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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Talmage's Smile.

Such smile! 1t would brighten gloom
from the torture of the toothache, and
chase joy on the wings of the morning.
1t spreads out like an overflow at the
mouth of the Mississippi, and sinks in
like the depths of the ocean. With
countenance as solemn and as homely
as the sphinx, the smile breaks over it
like the silver rift in storm cloud, or
a dancing sunbeam across the gloomy
mouth of the Mammoth Cave. The
whole man is transformed, and the
morgue-like shadows disappear in the
glowing brightness of the MONDAY sun.
You can see that smile as it slyly
twink,es and wrinkles in the corner of
the eye, then slyly steals downward and
skirmishes along the expanse of cheek
to the twitching lips, until it charges
all along the line, captures the whole
countenance, and is lost in the mouth,
which opens like widening crevice in
the earth's surface, or the bellows of a
church organ. Such smile would sit
chill and lonesome on an ordinary
mouth twelve or fifteen inches wide,
but on this one it gambols like a frisky
colt at play on new mown lawn, and
with the sprightly movement of dog
firmly attached by tail coupling to an
ignited bunch of common crackers. 1t
is none of your fair weather smiles, but
one that gives Gr@co Roman fall to
dyspepsia, and plants mirth on the face
of sorrow in three rounds. It's genu-
inc brain-reaching risible wiggler, as
spontaneous as kittens antics, linger-
ing as an unpaid bill, mysterious as a
woman's reason, sudden as an unpleas-
ant fact, receptive as babes mouth,
as infectious as smallpox, with the get
there quality of a bed-bug, and would
tickle an Indian cigar sign into hyster-
les. 1t scares sorrow, creates mirth,
and throws out the longest pole to knock
off the laughter persimmons that ever
converted gloom into sideshow OF
turned melancholy into circus. 1t
GIBBS and flows like the oceans tide
and leaves as much trace on the place
it travels over as the serpentine flutter-
ing of feather on bald mans head
But its effect on the audience is like
the opening of spring, or peaches anC
cream to a hungry tramp. 1t frs
passes over one like the mist of gen.
tie rain, gradually curls the corners Of
| luc DOulu Will VIC SuuuCuuooo VI dl
April shower, and finally bursts over
the countenance like rainbow o.
promise and merges into laughter tina
peals forth like the rumble of thunder
and sits enshrined in the exquisite
dimple's on beauty's cheek like the
glistening dewdrop on shell-pink rose
1t is a ninth wonder, and stands upor
the face of DIR. Talmage like Edmund
Dante on his tiny island in mid-ocean
exclaiming "the world is mine"
is a grim winner with a blue ribbon
tied to his tail, and drives away slum
Der like Minnetonka mosquito. 1t il
a grin that would make monkey laugh
and watt breeze through balloons
whiskers. Minneapolis Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Selected Recipes.

FRUIT TAPIOCA.-Three-f ourths of
a cup of pearl tapioca, one and one
half pints of boiling water, one salt
spoonful of salt, one-fourth cup of sugar
and one-half tumbler of currant jelly.
CORN FRITTERs.-Gr sweet corn
into dish, and to one pint add one
egg, one tea-cup of flour, one table
spoonful of cream, one tea-spoonful of
salt; mix together and fry like oysters.
CORN AND TOMAToEs.-Ste the
corn for ten minutes alone, and let the
tomatoes cook about fifteen minutes in
their own juice before mixing. Mix,
and cook few minutes longer. Use
one-third corn to two-thirds tomatoes.
CORN OYSTERS. For corn oysters
CRATE six ears of corn, add one egg,
yolk and white beaten separately, one
spoonful of flour, two tablespoonful
of cream, pepper and salt to taste. Fry
in butter or lard as you would oysters.
KISSES AND CREAM.-Stir in all the
powdered sugar the white of one egg
beaten stiff will take, and drop by small
spoonfuls upon writing paper, and
bake in slow oven. When cold, in.
vert, scoop out the inside and fill with
whipped cream.
COLoRING FOR CREAMS. - Select
highly colored beets, wash them and
cut into thin slices. Cover with water
and cook until tender, adding more
water if necessary. Strain the liquid
through flannel bag and bottle while
hot. A small quantity added to the
custard before freezing will produce g
beautiful tint.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Vacations Misused.

