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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
The Snuff Habit Dying Out.

CT recollect the time when it was
considered dull day if ten pounds of
snuff were not bought and paid for in
this little store" said an old-time to-
bacco dealer to a New York Mail and
Express reporter. Nowadays, if we
sell pound to our regular customers,
and remember, we make leading line
of snuff; we think we are doing well.
There is not one-tenth the snuff bought
and sold in New York that there was
fifteen years ago, and those who still
use it do so simply because they are
accustomed to it, and can't do without
it. 1t is just like the liquor habit, as it
grows on one, and is very difficult to
shake off. There are no new recruits
to the snuff habit. The brand most
sold is called 'rappee,' which is made
from perique tobacco, and is very pun
gent. Even of Scotch snuff, of Lott
beck, and of Schneeberger, formerly
recommended by leading physicians for
colds in the head and for sore eyes,
very little is sold nowadays. For the
same reason chewing tobacco is not
nearly as often called for as formerly,
is daily decreasing in use. The next
generation will neither chew nor snuff
tobacco, and will wonder how their
forefathers could have been guilty OF
such filthy and disgusting habits"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
A Literary Bitter Bit.

Mr.. Fields is known for his wonder
full memory and knowledge of English
literature. One day, at dinner party,
a would-be wit, thinking to puzzle Mr.
Fields, and make sport for the company,
announced, prior to Mr.. Fields arrival,
that he had himself written some
poetry, and intended to submit it to
Mr.. Fields as Southey's. AT the proper
moment, therefore, after the guests
were seated, he began: " Friend Fields,
l have been a good deal exercised of
late trying to find out in Southey's
poem his well-known lines running
thus repeating the lines he had COM
posed; can you tell about what time he
wrote them?" "I do not remember to
have met with them BEFORE" replied
Mr.. Fields; "and there were only two
periods in Southey's life when such
lines could possibly have been written
by him." "When were these?" glee-
fully asked the witty questioner.
Somewhere" said Mr.. Fields, " about
that early period of his existence when
he was having the measles or cutting
his first teeth; or near the close of his
life, when his brain had softened, and
he had fallen into idiocy. The versifi-
cation belongs to the measles period
but the expression clearly betrays the
idiotic one" The questioner smiled
family, but the company roared.-
Book Record.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
That Lonesome Plantation.

One charm about plantation life is
its freedom. Almost no visits to pay
or to receive, no slavery to hours of
any kind, and an unlimited field for all
ones old gowns-what can be more
restful? Indeed, l can imagine no
happier existence than plantation-life
with good servants, fine weather and
the company of few dear friends of
a pleasant temper. Riding, driving,
walking, rowing, fill the spaces of leis-
ure in ones days. The lonely, beau
tiful landscape shows every day some
fine difference in its charm, some new
tint on leahess twigs and silvery tree
trunk, some new glory of light or grace
of shadow on the river, some gorgeous
or lovely variation in the daily pageant
of sunset, some tender witchery of mist
and cloud, until spring comes and all
the world of color and life and sound
and odor is born again. Then we
wander in the woods and come back
laden with lockwood and buckeye and
red-bud, or lie and dream among the
violets. When we come home in the
evening we talk poetry over ice-cream.
And yet there are people who wonder
why we are always going to that lone
some plantation. "-Ihe Home Maker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

ern industrial system. The business
methods of to-day are in one sense the
direct result of improved means of
transportation. The railroad enables
the large establishment to reach the
markets of the world with its products;
it enables the large city to receive its
food supplies, if necessary, from a dis.
lance of hundreds of thousands of
miles. And while it thus favors the
concentration of capital, it is in itself
an extreme type of this concentration.
Almost every distinctive feature of
modern business, whether good or bad =,
finds in railroad history at once its
chief cause and its fullest develop
ment.-ProfeSSor Arthur T. Hadley IN
Scribner's Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Machinery OutdOne by Hands.

