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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
The BlOOdhOnnd..

Some few years ago the idea of the
use of bloodhounds for detective pur-
poses was mooted in the daily papers,
and the howl of horror at the barbarity
of such proceeding that it raised from
the uniformed Was most amusing to
those who know the tractability of the
bloodhound. He was associated with
the tales of slave-hunting in " Uncle
Toms Cabin and "Dred," and was
supposed to be a ferocious monster,
endowed with witch-like attributes
and capable of pursuing his victim sue
cessfully under any conditions until
caught, when he would certainly tear
him limb from limb. The horrible
murders committed in the East End,
London, last year and the complete
failure of the police to trace the per-
petrator of these outrages were the
means of calling attention once more to
the qualifications of this old-time de-
tective. The daily papers were filed
with letters advocating his use: but,
from the thoroughly impracticable
nature of many of these epistles, fear
that the change in public opinion was
due more to strong desire for VEN
geance on an exceptionally loathsome
miscreant than to increased knowledg e
of the disposition of the bloodhound
AT one time the police received about
| 200 letters daily containing various
suggestions, and of these some 400 pro-
posed the use of bloodhounds. Some
of the newspaper correspondents
seemed to believe that the police had
only to take bloodhound of any kind
to the place where murder had been
committed weeks or months before,
and the animal would at once scent out
the trail of the murderer in preference
to thousands of others and infallibly
run the man down. In the beginning
of October | was consulted by Sir
Charles Warren, then the chief COM
missioner of metropolitan police, as to
the feasibility of employing blood
hounds to track the Whitechapel MUIR
derer, and after some correspondence
| took two hounds up to London to ex-
pertinent with. We ran them re-
peatedly in the parks for the informa-
ton of police authorities and various
representatives of the press, and suf-
ficiently demonstrated the facts that
the hounds will run man who is a
complete stranger to them, that when
they have come up to their man they
will not modest him in any way, and
that although the line may be crossed
by others they will not change. While
in London | never ran them without
the line of the hunted man being
crossed Gotten by quite number of
people,, but the hounds never once
changed. They could carry the line
across and for short way along the
gravel paths in the parks, but the ex-
periments made on the London stones
could not be considered as satisfactory
as we should have wished. Hunting
the clean boot on London pavement
is, believe, the most severe test that
any hound can be put to, and will of
of course require special and careful
training.-Century for June.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Child-Marriage in India.

A sensational case has recently ex-
cited public attention at Bombay, in
which Holkar's son-in-aw was charged
with cruelty to his child-wife. The facts
adduced in evidence show that the hus-
band was forty-seven years old and the
wife nine. The accused had already
been married fourteen times. The
father of the child sold her for twenty
rupees a month. She was seen on a
parapet of a house greatly agitated
and threatening to throw herself down
into the street. When policeman en-
tered the house she stated that her hus-
band had beaten her, and threatened to
kill her if she failed to undo knot in
his hair within five days. Eventually
the accused was acquitted, as the evil
dence was deemed insufficient to prove
habitual cruelty. The facts of this case
still further illustrate the iniquitous
cruelty of the existing practice of child
marriage and show the imperious
necessity, in the interests of common
humanity, of an early reform of Hin
doc marriage customs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
A Social Reform from the Kitchen.

1t is well-ascertained fact that, with
respect to about ninety per cent of the
community, the price paid for food
comes to one-half the income or more.
After this food is bought, how much of
it is wasted in consequence of bad
cooking? How much human force is
wasted in consequence of bad cooking?
How much does dyspepsia or indiges-
ton, caused by bad cooking, impair the
working capacity of the people of the
United States and diminish their prod
uct? Can five cents worth per day be
saved? Is not that very insufficient
measure of the difference between a
poor, wasteful cook and good, eco
nomical one? If five cents day can be
saved on food and fuel, while at the
same time that which is bought and
cooked may be converted into more nu-
tritious and appetizing food, the differ
ence in each community of 5000 people
would be 800, 800 year, or about nine
per cent OF the total product of the typical
community, which we have assumed to
be 81 200 600 year in gross. When
the attention of the labor reformer is
brought down from grand schemes for
altering the whole constitution of So
ciety, by act of congress or of the state
legislature, to the simple question of
how each person, each family or each
community may better itself under ex-
listing conditions, great progress will
have been made in solving all the prob
lens which are now pending EdWord
atkinson, IN Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
A Strange Freak.

