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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27
Corporal Tanner and Pensions.

Corporal Tanner, the newly-ap-
pointed commissioner of pensions,
when asked what policy he would pur-
sue in dealing with affairs of his bureau,
said: " l can best answer that by quot
ing one of General Harrison's remarks
during last campaign Gentlemen, it
is no time to use apothecaries scales
when you come to weigh the services
of men who saved the nation If l
were asked to define my ideas on the
pension question, should unhesitat-
ingly reply: A pension for every sur
viz ng soldier who needs one, and no
soldiers widow, father or mother should
be in want. l am going to take hold
of this mighty machine. l am not
fool enough to think have nothing to
learn of its workings. l am opposed to
these 81, 80 and SO monthly pensions.
If you are going to give man any
thing, give him enough to realize he is
getting something. If there is one old
soldier who has claim you are salts
fled is good one, yet has not quite
proved it, my policy is to assist him to
get his proof. You may say ] am OPP
posed to knocking out soldiers claims
because of technical shortcomings.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27

THE president and members of the
cabinet are Of the opinion that the
good old Puritan custom of observing
one day in seven as a season of rest
should not be discarded at the national
capital. President Harrison announces
that the White House will be conducted
on the siX-day plan. Postmaster-gen-
eral Wanamaker shuts up shop every
Saturday and on Sunday hobs up Sc
renely at the superintendent desk in
his Philadelphia Sunday-school. Sec
retary-of-war Proctor believes that the
Sabbath was made for the soldier as
well as anybody else, and will doubtless
soon issue an order abolishing the Sun
day dress parades at all the army posts.
The propriety of such move has often
been urged before, but General Sheri-
dan, it is said, opposed it, General
Schofeld, tie present ranking general
of the army, believes that only abso-
lutely necessary work should be done in
the army on Sundays, and has strongly
endorsed report of the inspector-gen-
eral of the army recommending the
abolition of the dress parade and other
unnecessary work on Sundays.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27

was at the front, working or shouting
for the most conspicuous schemes de-
handing money, and the majority of
his followers were not far behind. He
was the author and advocate of meas
ure to bleed the tax payers at once of
some 100000, and ultimately of a sum
larger than the entire aggregate of the
appropriations made at the late session
And he was an ardent yoke-felow in
all enterprises for other appropriations,
if perchance he might gain some votes
for his own pet scheme for Doodle. AS
usual, the Argus' assumptions of demo-
cratic virtue will not wash. The demo-
cratic call was for "brakes off " and a
clear track through the state treasury.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27
ddlattbman e. Journal.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81, 1889.

SOME New Hampshire towns are set
ting an example that Vermont towns
might follow to advantage. AT the re-
cent town meeting, Littleton voted to
establish free public library and APP
propriated for its support $500 year
for five years conditioned on the con-
tribution of 81 900 by individuals
within three months. Tilton appro-
priated $3.50 for its library, and Exeter
$500, as has been its custom for many
years. z similar spirit of intelligent
enterprise is seen in other towns in
appropriations for free Libraries, soldier
monuments, town histories, etc We
believe that judiciously-selected,
well-sustained and well-managed public
library is very efficient means of fight
ing the saloon and kindred evils.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27