"Speaking about accuracy of ma
chinery," observed scientific writer
the other day, =" but this degree of ac-
curacy to which the human hand can
be trained is equally wonderful" Play
ing cards are required to be cut with
the sides quite parallel to each other,
because if pack be trimmed by the
machine slightly wider at one end than
the other, and they become turned
d" end for en- in dealing, the excess
of width of some cards over others at
the end of the pack will be double the
variation in any one card, which would
facilitate cheating, very minute varia-
ton being perceptible. The men who
test these cards for this make calipers
of their finger and thumb and by pass
ing them along from one to the other,
detect difference in width between
the two ends which it is difficult to
measure by any other means. There
are men employed in factories where
dried yeast is made whose business it
is to put the yeast into packages weigh
ing a certain amount each. 1t is on a
table in front of them in large plastic
mass, and there are the scales for
weighing il. But the the men do not
use the scales. They simply separate
from the mass with their hands lump
of it and put it up, and you may choose
at random and put it on the scales, and
it will weigh exactly the right amount,
the scales beam just balancing. Where
large numbers of eggs are handled and
shipped to market there is a process
known as candleing" eggs, which
consists in taking them up in the hands
Casually two eggs in each hand at a
time), and holding them up before a
lighted candle. The light shining
through them reveals to the practiced
eye the exact condition of the contents.
But some of the men soon get so that
they do not need to use the candle, the
mere contact of their hands with the
shells denoting the condition of the
egg just as infallibly and much more
quickly. And they distinguish in that
way not merely eggs which are de.
cidedly bad, but those which are Just
barely beginning to lose their fresh
ness. Here are three different ways
in which extreme skill of the hands is
shown by persistent training. First
in detecting slight differences in mag.
nitude, second, in weight; and, lastly
in texture or character of surface
handled. "-NetC York Mail and Er.
press
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
mistellanp.
Twenty Years.


Down on the ancient wharf, the sand, sit, with
newcomer chatting;
He shipped as green hand boy. and said away took
some sudden, vehement notion;
Since, twenty years and more have circled round
and round,
While he the globe was circling round and round
and now returns,
How changed the place all the old landmarks gone
the parents dead
YES he comes back to lay in port for good-to
settle; has a wellnlled purse; spot will do
but thsJ
The little boat that sculled him. the sloop held
in leash see;
hear the shaping waves, the restless keel, the
rocking in the sand
see the sailor kit, the canvas bag, the great box
bound with brass;
I scan the face all berry.brown and bearded; the
stout, strong frame
DRESSED in it's russell suit of good Scotch cloth;
(Then what the told story of those twenty years.
What of the future2)
Wall Whitman, in Magazine Of Art.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
George William Curtis on
Buffalo Bill.

No one who sees the "Wild West
Show" can wonder that Buffalo Bill
deeply impressed our English cousins.
The old Viking and Berserker survives
in John Bull. A certain savage strain
fingers in his tastes, which Taine sensi-
lively apprehended. His prize-fghts
and Mohawk rioting, his tiger and ele-
plant hunting, his excursions to shoot
buffalo and grisly bears, are in one view
manly sports, and in another brutal
survivals. Then Mayfair in London is
stated. 1t has exhausted every resource
of costly luxury. 1t is jaded, and the
sudden appearance of living Indians,
and the life of the far West as it is
actually seen, was an agreeable shock
of surprise, and gave it real emotion.
The only serious objection to the eXhi-
bition that the Easy Chair has heard is
that which was urged almost with tear
full earnestness by one of the most rea-
sonable and excellent of women. 1t is
pitiful and wicked, she said, that Just
as hopeful effort is made to interest
the intelligent country in the civiliza-
ton of the Indian, his squalid savagery
should be made circus spectacle to
ucSlduc Hliu III lut minus Oh lne people,
and to stimulate all the worst dime
novel tastes and tendencies among
boys. But the good critic did not speak
from observation or knowledge. Had
she seen the spectacle she would have
discovered that the Indian was not de.
graded in her mind by showing himself
as he is. Indeed, the performance is
merely like one of his own games upor
the plains, and he does not lose in dig
nifty. On the contrary, the spectacle
leaves probably more accurate impress
sion of the Indian than can be gained
except by visit to the plains. Ger
tainly the effect supposed by the critic
is not produced, and it is not at all o
the kind injurious to the colored peopl,
which is due to the Ethiopian min
strels. 1t is, indeed, the raw materia
of the Indian that is seen, and not tina
which has been already influenced in
degree by civilization. But no on
seems to hold sounder or humane
views of the Indian, OF of the dutic
that we owe him, and the manner il
which they should be discharged, thai
Buffalo Bill.-Hdrper's Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
The Contrary Stump.

