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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

Unless some one has further ques-
tons to ask about this Interregnum, ;"
as it is sometimes called, we will pass
on to the study of Milton. % Give a
brief account of Milton's life. (2)
Name his principal works. (3) What
is the subject and general plan of Para
disc Lost2 (4) What led to the writing
of "Lycidas ? (5) why was the
name "Lycidas " appropriate? CO.
Explain the first five lines. (See quo
tation above.)
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Opening Lines of "Lycidas.v

Yet once more, ye laurels, and once more
We myrtes brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And, with forced fingers rude,
Skater your leaves before the mellowing year
Bitter constrant and sad occasion dear,
Compels me to disturb your season due
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer;
Who would not sing for Lycidas2 he knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
He must not float upon his watery bier
Unwept, and welter to the parching mind
without the need Of some melodious tear.
John JhHoR.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

The expense of smoking three five
cent cigars per day, principal and inter-
est, for ten years, is S745.74; for twenty
five years, S3,l10.74, The expense of
three ten-cent cigars at the end of ten
years is 81 Al 56; for twenty-five years,
S6,3S2.47. At the end of fifty years it
is S54 1852 IA.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

THE proof-reader was so impressed
with the punctuation that he inter-
viewed the " comp" and grimly asked
to be favored with his rule for putting
in commas. Well" was the reply,
in the office where | was brought up
we averaged a couple in every line,
but | prefer sticking one in the first
line, two in the second, three in the
third, and beginning all oyer again"
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Gbc Duusebolo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. T. II. HosK1Ns, Newport, VT, or d.
rectly to THE wAToHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

"THIs is CRATE experience" said
the nutmeg as it went through the pull
verifying process .-Merchont Traveller.
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Cur &ups ano Girls.

Questions and contribut for this department
may be addressed to SCRIBE ls South Loring Street,
Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

THE worst feature about catarrh is its dan
gerous tendency to consumption. Hoods
Sarsaparilla cures catarrh by purifying the
blood.
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advertisements.

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory"
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
IT'S sold everywhere.
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Henry Johnson & Lord, Propietors of
Arnica and Oil Iiniment for Man and TIL

external remedy for Rheumatism Neuralgia Cramps Spn Bruises
all other
Calls, Strains, Scratches
1t effects most
Price 20
and bottle. Sold everywhere
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A. G.. BROWN g. SON,
FIRE, LIFE and ACCIDENT
Insurance Agents,
Both Foreign and American Companies Repl
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Connecticut Fire Insurance Company Assets, 100000
Continental Insurance Company Assets,
Commercial Union Assurance Company Assets, 100000
Fire Association of Philadelphia Assets, 100000
First National Fire Insurance Company Assets, 100000
Granite State Fire Insurance Company Assets $4,000
Liberty Insurance Company Assets,
Lancashire Insurance Company Assets 100000
The Niagara Insurance Company Assets 100000
The PheniX Insurance Company Assets 100000
Peoples Fire Insurance Company. Assets 100000
Queen Insurance Company Assets 100000
Sun Fire Insurance Company Oldest in the World
AND ACCIDENT COMPANIES.
New York Life Insurance Company New York Assets 100000
National Life Insurance Company MontpeerVt Assets 100000
Travellers Insurance Company Assets, 100000
Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company Assets 10000
Correspondence and Orders by Mail Telegraph Promptly
Attended to- Losses Settled and Promptly Paid at this Office
OFFICES:
Corner Main and State Streets, Montpelier, Vermont
Granite Block Barre Vermont
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DR.. Henry Bakers Mandrake Bitters ar

Indigestion, the
Headache, Appetite
the
and Digestive good working order and perfect health will
be Sick Headache will find relief
mildly purgaive
all dealers md
Propnetors,
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NH. Downs Vegetable BaIsamic

positive Whoong Cough Caarrl Hose
Peuy
has equal
heals
theu
family should keep it the house.
Sold everywhere Henry johnson Lord Projectors Burlington VT
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MARKETS.

