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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-14
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Hill, has purchased piece of land near the
depot Of Nelson I. Sanborn, on which he
intends to erect a cheese factory the COM
ing season. j. II. Eaton of Marsh
field is sick with pneumonia
Warren.
THERE will be a sugar festival at Town
Hall next week Wednesday evening. A
cordial invitation is extended to all. -
Over thirty of our people went to Roxbury
last Wednesday to attend the funeral of
George II. Pierce. - Mr.. James Par
menter and his mother are visiting their old
friends and neighbors in town.
Waterbury.
THE mail train due at twenty minutes
past four o'clock Saturday evening was de-
layed at this station a number of hours on
account of snow-drifts in the vicinity of
Bolton. The passengers paid Barrett &
Son visit, which made things rather
lively, but our hotel proprietors were equal
to the occasion. - The Liberal preach
ing in the hotel has been adjourned for two
months. - DIR. johnson and family of
Burlington spent few days in town last
week, the guests of f. b. Taylor. 60
Daniel Hopkins and wife returned from
their southern trip last Saturday. Mr..
Hopkins enjoyed the trip, though he was
not favorably impressed with the southern
mode of living or the way in which south
ern farmers carry on agriculture. He
thinks they might learn a vast amount
were they to come North and pass through
our rich farming region. - Luther Davis
and wife gave large dinner party at Bar
rett's Hotel last week Wednesday after
noon.
Woodbury..
THE concert Friday evening was an ex-
celent one. - The agent, Mr.. Ferrin,
recently met with serious accident at the
Chase quarry, being struck with stone on
his eye. He is now under the DOCTORS care
at Hardwick Fears are entertained that
he will lose his eye - Milo Carr was so
unfortunate last Saturday at the Chase
quarry as to have one of the fingers of his
right hand crushed - Nathan Batch
elder is quite sick - Melvin Teachout
and wife of Calais were in town visiting at
Carroll Meningitis last week. - Mr..
Allbee and daughter of Wolcott were guests
at Alfred Nicolas Saturday. - Rev.
Mr.. lockwood has moved to a house near
Dea. Clarks.
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LamOille County.
Morrisville.

THE brass band are to hold masquerade
promenade at an early date. - William
Cheney was dangerously sick last week,
but is out again. - Communion SER
vices were held at the Congregational church
Sunday morning - The spring term of
the village schools opened Wednesday of
last week. There is an increased attend
ance of nonresident pupils in the academic
department. - The ladies of the Con-
gregational society will meet with Mrs. c.
w. Fitch on Friday afternoon of this week,
with young peoples sociable at the same
place in the evening - The repetition
of the district school entertainment at
Town Hall on Friday evening last was
success in every way. The two entertain
ments will net about S65. The proceeds of
the first are to go to the parsonage fund,
and of the second to the church organ fund.
A vote of thanks was rendered Mrs. G. w.
Hendee. who arganized and superintended
the making up of the details of the enter
tainments which have been so successful.
- Hon. p X. Gleed's horse ran away
on Thursday, first dumping Mr.. Gleed out
of the sleigh about mile above the village
on the Wolcott road. Mr. Gleed conse-
quently was obliged to walk home.
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Caledonia County.
GrOtOn.

In the primary department of the school
in district No. and 6, Ada j. Sherburne,
teacher, for the winter term, ending March
3, the following pupils had neither absent
or tardy marks George Clark, Louise
Downs, Flora Kittridge, Blanche Renfrew,
Jenness and Myrtle Kicker, Brock Sploid,
Elsie Woodruff. Moses Frost was absent
one-haf day, Bert Kicker one-half day and
Frank Kicker one day. The two last were
not tardy. Names of those whose department
was ninety-seven or over, Lee Blanchard,
Lyle Clark, George Clark, Louise Downs,
Mertie Davis, Lizzie Hall, Lois Plummer,
Harlan Renfrew, Blanche Renfrew, Brock
Spoid, Aaron and Willie Welch, Elsie
Woodruff. Through the entire school year Of
thirty-six weeks George Clark and Blanche
Renfrew were neither absent nor tardy.
Jenness Kicker was absent one day and
Bernard Eastman two days, the latter on
account of sickness. Neither was tardy.
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Montpelier and Vicinity.