Not long ago an incident which came
near ending tragically occurred beside
one of our New England streams. 1t
seems that gentleman living by The
riverside, in making improvements
about his home, came to stump in
the river not far from the bank, which
he endeavored to remove. Although
he made many attempts to get the I'M
slightly object out of the way, he was
completely bafiled. His little daughter
was playing, short time since, on the
bank of the stream, when she fell in,
and, the current being strong, was car
ried down to this same contrary stump
about which she lodged and to which
she chung. Her companions were toe
small to rescue her, but were wise
enough to give the alarm. A Baptist
minister living in the neighborhood
was finally called, and coming down
from his study in great haste, waded
in and brought the little one to land
The stump had saved her life. But fol-
it she would have been carried dowr
the rapid stream and drowned.-Con
gregationaRst.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Catarrhal Dangers.

To be freed from the dangers of sufocation while
lying down; to breathe freely, sleep soundly and
undisturbed; to rise refreshed, head clear, brain
active and free from pain ache; to know that
poisonous, purid matter defles the breath and
away the delicate machinery of smell, taste and
hearing, to feel that the system does not through
its veins and arteries, suck up the poison that is
sure to undermine and destroy, is indeed blessing
beyond all human enioyments. To purchase inn
munity from such fate should he the object of all
afflicted But those who have tried many remedies
and physicians despair Of relief or cure.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase of
Catarrh from simple head cold to the most loathe-
and destructive stages. 1t is local and consti
tutional Instant in relieving permanent in curing,
safe, economical and never-fang.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one bottle
of the RADICAL CURE, one box of CATARRHAL
SOLVENT. and one IMPROVED INHALER, all
wrapped in one package, with treatise and drec-
tons, and sold by all druggists for slOO.
POTTER DRUG ~ CHEMICAL Coz BosToN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

the hot air from the fire inflated the
light materials, which rose up in sort
of spheroidal form (you may have some
of you noticed this form in dress y
This gave him the idea of the fire bal
loon, which, being large paper-maker
at Annonay, he forthwith experimental
on, and hence we got aerial navigation.
This anecdote was told me by his
nephew M. Seguin, also an eminent
man.-Populdr Science Monthly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
How the Balloon was Invented.

Exercise is antagonism; at each step
force is used to lift up our bodies and
push back the earth; as the eminent
Joseph Montgolfer said, that when he
saw company dancing, he mentally
inverted his view and imagined the
earth dancing on the dancers feet,
which it most unquestionably did. In
deed, his great invention of balloons
was guessed at by his witnessing a
mild form of antagonism between heat
and gravitation. He, being dutiful
husband, was airing his wife's dresses,
who was going to ball. He observed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
HOw's This 7!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catairh that can
not be cured by taking Halls Catarrh
Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, To-
ledo, Owe, the undersigned, have
known F. j. Cheney for the last fifteen
years, and believe him perfectly honor
able in all business transactions, and
financially able to carry out any obi
cations made by their firm.
WEST Il TRUAX. Wholesale Druggists
Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNMAN Il MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
E. II. VAN HoEsEN, Cashier, Toledo
National Bank, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of the system
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Drug
oists,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Value OF the Worlds Railroads.

