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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
Stray Shots.

GRAND ARMY men of Washington
county are signing petition, asking to
have the board of surgeons at Mont
pelier retained by the new administra-
ton. A petition is also being signed
asking for the appointment of Chauncey
n. Hunt, M. D., of Worcester for a
place on the board if change is to be
made.
REV. ROYAL d. METCALF of Brook
field, soldier in the Union army during
the rebellion, contracted disability for
which, after struggle of twenty-four
years, he has received justice by way of
q pension. He had an experience with
claim agents that has taught him
lesson he is willing to impart to other
claimants for pension. He advises
them not to entrust their cases to
Washington claim agents. He received
letters and circulars from Washington
agents giving soldiers to understand
that they appeared in person before the
pension office and argued the cases of
their clients, the same as lawyers APP
pear before jury in court in Vermont.
He wrote to the commissioner of pen
sions, and received the following reply
to his inquiry: You are advised"
says the commissioner, " that attorneys
in claims for pensions are not per-
mitted to interfere personally in the
adjudcating of their claims, beyond
making inquiries about them of the
commissioner of pensions, one of his
deputies, or chief clerk. The attor-
neys file what papers are sent to them
by the claimants, and await the diudi-
cation of their claims, making occa-
sional inquiries relative to the status
thereof, which are usually made in
writing" (SignedD John G. Black, COM
missioner. Mr.. Metcalf advises claim
ants in conducting their claims to con-
suit competent attorneys in person.
He says it is important that the applica-
ton is properly made at the start; that
the disability for which pension is
claimed is correctly named and de-
scrbed. He says claimants furnish
affidavits by the dozen that are not
worth as much as last years almanac,
because they are not properly made.
A few affidavits skilfully made will
establish a soldiers right to pension
if he is rightfully entitled one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
A Departure in Newspaper
Advertising.

The next hall was an enormous GAL
lery, upward of 1920 feet in length,
devoted to atmospheric advertising.
Every one has noticed those enor-
nous advertisements reflected from the
clouds, so large that they may be seen
by the populations of whole cities or
even of entire countries. In the Earth
Chronicle building thousand project
ors are constantly engaged in display
ing upon the clouds these mammoth
advertisements. When Mr.. Smith, the
editor, to-day entered the sky-adverts-
ing department he found the operators
sitting with folded arms at their motion
less projectors, and inquired as to the
cause of their inaction. In response
the man addressed simply pointed to
the sky, which was of pure blue.
eyes," muttered Mr.. Smith, " a cloud
less sky! That's too bad; but what's
to be done? Shall we produce rain?
That we might do, but is it of any use?
What we need is clouds, not rain. Co."
said he, addressing the head engineer;
ego see Mr.. Samuel Mark of the me-
neurological division of the scientific
department, and tell him for me to 90
to work in earnest on the question of
artificial clouds. 1t will never do for
us to be always thus at the mercy of
cloudless skies "-Jules Verne's Year
1889, IN February Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
The Vermont Encampment.

The Grand Army encampment for
Vermont was held at Bratsleboro last
week. The Vermont association of
ex-prisoners of war was held at the
same place. Major Frank E. Moran
of Philadelphia, historian of the Ma
tional Association, delivered the prin-
cipal address on prison life at the
South. He is the author of number
of articles on prison life, including
the sketch of the Libby prison tunnel,
which was recently published in the
Century Magazine. The attendance on
the uncampment and the association
was large. Resolutions were adopted
favoring the reimbursement to prison.
ers of war for the money and property
taken from them while in prison; also
instructing the delegates to the ma
tional encampment to advocate holding
the session in 1890 at Washington, it
being the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the close of the war. Resolutions were
adopted eulogizing Philip II. Sheridan,
and a resolution of respect to the mem
DRY of the late Colonel John B. Mead
of Randolph was adopted in the same
manner, also one endorsing the objects
and purposes of the Sons of Veterans;
also recommending congressional action
in favor of Senator Hawley's bill grant
ing 50 per day to prisoners of war for
each day, if exceeding thirty, of confine
ment in prison, in addition to the regu-
lar pay. The delegates to the national
encampment at Milwaukee were in
structed to support Colonel w. G..
Veazey for the next national COM
mander. 1t was voted to use 81 200 OF
the fund now on hand, $500 of which
was appropriated by the legislature TO
erect suitable shaft in STANDARDS fam
lily lot in Burlington, to be surmounted
by suitable statue of the general. The
Woman's Relief Corps transacted rou-
tine business during the day and re-
elected the old board of officers for the
ensuing year, with Mrs. l.. w. Howe of
Brattleboro president. At the meeting
of the ex-prisoners of war fifty were
present. Major d. J. Stafford of Morris
vile was reelected president; j. S,
brennan, Hardwick, secretary and
treasurer; Captain C. p. Stone and Perry
Porter of Barre, delegates to the ma
tional association. 1t was voted to pre-
sent the state O'Day's famous picture
of Andersonville prison, to be hung in
the capitol at Montpelier, also to h old
the next annual session at the same
time and place as the state encamp-
ment; to urge congress to pass the pris-
oners' pension bill and also the service
bill recommended by the national en-
campment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