Haw Pond is about seventeen miles
east of Cordele, Ga, and is perhaps one
of the most wonderful natural curiosities
in the state. 1t annually sinks with
roar about the middle of May, and in
few minutes every drop of water disap-
pears. Last Thursday about a dozen
Cordelians left for the pond. They
carried fishing tackle in abundance
and spent day and night catching any
number of the finest specimens of the
finny tribe. They met about fifty others
who had gathered at the pond to fish
and wait for the water to disappear.
Where the fishermen dropped their
lines to the depth of ten feet Thursday
night there was scarcely drop of water
Saturday morning. In day the water
had disappeared completely. For miles
around the ground is said to be I'm.
stable and liable at any moment to sink.
Only few weeks ago the bottom
dropped out in one place, and now only
the tops of the trees can be seen above
the ground. Every year large crowds
from the surrounding country gather TO
witness the disappearance, and this
year there were perhaps one hundred
fifty people there.-T'roy Times
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Fish ChOwder.

This is the genuine Down East
recipe, which the writer secured while
on visit to the Massachusetts coast
last summer: Three pounds of cod or
paddock cut in pieces, one quart of sliced
potatoes, one small onion, one quarter
pound of salt pork cut in thin slices, one
half pound of fresh Boston crackers Gf
they are stale they will ruin the chow
der), one quart of milk, one generous
tablespoonful of butter and two heap
ing tablespoonful of flour. Fry the
pork in deep kettle until brown, but not
burned; then over it put layer of fish
then layer of potatoes, well dredged
with flour, pepper and salt, and little
of the onion. Repeat this until the in
gradients are all used, and then pour
over hot water-not quite to cover.
Heat the milk in another saucepan, and
when the potatoes are tender add it to
the chowder, with the butter and the
crackers, which have been split and
soaked for few minutes in warm milk
or water. Boil up once, and the dish is
made. The broth should be about the
consistency of thin cream soup. The
nice way to serve this dish is to put
the fish and potato on large platter,
with the crackers in circle around it,
while the broth should be strained and
put in the soup tureen. This is an en-
tire dinner in itself-soup, fish and d
vegetable-and will, if good, be found
very satisfying and delicious, and moth
ing else is needed but a simple dessert
and little fruit.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12

The dressmaker who, like one known
to the writer, makes cramped waist
mark of vulgarity to her customers,
deserves the gratitude of the race.
Discoursing most eloquently recently
Minerva said: You t'ink l t'ink small
waist pretty Mol mol t'ink proper
ton pretty. The womens of dis country
know color, but not form; they t'ink a
small waist make pretty figure, no mat
ter the size of the shoulders or the
hips. You tink it nice to squeeze the
waist; the flesh mast go somewheres, it
is not lost; it either go up or down,
sometimes both, and l t'ink it vulgar
to make any part of the woman's form
prominent. American women like to
be thought modest. Many of them /
t'ink not SO; they not mean to be, but
they are vulgar, for they deform them
selves, make themselves noticeable by
squeezing the waist and so throwing
the flesh where it should not be. Is
there any beauty in squeezed-in waist
that belong to an undeveloped girl,
with the broad shoulders and hips that
belong TO the large, fully-developed
woman? / tink not. 1t is a pity
that the American woman not learn
that true beauty in figure is in the pro-
portion and not in the inches of the
waist. Very few American women
have pretty backs, because the shout
der-blades is like cheese-knives, they
stick out so; that is my trouble in fit
ting the back to hide this deformity.
What causes it? Why, the lacing;
they is showed out of place, crowded
out. No, will not keep as customer
a woman what looks like fool on the
street, or who is vulgar in her dress. /
can have plenty who are sensible and
will listen to what L say. l will not
make sleeves so a woman is crippled,
nor the waist so she is only hips and
shoulders-that spoil my work. Yes,
yes, you most all know color, but not
form, proportion" and she sighed
patiently as she picked up the results
of her skill. May her tribe increased
Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
MisteIlanp.
"More than Twenty Years Ago."

