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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-11-24
DRIFTING TOWARD ANNExArIoN.

curious 10 reiate, bllnOugl the DOMINION IaI-
lament is Conservative, the Provincial Parlia-
ments of Quebec, Ontario Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, as well as Manitoba, are Liberal
with annexation tendencies by good majority.
Quebec seven-eighths OF the population ofwhich
is French, has for the past fifteen years been
gradually drifting toward annexation. Only
recently the organ of Premier Mercer came out
with an article advocating annexation, which
Lord Stanley, the GovernOr-General. quoted to
a deputation of Frenchmen as the utterance of
n traitor TO Canada, and a trap OF a few design
ing politicians.
In Ontario. as well in Manitoba, the farm
ers are nearly unanimous for annexation, and
it is only year ago that the Nova Scotia Par
lament passed aresolution that it was best for
the Province to be annexed to the States. The
Dominion Parliament quietly ignored il.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-11-24
Gladstone's Italian Journey.

BELGRADE, November 2Sd.-Seventy Radicals
have been arrested in connection with the cleo
tiuT-rfofS on "Wednesday
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
An Accident-PreventOr.

A most wonderful invention is re-
ported in Vienna. An Austrian en-
gineer has, it is said, designed truck
to run before every railroad train,
being maintained always at fixed, but
adjustable, distance in front by the
force of an electric current transmitted
along the metals from a dynamo on
the engine. The current is conducted
through mercury contained in glass
tubes on the pilot-truck. If, therefore,
the track comes into collision the tubes
are broken and contact consequently
destroyed. The interruption of the
current instantly and automatically
applies the brakes on the following
train. 1t is claimed by the inventor
that two expresses fitted with this sys-
tenn might with impunity be set to run
full tilt at each other. The collision of
their pilot-trucks would arrest the
progress of both trains before they
could meet. The element of human
fallibility is accordingly entirely elm
mated, and drivers may dash through
whole series of danger signals without
risk, being automatically arrested the
moment they reach the spot that is
really dangerously. James Gazette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Nationality in Boards.

Anobservant friend, who had been ex-
aiming a collection of faces represent
ing large number of the public men
in the United States, made the follow
ing general conclusions in regard to ma
tional types in the cutting of the beard,
which contain more than a grain of
truth The simple moustache, with
the rest of the face clean shaven, is the
prevailing American type" he said.
" The old-time Yankee chin whisker,
like that of the traditional Uncle Sam,
is no longer the national cut. In the
same way the old French type of the
imperial, or heavy mOustache and long
goatee, has given way in France
to close-cut full beard trimmed to
double points on the chin. The Ger
man and Russian national types are
heavy, full boards, parted at the middle
of the chin. The English type is
small, short-cropped moustache, with
small, square side growths. The gen.
eral south European type of Spain or
Italy is either an entirely clean-shaven
face or else a very small moustache
and goatee crowded close about the
mouth. "-BOStOn Advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

was discovered near the bridge, just
little further down the same ravine. 1t
was in small mountain. A stream
had worked itself, by gentle fluctuations,
from the top of the mountain to the
bottom, until it wore away a regular
stairway with steps, landings, grotesque
carvings, and here and there ceilings
fretted with glowing stalactites. Ac-
companied by guides with candles,
party of tourists made the ascent, en-
tering at the foot of the mountain and
going up inside of it, coming out at the
top. There was but one dangerous place,
point where the stairway turns and
where, just over the narrow edge of
the landing, there is an algss into
which a candle dropped went down
and down, growing fainter and fainter,
until at last every glimmer was lost
as if in a bottomless pit of blackness.
From the summit splendid view of
the entire Natural Bridge section can
be had. 1t abounds in forests which
are not equalled in America in variety
of trees. Studding the calm heights of
the Blue Ridge are some of the finest
specimens to be found anywhere.
Some time ago Frederick Law Ohm
stead, who laid out Central Park, was
here. He says it is the most beautiful
and interesting region of trees of
which he has any knowledge in this
country. The trees attain phe-
nomenal growth and are of the most
extraordinary variety. The hardy trees
of New England stand side by side
with the magnolias and the tulip pop
lar. AT the end of a mountain drive
known as "The Thousand Pines " is a
chestnut fifteen feet in diameter. Re-
turning from our exploring expedition
we passed through the glen leading
under the arch of the bridge. Even
though it was November we found
few wild flowers under the leaves that
had fallen so thickly all about. There
were ferns, too, struggling against
weight of fallen leaves, and the rather
ugly black stone was moss-covered. AS
we walked on toward the great black
arch beyond patches of sunlight played
hide-and-seek among the clustering
boughs above and shot CLEANS about
the tangled furse and underbrush. At
almost every step new picture was
presented to the already pleased eye,
while ever above us lowered the bridge
like guardian angel of the beautiful
little glen. - Cor. Cincinnati Com
nleTcinI
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