the president-elect to the humblest citi
zen in the Union. The great COM
mander, u. S. Grant, in speaking of
the armies of Europe, said the soldiers
of Europe were machines. Then, III
speaking of the brave men who had
rendered his imperishable fame posi-
BILE, be said the American volunteers
were better than the European soldiers,
because the American volunteers not
only moved like machines, but the
machines fought. | am not one of
those who will not give their just need
of praise to the men who led our ar
mics, to the men who lashed themselves
to the mast that they might better OBJ
serve the field of action. But it was
no evidence that because man was the
commander of regiment or the brig
AIDES of an army that he occupied better
position socially, stood higher or had
had more intelligence than the brave
men who carried the musket through
sunshine and storm. There were found
in the ranks of every regiment men re dy
and able to solve whatever problems OF
engineering, mechanical or civil, law
| that presented themselves. Why, il is
said of Sherman's army-and in speak
ing of that l do not intend to distinguish
it from any of the other armies, it was
only one of the branches of the army-it
repaired bridges and reconstructed rail
roads in such an incredibly short space
of time that the rebel commanders be-
lieved we carried them ready built in
wagon trains. The excuse given--and
l can prove it, if any one denies it-by
a colonel of the rebel army for not
blowing up a tunnel was that Sher-
mans bummers carried tunnels of all
sizes" In reference to pensions, he
said: "We will neither give sleep to our
eyes nor rest to our eyelids so long as
one man who fought the battles of his
country is an inmate of an almshouse
or is compelled TO beg for bread.N
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
Catarrh TO Consumption.

Catarrh in its destructive force, stands next to and
undoubtedly leads on to consumption 1t is, there
fore singular that those afflicted with this fearful
disease should not make it the object of their lives
to rid themselves of it. Deceptive remedies, con-
cocted by ignorant pretenders to medical knowl-
edge have weakened the confidence of the great
majority of sufferers in all advertised remedies.
They become resigned to life of misery rather
than torture themselves with doubtful palliatives.
But this will never do, Catarrh must be met at
every stage and combated with all our might. In
many cases the disease has assumed dangerous
symptoms. The bones and cartilage of the nose the
organs of hearing, of seeing and of tasting af-
fected as to be useless the uvula elongated the
throat so inhamed and irritaed to produce con-
slant and dressing cough.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase of
Catarrh from simple head cold to the most loath-
some and destructive stages. 1t is local and con-
stitutional. Instant in relieving, permanent in
ing safe economical and never-f failing.
Each package contains one bottle of the RADICAL
CURE. one box of CATARRHAL SOLVENT and an
IMPROVED INHALER, with treatise; price 81.
POTTER DRUG CHEMICAL Co., BOSTON.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
Questions Answered.

T. E., ST. JoHNsBURY.-The salary
of the commissioner of pensions is
$4,000 year.
w. S., NoRTHFIELD.- Round-trip
tickets to Washington, good from Feb
ruary 2S to March to go, and to March
s, to return, are sold for about 1913 by
way of New London, and by all rail
routes for SIG. Vermonters prefer the
New London route.
G. W., NEwPoRT.-The eastern di-
vision of the pension Office has charge of
all claims originating in military or
CARNATIONS from the states of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey and Delaware.
There are five adjudicating divisions
in ALL
F. NJ P, GRoToN.-The report of
the commissioner of pensions in 1887
showed 1926 pensioners in Vermont.
His report for 1888 showed 6,57l, an
increase during the year of 245. We
think there is a mistake in his report
for 1888 of over two hundred. We
think the increase is about $50 during
the year.
H. NJ, NASHUA, n. H.-Candidates
for the office Of pension surgeons do
not have to be examined as to their
qualifications. Surgeons are appointed
by the commissioner of pensions, who
also has the power to remove them
from office. The total number of pen
sion boards in the country is 63S. The
number of single surgeons $40.
G. S. s., WATERBURY.-The general
bill for removing charges of desertion
from the record of certain soldiers that
has been pending in congress so long
has been made an excuse for not pass
ing any special acts on that subject for
over two years. The general bill has
passed both the senate and house of
representatives, but amendments were
made in the senate, and it is now in the
hands of conference committee. 1t
is thought the bill will pass before con-
gress adjourns. The special bill for re-
moving the charges of desertion in
your case will not, therefore, be con-
sidered by the present congress.
j. c., KIRBY.-Your attorney does
not understand his business and has
made you the needless expense of $15
or S2O that you say you have PAID to
obtain the testimony of your comrades
to show that you were wounded, as
stated in your application for a pension
Cases like yours, where a claim for
pension is for wound for which you
were so long in hospital under treat
ment, require no testimony to estab-
fish. The applicant is ordered to re-
port to board of surgeons for exam
ination, and if the surgeons report that
they find the effects of the wound,
and their description of it agrees with
the record in the hospital, the pension
is granted without testimony. If there
is no record of the wound, then you
might be required to furnish testimony
such as you are now collecting. 1t would
be better to wait until the commissioner
of pensions called for testimony than
to furnish it ia advance in such cases.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