with tears upon q soldiers grave
bent wreath to lay,
And little David, standing by,
Asks wonderingly: what makes you cry?
love TO hear the music play;
I'm glad II is Memorial day.
Why should you cry7 The war, you know,
Was very, very long ago"
Not very long" l say; but he.
Reprovingly. looks up at me;
Yes, very long; you said, you know,
Twas more than twenty years ago"
The little sunlit face before
MY misty eyes grows dim;
What is but yesterday to me
Seems like an age to him.
Fresh in my heart the parting pang,
hear the last good.by,
As my brave brother turns away
On wars red field to die
But all say is Davy, dear,
Perhaps you'll sometime know
It takes not very long for more
Than twenty years to CO."
Marian Douglas, in wide Arake.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
The Meadow Lark.
by FLORENCE JOSEPHINE noYoE,
wAITsFIED, VT.


The sun was just peeping over the eastern
horizon as lark rose from its secret hiding
place and scared far above its meadow
home, singing as it went
My home is among the tall grasses
That grow in the meadow below,
Where the soft southern breeze gently passes
And waves the green grass to and fro.
My nest is both shady and coy
And built meath the warm summer sky;
In your search you will never encounter
merrier songster than l."
Thus merrily it sang, and nearing tiny
brooklet, whose laughing waters afforded a
cooling drink, it continued:
40 beautiful brook, where the fishes
May dart meath your waters COOL
Where the pebbles that form tiny dishes
Abound in each watery pool.
Where the light-footed fawn of the mountain
with safety may pause in the shade
And drink from your silvery fountain
That hastes thro' the opening glade
90 beautiful brook, may you ever
Flow on to the murmuring sea;
Forgetting your mountain home never,
Or the how'ry banks ON the lea"
And having procured its morning meal,
the lark started on its homeward Journey,
warbling so merrily that farmer paused
from his labor to listen
I'm away to my home in the grasses,
That is built on the low verdant lea,
Where the soft southern breeze gently passes
And my brdlings waiting for me,
al am nearing my hidden treasures,
That lie in the grasses low -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12

BUCKLIN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. Sold by all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Gbe YOussbulo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt. or di
rectly TO THE wAToHaAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12

IT was Connecticut boy who surprised
his teacher in reading, the other day, by his
Interpretation Of the sentence There is a
worm do not tread on him." He read,
slowly and hesitatingly, There is a warm
doughnut; tread on him. CARTS. Register.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Dr.. Henry Bakers Mandrake BitteYs al

Biieun Dyspepsia, Indigestion
of
Jaundice
ach Bowels and Digestive good working health will
result Ladies
they purify the blood Price bottle For all md
Henry, &Lord,P ropreto Burln
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
Horses In Battle.

When it comes to battle horse seems
to know everything that is going on,
hut ne does his duty nobly, and seems
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-12
advertisements.

WE wish to call special atten-
ton to our large stock of low and
medium priced Suits. They are
good-fitting goods and made in a
good, reliable manner. Sizes from
IS to A, at $3.50, $3.50 and $1,000.
A. p. FARWELL
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Assets Represented, $25OOOOO0OOO.
A. c.. BROWN e. SON.
FIRE, LIFE and ACCIDENT
Insurance Agents,
Both Foreign and American COmDanies Represented
II and American Companies Represented.
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Connectcut f1e insurance Company Assets, 100000
continental insurance Company Assets,
commercial Union Assurance Company Assets,
Fne ASSOCIATION OF Philadelphia Assets, 100000
First National FIRE Insurance Company Assets,
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Liberty insurance Company Assets, 100000
lancashire Insurance Company. Assets 100000
ne Niagara insurance Company Assets,
ne fhenX insurance Company Assets, 100000
Peoples FIRE insurance Company Assets 100000
Queen insurance Company Assets 100000
sun Fire Insurance Company Oldest in the World
LIFE AND ACCIDENT COMPANIES.
New York Lie Insurance Company New York Assets 100000
National LIE Insurance Company MontpeerVt Assets 100000
liaVelers insurance company Assets, 100000
Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company Assets 10000
70 Correspondence and Orders by Mail Telegraph Promptly
Attended to- Losses Settled Promptly Paid at this Office
OFFICES:
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drante BLOCK Barre Vermont
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Henry, Johnson & Lord, Proprieors of
Arnica and Oil Liniment for Ma

BEST Ihumatm
Burns and Scald and all other
and Aches 1t hecta Remedy Calls Scratches
trial will
and so bottle. Sold everywhere
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Nh. Downs Vegetable BaIsamjc Elixir


all
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
Central Kansas Teachers.