OUR free-trade contemporary up
street has characteristic way of re-
producing, as a matter of original en-
terprise and investigation, variety
of general information cribbed from
its exchanges. Its plan seems to
be to wait till the matter considered
has become somewhat medieval,
till it assumes that people have for
gotten that the thing treated of belongs
to the realms of ancient history, then
the process of resurrection is under
taken, and it is made to appear as a
new thing under the sun. Its latest
exploit of this kind is the reproduction,
in recent issue, of the figures relating
to state expenses and legislative APP
preparations which appeared in the
WATCHMAN in the last days of the late
session of the legislature. The Yer
mont Sentry publishes the Argus fab
rication, with the remark that "the
Argus and Patriot sometimes hits the
nail on the head" If our complain
ing contemporaries had shit the nail
on the head" at the right time in
stead of " some time" their jeremads
might be somewhat ill-timed, but they
would be free from the faint of political
pharisaism. Pounding a nail-head
after the building has been wrecked is
very edifying business, and very
cheap way of establishing reputa-
ton for public virtue. But that's the
Argus all over. 1t was dumb as an
oyster while the question of the eX-
penditures, over which it is now she'd
ding crocodile tears, was pending
Considerations of revenue then bridled
its tongue, and the Sentry apparently
had its weather eye fixed on IA few sub
scriptions in Grand Isle county rather
than the public welfare for which it is
now so solicitous. The Argus of course
now jumps to the conclusion that % had
the number of democrats in the legisla,
ture been larger, the brakes would have
been put on and money saved for the tax
payers" So the milk in this demo-
cratic cocoanut is accounted for. Blu
how about the brakes? The leader
of the democratic squad in the house
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27
Interpreting the New School Law.

Answering inquiries from all parts
of the state, superintendent Palmer
gives the following Interpretation to GER
tain provisions of the new school law:
~ Section ninety requires notices of
school-meeting to be posted up in two of
the most public places in the district.
Clearly, unless this section is complied
with, school-meeting is illegal, and also
everything done in consequence of it-as
the hiring of teachers, raising of money, etc.
(2) A school district clerk can not legally
warn meeting, except the annual meet
ing, unless it is applied for in writing by
three voters of the district. (Section eighty
nine)
(3) The public money can not be divided
until July; for the new law, section two
hundred thirty-three, expressly declares
that the selectmen shall divide the school
moneys between the Sd and 9th days of
July" and chapter thirty-nine (section six
hundred sixty-one) of the revised laws, by
which division could formerly be made in
March, is repealed
must be reckoned with the attendance of
last year in the division of the public
money; because section two hundred thirty
five provides that the money shall be di-
vided Gin proportion to the aggregate at
tendance - during the preceding school
year." and section two hundred eighty-fve
provides that the school year" commenc-
ing on April /, 1888, shall be held to con-
tinue and expire on June 80, 1889.
(5) 1t is evidently the intent of the law
that each district shall support school
during the coming spring; for section two
hundred eighty-six provides that the super
intendent of education shall distribute sup
Elemental registers to record "the attend
ance of pupils to the end of the school
year" and the registers have been dstrb-
uted for that purpose.
(6) | also think that it is the duty of
school directors in towns that have abol-
ished the town system to provide for the
schools until July it is not plain why they
were continued in Office by section two hun
dred lightweight until that date.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27

A sELF-CANoNIZED saint: The New
York Voice takes great comfort in the
fact that "the Savior of the world y
and the apostles and other good men
were abused and criticised. 1t does
not follow that the editor of the Voice
deserves to be classified in any such
list. AT best he has been pettifogging
politician, and was not abused because
of the good cause he pretends to rep
resent, but for his misrepresenta-
tons. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-27

THE knell of the London Times APP
pears to be Par-nell. - Philadelphia
Record.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
English and American yyomen.

English and American girls bear off the
palm among the nations of the world.
There is, however, a difference between
their respective qualities of beauty. I
have elsewhere sufficiently portrayed the
sweet and coy beauty of our American
girls not to tell them the whole truth on
this occasion. The English girl is thor
oughly active in her pursuit of healthy
exercise; she walks, and runs, and PLAYS
lawn tennis q great deal; riding, if she
have the means, is one of her most favor
ite amusements; while boating and tri-
cycling is eagerly sought whenever op-
pOrtunlty occurs. Our American rose
buds, on the contrary, have very trying
climate to contend with; they take too
little exercise and too much iced water.
Inc result is that English girls are able
TO bring more roseate bloom to their
cheeks, to walk longer distances and to
stand much more fatigue; they are. in
fact, more robust and have better devel-
oped figures; and although there are, no
doubt, in New York, or in any other large
city OF the United States, a dozen women
as perfectly beautiful in form and face as
any chiseled by the greatest artists, our
American girls are in the main less bright
In color, more delicate and pale than would
otherwise be the case if they more stead
fastly resOrted to the invigorating means
OF health, outdoor exercise, long since
adopted by their English sisters, and to
which, doubtless, the latter owe their ex-
quisite forms and also the fat that thev
remain youthful in appearance much
longer than our compatriOts; in fact, an
English woman of 40 looks younger than
an American woman of 80 years; Of course
90 not now refer to women of the work
ing class.-Frank Leslie.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
Russia,s New Railway Rnnte.