The Lancet declares that many sud-
den deaths are caused each year by
misuse of the vacation season, and
also atiirms that the experience of most
city physicians shows that overstrain is
often followed by prolonged illness.
We know wise lawyer who never did
anything the first day of his vacation,
as little as possible the second, took a
short walk the third, two short walks
the fourth, and not until the eighth day
was ready to climb mountain. By
this cautious course he grew stronger
to the end, and returned home with vi
tality enough to work till the next out
ing came around. One can make a
great change in his habits without det-
riment if he takes a long time to do it
but only young persons can risk sudden
changes, and they sometimes fall vic.
tins to the strain.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
A Corn Carnival.

A novel and ingenious entertainment
was enjoyed by an outing party in a
country town recently. The affair was
christened ga corn carnival" Invita-
tions were written on the pretty straw
colored husks of corn and the same
unique material furnished orders of
dancing, two artistic sisters evolving
very dainty ones from the husks in
their various shades of pale yellow and
green with the aid of few oil colors.
Appropriate decorations for these were
almost endless, but perhaps the pref
test were the struggling punches of
peoples and corn flowers, grasses, white
and yellow daisies, and the tiny ears of
corn with the husks pulled partly off.
standing corn arranged like palms in
groups, while their long graceful leaves
and tassels festooned the walls, guam
tity of soft cOrn-colored cheesecloth be-
ing used in connection with them, with
marked effect. When complete, the
long straight room was fairly trans
formed. The supper taxed the ingenu-
ity of everyone, but pretty, satisfac-
tory and appropriate, though rather
nondescript, repast was finally arranged.
1t included various styles of cereallne
and cornmeal bread and biscuit, corn
starch cakes, dainty blanc mango, float
ing island (witL corn-starch custard as a
base) and corn-starch ice-cream, home
made whisky, though a positive corn
beverage was of course inadmissible
and good coffee and lemonade were the
less harmful substitutes. The centre
piece for the table was pyramid OF
corn tassels with a few dropping leaves
the base of the pyramid being edged
with small, perfect ears of corn with
the husks thrown completely back sc
as to form kind of rosette resting
against the sides of the pyramid, the
ears, with the kernels exposed, radiating
outward. The gowns of number Of
guests were in keeping with the gen
eral idea, and many delightful toilets O
white and green, maize color and pale
green, were improvised for the occa
sion, the whole being an eXquisitel,
harmonious effect.-ETchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
To Make Pattern Larger or Smaller.

You want, for example, to embroider
a rather large running ground pattern
on piece of stuff, that is relatively too
small for the subject; or small and
rather minute pattern on large sur
face on which it is likely to look either
too insignificant or too crowded and con-
fused, and the chances are, if you do
not know how to draw, you will either
think it necessary to get draughts-
man to help you or you will give up
the piece of work altogether, deferred
by the difficulties that confront you.
You need not do either if you will fol-
low the directions here given. Take a
sheet of large-sized paper divided into
squares which, if necessary, you can
prepare for yourself; trace your pattern
upon it or rule the squares directly
upon the drawing. On second sheet
of paper, rule squares fourth, third,
or half as small again as those on the
first sheet. Thus, If the sides of the
first squares are three inches long and
you want to reduce your pattern by
one-third, the sides of your new squares
should measure only two inches. If,
on the contrary, you want to enlarge
the pattern by one-third, make the
sides of your squares four inches long.
Then you follow, square by square, the
lines of the drawing, extending or con-
tracing them according to whether the
pattern is to be enlarged or diminished
TO copy pattern directly from piece
of embroidery and enlarge or diminish
it at the same time, proceed as follows
Fix the embroidery on board, stretch
ing it equally in every direction; then
measure the length of the drawing, di-
vide the inches by the number of units
corresponding to whatever the proper
tions of your copy are to be, and take a
pair Of compasses with dry points, open
them sufficiently for the opening to cor
respond to the number and the distance
obtained by the division; plant pin
with thread fastened to it at the point
indicated by the point of the compass
and repeat the last operation all along
one side of the embroidery and, if pos
sible, a little beyond it, so that it may
not be defaced by the marks of the
pins. All you now have to do is to
pull the threads in perfectly straight
lines to the opposite side, and carry
other threads across them in similar
manner, so that the whole surface be
divided into squares.-Fashion and
E'uOcu
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
The Employer and the EmplOye.

