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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Fly Away Jack.

Did you ever play 1.-TWO little black
birds?" l learned how when l was a
child, and l am sure 1 had a hundred
good times mystifying my playmates by
the simple little trick. If you would
like to try it learn first this easy rhyme
-" Two little blackbirds sitting on HILL
One named Jack and the other named Jill;
Fly away Jack fly away Jill
Come again Jack come again JIM"
Take two small pieces of black court
plaster and stick fast to the nails of
your index fingers. If you haven't the
plaster tie on black thread. Now you
are ready Shut your thumbs and all
your fingers except the first, which you
you lay with their conspicuous black
spots on the table or stand in front of
you. Then repeat with lively sing
song the above rhyme, keeping time
with your outstretched fingers, lifting
one as you lower the other. When you
say ely away Jackr' throw your
right hand suddenly back over your
shoulder, and shut your finger into your
palm, Strengthening at the same time
your middle finger and bring it to the
table. When you say Fly away Jill!''
do precisely the same thing with your
left hand. AT Come again Jack !"
toss back your right hand again,
doubling up the middle finger and
Strengthening the first, quickly follow
ing with the left at " Come again JillI''
You will be surprised to find how few
children will see through the innocent
fraud, and how you will be asked many
times to "do it once more" by some
little one who hates to give it up. But
you must be quick or you will be caught
When l played it for little girl the
other day she thought it the most Won
derful performance in the world, and
even her father, watching it over hei
curly head, looked somewhat puzzled
for a moment.-MrS. George archibald
IN Standard Of the Cross.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

CUFF FAsTENERs.-It is a nuisance
to have to pin on ones cuffs every time
they are worn to keep them in place,
and then again the constant pinning
wears out the cuffs quickly. A simple
way of securing them, and at the same
time dispensing with pins altogether, is
to sew little loops of elastic braid or
cord on the inside of the dress-sleeve
near the wrist. When the cuff is put
on catch the loop around the cuff button
on the inside of the cuff and there you
have it as "neat as pin," and the
cuff is always in its place. Try it and
see if it isn't an Improvement on the old
method.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

" | REMEMBER" said a Detroit boy
to his Sunday-school teacher, "you told
me always to stop and count fifty when
angry" Yes? Well Pm glad to
hear it. 1t cooled your anger, didn't
it?" "You see boy came into our
alley and made faces at me and dared
me to fight. | was going for him. He
was bigger'n me, and I'd got pulver-
lied. remembered what you said and
began to count" "And you didn't
6ght?" "No, ma'am. Just as | got
to forty-two my big brother came
along, and the way he licked that boy
would have made your mouth water.
| was going to count fifty and then
run. "-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

THE New DIsCovERY.-You have
heard your friends and neighbors talk
ing about it, You may yourself be
one of the many who know from per-
sonal experience just how good thing
it is. 1t you have ever tried it you are
one of its staunch friends, because the
wonderful thing about it is that, when
once given trial, DR.. Kings New
Discovery ever after holds place in
the house. If you have never used it
and should be afflicted with cough,
cold or any throat, lung or chest
trouble, secure bottle at once and
give it a fair trial. 1t is guaranteed
every time, or money refunded. Trial
bottles free at any drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
A Gloomy Prospect.


When the spring is nearing,
And the skies are clearing;
And love In the heart of youth and maid
nest is making,
And flowers are waking
And the birds return to the grove and gade
When the brooks are flowing
And the grass is growing,
AND the warm winds blowing over greeting leas
And the woods camorous
With the buebirds' chorus,
And the buds appear ON the cherry.trees;
Then the housewife musters
Her mops and busters,
And ties a towel round her head and chin
And the husband humble,
Who dares not grumbe
Well knows spring cleaning will soon begin
At night returning,
For quiet yearnng,
He finds his wife in tattered gown,
No supper waiting
nd-hOw-aggravating-
His home, poor man. turned upside down.
boston Courier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

AN IMPERATIVE necessity pure
air is to an unhealthy locality, what spring
cleaning is to the neat housekeeper, so is
Hoods Sarsaparilla to everybody, at this
season. The body needs TO be thoroughly
renovated, the blood purified and vitalized,
the germs of disease destroyed Scrofula,
salt rheum, and all other blood disorders
are cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the most
popular and successful spring medicine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

PILKs PILEsl ITCHING PLRsl-SymptomS,
Moisture; intense itching and tinging, most
to continue tumors form, which often
bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore
SwAySK'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.
Philadelphia, Penn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Our Nous ano Girls.
True Philosophy.

what's the use Of fretting?
What's the use Of crying?
What's the use Of dreading2
what's the use OF signing?
what's to come will come
Now, that there's no denying;
And what is past is past
To that there's no replying.
To make the present beautiful
Is what we should be trying,
In kindly words and noble deeds
with one another vying,
So let's have smiles instead of signs,
And all our tears be drying.
ST. Nicholas
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
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Contributions to this department may be sent
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rectly to THE wAToHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
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Bronchitis Asthma Peusy
all other remedies fail Ffty
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