On account of delayed mails considerable
out-of-town correspondence has failed to
reach us in time for this issue.
F. j. DIETER has returned from New
York.
Miss NINA BROWN is at home from Dan
vers, Mass.
ALICE, daughter of George N. Gourley is
seriously i'll.
THERON f. COTTON has gone to Hartford,
Conn, to work in large store.
j, MONROE POLAND is reported danger
ously i'll at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
GEORGE b, PAINE of St. Johnsbury was
in town last week for brief visit.
Mrs. j. EDWARD WRIGHT gave pleasant
drive-whist party on Monday evening.
ISN'T it nearly time for Montpelier to have
her second annual winter carnival %
1.-THE MILKMAIDs' DRILL" will be pre-
sented at Bethany chapel Tuesday evening,
March %.
PASSIONS SLAVE" Friday evening will
be the only attraction at the Opera-house
this week
THE Ladies Aid Society of Bethany
church gave supper in the church vestry
last evening.
A SPECIAL train will be run to Barre after
the entertainment at Blanchard Opera-house
Friday evening.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs, ID. l.. Fuller
this afternoon at three o'clock.
Miss BELLE MEAD has been appointed
pianist of the Unitarian Sunday-school in
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Orange County.
Braintree.

THE Braintree cornet band assisted by
the Brookfield band will give a concert at
the church this Wednesday, evening.
- Mrs. E. F. Clatiin, who has been
sick for some time, is slowly improving.
Mrs. Preston Fuller is sick with
and son from Plymouth are at home visit
ing. &c. L. Woodward Jr., finished
his school at Richmond last week and re-
turned home. - Miss Annie Woodward
finished a very successful term of school
last Friday at East Bethel, where she has
been teaching the past year. - William
Luce of Tunbridge was in town last week
visiting friends. - G. j. Bass has been
in East Montpelier the past week visiting
relatives. Milton Bass of Aurora, N.
Y, visited friends here last week - -
A. l.. Adams has purchased the real estate
of the late q. A. Bass of West Randolph for
$4,000. - George Waterman of RoXbury
visited his mother, Mrs. Appollus Sharpe,
last week. - John X. Woodward and
wife of Burlington visited his parents last
week. - Henry j. Hyzer has had his
pension increased TO SIG month. -
Lester G.. Flagg has gone to Boston. -
jefferson Flint and family of South Straf-
ford have moved into the house he recently
bought of r. j. Flint
Chelsea.
A LIST of the officers chosen at town meet
ing will be found in another column. There
was a good attendance and a very good
state of feeling Ballots were had for clerk,
first selectman, constable and each OF the
listers, one ballot sutficing in each case ex-
cept for third lister, when a second ballot
was required. Every mans barn-yard was
made pound and every man pound
keeper Voted that the selectmen be in
structed to appoint an agent in each of the
old highway districts to have the care of the
roads, and the agents have the work done
by taxpayers in their districts, so far as
they may be willing TO work The real and
personal estate of Rufus Murdock was set
from school district No IL TO No /, but
other requests 10 alter district lines were
passed over. - S. b. Hebard has been
appointed justice OF the peace by the gov
ernor. j. X. Darling has been APP
pointed deputy county clerk. 60 Miss A.
A. Clement left on Monday for Boston,
where she is TO work in a dressmaking es-
tablishment, and expects to be absent two
or three months. - Bert Allen is work.
ing in Randolph. - A. Nj. Burnham
was arrested on Thursday on the charge OF
violating the liquor law and brought before
Justice w. S. Hatch. He plead guilty TO
one offence and was fined $40 and costs.
- W. B. Marston is not TO leave town,
but will remove the first of next month
into the tenement recently vacated by Mrs
@. G. Wilson. - Herbert M. Corwin's
auction last Saturday proved to be not much
CcoHrINURD ON FIFTH PAaE.l
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Hill, has purchased piece of land near the
depot Of Nelson |. Sanborn, on which he
intends to erect cheese factory the COM
ing season. j. II. Eaton Of Marsh
field is sick with pneumonia.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-14