Two duelists recently fought in Paris
with bows and arrows. They were each
given a six-foot bow and culver full
of steel-headed arrows. Then the sec
onds fled. Shooting began at will. AZ
ter awhile one of them got frightened
and ran, and the other chased him,
shooting as he ran. The fugitive
climbed tree, and became target for
his pursuer, who shot till his arrows
were exhausted, and then went home
TO breakfast. The man in the tree was
pretty badly wounded, but will recover.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
The Grand Army.

Commander-in-ch Warner said,
at the Grand Army banquet in Boston
last week sour platform is so broad
our teachings so patriotic, our practices
30 conservative, our comradeship so
universal that there is and can be but
one Grand Army of the Republic. Our
mantle of comradeship, the warp and
wool of which are fraternity and char
ity, woven in the loom of loyalty amid
trials, suffering and death, is broad
enough to cover every comrade, from
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

EPoCH.-The transition from long,
lingering and painful sickness to robust
health marks an epoch in the life of the
individual. Such a remarkable event
is treasured in the memory and the
agency whereby the good health has
been attained is gratefully blessed.
Hence it is that so much is heard in
praise of Electric Bitters. So many
feel they owe their restoration to
health to the use of the great Alternative
and tonic. If you are troubled with
any disease of kidneys, liver or stomach,
of long or short standing, you will
surely find relief by use of Electric
Bitters. Sold at fifty cents and 81 per
bottle at any drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
Soldiers &uooet.
Pensions Granted.

To Andrew j. Getchell, Marsh6eld,
an increase from $16 to 1914 month ;
William Hunt, Montpelier, increase
from S4 to IS month; Coin b. Evans,
Moretown, increase from $40 to SIG a
month; Nathaniel X. Goodwin, East
Bethel, S2 month and $40 arrears;
Barney Kelley, Newport, increase from
Sd tn SS "A month
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
advertisements.


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dozen by l.. o. Emerson, to he used in high schools
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

PmEsl PILES ITCHING PILEs-Spmptonls
Moistnre 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, 1889-02-20

GO WANT to tell you secret" said
William Writ to his daughter g The
way to make yourself pleasing to 9th
ers is to show that you care for them.
This is the spirit that gives to your time
of life its sweetest charms. 1t consti-
tutes the sum total of all the witchcraft
of women. Let the world see that
your first care is for yourself, and you
will spread the solitude of the upas tree
around you"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

The reader says these were only coldsl Very
true But do You not know that nearly all
known diseases start from cOdsY They are
slight beginnings, but how frightful their end
ing 1t is only u slight cold, but it goes TO the
lungs and causes pneumonia and consumption;
only cold that flies to the heart and causes
kidneys, liver and bladder, and brings final
death. with lingering agony. No man ever died
of kidney or bladder disease who did not nrst
take cold no woman ever became confirmed
invalid who could not trace its origin to q cold.
Such being the terrible truth, the necessity OF
guarding these first beginnings in time must be
plain to all.
DR.. Gardiner, of the American Medical Col
lege, recently said while most colds go
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

HALLS CATARRH CURE is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of the system.
Price, seventy-fve cents per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

odd that lady buy anything" asked the
jeweler OF his new boy, as the lady in ques-
ton left the store, apparently in temper.
"She did not She asked me for an old
gold breastpin, and asked her II she took
this store for junk shop. Then she went
out
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
FARM FOR SALE,

The farm known as the Hiram Dexter farm In
wifiamstown, consisting of one hundred fifty acres
of land and suitable buildings, one and onehalf
miles from williamstown village, the road lead
ing TO Brookheld, win be sold cheap. Inquire of
j, l.. DEXTER, Boston, Mass or J. X. LYNDE,
Williamstown, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

This great Remedy is superior to anything now
known to doctors or medical institutions Tor
the cure of kidney or bladder diseases or Tor
female troubles, and | endorse it most
heartily"
The danger of small beginnings are too often
overlooked. Take them in time Use the right
remedy and only such remedy as has been
endorsed by the highest authorities and has
proven its worth by years of popularity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
HOW IT STARTED.
The Account of Two Serious Disasters
which came without Warning-How
to Keep Out of the Pit of Danger.