-Flour-City Mills, extra. "a. 90
as5.OO. Wheat-Southern Fultx, Nays !:
Corn--Southern White, 44a45cts, Yellow
4lai2 cts Oats-Southern and Pennsylvania
SOa3i cts. /: Rye-Maryland g. Pennsylvania
49a5Octs. Hay-Maryland and Pennsylvania
Is OOaSl5 50 STRAW w heat, 8. OOa$S SO butter.
Eastern Creamery, lSa20cts. near by receipts
l7al5cts; Cheese Eastern Fancy Cream, SsI
alO cts. = Western, SAG cts; Eggs-i5
ale; Tobacco Leaf-Inferior, 1aS3. .OO, Good
Common, 8 Ooas4 20, Middling, sass. O0 Good
to fine red, 7a$9; Fancy, 1Oa$13.
NEW YoRK.-Flour-Southern Common to
fair extra, g. 9Oa$3. ~; Wheat-Nol White SIX
aS74; Rye-State, 54a56; Corn-SoutherrS
Yellow, w,4154a4 G. Oats White, State 80 3L6a38s
cts. Butter State. 14Xa17cts. Cheese State.
7%a916ots.; Eggs-14S<a15 cts.
PHILADELPHIA Flour = Pennsylvania
fancy, 4.25a4.75; Wheat--Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, S211a83; Rye--Pennsylvania
52a5Scts Corn Southern Y elbow, Al s<a421 1Sots
Oats-33st asa cts. Butter-State, Sa17 cts. :
Cheese-N. Y. Factory, 9a91S cts. Eggs-
State. 15al6 cts.
CATTLE.
BAJTMoRE-Beef, 25a4 35; Sheep-$3 90
al 20, Hogs-$G O0a6 25.
NEW YoRR-Beef-S3 S715a4 IS Sheep-$4 90
as 2j; Hogs-$4 60a4 90.
EAST LIBERrY-.Deef-$4 50a5 90; Sheep
t3 50a4 IS; Ho9s-$4 65a4 20
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DUINGS AT JOHNSTOWN.
Citizens who do Not Like Tho Meth.
oIla oc fh1, G. nj To Con, m, iasin.,

Citizens who do Not Like Tho Meth
Ods Of tho State Com ission.
Some Of the leading citizens OF Johnstown,
Pa, including u number from tho Commit
tees on Finance and Lumber, have decided
to call a meeting of the people to take some
action relative to the distribution Of the
course, the citizens, think Is tue only one
left to them, inasmuoh as tho determination
of some Of those entrusted with tho funds
intended for the sufferers seems to be to keep
it from them as long as possible. or to dole
1t out I'm such an objectionable manner rs to
insult the manhood OF tho recipients. The
requiring of ALI lavit to the amount of los ,es
etc, is regarded az particularly obnoxious
feature OF the proposed system OF distrlbu-
tiou.
General W Viley and all the members of his
staff, except Captain Hamilton. have de-
partel for their homes. The Captain, as
sisted by Colonel Potter. will remain to su.
perlntend the State work.
Captain h. III. Kuhn, chief OF tho commits
sary department., states that the general
issuance OF subsistence from the commissary
will cease on Monday next, aud that there
after the distribution Of relief In the way
Of provisions, etc, will be confined to in
a:sc.. ":a3:s .u,. o'Ptsi1.;;s sa;;;oso in
the flood. This action is taken for the rea-
soh thaI Tue uepartulenI Is informed tnat
every man who desires employment can
obtain credit for his necessities where no has
not the cash to pay.
1t is understood that the Rid Cross will
erect building 9S by 100 feet on tho site
of the Episcopal Church. Tho building will
contain thirty-two rooms and large hall,
and will be used for the accommodation of
such as arc homeless or without the means
of support.
Two hundred or the portable houses have
been received, 130 Of which havo been erec-
ted. or tho 200 two-story buildings to be
erected the lumber for half of them has
arrived. Even with these. many houses
contain seyerel families, while in a number
of instances thrst or four families occupy
one room.
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FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
Several Persons Killed. and Thirtccn
Cars Demolished