The Siberian Pacific railroad has not
yet been commenced, and already a new
Siberian railway is projected It will be
called after the river Obi. Its connection
with the bed of that stream and with a
suitable port to the west of Walgatz
island will open a double new road to ST.
IBERIA by land and by water It is pro-
posed to "circumvent" the mouth Of the
river Obi, the peninsula of Yalmal, and
the Kara sea, which are difficult of access
owing to the masses of drifting ice. The
new route will only be 400 versts long.
taking a northwesterly direction from the
mouth of the river Obi to the Walgatz
sea, in bay of which harbor is to be
built. The site chosen for this harbor is
sheltered from the wind by the Pae-Choi
mountains.
The country being level and well stud
ded with forests, the construction of the
line will offer little difficulty. The entire
cost, including the harbor, is estimated
at 2O,OOO,OO0 rubles. Under existing con
dltions the transport of merchandise to
Barnaul, via Tlumen, Perm and st. Pc
tersburg to London takes three months.
whereas by the new line two months
will be saved. Western Siberia produces
annually 30,000,0Q0 Russian pools of
wheat. The opening of the Obi line will
materially increase commercial inter-
course with the west, and be the means
of supplying the European market with
wheat at considerably lower price than
that produced at home.-Paris Cor. Lon
don Telegraph.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
The Whole Art of War.


We are disposed to adopt the cus+oms
of European nations without takinr into
consideration why they exist there, and
the possibility that they are not necessary
IN our country. So long as the French
nation was considered the first military
power in the world, we used French tao
tics and wore French uniforms. When
the Germans conquered the French we
donned the helmet. We adhere to ririd
lines in ranks and drills, and to unneces-
sarily complicated systems, when every
ohcer Of experience knows that thev
have no value and are not used in actual
warfare.
A member of the national guard is
liable to think that he knows the whole
art OF war if he can take the prize at
competitive drill or target practice. on
an armory floor and with an uncbstructed
range In actual war he would not be
able to accomplish the facings in a plowed
neld any better than the volunteered a few
weeks, and the accuracy of his fire would
be materially affected by the unfamiliar
ground and the knowledge that there was
an enemy who might fire first. Modern
warfare is influenced in q greatly dimin.
lshed degree by what remains to us of the
tactics of Frederick the Great and his
time. ALI that is ever used of the endless
drilling, when in actual campaign. is the
passing from column into line and from
line into column by the simplest methods.
ana no other movements, no matter how
favorable the ground or how perfect the
drlll l.-Gen. August V. Kautz in The
Century.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
HOW IT WORKED.