Mr.. William H. Coulton, of Worcester, Mass,
walked rapidly to catch a train, thus getting
into a perspiration, and carelessly sat in a
draught after the train had started. The next
day he was in bed with physicians attending
him. and the third DIV he died.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

Mrs. Frederick Man
ton, residing on Com
monwealth Avenue,
Boston, contracted a
severe cold while at
tending an evening
reception, which so
impaired her health,
that she never re
covered from its
effects.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
advertisements.
EVERY NIGHT | SCRATCHED
Until the skin was raw. Body covered with
scales like spots of mortar. Cured by
the Cuticura Remedies.

am going to tell you of the extraordinary change
your CUTICURA REMEDIES performed ON me, About
the lst of April last noticed some red pimples Ike
coming out all over my body, but thought nothing
of 1t until some time later when IL began to lock
like spots of mortar spotted and which off
in layers, accompanied with itching would scratch
every night unfit then the next night the
scales, being formed meanwhile. scratched off
again. In vain did | consult all the doctors in the
country, but without aid. After giving up all hopes
of recovery happened to see an advertisement in
the newspaper about your CUTICURA REMEDIE s
and purchased them from my druggist, and obtained
almost immediate relief. began TO notice that the
scaly eruptions gradually dropped off and disap-
peared one by one and have been fully cured. |
had the disease thirteen months before | began
taking the CUTICURA REMEDIES and in four five
weeks was entirely cured. My disease eczema
and psoriasis. / recommended the CuTICURA
REMEDIES to all in my vicinity, and know of a
great many who have taken them and thank me for
the knowledge Of them, especially mothers who
have babes with scaly eruptiOns on their heads and
bodies. i can not express In words the thanks to
you for what the CUT1CURA REMEDIES have been
to me. My body was covered with scales and Twas
awful spectacle to behold. Now my skin is as
nice and clear a babys.
GEORGE CoTEY, Merrill, Wis.
September 81, 1887.
February 7, lSss..-Not a trace whatsoever of the
disease from which suffered has shown itself since
my cure. GEORGE COTEY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

ltkts ItN'llAlN Nilh
direct to the kidneys
or bladder, / have
never known a case
where, if taken in
time, by the prepa-
ration known as
II UNITS Remedy,
they could not be
cured and expelled
from the system.
But where the cold
is allowed to linger,
in most cases, it re-
suits in continued
i'll health or death.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

GIVE, the undersigned, have known
F. ]. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
by the firm. WEST & TRUAX,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
" WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
" Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
f. H. VAN HGsEN,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

Thursday-Forgot to keep the scis-
sors out of baby's reach. Century
much the worse in consequence"
Mr.. jenkins forgot TO mail my let
ter to Harriet; as result letting her
come up from Bound Brook, yesterday,
to find the house closed and family out
of town"
+" Friday-Forgot my umbrella and
left it in the cars. Mr.. jenkins forgot
until after dinner to tell me that Aunt
Kate was expecting us to dine with her.
Consequence, she ate a cold dinner
alone after waiting an hour"
81 have once before remarked" in
terposed Mr.. jenkins, 6" that l would
be obliged to you for sticking to the ac-
count in the book"
1t will help US to make a just bal
ance, if we weigh consequences, re-
piled his wife, placidly. " Have pa
tenc'. l have nearly finished"
"Saturday-Forgot to see t at Bridget
put salt into the bread. Consequence,
it was insipid, but not the comments
made on it."
Mr.. jenkins forgot to turn off the
water in the bathroom this morning"
AT this announcement the gentleman
in question raised his eyebrows in sud
den recollection and looked slightly
apprehensive. Consequences, the
kitchen ceiling fell at four O'clock
Bill for damages:
To PPstrck's time spent in clearing away rub ..
To one meatdisb broken Is
TO one gravy boat tbroken ...............-.... g
To one glass pitcher (broken)................. 80
To two pipkins (broken) 60
To Sundays piece of roast beef buried in ,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

TONIGHT and tomorrow night, and each
druggists Kemp's Balsam for the Throat
and Lungs, acknowledged to be the most
successful remedy ever sold for the cure Of
coughs, Group, bronchitis, whooping-cough,
asthma and consumption. Get a bottle to-
day and keep it always in the house, so you
can check your cold at once. Price fifty
cents and $l.00. Sample bottles free.
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HOws' This 2

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo Ohio
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20

We can not do justice to the esteem in which
SOAP, an exquisite Skin Beautifer prepared from
It, and CUT1ouRA REsoLvENT, the new Blood
Purifier, are held by the thousands upon thousands
whose lives have been made happy by the OF
agonizing, humiatng, itching, scaly and pimply
diseases of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss OF
hair.