, We cry
you mercy Ere you fare
forth to smile at others
favours, prithee, stay your
eyes. By your leave we
would prate Of Organs, and
cen to be more beholden to
, W., Of the Organs of EsTEY,
from Brattleboro, VT. In
that if fate occasion you to
the purchase Of an organ,
'twere well you 60 no far
Their, but tarry at the shop of
EsTEY. You else can no.
where buy that fair purity Of
tone which EsTEY doth COM
mand from lifeless blocks.
Revolve this with some care
- and SO, being again DER
taken, we shall have further
words with you. Anon
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
A Secret of Beauty.

The enormous trade which is being
done in violets in Paris this year is re-
ported to be due to discovery recently
made by well-known author. He got
a sight of the recipe used by the En-
press Josephine as means for render
ing her beautiful forever" and to
which, it is said, she owed that marvel
Gus tint which was the wonder and
despair of the French ladies of the
time. The wife of Napoleon used to
have boiling milk poured over basin
filled with violet flowers, and with this
detection she bathed her face and neck
every morning. No sooner was this
old secret brought to light than the
Partisan ladies began to order great
baskets of violets to be left at the
doors daily, and this homemade cos
metic is reported to be in daily use this
season by thousands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
Degradation of Women.

A newspaper correspondent, writing
from New York, says: Gotten while
gazing on the scenes of misery so fire.
quent in this city notice as a feature
the apparently inevitable degradation
of women. do not refer to anything
of a vicious nature, but simply to the
result of extreme poverty. Woman
here suffers from dire want much more
than man, because his strength and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04
MistelIanp.
GrandmOther's Garden.

Sweetest Of all the flowers
Are those that grew long ago;
Still in my memory freshly
Do breezes of childhood blow.
Blue are the skies as ever
And full is the rich perfume
That watts from the bygone summer,
Where grandmother's posies bloom.
The pink and white sweet-william-
A gentle and stately warden
Grew close by the low stone doorstep
In grandnoth er's quaint old garden.
Tall are the tiger.lilies,
With spotted and anthered face;
Their beauty is fierce and flaming
Poets have sung their grace.
They stand by the many-paned window,
Their heads reach the window-seat;
No other flower blooms near them;
Grass grows around their feet.
Lonely and naughty and lovely,
A rival they could not pardon
That dared to grow in their sunlight
In grandmother's quaint old garden.
Meekest of all the blossoms,
How should eer forget
Your tender, insidious fragrance,
Opale little mignonette?
See where 1t grows in a circle,
And near 1t the marigolds yellow,
Each shaking its tender leaflets
And whispering to its fellow.
Even the pink wild roses
Creep by the gentle warden,
And add to the color and perfume
OF grandmother's quaint old garden.
Here grow the morning glories,
Here the stout hollyhocks,
Here are the purple foxgloves
And crimson-striped four oclocks.
Slender and bright coreopsis
Little dear ladies' delights,
And the gay yellow evening primrose
That stays out so late o. nights.
My hand must forget its cunning,
My heart must begin to harden
Fer forget your beauties,
grandmother's quaint old garden.
GOOD Housekeepi,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

How TO CAN FRUIT CoLD.-In an
swer to Alice's inquiry about putting
up strawberries cold, | will say that they
should be washed and stand in the
powdered sugar over night, or until the
sugar is all dissolved. Currants can be
put up in the same way. 1t is some
times necessary to invert the cans for
awhile. CT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

THE homeliest man in Montpelier,
as well as the handsomest and others,
are invited to call on any druggist and
get free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam
for the Throat and Lungs, remedy
that is selling entirely upon its merits
and is guaranteed to relieve and cure
all chronic and acute coughs, asthma,
bronchitis and consumption. Large
bottles, fifty cents and one dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

DYSPEPSIA makes the lives of many
people miserable and often leads to
self-destruction We know of no rem
edy for dyspepsia more successful than
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t acts gently,
yet surely and efficiently, tones the
stomach and other organs, removes the
faint feeling, creates a good appetite,
cures headache and refreshes the bur-
dened mind. Give Hoods Sarsaparilla
a fair trial. 1t will do you good.