thought or mind enough to help them
keep out and make the laws that govern
even our own selves. Is this good
logic7 Is that what you call it? To
me it is neither logic nor good common
sense. Our women in benevolent in
stitutions, in churches, in the daily
round of work, may spend health and
strength and life in mitigating the eff
fects of evil, but when the question is
on removing causes they have no vote
or voice in the matter This is work
ing under difficulties that ought not to
exist. And can we sit patiently by and
not make an effort to change a law
which leaves us tongue-tied and hand
bound, unable to throw the weight of
one poor vote into the scale of justice
and mercy? Mrs. Craik says that ma
ture herself is against the side of
woman being equal with man. If she
is not his equal then she is his slave.
Is she willing to admit that to be fact?
is that the real true position OF woman
to-day in America, the home of the
free? Is it not true that Christianity
has been at work hard for eighteen
hundred years to reform nature. And
what has every reform been trying to
do for the last few years? The same
thing. If we admit in the slightest de-
gree woman's right to property or edu-
cation she must have the ballot to pro-
tect the one and use the other. Do
men claim for themselves every right
they deny to woman? They certainly
do. On what basis is this founded?
Simply selfshness. Do those who pay
taxes have right to say ho,c much
they shall pay, who shall spend the
money and how it shall be spent? The
safest place for the heroine is in the
thickest of the fight.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Vermont is Safe.

When l read the letter of "A. G. W."
in the WATCHMAN / made up my
mind that Vermont is safe at any rate.
Women who can earn money in the
garden and the field, and can also write
sound and acceptable letters for the
papers, are the ones whose sons are
honorable among men and whose daugh-
tiers are crown of rejoicing. | am
glad the old Puritan stock has not all
died out. Speaking of gardens, L am
surprised sometimes that farmers do
not take more pains with the vegetables
which add so much to the comfort and
health of family. l live in country
village where there are some good gar
dens, and yet every year since L came
here early vegetables would have sold
readily. Cucumbers, lettuce and pie
plant seem most wanted, and limited
supply is sent in from somewhere.
Green peas are wanted, and I believe
one might sell an acre of peas. Dopeo-
Pile with gardens know how easily dan
delions are raised for greens? We
planted packet of the French broad
leaf variety, l think it was, from Brat
tleboro, and the second season we had
all we could use and some to give away.
They are of good flavor and were as
good the last of the summer as at first, eX-
cepting that perhaps they needed cook.
ing little longer. Half dozen were
plenty for dinner, and it was some
what easier to 60 to the garden for them
than to hunt over half farm for a
mess and to clean the small. dirty things
afterwards. Everybody can have them
very easily. Kohl Rabi is another
vegetable well worth raising but not
often found about here. 1t looks like
a turnip on a cabbage stalk, and the
flavor is something between the two,
but very fine and delicate. 1t is sub
ject not easily exhausted, and we hope
those interested in it will give us theil
ideas as to the best varieties of good
things to be planted by-and-by.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Counting the Cost.

There is no duty that presses more
vigorously upon us than the duty of
" counting the cos" of living expenses.
Half the misery and consequent crime
of the world may be traced to failure
to heed the warning of this old proverb /:
"Pay as you go and keep from small
scores" The breaking of no funda-
mental law of life entails so much sud-
den suffering to a self-respecting in
dividual as a failure to count the costs
and meet them as they come. Such
failure may not result from dishonesty
of purpose; it may be due to ignorance
of the laws of food supply or to want of
systematic business habits, but to what
ever source it is due, the punishment
follows swiftly and surely. 1t is eX-
tremely easy to let debt grow to such
proportions that it is burden which
requires Spartan self-denial to meet.
1t is far easier to exercise little self
denial at first and not allow the debt to
assume such proportions. If the in
come is taken as basis and careful
estimate of expenses is kept, and these
are graded down to the income, if cash
payments are the rule, there are few
very industrious men in this land of
plenty who will not have enough and
to spare. 1t is the easiest thing in the
word for easy-going individuals to let
matters slip along, to keep their running
expenses far beyond their income, till
at last the reckoning time comes and
they find the cost counted out TO them in
bitter shame and degradation.-Iribme.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
The Discoverer Of SpectacIes.