The attention that is being given by
the Nicaragua Canal Company to pre-
serving the health, and to some extent
caring for the morals, of the workmen
they have sent to dig their canal is in
marked contrast to the policy of the
Panama Canal Company. On the
Panama canal the workmen were paid
by the month and allowed to " find
themselves" The result was INSULT
cient and improper food, starvation,
dissipation, sickness, decreased labor
ing power, little work, and terribly
long death-list. The Nicaragua Canal
Company, while it pays as high, if not
higher, money wages, supplies them in
addition with food and lodging, takes
charge of suffers stores, which it fur
nishes at cost, and thus reduces the
chances of disease and dissipation to
the minimum. This is not only hui
name but in the highest degree a
shrewd business venture, and move
ment that in some parts might be profit
ably inaugurated in the United States
as well as in Nicaragua. One of the
most deplorable features of modern in
dustrial organization is the abandon
ment of the relations of mutual good
will and care for the interests of each
other that formerly existed between
employer and employed.-American
Manufacturer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Among the whitest Things ON Earth

Are teeth, beautilied and preserved by
SOZODONT; and the rose is scarce
sweeter than the breath which becomes
aromatic through its influence. 1t is
the very pearl of dentifrices and tie
surest preventive of dental decay in
existence. 1t remedies with certain ty
canker and every species of corrosive
blemish upon the teeth, and counte r
acts the hurtful influence upon them #
acidity of the stomach. The formula
of its preparation includes only botanic
ingredients and it contains only the
purest and most salutary of these.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
y A We YOUR MONEY
a. .. FARWELL

Is selling off all the old lots of Suits car
ried from last season (many of them just
as desirable as new, fresh goods at re-
duction Of $500, $500 and $500 on each
Suit. Tennis Coats and Caps, White Elan
mel Suits Boys Blouses- complete stock
of Summer GOods-at No. IS Main Street.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Alphabetical Fare.

" Have you got anything here be-
ginning with * that's good to eat?"
inquired a new customer at a we'll
known local delicacy market last Tues
day. How will picked kidneys
answer" replied the clerk, after a mo-
ment's thought " First-rate. Give
me dozen cans. The Kittens life is
saved" exclaimed the strange patron
with enthusiasm. 81 told my wife,"
he continued, that if | failed to send
home kangaroo, dead or alive, before
two o'clock, | should expect to find the
kitten served up for supper in the
latest Chinese style. But your happy
thought saves her. You see we all got
tired of eating the same things day
after day, and so last month we agreed
that during December we would eat up
Cor rather DOWN the alphabet, taking
one letter day, with bread, potatoes,
tea and coffee thrown in as staples.
So on December l we inaugurated the
dietary system with bill of fare con-
sisting of apples in many forms, april
cots picked, asparagus, almonds and
the staples. The next days menu was
beef, beets, beans, biscuits, butter
milk, bacon and bonbons. The follow
ing day we toasted on chicken, Goldfish
balls, clans, celery, cucumbers (ifty
cents each), crabs, cheese, cake, crack
ers, crullers, carrots, canned currants,
canned cherries, citrons, cider, catsuE
and candy. And 80 it has gone on.
The fifth day would have been fast
day had it not been for eggs, but we
made an Easter of it. Yesterday we
dined, breakfasted and supped chiefly
on jellies. To-day your kidney sugges'
ton saves us from starvation, while to-
morrow we will grow fat on liver, lamb
lobster, lettuce, etc. A queer thing
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11

THE VERDICT UNANINoUs.-W. d.
Suit, druggist, Bippus, Ind, testifies:
/" | can recommend Electric Bitters as
the very best remedy. Every bottle
sold has given relief in every case.
One man took six bottles and was
cured of rheumatism of ten years.
standing" Abraham Hare, druggist,
Bellville, Ohio, aflirms; "The best
selling medicine l have ever handled
in my twenty years experience is
Electric Bitters." Thousands of 9TH
ers have added their testimony, so that
the verdict is unanimous that Electric
Bitters do cure all disease of the liver,
kidneys or blood. Only half-dollar
bottle at any drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Tax Both Alike.