Good morning, jack why I haven't
seen seen you for month past. What in the
world Is the matter with your You seem
TO nave renewed your youth"
Wen, Phil have Don't you remem-
per the last time l saw you, how miserable
was Sick and blue, and in that sort of
MOOD man gets sometimes when he feels
the most noble thing in life is to 90 STRAIGHT
to the devil"
Not so bad as that, 1 hope; at all
events you didn't go that way, YOU are
LOOKING far too happy and hearty
~. 1hank goodness, no or, rather thank
lhegar BItters. Do you remember that
09y saw you last, when you recommend
's't Gu I4aI a remedy to me so persistently, and
was first vexed then half convincedP ~
remember it perfectly. and Won
needn say another word on the subject
cine"
" No doubt of it everybody remarks
upon my improved looks and temper. but
l must reall lly tell you all about it. l cot
Jne old style, as you recommended. and
didn mind the bitter taste at all. l finish
ed the bottle IN about two weeks. and was
greatly improved, 50 much so that | deter
mined to change off and try the new stvle.
Mell, how did you like ?''
on told me yonr wife preferred the
new style, believe; well, l must saw I
agree with her. like the old style very
much' but the new is a finer, smoother
more expensive preparation"
l believe it is; in fact, have heard so.
and l wonder the Mcdonald Drug Com
Piany sell 1t for the same price they do the
old style. because it is really very costly
preparation"
Well, that doesn't concern us. Who
was 1t said that people fancied themselves
plous sometimes when they were only bill
i3us lI No matter | was only going to say
that believe people often seem wicked
when 1t Is only their liver, or their stomach.
or some other cantankerous organ of the
body so out of order they couldn't be good
if they tried"
And if all the miserable dyspeptics and
victims of biliousness headache, and the
thousand and one ills that flesh is heir to
would only take Vinegar Bitters what a
happy world this would be !"
l should recommend the new style"
never go back on the old STYLE"
We'll, they can pay their money and
take their choice, for both kinds works ad-
mirably."
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
Bond of a RanI, NTessenro,.

ut would be difficult to convince n
person that there was a single walk of
business life which was not oveTcrowded "
said the bookkeeper of down town bank
But in our business there are always
places open for alert young men as mes
sengers. The reason why the demand is
always greater than the supply is on ac.
count Of the large security required bv
the bank. The messengers, who have
certain districts to cover and who handle
large sums Of money every dav. are re-
quired to furnish bonds for $4,000. The
salary is 5000 per year, not counting the
Donus which every bank pays all its en-
ployes around the holidays and which
amounts in their case to $500.
There are many honest young men
VINO would look upon such a Job as a god
send, but they are unable to furnish the
bond, while those who can command the
security are apt to turn up their noses at
a JOB paying less than S3 per day. The
S2OO bonus, if collected in a lump. wouId
prove a nice little nest egg to manv of
these young men, but 1 am sorry to have
to say that such is seldom the case. There
IS sure to be Shylock in every bank who
makes a business of advancing on this
bonus at exorbitant rates Of interest. D
New York Evening Sun.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
Robert Louis stevensOn,s DrIsta,,e.

The other day, when reading Mr.. Ste
Tenson's charming story, "Prince Otto. F"
came across the following:
The night was warm and windless A
shaving Of new moon had lately arisen:
but it was still too small and too low
down IN heaven to contend with the i'm
mense host Of lesser luminaries."
Mr.. Stevenson is commonly supposed +o
De an accurate observer of nature, and vet
here we have him writing of the new
moon as having been lately arisen when
IN TACT 1t must have been Just about set
tlng, But this is not all. By a sort of
double barreled blunder he makes the
time OF this remarkable rising to be 9
O'Clock a. m, that is to say, when such
moon as he describes (say two days oldl
must have been, not merely invisible. but
at it's very lowest point below the horizon.
midway between setting and rising.-F.
1. Jones in Belford's Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
sho mna : -. -,

o.,it rtogsng s- Lady-Have you position va
e"nS ny IN your store for a.
Tnl Tla Merchant with hardening features)
,,,orSg noung Lady (modestly)-For sales.
W. Oiu merchant (warmly)-I have. miss.
So. 49, Sh,1tl ", nave one Of the best IN tic
htore.--Chicago Tribune. y '''o
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02

Don AphonsO, brother Of Don Carlos
OF spain, travelling as "Don Juan de
nuelva, Count de Bourbon" is in Turke-
stan and is astonished at the progress
made there along the Transcaspian rail-
way. at Merv, which five years ago was
q crowd OF felt tents and mud h1ts. he
FOUND brick houses and macadamized and
paved streets, and at the railway station
~ Bokhara was a laxuriously fitted up
puIIet with a young and pretty Russian
6armaid speaking French and German as
nuently as her native language. Twenty
years ago no Christian would have been
safe IN BOkhara.-NeW York Sim
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
odestly)-For a sales
TAXING women vvbo nr.,.,.