Few inventions have conferred a
greater blessing on the human race
than that which assists impaired vision.
Dr. Johnson rightly expressed his sur
prise that such benefactor as the dis
coverer of spectacles should have been
regarded with Indifference and found
no worthy biographer to celebrate his
ingenuity. Unfortunately, however,
his name is matter of much uncer-
tainty. But it may be noted that popu-
lar opinion has long ago pronounced in
favor of Spina, Florentine monk, as
the rightful claimant, although some
are in favor of Friar Roger Bacon. M.
Spoon, in his " Recherches Curieuses
d'Antiquitie," fixes the date of the in
vention of spectacles between the years
1880 and 1871, and says that Alexander
de Spina, having seen pair made by
some other person, who was unwilling
to communicate the secret of their con-
struction, ordered a pair for himself,
and found them so useful that he cheer
fully made the invention public. Ac-
cording to an Italian antiquary the per-
son to whom Spina was indebted for
the information was Salvino, who died
in the year 1918.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
No DOOr.Mat Business for
Me, Either.
BY sEREPTA sNoDGRAss.

l was pleased with your ideas of this
door-mat business, Serepheny. That is
just my idea, exactly. But if a woman
wants to be sweet, lovely door-mat
why I say let her, and if woman
rather sit and pet little poodle dog
all day instead of helping or being in
terested in the great work of reform IN
our country, and trying to make the
world better by her having lived in it,
why l suppose she will, even though it
be as good as lobelia emetic to the
people around her. 1t is too true that
there are some women in this world like
the Mrs. Craik you wrote about, who
are everlastingly talking about the vine
clinging round the oak. 1 expect they
will have to go through this world
clinging all the time. But these
clingers are a nuisance, any way.
have worked hard all the afternoon
cutting them off the strawberry and
grape-vines, and thought how all kinds
of clingers are an abomination, and
have wondered what they were ever
made for, trying our patience so. But,
Serepheny, we cannot dispose of all
kinds so easily. They act as if they
had come to stay and to cling. But
shall stand on my own feet little
longer and let them cling that want to
go that way. | pity those who are
willing to lose their identity, self and
all, and be lost entirely to the world
and those around them-swallowed up
by another, even as the whale swal.
lowed Jonah. If men do possess
greater reasoning power than women
wish they would put some of it on ex-
hibition on this great question of right
and wrong. They tell us, when there
is any great moral question or evil in
our country that they find difficult &c
remove, like intemperance and others
that we may come and help them just 6
little out of their difficulty chow good
and kind, but we have not capacity OF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Comfort a Source of Profit.

The old idea of making the children
and young things of the farm hardy by
refusing them the comforts of life is
not yet obsolete. On many farm it is
used as a shield or apology for in
herent Unborn negligence. The house
keeper who is slack and slipshod in her
management has no appreciation of
the value of comfortable living, as she
knows nothing of it from experience.
The farmer who lacks enterprise and
industry is the one who leaves his cat
tie to find comfort on the leeward of a
rail fence and his pigs TO find shelter in
a mud-hole or snOw-bank and to refresh
themselves on dry corn and ice-water.
The leanness of his soul and the iciness
of his unfeeling heart are indicated in
the shivering and forlorn appearance of
his live stock. For the majority of the
suffering and discomfort on the farm,
be it in the dwellings or in the stables
and pens, there is no other reason than
that the man or woman at the head of
the concern needs to be born again.
1t comes not from inability or poverty,
but from want of appreciation of the
value of comfort as factor in happi-
ness and thrift. The sooner the stock
grower gets rid of the heathenish idea
that hunger and wretchedness add to
the hardness of his children and stock
the sooner will he get into line with
civilization and thrift. Discomfort in
the herds and focks is the great draw
back to profit. No animal can give
fair return for the feed consumed that
is uncomfortable and shivering. Heat
is the first essential for animal life.
The food consumed must make heat be-
fore there can be any growth of bone
or muscle. If the feed and shelter
given are not adequate to keep up heat
then the animal will consume the
stored-up fat in the body to keep up
heat. The sooner the shiftless learn
that shelter, bedding and even stove
wood or coal will furnish warmth
cheaper than fat the sooner will they
learn to provide protection against
storm and cold for their animals. -Er-
change.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

Two Ships.

THE SHIP OF DREAMS.
When silent lies the sleeping town
In its profoundest rest
There is a ship comes sailing down
Upon the rivers breast.
wide-winged rs that enchanted swan
She saileth through the night,
And purple grows the gloom upon
The magic of her fight.
The bark she bears no mortal name,
No crew of mortal mold;
Ulysses ship of song and flame,
OF cedarwood and gold.
She is the ship that Turner knew
On the enchanted seas;
She floats far isles of music through,
And isles of memories.
And she is mystically fraught
With dreams remembered long,
That drift on all the tides Of thought
And all the seas of song.
She has Ulysses by her helm,
As in the olden time;
This ship of diviner realm
And of a fairer cline.
THE SHIP OF DEATH.
When silent lies the sleeping town,
Unknown to human ken
Another ship goes sailing down,
Bearing the souls of men.
She is the ship of shadowy mist,
OF mist and mournful gray,
There is no gloom of amethyst
About her pallid way.
AS silent as that dim ship came
She steals into the dark;
She is no ship of mortal name,
But an eternal bark
Her deck is thronged with shadows wan;
She will not pause or stay;
SO speedily she bears them on,
All on an unknown way.
But sometimes, when the dusky tide
Hath filled the widening stream,
That wan and shadowy ship will glide
By the ship Of song and dream.
Wherein the watchers dimly know
A terror in the dark.
A pallor. but fading glow
Flushes the shadowy bark Select
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