The railroads of the world are to-
day worth from twenty-five to thirty
thousand million dollars. This prob
ably represents one-tenth of the total
wealth of civilized nations, and one
quarter if not one-third of their in
vested capital. 1t is doubtful whether
the aggregate plant used in all the
manufacturing industries can equal il
in value. The capital engaged in bank
ing is but trife beside it. The worlds
whole stock of money of every kind
gold, silver and paper-would purchase
only a third of its railroads. Yet these
facts by no means measure the whole
importance of the railroad in the mod.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
advertisements.
NOT A P|MPLE ON HIM NOW.
Bad with Eczema. Hair all gone. Scalp
covered with eruptions. Thought his
hair would never grow. Cured by Cuti-
cura Remedies. Hair splendid and not n
pimple on him.

can not say enough in praise Of the CUr1cuRA
REMEDIES. My boy, when one year of age, was so
bad with eczema that he lost all of his hair. His
scalp covered with eruptions which the doctor
said was scald head, and that his hair would never
grow again. Desparing Of cure from physicians,
began the use of the CUTIcURA REMEDIES. and. I
am happy to say, with the most perfect success.
His hair is now splendid and there is not pmple
on him. recommend the CUTfCURA REMEDIES to
mothers as the most speedy, economical and sure
cure for all skin diseases of infants and children
and feel that every mother who has affiicted
child will thank me for so doing.
MRS. NJ. L. WooDsUM, Norway Me.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

A VALUABLE REMEDY. - BRANDRETH's
PILLS purify the blood, stimulate the liver,
strengthen the kidneys, regulate the bowels.
They were introduced in the United States
in 1885 Since that time over fifty millions
of boxes of BRANDRETH's PILLS have been
consumed. This, together with thousands
of convincing testimonials from all parts of
the world, is positive evidence of their
value. BRANDRETHs PILLS are purely
vegetable, absolutely harmless, and safe to
take at any time. Sold in every drug and
medicine store, either plain or sugar-coated
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

must extend to you the thanks of one Of my Gus.
toners, who has been cured, by using the CUT1CuRA
REMEDIES, Of an old sore, caused by long spell of
sickness or fever eight years ago. He was so bad
he was fearful he would have to have his leg am
putated but is happy to say he is now entirely
well,--sound as dollar He requests me to use his
name, which is II. n. CAsoN merchant of this place.
JOHN V. MINOR, Druggist, Gainsboro Tenn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
From Pimples to scrofuia Cured.

CUTICURA, the great skin cure, and CUTICUTA
SOAR prepared from 1t, externally, and CUTICURA
REsoLvENT, the new blood purifier, internally are
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Sold everywhere Price; CUTIcuRA, soc; SOAP
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~ Send for " How to Cure Skin Diseases" 81
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
Severe Scalp Disease Cured

few weeks ago my wife suffered very much
from cutaneous disease of the scalp, and received
no relief from the various remedies she used until
she tried CUTICuRA. The disease promptly yielded
to this treatment, and in short while she en-
trely well, There has been no return of the dis
ease, and CUTICURA ranks No. | in our estimation
for diseases of the skin.
REV J. PRESLEY BARRETT, ID.
Raleigh, y. &.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

MouLTING is the trying season for fowls,
and they should have good care and Prolific
Poultry Food tbs said this will keep them
healthy, and make them lay like :" the old
scratch" The Food is sold almost every
where, and twenty-five cents will buy a
pound box. l.. b. Lord, Proprietor Bur-
iington, VI Sold in Montpelier by Marvin
& Sherburne.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

BUcKLEN's ARNIcA SALvR.--The best salve
in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers,
salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped
hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin erup-
tons. and positively cures piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed TO give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price
twenty-five cents per box. For sale by G.
Bakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

MERCY is so good servant that it
will never allow its master to die beg
gar. The virtues that lie in Warmers
Log Cabin Plasters are as beneticent
and lasting as the qualities of mercy.
Best and cheapest poroused plaster in
market
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