THOSE who blow the Goals of others strife
may chance to have the sparks in their
faces.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
DR.. Henry Bakers Mandrake BitterS are

oune Indigestion Diseases
Skin
Bowels and Digestive good working ORDER and perfect health will
mildly
blood bottle. sale by all dealers md
Burlington
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Henry Johnson & Lord, ProprietOrs Of
Arnica and Oil Liniment for Man an,

best remedy rheumatism Neuralgia, Cramps. Spns Bruises
all other
Aches and efectua Remedy for Calls Strains Scratches
most
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and bottle. Sold everywhere
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04
How to Wash.

l would like to give my method of
washing, which think superior to using
kerosene OIL I have followed it for
years and it has given me the greatest
satisfaction. | make fluid of one pound
whitewash lime and two pounds salsoda
to quarts of water. Put them together
in kettle (either brass or granite ware)
and let them come to scald. Set away
till settled, pour off the clear liquid into
old glass cans or n stone jar and it is
ready for use. Put a tea cup of the
liquid to about three pals of cold water
in your boiler, shave up about a quarter
pound of good soap Ga little more if your
water is hardy into hot water and dis
solve, add to the cold water in boiler and
put in your white clothes. Boil for about
15 minutes, take out into your tub, suds
and rinse in clean, blue water and you
will find that they will need very little
rubbing and will go on the line as white
as If bleached. While your white clothes
are coming to a boil, you can wash out
the brown towels and ether pieces in
little suds ready for the next boil. If
any of the readers of the BEE will try
this plan, would like to have them re-
port their success.-[ Penelope.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Philadelphia has another millionaire
philanthropist, who follows the example
Of Stephen Girard by devoting between
81, 900, 900 and $4,000 900 to teach lads
trades and train them in habits of indus
try and frugality. Williamson's Free
School of Mechanical Trades it is to be
called, after its founder, Merchant Isaiah
V. Williamson, in which boys between
IL and is years of age are to be educated
free of cost by binding themselves as in
dentured apprentices for three years.
These boys are to be given good com
mon school education, but only so much
of the natural sciences and mathematics
as will be useful in trades, each boy be.
ing obliged to learn one good mechanical
trade thoroughly. The boys are also to
be given habits, as far as possible, of in
dustry, frugality and thrift and especial
ly taught to always speak the truth.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Samp Mortar Rock is located a short
distance from the geographical center OF
the town of Fairfield. The Rock, noted
for its association with aboriginal days,
is about 100 feet in height and the NOR
tar, from which the place derives its
name, is a cavity about Is inches deep
and one foot in diameter, dug out near
the edge of the top of the Rock. In this
basin, it is supposed that the indians
pounded their corn and made their samp.
Places cut out near the primitive mill APP
parently served as foot hold for the
workman, while engaged in his task OF
beating the maize. On the whole, the
place is wild, romantic and picturesque
and is resort, to some extent, for small
picnic parties in the Summer season.
Visitor.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Even Jerusalem is rousing from the
lethargic slumber of centuries. Jewish
barracks shoot up in the environs Of the
city like mushrooms. The Italians have
built girls school; the German Catho-
lies have built retreat for pilgrims, ais
have also the French. The German
Protestants have erected hospital for
lcpers called the s'Help OF Jesus while
the Russian church has built tower
ON the Mount of Olives. The sacred city
may yet once again resound to the
hum of busy life. In the midst OF this
building, new revelations are coming to
Ms from this land to confirm our Bible.
For instance, another relic of the far
away past Is reported to have been dis
covered, no less than the Pool of Bethes-
da, which James Glashier, chairman Of
the executive committee Of the Palestine
exploration fund, writes to the Times to
say that Herr Schick has found. Re-
Gently, certain works of Algerian monks
revealed a large tank cut in the rock,
with u steps leading down into IL; and
now Herr Schick has discovered sssis-
ter pool, lying end TO end, 60 feet long
and OF the same breadth If,therefore,
each side Of the twin pools had had a
portico and there was one in the wall Of
separatlou, we get the pool with five
uprches, which Bethesda had. Thus one
after another are sites mentioned in Ho-
Isl Writ being verified.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04
South Africa's Diamonds.