LAST Wednesday the Methodist pastor
aud his wife were visited by forty of their
old friends from Marshheld. This was a
very pleasant supplement TO the very large
and enthusiastic visit of their Plainteld
friends few weeks ago All ages We're
represented. Mrs. Eli Edison was the oldest,
and her grandson from the same family one
of the youngest. Mr.. and Mrs. Farnsworth
will remember the occasion as one of the
pleasantest of the year. - Rev. A. b.
Congregational church next Monday even
ing at seven o'clock. James III.
Hooker has sold his farm TO Clement =.
Kellogg and has purchased Orrin w. Cree's
farm; also part of the stock and farm
ing tools now on said farm. - Eight
persons united with the Congregational
church last Sunday, several by confession
and one by letter. - Edison, son OF John
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17

not hold her gifted father in tina; admTra-
ton with which the world regards him.
He left her among the Indians too long.
1t spoiled her temper, aI- dwarfed her
appreciation Of genius. A few years ago
Joaquin got out an edition de luxe of his
poems, which he embellished with like
nesses of himself in various picturesque
costumes and attitudes-"Mr. Miller
among the Sierras;" Mr. Miller on Mount
Shasta" "Mr. Miller shaking hands with
the Filibuster Chief" Back view of Mr..
Miller on horseback" and so on. One
plate he generously reserved for his
daughter, Miss Myrtle Miller. She had
the post of honor in the middle of the
book, and was seated on q prancing mus
tang, her hair flying toward the top of
the page and lurid light effect behind
her. Joaquin sent a copy to Miss Miller
with his distinguished autograph on the
fly leaf. She glanced through tho book;
appreciated its contents; ran pencil
through her own name beneath the wild
and reckless female. and writing below
it "Mr. Miller when he was a girl" sent
it back to him.-Current Literature
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
The Causes of Poor Hair.

The first and great reason Is that
women do not keep their heads clean.
Oftener they are too busy with house
keeping and children to give the hair the
weekly shampooing and nightly brushing
it needs. Still oftener they are too negli-
gent or do not know that on strict clean
illness Of the scalp depends their chances
of having good hair at 30. Homework
should be done with muslin cap or towel
folded to cover the hair to the roots
House dust, which is mainly dead animal
matter thrown off by clothing and beds,
is deadly to lungs and hair. Housemaid's
consumption is generally due to breathing
the dust and flue of ill-kept chambers,
and the layer which collects at the roots
Of the hair kills it and causes the most
of the falling out of which matrons COM
plain before 40.
When women comprehend the baleful
influence of dust on the health, hair and
complexion, they will Danish carpets. up
holstering and unwashing draperies, at
once and forever, as the great receptacles
and absorbents of dust. When curtains
and carpets or large mats are used the air
constantly receives floating dust at each
movement; not much, it is true, in caro-
fully kept houses, but quite enough as it
gathers on the scalp, week after week, to
form with its natural oil and sweat thin
malignant crust in which the root of the
hair slowly decays and drops AS the
most of women wash their heads not
oftener than once in six weeks, the effect
is best left indefinite. Scalp limitations
are not unknown, causing months and
years Of trouble. But oftener the skin
of the head, clogged and loaded with dead
scales Of matter, loses its functions and
the hair drops out.-Shirley Dare.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
An Instantaneous Mental Process.

The imaginative writer. Like the inven-
tor, performs his mental work by less
conscious effort than others, and by an
instantaneous mental process. The ideas
are evolved, or the principle of the ma
chine is conceived, he knows not how.
We do not mean that such ideas or inven-
tons are arrived at easily, without preVi-
Gus study or thought, but that Nthe vital
idea comes to the writer or inventor in
simultaneously. and without conscious ef-
fort. Thackeray tells in his letters how
he was in despair for name for novel
he was writing. He had consulted friends
to whom he read his manuscript, but they
were unable to aid him; but one night he
was suddenly aroused from sleep, and
jumping out of bed he ran like one mad
three times around his room. crying,
Vanity Fair! Vanity Fair!"-Susan
Charming in The Writer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
Difference In Pine Woods.