Piles Piles ITCHING PILEs!--Symptoms
Moisture; intense itching and tinging, most
at night; worse by scratching If 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. DIR. Swayne & Son, Philadel-
phia, Penn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

AN old edition of geography has this
" Albany has four hundred inhabitants, all
standing with their gable ends to the
street" A handsome sight.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

THE reason Mohammed refused to go to
the mountains was because the hotel rates
were so high.-Lte.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

Do you suffer from scrofula salt rheum
or other humors? Take Hoods Sarsaparilla,
the great blood purifier. One hundred
doses one dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03
ANNUAL MEETING.

surance Company win be held at the ONCE OF said
saa pa IN monpehsr' on ednesday oe,0oet ~
a Board OF Directors for the year ensuing and the
transaction OF any other legal business.
JOHN n SENTER, Secretary,
Montpelier, September ", 1855.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

ROBERT BROWNING claims kindred,
Scotch, German, Creoles and English
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

IT is said that the lawn order society is
responsible for the Keep off the grass "
edict.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-03

UNEAsILY lies the tongue that hasn't the
evidence to back it.-Brlington Free Press.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-02
POISONED FRUIT.
An Incident Showing the Terrible Con-
sequences of Unripe Fruit and the
Mysterious Dangers of the Season.

An Incident Showing the Terrible Con-
sequences of Unripe Fruit and the
Mysterious Dangers of the Season.
The inhabitants of the city of New
York became greatly excited recently be-
cause cargo of poisoned fruit was re-
ceived and distributed in the metropolis
from which several people became sick.
Poisoned fruit is bad enough, it is true,
but how about the green fruit that is sold
and devoured during the entire summer?
How about the poisonous water that is
drank by the millions in the cities of the
land every day2 How about the hot
weather that produces disease germs in
the air and in the water? All these are
poisons far worse in their effects than
single cargo of poisoned fruit and men,
women and children have to fight against
them all summer long But the question
is asked, what can we do? Unripe fruit
is shipped to the city, and we are often
compelled to eat that or none at all. The
water may be bad, but what can we
drink?
There is only one way, of absolutely
preventing these poisons, or checking
them before they produce fevers, dysen-
terry, cholera Or death, and that is by the
this now and pure whiskey is the first
anybody is prostrated with summer sick.
ness. II is for this very reason that
Dufly's Pure Malt Whiskey has become
so phenomenally popular. Is is superior
to ordinary whiskles, for, besides being
absolutely pure and free from fuse oil, it
contains medicinal properties which en-
able it to certainly kill all disease germs
that may be in unripe fruit, poisoned
water or overheated air. Taken in glass
of water It kills all poison that may pos
sibly be in the water; taken with little
ice it becomes refreshing drink and a
suYe preventive of all summer dangers.
The Washington critic., 1888-07-02
THE CIvIu SERVICE.
Changes That Will be Made by the New
Order.


Order.
Though the extended classification of
the Departmental employees of the Gov
eminent, promulgated by the President,
is already in effect, there are some
points i'm connection with IL which are
not entirely settled and will not be until
the Civil Service Commission rules on
them. Anent the subject, Commissioner
Oberly said this morning that there was
as vet nothing new that was not indicated
in the new order already published.
There has been, he said, no change in
scope by extending the clerical classiica-
tions. Neither will the new classifica-
ton have any beneficial effect upon the
additional employees, save that it gives
them eligibility for promotion TO higher
grades in the classified SE"'Sb which
they were not eligible folNA, lore, unless
they passed the examinations and en-
tered the classified service.
The order will give none of the EN-
ployes affected by it any increased leave;
in fact, will have no effect save to include
some positions in the classified service
which were before outside It, and make
appointments to them subject to exami.
nation
All the employees of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing are now in the class
flied service, save laborers and workmen.
Whether plate printers and similar en-
ployes are included or no will not be
known until the Commission rules on
that point.
The order will affect more employees in
the Treasury Department than in any
other, and the next largest number will
be in the Interior Department.