The diamond mines of South Africa
are in Griqualand West, $40 miles north
east of Cape Town, 1000 feet above the
sea and, since 1868, they have produced
more diamonds than the whole world
had produced in the previous 200 years.
The early miners worked the sands of
the Vaal river and had to pay $3.50 for a
single passage thither from the coast,
but now, though the river diggings are
continued, companies representing $780,
100000 capital and employing over TO- 0C
natives and 1900 European overseers are
digging deep into the bowels of the earth,
where they found 20,000,000 worth of
diamonds in 1887, while q railroad now
connects the mines with the outside
world and the mines have a population
of nearly 10000 souls. The four large
mines, Kimberly, DeBeers, DuToit's Pan
and Bultfontein, are within a radius of a
mile and a half and cover about 20 acres.
They have II miles of tramway, employ
$500 horses, mules and oxen, not to speak
OF $50 steam engines of 1000 horse-pow.
er. Labor costs $50, 1000, 900 year and
more Is spent for fuel and supplies. Al
nooR and sunset, blasts are set off in the
mines, after which the earth and rock are
raised from the shafts, broken and final.
ly carried Into a machine which brushes
the rocks and earth, but saves every dla-
mond, even to pin heads size. The De
Beers mine, up to 1885, had yielded dia-
monds worth more than $50, 200, 900 from
100000 cubic yards of earth and $4,000
yards of rocks. Among the big stones
found are the Victoria, the largest white
brilliant, $50 carats, valued at 81 200, 900
Stewart, l2s carats; Tiffany, finest vel,
low diamond in the world, l25 3-S carats
DuToit, 244 carats in the rough; Great
Orange, 10 carats; Porter Rhodes, per.
fectly white, $50 carats before it was cut
Since they were started in 1869, these
mines have yielded over seven anC
a half tons of diamonds, worth nearly
S500,0o0,000 after cutting. A diamond
weighing IL carats is big find in the
mines of Brazil, but these mines yield
them many times larger and in great
numbers.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Henry M. Stanley.

Henry Stanley, the African explorer,
Is undoubtedly one of the most interest
ing figures in modern history, for his
whole life reads like a romance. Born
near Denbigh, Wales, in 1910, he was
named John Rowlands and was for 10
years an inmate of the st. Asaph poor
house. He went to sea at Is as cabin
boy in a trading vessel. At New Or
leans, Merchant Henry Stanley adopted
John Rowlands, the sailor boy and nam
ed him Henry Stanley. He wore both
Confederate grey and Union blue during
the war and was amateur correspondent
as we'll. Stanley first visited Africa to
write up the campaign of Gen Napier's
army over the stony uplands and treeless
hills of Abyssinia, after which he found
the lion-hearted Livingston, lost in the
African jungles and, in the Winter of
1873, marched with Sir Garnet Wolseley
through the rank, spikey, poisonous veg
citation of Ashantee, reeking deadly va
pors. The next Autumn, he settled the
geographical puzzles connected with
Tanganyika and other equatorial lakes
and traced the mysterious Lualaba into
the mighty Congo torrent, surmounting
tropical fever, savage enemies, tangled
jungle, water floods, famine and almost
death itself; eight months of terrible
misery, during which he fought 80 bat
ties and survived strain that killed
every one of his White companions. For
four or five years, Stanley was engaged
IN establishing stations along the 1400
miles up the Congo to Stanley Falls,
route for trade into Central Africa and
then he plunged again into the labyrinth
of equatorial Africa leading relief ex-
petition to Emin Bey. Late advices
show that he relieved him and, August %,
1888, was well and had plenty of stores.
Stanley had had 122 fevers previous to
his last tour into Africa, but the reading
world will hope that his indomitable
pluck will once more lead him through
miasm, jungle and barbarians to tell
again the story of his latest exploits.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Germany requires its workmen to in.
sure, which secures them doctors, medi-
cine and half wages for - weeks, after
sured against accidents, whose expenses
are to be met by the employer. In 1866,
1925, 1913 worllmen were insured, among
whom were 100, l59 accidents, while 600t
indemnity for the death of the insured
The indemnities paid amounted to $415,.
900, it cost $685., 900 to manage the insur,
ance and there was a reserve fund of 81,
232, 900.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04
Weekly Sermon.

Beloved: My text is found in the
proverbs of Noman," verse three, chap
ter one, "Better is an every day Christi
anity than IA long prayers on Sunday"
The prophet teaches us by this proverb
that religion is more than a sanctimoni-
GUS smile or Pharisaie monologue,
though both may have their place. In
his time, evidently, there were men who
were very pious on Sunday, who needed
to be watched when they did business on
Monday morning. For they strained all
their religion out OF their natures and put
and only took dose once Il week. My
brethren, the prophet must have had in
mind the minister who breaches elo-
quently on love and then all the week
makes his home bedlam of hate. He
must have known the farmer who always
puts the big potatoes ON top. He must
have met the doctor who will take the
last dollar from poor widow to pay his
exorbitant charges. Yea verify, he must
have had as neighbor the man who an
swered the cry of the poor for potatoes
by long prayers. Plain blunt Ben Frank
lin once said that 'sHe who shall intro
duce into public affairs the principles of
primitive Christianity will revolutionize
the world" andI suppose those principles
are summed up in the words "Seven day
Christianity" Prayers are all right in
their place. Only, instead of wasting
them all on Sunday, we need to say one
and stop cheating Neighbor Jones on the
hay trade. And, instead of finding fault
and critieislng poor Uncle Tom for his
poor service, to go and help the man who
can do no better. Yea, so saith the
prophet Selah.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04
THE SECULAR PULPIT.
They shall call his name Emmanuel, which be-
ing interpreted is God with us.
Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace,
good will toward men.-GAngel song.
Thoughts for the Thinkers,