Carpenters find vast difference in the
pine woods they handle--a difference
which is generally accounted for by the
fact that the woods come from different
forests. For instance, the virgin pine
from Michigan is tough and win break.
splintering for three or four inches, while
the second growth wood from Massachu-
sets is more brittle and less fbrous. This
fact recently gained suit for New
Haven contractor whose employer refused
to pay him, claiming that while part Of
the work was well done some of it had
been sighted. 1t was shown that the car
penters had been given two varieties Of
pine one smooth and hard-''workable"
and the other brittle and splintering.
Chicago News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
A Dogs Sense OF Guilt.

The raid which Larkins'' dog made
upon our camp was amusing rather than
annoying. He was very friendly and
intelligent shepherd dog, probably collie.
Hardly had We sat down to our first lunch
in camp before he called on US. But as
he was disposed to be too friendly, and to
claim too large o share Of the lunch, we
rather gave him the cold shoulder. He
did not come again; but few evenings
afterward as we sauntered over to the
house on some trifing errand. the dog
suddenly conceived a bright little project.
He seemed to say to himself. on seeing
us: There come both Of them now, just
as have been hoping they would; now
while they are away will run quickly
over and know what they have got that a
dog can eat"
My companion saw the dog get up on
our arrival, and go quickly in the direc
ton of our camp, and he said that some
thing In the ours manner suggested to
him the object of his hurried departure.
He called my attention to the fact and we
FASTENED back. On cautiously nearing
camp the dog was seen amidst the pals
IN the shallow water Of the creek, inveSti-
eating them. He had uncovered the but
ter and was about to taste it when we
shouted. and he made quick steps for
home. with very kill sheep" look.
When we again met him at the house
next day he could not look US in the face,
but sneaked of. utterly crastfallcn. This
was a clear case Of reasoning on the part
of the dog, and afterward a clear case Of
the sense of guilt from wrong doing The
dog will probably be man before any
other animal is--John Burroughs in The
Century
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
Fashions in HANDWRITING.

There are fashions in everything nova
days. The latest is in handwriting. At
least, see that an instructor in that art
advertises at stylish stationer's that he
will impart to our aristocracy, and l pre-
sumo any one else who can pay for in
struction, the latest styles of fashionable
caIgraphy. 1t used to be charged against
the old fashioned writing master that his
method of instruction deprived the pupil
of all individuality in the use of the pen.
The stg Of Hsss9 ssas ~F The
style insists on an equal suppression of
individuality without the compensation
of elegance. The thing in handwriting
now Is apparently to make it as nlegible
as possible. The extent to which the
people succeed is certainly credit to the
master.-John Preston Beecher in New
York News.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17

Iarnetc says. over loo, 900 square fnr1es
Of almost treeless prairie In Northern
Missouri, Southern Minnesota and parts
of Illinois and Indiana have been reforested
since their settlement, and furnish an ex-
ample of reforesting unequaled elsewhere
upon the face of the globe, and yet the
rainfall has not increased. On the other
hand, there have been more acres of land
denuded of forest in the United States
within a century than anywhere else In
the world, yet there is no evidence of
diminished rainfall"
Professor Sargent, of Harvard college,
says: 1.-THE removal of q forest from any
region will not diminish the amount of
rain falling upon it; nor can the increase
of forest in slightly wooded or treeless
country increase its rainfall. The gradual
drying up of countries once fertile, within
the history of the human race, but now
barren and almost uninhabitable, must
be traced to gradual geological changes,
of course entirely beyond the reach OF
human control, and not to the mere de
struction of the forest"
But there are able men who have thor
oughly studied the question and who state
that the rain belt Is surely coming west
ward Among the number are Professors
WILDER, Angbey, Snow, land Ex-Governor
Furnass, of Nebraska and Kansas. The
observations taken at Fort Leavenworth
during a period of thirty-eight years are
said to indicate On annual increase in the
rainfall of 5.21 inches; thirty years at
Fort Riley, twenty four at the State
Agricultural college. and seventeen years
at the State university, Lawrence. Kan,
are said to give figures showing an in
crease in the rainfall of a05 and sos
inches per annnm. The data Is very
valuable, and seems almost indisputable.
But there Is still stronger authority,
the farmers themselves In Western
Kansas and Nebraska and Eastern Col
orado, farmers are now raising crops on
what was formerly known as the Great
American Desert. They claim that there
is great future for that section, and
they raise crops without irrigation, de-
pending solely on the rainfall. And SO
while some scientists are doubling the
statement that the rain belt Is coming
west. farmers are raising crops. If. in
that section. they can raise the cereals
without irrigation. so much the better,
but there are many millions of acres OF
land that can never be made productive
without irrigation. and let us have reser.
voirs and great canals. and from what
are now arid regions In the west new
empires re possibilities.-WinC G. Ferril
in Kansas City Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
The Cause of 1t.