Cars Demolished.
There was freight train wreck on the
Pennsylvania road, near Wilmerdiug Sta
tion, twenty miles east of Pittsburg, re-
sulting in the death OF three parsons and the
injury Of three others. Their namos were:
Killed-William Connolly, bootblack aged
fifteen, residence Pittsburg, killed outright
John Hyde. newsboy, a,ed fifteen. resi-.
dence PittsburY, died GU tho way to hospital.
Unknown man, about twenty-five years
pld, died at hospital.
Injured-Andrew Kennedy, newsboy, aged
fourteen years, fittsburg, right arm aud
thigh broken, probably fatally hurt. Alfrei
Young, colored, aged about twenty five
years, Lima, Ohio; contus I'd back and other
wise seriously injured. John Kennedy,
aged thirty y-thres, milwaukee,; badly cut and
OF others were reported TO have been caught
in the wreck, but no trace Of them has yet
been found.
The accident was caused by broken
wheel. The train, which consisted OF thirty
seven loaded freight cars and two engines,
left for the east about halt-past eight o'clock
at night, and the accident happened about
ten o'clock. Thirteen cars wero completely
demolished. The wreck Immediately took
fire and was entirely destroyed. None OF
the train men were injured. Tho killed
and injured, with tho exceptions OF Ken
nedy and Young, were Stealing their way
70 Johnstown.
A tramp who escaped said there were at
least twenty five persons on the train, but
As nothing can bo found OF their remaius,
1t is thought that this was untru,. Trains
east and west were delayed several hours by
tho tracks being blocked. The loss is MANY
thousands OF dollars.
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WORK AND WORKERS.

Chicago has 40, 900 people out OF work.
Albany BARRIERS demand Sunday closing.
The sash, door and blind menare all doing
good business.
San Francisco's 1890 shoe-workers talk OF
getting into one union.
Grand Rapids, Mich. makes $4,000 pairs
Of wooden shoes yearly.
Sweden has q machine that makes 200,
900 boxes OF matches daily.
Iron bricks are being successfully used In
Germany for paving purposes.
Germany has Just secured It's first railway
construction job In Australia.
Farmers at Grass Valley. Cal. offered "a IS
per day aud board for laborers.I
In April over $40, ,OOO, 600 cigars were made
five for each inhabitane OF the United
States.
In the Northwest farm laborers are hold
ing mass-meetings In the fields to discuss the
wage question.
There are eleven grain elevators I'm st.
Louis, with an aggregate value OF "a. .0OO, 600.
They have all been consolidated under q
single management.
India cotton workers put I'm fourteen hours
per day, including Sunday. They are al
lowed to enjoy five OF the fifteen holidays In
u year. They make about IS month.
The, movement to unite the various
branches OF railway employees pro crossed 30
far at Chicago rs to combine the fremen,
brakemen aud switchmen into one fedora
ton.
During the past week the fires have been
put out In all the aint-glass manufactures
In the country. according to custom. Some
of them will be start ii again In August and
others in September.
A railroad official estimates that the Penn
sylvania Company has lost $S,O00,0O0 in
bridges alone. That company has already
purchased 4, ,0OO, 900 feet OF lumber for re-
construction purposes.
The managers Of tho London aud North
western Railway Company have issued an
order by which every man In the company's
services is entitled to a weeks holiday on full
pay evory year. 1t is roported that other
British railway companies will follow this
example.
One of the growing industries OF San
Diego county, Gala, is tho manufacture OF
asbestos goods. An extensive plant is
erected ut Pacific Beach, which cost several
Thousand dollars, &C which cement and roof
and house paint are manufactured. More
machinery is being added TO increase facili.
ties, and new kiln is being built to make
asbestos brick. The works will use O car
loid Of raw asbestos every week.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