There is much discussion at the
present time as to the extent the bust
ness done by trust companies interferes
with the business of banks. The trust
companies evidently, to very great
extent, do banking business, and they
can do this more cheaply than the
banks themselves, because they are not
taxed as the banks are, they keep no
reserves as the banks are required to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
Mistellanp.
In the Orchard.

The autumn leaves are whred away;
The sober skies look down
On faded fields and woodlands gray
And the dun.colored town.
Through the brown orchards gusty aisle,
In sad-hued gown and hood,
Slow passes, with peaceful smile,
A maiden pure and good.
Her deep, serene and dove-like eyes
Are downward bent; her face
Wherein the days pale shadow lies,
Is sweet with nameless grace,
The frolic wind beside her blows
The scar leaves dance and leap;
with hands before her clasped, she goes
As in waking sleep.
To her the ashen skies are bright,
The russell earth is fair,
And never shone clearer light
Nor breathed a softer air
o wizard lovel whose magic art
Transmutes to sun the shade,
Thine are the beams that fill the heart
OF this meek Quaker maid
James b. Kenyon, in the Century
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11

about our new food departure is the
number of things it has led us 10 put in
our mouths which we never thought of
before. "-Bufdlo Express.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-11
abe 4ousekuIo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport. Vt. or d.
rectly to THE WATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08
England's Oldest Clergyman,

London Truth, speaking of the
Rev. bartholomew Edwards, rector
of AshiH, who died the other day,
says that he was by far the Oldest
clergyman in England, having been
born in 1880, and in many respects
a most remarkable man. He lived a
regular and extremely temperate life,
and though a great diner out he was
very sparing In the use of the good
things of the table. Up to a great
age he was a fnehorseman, and took
a great deal of exercise IN that way.
but he never rode to hounds. For
over fifty consecutive years he at
tended an annual local agricultural
meeting, and responded to the toast
of The Bishop and Clergy of the Di-
Geese. From long practice he
could go through the church service,
including the psalms, without having
to refer to the prayer book One Of
his last public duties was to walk,
without the assistance even of a
walking stick, to the polling station
situated in his parish, and there re-
cord his vote for the election of a
county co uneilor
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08

and consequently ONO profit, it Is
possible to SO pamper the fowl that
there is neither ability nor incIina-
ton to produeeeggs ormake growth.
1t don t pay to keep the hens ineold,
bleak, unprotected buildings, even if
the proper food be given. The excess
necessary to supply the animal heat
will more than pay interest on the
additional expense to provide warm
pens.
No man can make poultry raising
profitable who depends on grain for
feed. 1t don't pay to resort to ar
tifcia1 heat unless the business is
conducted on a large scale. Where
this is attempted there must be am
pie means for ventilation, and labor
sufficient to call for the presence OF
an attendant throughout the day to
guard against over heated pens. It
don't pay to feed too much hot food.
1t tends to weakened condition.
and a want of power to resist disease.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08
W. III. SeWard's Composure,
From the Atlantic.

From the Atlantic.
His equaninity might have been
mistaken for Indifference to a good
many things, and among them to
the gnat-like swarms of criticism
that frequently buzzed in the air
from the partisan press. He was
never insensitive to argument, but
he brushed aside petty barbs of ma
lice as if they were SO many flies. A
characteristic illustration of his
composure was given during the i'm
parchment trial. From the outset
he did not. believe that Johnson
would be convicted. The defence OF
the president had been comitted to
Mr.. Stewards lifelong friend,
William NJ. Evarts.
Mr.. Seward did not attend the
long trial except two or three times,
nor, to my knowledge, did he do any
thing to influence the decision. All
Washington was at a glow of excite
ment. The result hung on a single
vote, yet no one could learn from
Mr.. Seward that anything unusual
was happening. On the critical day
of the trial went down to his room
to learn the result of the test vote.
He was lying on the sofa, with a
copy Of Rousseau in his hand smok.
ing and reading. I asked the latest
news from the Senate. He told ma
Impeachment had failed by one vote
He smiled and went on reading, as
if the country had not just passed
through a crisis of tremendous i'm
portance.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08
Growing Mixed Oats and Peas.