First Citizen-Your wife seems to have
aged greatly of late. What is the matter2
Second Citizen-She got that way wait
ing for change in one Of our big trimming
stores.-Pittsburg Bulletin.
we snocu, rnsSeas-Ter "ssiclns Thsm Mis-
sionaries, ask them to send US batch.
He says: "The Japanese are temperate.
To visitor tea. and not alcoholic liquors,
is offered. There are no standing bars in
Japan, and no public drinking of liquors
that intoxicate. The japanese are polite.
Their honesty is attested by the fact that
the shop is often. left by the proprietor
with nobody in while he goes to distant
part of the city. There are no bolts and
bars on public or private houses. The
Japanese are humane. Horses are rarely
beaten, and oxen drawing loads have
awnings fastened over them. Cattle for
slaughter are carefully led. Cunning for
sport Is unknown. At school, the chill
dren of mobiles are poorly dressed. to avoid
injuring the feelings Of poorer children.
They are also remarkably, hospitable and
courteous. Globe Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
Creatures of the Deep Sea.

A scientific examination of many of the
animals that live near the bottom is not
practicable yet, however, for the reason
that when they are brought to the sur
face they fall to pieces, or nearly so. They
are so organized as to Withstand the enor-
nous pressure of the water at great
depths, and when brought up where they
are relieved of this pressure they collapse.
This is especially noticeable in the case Of
fish with soft tissues; they are reduced to
q spongy state on coming to the surface.
No satisfactory conclusion has been
reached as to the effect of the darkness of
the ocean depths on the inhabitants of
those spaces. Many deep dwelling Great
ures were brought up that had well de.
veloped eyes, but it is thought that they
were only migratory specimens, since the
older ones were all blind. 1t is also found
that great many of them were phosphor-
escent, thus carrying their own light
with them. This might warn off their
natural prey, or, on the contrary, attract
it to them, and the latter is supposed to
be the fact, because the phosphorescent
fish and animals survive, and nature
always adapts her creatures to their sur.
roundings.
The creatures that inhabit the depths
of the ocean are the reverse of beautiful,
and they all have teeth and claws and
suckers and what not, designed to rip
and tear and kill Their domain is the
scene of constant warfare and struggle,
for nature has ordained that they should
live by eating each other.-Phihdelphia
Times
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17
Rats on Board Ship.

I'VE can always tel" said a West
India captain, speaking of the plague of
do not, as one would suppose, remain on
the ship, but they get off at various ports,
and, after remaining awhile, ship on some
other vessel for another voyage. The
water rats, or wharf rats, are great trav-
elers, and make frequent voyages around
the world. There are here now rats from
almost every part of the globe Why, l
saw four colossal Jamaica rats, with their
white bellies skipping about in the
moonlight the other night, and yesterday
killed two Indian male rats on my yes
sell.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-17

"Rats are great climbers wnen they
find it necessary to do SO. Upon one OF
my voyages not long ago we had long
spell of warm weather, and there was no
water in the hold which the small army
of rats on board could get at. One night
we put some water up at the cross trees
and waited for the result. Well, the rats
just swarmed up the ratings and went
for that water. We killed as many Of
them as we could as they came down.
and some of them jumped overheard and
were drowned. But we could not k, |
them all, and few made the entire
voyage with US. "-Philadelphia Record.