DIR. JUST, Of Coral, Mich, thinks tina:
he has one of the oldest horses in tho
United States. Twenty-four years ago
he bought him of Dan Rice, the show.
man, and then the horse was said to be
% years old. Undoubtedly no was all
of that, for horses ages are seldom
ovcrstated up to % years. The other
day State Vcterinarinn Grange made a
careful examination Of the forty-six-
year-old, and pronounced him perfectly
sound of body, wind and limb and ap-
parently good for twenty years more.
DIR. just uses the old fellow daily in his
practice, and he shows not tho slightest
IQns of his great are.
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pleasant faith that people have long en-
Joyed In regard to sheep improving o pas
ture or farm. The statement that sheep
must eat the same as other stock and that
the substance that goes to mako up the
wool ard carcass is lost to the soil is true
.gna very evident; but there are many
points Of dissimilarity between sheep and
cattle in their feeding in and effect upon
q pasture. Sheep will in dry time, or
at any timein a short pasture, go into the
swamps nnd bushes to feed and browse
In the early morning and thep seek the
hill-tops and lie down In the breeze and
chew their cuds, and here their droppings
are left in condition to be washed on
to the surrounding slopes and trampled
into the soil. Cattle which are in the
pasture day and night will not feed on
bushes or coarse plants until they ara
starved to 1t, but will feed on the high
land till they get dry and thirsty, then
they will go and drink. The water is
usually on low land, and If it happens to
be in shady swamp they lie down there
and what manure they leave there Is
wasted. What they leave on high ground
is no better than chips in few days ot
hot weather, and il It gets broken up by
tramping over it it will float off before II
will dissolve.
Sheep relish good proportion of leaves
and twigs'in their food at all seasons, and
will live and do we'll on plants that cattle
do not like and horses will not eat. With
q small daily ration of grain sheep will
thrive in bushy pasture where there is
very little that other stock would cat, and
will kill ont the weeds and bushes at the
same time; and II they do not really en-
rich the soil on the whole, they will en-
rich the poorest parts Of It, and will add
to the value of the pasture by the value
of the labor It would take to kiln out the
weeds and bushes and cover the surface
with fine grasses.
THIS is no fanciful theory. We have
seen field which had been used as pas
turc for colts and calves till about one
third OF It was covered with goldenrod
and blackberry vines changed to n fine
grassy sward In three years by putting in
a fewSmore sheep .!.an it would keep in
good condition, and giving them extra
food to make up the deficiency. And VIC
know that there are thousands of acres
of rough pasture in New England grow.
ing up to bushes, wherc the rocks are
too thick to allow cutting the bushes ol
plowing the land, that might be mad,
into good dairy pastures in the same way
Now that there is such an awakening il
the dairy business, cows are about all tn,
stock that we think of or provide for
but on the most of our farms the dair,
interest would be further advanced ant
more profitable in ten years if tho pas
lures were divided into three parts ant
one of them stocked with sheep and the
ccws ksp. Il the other, changing from
one to the other each week. The sheer
can be kept on their part one or two
years according to their effect on tht
weeds and bushes, and then let the cow
have that and give the sheep one of tn,
others. and Farmer.
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YOUNG FRUIT TREES.


If the young trees are to make q good
thrifty growth, considerable care must be
given them. 1t is not good economy to
purchase and set out a lot of trees and
then expect them to grow as they should
without giving them good care. When
once we'll established, they can easily be
kept growing, but tree or plant that is
stunted will not make as good growth
afterward.
Close contact with the soil is always an
important item, especially during the first
summer. If in setting out proper care
has been taken to press the soil firmly
around the roots, q considerable portion
Of the risk of damage is avoided. The
winds that we usually have in the spring
will often loosen up the roots, and care
should be taken to press the soil around
the stem before hot dry weather sets in.
It is good plan to stir the surface
and keep it stirred, killing out the weeds
and keeping the soil in good tilth.
Weeds aud grass allowed to grow around
the stems of the trees will tend to prevent
a good growth, and one important item
In the treatment Of young trees Is to give
reasonably good cultivation at least.
While considerable part of the prun.
ing should be done when the tree Is SET
out, yet it will pay to go over the trees
and rub off any extra growth that may
start up where It is not desired. This
can be done much easier now than when
| the wood has hardened.
| One Of the worst things to contend
with Is the boreF that so often attacks
the young trees, and the surest plan is tc
protect them in advance, as often the tree
is practically ruined fs Ap4 year by thi,
pest.
A good mulch will often Drove very
beneficial through the hot dry months in
keeping the soil moist, and IL applied
after giving good sgiitivatioA can b,
made profitable in the better thrift and
growth of the trees. Once, the tree get,
well established, II win stand consider
able drouth without injury, bpt during
the earlier stages of growth, muiching 1
very beneficial. - Farm, Field and Stoak
man.
THE UrrLrrY or sHRrP.
Some ono 10 pow trying to dig,el th
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