IN u 1iasnkend, i says traveller, the Chi.
w wno marry. All merchants who visit
hashpar are obliged to take a wife Az
soon as they leave the woman obtains
anotner husband, and thus the tax affords
Chicago Herald. - -
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
CrematIon Furnnoe. in -.

-Four large cremation furnaces have
been declared open at the great Partisan
cemetery Of Pere-la-C -Chaise. The question
Is agitated whether pauper bodies should
pe cremated by the Paris municipality
put there is such a strong feeling against
~ among the poor that the idea will prob-
eepiy have to be abandoned. It is usually
IN Sne wealthy who prefer cremation.-Ne1y
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
Paris, casa mn

aWenty Of the leading restaurants and
oeAss IN Paris are being united intoa COM
Paly, lts capital viii be q 500 600 francs
IA 9VV franc shares, $500 Of which are
to be offered to the public At par.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
LIBRARY or TRIBUNE rxTRAs.

Every year Ihe Tribune prints an Almanac ana
lnue& ana several bound "EXtrnsn lf K pro-
posed now 20 sysieuutize the nitbiirotf,,, - @
Extras ana 70 issue them, regniarlv onee
month, y number per year The Almanae ,5iii
De Issued ~ ~ old form, only with netg eoi,,,
bic and extensive additions 10 the oonfn,,. ~,
number for lss9' py ihe way, contnininw com Ie
pis plsls ieleIts on NE ffesidental election. Tbe
about monthly magazine sizq fhere ~ M isss , oi
or two numbers, per year. devoted ~ t ~ ~ ehe
ideas IN knitting and crochetp eaar e 5s etf9t
contain complete novels Others NH Si Slai VIII
up q entertaining features special ana ng,d ale
mre Politics, etc. Single cOpiol ,siety, lAtefa.
per oear, for the u numbers 81 osii@. Price,
THE TRIBUNE, New YorF
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
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Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
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Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
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Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
The New York Tribune
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Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
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Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
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Smyrna times., 1889-01-02

=. Sg-Ornamental Stock, or Fruit not mentioned
IN this list can be furnished at market rates
T. n. BURROWS.
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
F-ARRBL 600
021 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA.

Cban,niH, Cby Iiasrr. :. E in this state Of Iler. u.
.-''''- P'' safes the victor> in taal...- 'e.'
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
We have in stock l. for Fall and Spring Trade a
apple, Peach, Usage Orange, and
silver Maple Trees; SGrawber-
Fy and Raspberry Plants.

rear, Plum and Cherry Trees, and all other
NURSERY stock at the lowest Market
Price for First-CIass Stock
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02

y ~ RECORD and ACCOTNT i.'.r't +'. k
york ki''i's' a. ;. CORE, 10 Front ~,-'r, 'c.a-
Smyrna times., 1889-01-02

WINTER VARIETIES.
Langlord Seeding. Wine san
Timber Twig, Del. Winter
Ben Davis, cart Hons
Gibbs
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1889-12-21

HooDs Sarsaparilla Calendar for 1890 is
out, and the demand for it is certain to be
immense, for more "taking" calendar it is
difficult to even imagine. Art and utility
are beautifully blended in the lovely girls
head on dark olive background, and the
neat pad appended giving the months in
concise, readable shape, with history of
the year alternating in rhyme, and also illus
trated. Early application at the druggists
will be necessary to secure the gem. If you
fail there, send cents in stamps TO c. l..
Hood < Co., Lowell, Mass.