A scrap-book item contains some
timely suggestions touching this
matter 1t is from a New England
farmer, who AYERS that no two kinds
of grain can be so well grown to-
gether tor feed as oats and peas.
Each, 1T does not help, at least
does not, interfere with the other.
The cat straw, being stronger helps
to hold up the vines, and they ripen
near enough together SO there is no
loss III harvesting both at the same
time. Cut Green they make capital
feed for seIling mich COWS, and a
little later may be fed to growing
hogs, which viii make better pork.
Il entirely fattened GA these grains.
than they will on corn Considering
the small amount of labor needed. a
crop of oats and peas is perhaps the
cheapest mode of ffattening hogs If
required, the hogs will do a large
share of the harvesting, and that
with comparatively little loss.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08
Dealing With q Kicking Cow.

Speaking of blows makes me think
of those milkstool blows which fall
on the ribs of cows if they yield to
their impulse to kick a careless milk
er. have seen gentle cows spoiled
by pounding, but I never saw a kick.
er cured by it. If any horned animal
kicks you, try to make it think you
like to be kicked. Kind treatment
and the entire ignoring of a kick
from a COW will generally cure. Ami
mails kick because they are afraid OF
you, and can't get out of your way.
Convince them that you won't hurt
them under any circumstances and
the cause of the kicking is removed
For an unsafe or nervous COW. how
ever, | use a rope; about three-eights
rope is best Tie a good snap to
one end and a string to the other,
and have it about two and one-halt
feet long over all. Pass the rope
around the left hind leg just above
the gambrel joint. give it one twist
between the legs and then snap the
ends together outside of the right
leg, and your cow is harmless. The
more she isinclined to kick the tighter
the rope may be twisted. Now keep
this rope hanging just behind the
kicker and you neverneed whip her.
use the same rope to break heiters,
and after putting it on few times
there's no troublein milking without
it.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08

ST. Paul water works bonds sell for the
highest premium ever paid in the West.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-08
Female Farmers.
Will the coming young woman

Will the coming young woman be
a farmer?
Scattered all over the broad prairies
of the Northwest are hundreds ofself-
reliant, true blue young heroines, iv-
ing in small, isolated cabins called
|shacks, proving up claims, entering
homesteads and making money
It is lonesome, dIeary business, this
living alone on a wild, unsettled
prairie. without a face or human form
to welcome one or cheer ones solitude,
but there seem to be a good many
young women who have the grit to
hang to this solitary lifelong enough
to prove up a claim at least.
Four young ladies in Dakota last
year put their heads together and hit
upon an ingenious plan, whereby
they could each secure a claim and
yet all live comfortably together in
one house and each be upon her own
land. Instead of building four
shacks with one room each,
they constructed one shack with
four rooms, but so nicely plan
ned that each room of the square
building was on a different quarter
section. Each had her own bed in
her own room and in that way, each
claimant at night slept upon her own
| land.
Society ladies of the city will won
der, not so much how these young
lady settlers get along without social
+ privileges, as how they dared live SO
| far away from the doctors. Why,
bless you! they never thought of be-
ing sick. Doctors are not half so
much of a household necessity as
city people are in the habit of think
ing.
For all the ordinary ills of life, the
old-fashioned roots and herbs rem
| edies are more effective, and much
safer in results, than modern doc
tors pills and potions. These
latter are SO radical in their effects
that, while they may better meet the
modern desire for quick results,
they frequently permanently injure
the system, nature rebelling against
the unnatural methods employed
1t is always safest tofollow natural
methods in treating disease. The
old time roots and herbs remedies,
which our good old log cabin grand
mothers knew so well how to pre-.
pare, were the best medicines the
world ever knew, because they We're
natures remedies.
The modern world needs them. In
Warmers Log Cabin Remedies, and
especially such as Warmers Log
Cabin Sarsaparilla and Warmers
Log Cabin Cough and Consum ption
Remedy, the people of to-day have
an opportunity to secure the healthy
medicines which our rugged ances tors
used with such splendid results.