The several Climates OF Floridr uotIo8Id
and California have each boon muc1lo 10 slJrq
for sufferers from lung disease, yes :, rya rsno
Of the natives In thosc states dlo 0qs a.,
malady. A for moro reliable rcnl&
had In cvery drug store In tho l0nss
can bc used mt homo: remedy whi,S
by druggists, undcr the manufactu turSS
toe guarantee that, ie taken In tino ons,
q fnir trial, IL will cfrect o euro, or moneS y.
for II will be promptly returned. Wo rct6s. 70
that world -famcd remedy for consumption lor
lung-scrofula) known as DIR. Piorce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t Ia tho only romedy for this
terrible disease possessed Of such superior cur
ativo properties as to warrant Its manufactur-
ors In selling IL under guarantees.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
EFFECT OF HORN CUTTING.

WnaC eHect mas the growth OF norm
unon an animal, and what would be the
results of its removalf -Ttis question has
come up in regard to the now prevalent
practice of dishorning cows and other
cattle, and it is thought by some persons
concerned, that cows may be injured as
mixers and bulls as stock getters by the
operation. This matter-strangely enough,
it seems-has occupied so much atten-
ton that Professor Law, the Veterinary
Professor of Cornell University, has been
called upon to give an opinion upon it,
which he does by saying that the loss of
the horn can have no affect upon the
ability of COW to give milk, or upon
the quality of the milk. The opinion
cannot be questioned. Any reasonable
person could scarcely ask for it. A horn
is made up Of hair closely aggregated In
a solid but fibrous substance. It grows
from the skin as hair. does, and II the
cutting off of horn should affect the
milking of cow the clipping of the
switch from the end of Her tail should do
the same. On the contrary the removal
of the cows horns has largely increased
the product of milk and butter, because
it has given the weaker cows rest from
the persecution of the stronger ones,
leaving them to eat and rest in peace and
ruminate upon the better condition of
affairs more usefully and proftably.-
New York Times.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

Don't you tDdnt to sdrc money, clothes. time
labor, fuel and henlthr All these can be saysd
II you will trU Dobs.ns's Electric Soap. We
say "t,y," knowing II you try Il "-ct. yo;. will
always use IL. Have your grocer order.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

Ladies'. from all the diseases from which you
ical and mental, which tortures you, from
your nervous prostration and bodily pcins,
ladies now living healthy, happy lives having
been freed from chronic dinicvlttes peculiar
to their sex. who bear cheerful testimony to
the value OF this sovereign remedy for mental
and physical suffering; this sure cure for ncrv-
Gus depression and bodily weakness known as
Female Complaints.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

There Is no longer need to force children :,
take castor oil for constipation. A Hamburs
by them with relish. rs cents. Doso one Fig
Mack Drug Co.. N. Y.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

Jfnffiicted with sore eyes use DrIsaao Thomp-
cons EyeWater. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

THE ''bucket shops" in Wall street, New
sbeir s@Ss and ar aut saeSr aHg baaing a'wn
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

The success,u ul farmer has to be sharp as
raiser.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
A Hamburg Fig.

A visit to n grocery is general the begin
ming or new order OF things.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

The widows might is greatly underes
timated.
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swIvHs should never conceal any.
thing from their husbands says q
writer. If this advice were followed
osti. wonld create o revolution in femi'
nifle pockets.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
Climate Tor Censu

Even asmall barber may be called se5gs
ping fellow. stosdo
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Fail fashions can never be popular with a
mroDcut
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

A pocket mirror Tree to smokers OF "Tan
sili's Punch" &c. Cigar,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26

The Icdy who never marries should be
named Ida Kline.