The meeting of the teachers of Gen.
trail Kansas at Junction City last Fri
day and Saturday was well attended
and productive of much good. There
were enrolled ninety-two teachers, of
which forty-three were from Dickinson
county. The large delegation from
here was due to the wide-awake and
progressive nature of the county's edu-
Gators and the untiring zeal of their
superintendent, j. s. Ford.
In addition to carrying out the pro-
gram as advertised the association was
organized by the adoption of consti-
tuition and election of a corps of officers.
The name selected was 1.-The Speer-
Winans Educational Association" be-
ing for the teachers of Dickinson,
Geary, Morris, Riley and Clay counties.
The officers selected were: President,
]. 81. Lee. superintendent Riley Co.;
vice-president, Supt. Bushey, Morris
county; secretary, Miss Wood, juno
ton City; treasurer, Miss Maude MUIR
ply, Abilene; executive committee, j.
s. Ford, Abilene, s. v. Mallory, juno
ton City, Prof. Bloss, Clay Center.
The place of the next meeting has not
Teen decided upon but it win probably
be Abilene.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
Re-Hearing Granted.

1t seems that the railroad difficulties
at this point have not yet been def
nitely settled. The state board of rail-
road commissioners, on the application
of the Union Pacific, has ordered re-
hearing in the case, which involves the
right of one road to require another
road, at common point, to accept its
cars and place them at the mills and
elevators to be loaded and transported
on a competing line, and has set April
20, at p. m, as the time for hearing
oral argument in the case.
The Santa Fe men and the elevator
and mill owners who have been re-
joicing over their victory will have to
curb their good feelings and await
further development. 1t was thought
all the time that the recent decision es-
tablished almost too sweeping a prece-
dent though it seemed to be only fair
ruling.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
OUR NEIGHBORS. l..
special correspondence of the REFLECTOR.
HOPE, April /.

Special correspondence of the REFLECTOR.
HOPE, April l.
Miss Sadie Earn, of this city, re-
turned home today from Topeka where
she has been visiting the past two
months.
Today was election day. The
straight city ticket was elected; A. NJ.
Crary, mayor; G.. B. Barrett, police
judge, and C., Nj. Teats, j. G. McNa-
NEE, w. H. Morrison, J. n. Burton
and J. n. Ketchersid cOuncilmen.
Quite number of our young people
will attend an opera at Herington to-
night.
Mrs. Chas. Hatfield returned to her
home in Mcpherson yesterday.
Mrs. J. II. Slemmer is visiting in
Junction City.
The "Gem" is on the boom. About
ten new families have located here
within the past week. All of our car
penters are busy putting up new build
lngs, our real estate men are busy, our
merchants seem to be happy and every
body in general seems to be on the high
way to prosperity.
A company of our young folks at
tended an exhibition at the Maple
Grove school house. The school, con-
sisting of about eighteen pupils, had
been preparing for the occasion, it be-
ing the last day of school, for the past
two months. The exercises were care
fully arranged aud very entertaining.
W. A. Stacy returned from Junction
City Saturday evening. He reports a
good time and large attendance at
the teachers association held at that
place.
Henry Neis is on the sick list.
W. Guthrey, our prominent druggist,
left this evening for an extended tour
in the western part of the state.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
Small PoX Banished.