TO dare to be alone in the right is Civ
en- to few.
There is little influence where there is
not great sympathy.
What want is not to possess religion
but to have religion that shall possess
me- Charles Kingsley.
The man who fights the devil with
Satans own weapons will get deserved
ly beaten.
the Advent season has in it the stern
but salutary lesson of inevitable judg-
ment and the sweeter suggestion of a
Saviour, who, while he comes to judge,
comes also to comfort, heal and inspire.
Councilman.
The Salvation Army had "self deni-
al week. recently, in which the officers
abstained from milk, tea, sugar, or meat
as they best could. They raised about
$25, 900 by the self denial of the week.
Strange is it not that some of our churches
in New England don't try that way to
raise money, instead of by the prevalent
"Fair." If the ladies would go without
new bonnets and the men let tobacco
alone and would keep it up for a year,
giving the money to the church, they
would get nearer to Christ and have more
money for the cause Of the Master. The
religion of self denial is what We need.
Marshal Booth of the Salvation Army
says that within the last II years a mil
lion men and women have been rescued
from the slums and transformed into So
Der Christian citizens through the worl,
of the Army. And yet some men have
only unqualified condemnation for this
phase of work for Christ. Where is the
sect that can make better showing
working among such people?
The institution of the Christmas ami
versary is attributed by some to Pope
Telesophorus, who died A. d. 1873.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Kansas City now puts its population at
5,o34, gain Of 10000 in q year. II
has eight packing houses, Chicago alone
surprising it in the United States and II
handles 100000 cattle, 2,350,O00 hogs,
$4,000 sheep in a year. Its 81, 100000
OF manufacturing capital, employs l3, SOC
workmen, annually producing goods
worth $4,000, 900. 1t Is the focus of %
railroad lines and its clearing house re-
turns, 1887 ,o0O,0 900, rank 10th among the
cities of the Union. 1t has debt OF
$70l 900, paying of S45,0 900, last year
and its tax Is but III mills.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Mrs Harrison is by long odds the BUSH
est woman in indianapolis. The way she
hurries about when she comes down town
on errands! She fairly scampers from
one place to another, keeping constant
eye on the carriage and reckoning the
coachman here and there in nervous,
business-like fashion, which gives him
small time to himself. She sees every
thing new in the shop windows, but
doesn't fail meantime to keep watch for
every one she knows or who knows her.
special.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Ferdinand de Lesseps, the hero of the
Suez canal, has apparently become the
curse of the projected Panama canal.
After unloading $4OO,00O,o00 worth of
Panama canal bonds on his fellow
Frenchmen, who had Urbounded conf
dence in the veteran of SO years, his last
attempt to raise funds has failed and the
French Government is looked to for help.
But the Monroe doctrine, America for
Americans, stands in the way.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04
China has built 81 miles of it's first rail
road and will continue it to Pekin, CAPT
tai of the Flowery Kingdom.

Philadelphia has had five months of
high license, which has reduced the num-
Der of its saloons from COCO to 1900, de-
creasing the commitments to the county
prison 5000, or 62 per cent. and to the
house of correction $40, or 6s per cent.
The commitments of women show that
street walking has been reduced one half.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Ell Paso, Texas, is a coming railroad
center, for here meet the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe, Southern Pacific,
Mexican Central, Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio and Texas and Pacific,
while the Rock Island system will soon
reach there. FL Paso has $4,000 people.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

Chill, whose conquest of Peru has
made it the power of the South Ameri-
can Pacific coast, has about 43O miles OF
railroad, but has signed contract to
build $50 miles more in the next five
years at cost Of $l7, 100000. These
lines of rail- are both designed to open up
its fertile valleys and also to bind more
closely to Chill its Araucanian Indians
and the provinces acquired from Bolivia
and Peru.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

The Newtown BEE is hummer. In
six years IL has increased and multiplied
from 612 circulation to 1871. 1t contains
more Bridgeport than Newtown news
some weeks. The BEE is to Newtown
what the World is to New York
bridgeport Sun.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1889-01-04

The worlds dead creeds and false re-
ligions, the negations OF unbelief, the
fantasies of mysticism, these are the hay
and stubble of which managers are fash
toned for the dead Christs Of meaning
less Christmas, --sepulchres, not cradles.
Christian Weekly.