WHEN will the average citizen stop
spending his hard earnings on cigars
and tobacco? Give it up? Well, when
he finds he can do without tobacco and
cigars, but not without DR.. BULBS
Cough Syrup.
SALVATION OIL, the greatest pain
cure on earth, is compounded of purest
drugs. 1t is guaranteed to contain
nothing of poisonous character. Only
twenty-five cents bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
In High Glover.

We've living on the toppest shelf
We've everything from goose to grouse,
hain't been licked for most week,
Cause we've got comply t our house.
When we're alone my ma is strict,
An makes me keep as stills mouse
But now make heap of noise,
Cause we've got comp'ny 7 our house.
We've peach preserves an pumpkin pie,
An Jelly cake three times day,
An I'm havin such a bully time
wish I our comp'ny come to stay.
boston Globe
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Not Dead but Resting.

BY ANNIE L. H., SOUTH NEW MARKET, N. II.
Please tell &C. S. F." that gloxinias
do not die when the leaves drop off.
The bulb remains in the soil, and after
it has rested few weeks will send up
new shoots. Many gloxinia has been
thrown away for want of this informa-
ton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

A DELICIOUS INVALID FooD.-When
you think of the nauseating compounds
made for invalids it does the heart
good to know that there is one invalid
food that is delicious, 1t is Lactated
Food, the best food in all cases of con-
valescence. 1t especially meets the
wants of dyspeptics, being easily di-
gested.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

PECULIAR in medicinal merit and
wonderful cures-Hood's Sarsaparilla.
Now is the time to take it, for now it
will do the most good.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

THE only true refuge from doubt
is the light of ampler truth.-Reu.
Peter s. MenzieS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

FAITH is nothing else than the souls
ventures; itventures 10 Christ, on Christ
and for Christ.-Od Writer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
Gbe 4uusebOlo.

Contributions to this department should he sent to
the agricultural editor North Pomfret, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18

NTOTICE.-Whereas, my wife, Bertha A. Davis,
~ has left my bed and board without any ustiable
cause, hereby forbid all persons harborng or
trusting her on my account, as shall pay no debts
contracted by her. CHARLES ii. DAVIS.
Washington, Vt, Jan. I, ISIS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-18
A WORD OF WARNING.

There white each represented to be good the o
ARE NOT but like all counes lack the peculiar remarkable qualities
the genuine Ask for "vory" Soap and insist upon getting it,
Copyright by Proctor
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17

NArunAs. lAs.-- have frequently
Inquired. sWhy don't Jasper have L.?
but have received no answer, and now
that u hes bean developed q orr
neiehhoring town % Petersburg. ~ DE-
hope The Jasper Gas Co. Will give : pun
o. Two of gas before 4 d1os entirely.
On Tuesdav, q Petersburg. the Pike
County Fair Association, while boring
4 vail for water. struck goe q : depth
OF l0o feet. The how u not very ssrong.
but q enough 20 create considerable o.
The gAs burns several lees
high. 4 we'll that burne eevsral feet
high, n the eaa flow u sleady. 0ught IL
b utilised, and q : depth Of only 1Oe
feet. moro wells can be bored 70 better
advantage than TO risk spoiling one that
bnvns several feet high By experiment.
Ing with Il. The Pike County Fab
would have great additional attraction
" The Handsome grounds are we'll lit up
|at night by natural gas from scveral
wel.s. IL would b. . natural gas fair,
end would draw largely. Can't the
Dubois County Society bore : hole OF
~ on their grounds
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17
PUBLIC 8PEAKlNo


Deoocraile Csudldsse Tor Eleo(os
Or The "a Dlolrioe. Will addroes The peo.
|ple q HayevIllo SATURDAY, SEPr. lsf.
L viii - made 10 occasion % grand
|plcnic. 70 which everybody % Invited,
A hickory pole viii b Faised In The
forenoon.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17

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whom ne thinks wtn ta8e nIs woEu 90
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17

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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-08-17

Two rood milk COWS With calves, and
1.-Two 3 year Old, colts, sod yeasIing
colts, lor sslo ehsap ~
Loo tho farm q Tie Rosslng u The rail-.
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