James Adams, who has been nursing
the smallpox patients at Aida, re-
turned home this morning. He reports
the quarantine raised, the patients
well, and every danger of spread of the
disease abated. He brings the follow
ing certificate which explains itself:
JUNCTION CITY, March 80, 1889.
To ,ChOfn 1t mag c0nceTn:-This is to
certify that Jas. Adams has, for Dick
inson county, with me nursed the An
derson family for the last four weeks
in malignant epidemic of small pox.
1t gives ne pleasure to say that he
has performed his duty most faithfully
and honestly. His present clothing is
entirely new, fresh and clear of any
cOntagion, and the best 1 can wish or
hope for him is that his conscience and
deserts for the hereafter are as clear of
contamination as his person is at the
present time, and beg to assure his
friends in Abilene that on my profess
sional honor he has faithfully per-
formed his duty, both in respect to his
patients here as well as in taking pre-
cautions against taking this loathsome
cOntagion with him.
X. w. HAYS, M. ID.
G. E. SLEADMAN, M. D.
Members of board of health of Davis
county.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
The Band Benefit.

The Sons of Veterans band benefit
at the city hall last evening was huge
success. The room was crowded and
the excitement ran high until nearly
midnight. The music rendered was
very fine but the chief attraction was
the voting of presents to various par
ties. Geo. A. Niles was auctioDeer
and the fact that the boys netted over
$500 proves that he did his work well.
The votes were ten cents each and
the candidates in the various contests
received them as follows: For the
most popular young lady, Hattie Keller
SO, Carrie Dyal 20, Sarah Bonell 25,
Nellie Malott 5, Ida Upshaw 5; for the
most popular candidate for councilman,
W. n. Hendricks 1913, Simon Roths-
child 974; for the most popular candi-
date for mayor, Hon. c. H. Lebold
1878, d. Matteson 1923.
Miss Keller received the plush album;
Mr.. Hendricks silk hat, and Mr.. Le-
bold the gold-headed cane.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
Progressive Teachers.

A pleasant party of teachers left on
the noon train for Junction City to at
tend the Central Kansas Teachers As
ISOLATION meeting he'd there today and
tomorrow. All seemed in the best of
spirits and were bound to have jolly
as well as profitable time. They re-
turn tomorrow afternoon. The follow
ing were of The party: Supt ] S Ford,
] H Niesley, w NJ Campbell, 81 NJ
Light, Levi Humbarger, w E Binder,
" A Stacy, w Early, G G Bear, Pey-
ton Carter, A c Dietz, j S Lyons, E
Rugh. Thos Mcconnell, S H Weigle,
Thos Goheen; Misses Maude Murphy,
Lizzie Smith, Winnie McNaull, NJ Z
Wilder, Lou jerks, Nettie Whitney,
Lizzie Anderson.
A number of others will join the
company at Detroit and Chapman.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
Happily Welded.
county.

Last evening at the home of Mrs.
Osborne, corner of Kinney and North
Seventh streets were married Mr.. Sam
uel Howard, of Council Grove, and
Miss Myrtle Burlington, Xenia, ILL.,,
Rev. W. H. Zimmerman officiating.
Mrs. Howard is sister of Mrs. Os-
borne and has made many friends dur
ing her stay in the city; her husband
is one of Council Groves most promi-
nent rustlers. There were present at
the wedding a small company of i'll
vited guests who proved that they en-
joyed the evening, the refreshments
and the general atmosphere of happi-
ness by the hearty good wishes that
they showered upon the bride and
groom. The newly welded couple will
make their future home in Council
Grove,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-04
HOLINESS HORROR.
An Awful Story of Religious Fanaticisn

An Awful Story of Religious Fanaticism
From Southeast Missouri.
ST. LOUIS, April IA terrible tale OF
religious fanaticism comes from Southeast
Missouri Monroe Lasseter and wife, an
ignorant pair living in Wayne township,
Bollinger County, wild and remote part
of the southeast section, have been labor
ing under the peculiar form of religious
excitement of the sanctificationist sect
A few days ago they claimed to receive 8
direct communication from God to kill
their eighteen-months-old girl baby,
for their own redemption and that OF
the world After some benighted cere-
monies the old man told his'wife to act as
crucifier. She took the child in her arms
and pressed her to death, after which
they nailed her to tree. They were ar.
rested Saturday and jailed at Marble
Hall. They had their examination yes
terday and were held for murder withou'
bail. Their incoherent statements led
many to believe that the guilty couple
were insane.