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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-15
Pensions ior Maine People

Original. Elijah Hunt, Carritunk; reissue
and increase. John II. Knowles, Lagrange
increase. John Speed, South Atkinson; re-
issue, Zedekiah Thompson, National Military
Home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-15

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-15


HAh DEpARrRfyr.
once Of the Chief Signal Oncer.
WAsaIssror. April Is, An.
For New England and eastern New York /:
Fair. followed in southern New York BY
light rain, stationary temperature and varia-
bic winds.
Meteorological Report.
lApril "A. iss9. 400 PM
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-15
Rescripts.

The following res scripts have been received
by W. 5. Choate, Esq, clerk of courts for
the Middle District
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Keeping at 1t.

1t is great mistake to suppose that
the best work of the world is done by
people of great strength and great OPP
portunities. 1t is unquestionably an
advantage to have both these things,
but neither of them is a necessity to
the man who has the spirit and pluck
to achieve great results. Some of the
greatest work of our time has been
done by men of physical feebleness.
No man has left more distinct i'm
preston of himself on this generation
than Charles Darwin, and there have
been few men who have had to strug-
gle against such prostrating i'll health.
Darwin was rarely able to work long at
a time. He accomplished his great
work by having single aim, and put
ting every ounce of his force and every
hour of his time into the task which he
had set before him. He never scattered
his energy, he never wasted an hour,
and by steadily keeping at it, in spite
of continual i'll health and long inter-
walls of semi-invalidism, he did a great
work, and has left the impression upon
the world of man of extraordinary
energy and working capacity. Success
is rarely matter of accident, always
matter of character. The reason why
so many men fail is that so few men
are willing to pay the price of self
denial and hard work which success
exacts.-Erchdnge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Home Conversation.

Nothing in the home life needs to be
more carefully watched and more dill
gently cultivated than conversation. 1t
should be imbued with the spirit of
love. No bitter word should ever be
spoken. The language of husband and
wife, in their intercourse together,
should always be tender. Anger in
word, or even in tone, should never be
suffered. Gliding and fault-inding
should never be permitted to mar the
sacredness of their speech. The
warmth and tenderness of their hearts
should flow out in every word that they
speak to each other. AS parents, too,
in their intercourse with the children,
they should never speak save in tones
of Christlike gentleness. 1t is fatal
mistake to suppose that children's lives
can grow up into beauty in an atmos-
phere of strife. Harsh, angry words
are, to their sensitive souls, what frosts
are to the flowers. To bring them up
in the nurture of the Lord is to bring
them up as would Christ himself; and
surely that would be with infinite ten
derness. The blessed influence of low
ing speech, day after day and month
after month, It is impossible to esti-
mate. 1t is like the falling of warm
spring sunshine and rain on the gar
den. Beauty and sweetness Of char
acter are likely to come from such a
home. But home conversation needs
more than love to give it its influence.
1t ought to be enriched by thought
The Savior's warning against idle
words should be remembered. Every
wise-hearted parent will seek to train
his household to converse on subjects
that will yield instruction or tend to-
ward refinement. The table affords an
excellent opportunity for this kind of
education. 1t is a place for
cheerfulness. Simply on hygienic
grounds, meals should not be eaten in ST.
lence. Bright, cheerful conversation
is an excellent sauce and prime aid to
digestion. If it prolongs the meal, and
thus appears to take too much time out
of the busy day, it will add to the years,
in the end, by increased healthfulness
and heightened life. In any case, how
ever, something is due to refinement,
and still more is due to the culture of
ones home life. The table should be
the center of the social life of the house
hold. There all should appear at their
best. Gloom should be banished; con-
versation should be light and sparkling.
1t should consist of something besides
dull, threadbare common-places. The
idle gossip of the street is not worthy
theme for such hallowed moments.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

this drainage is a necessity. IT we see
plant whose foliage turns yellow or
drops off, or which fails to grow, and
whose whole appearance is unthrifty,
we are almost sure to find the trouble
to be at the roots, and not infrequently
we find the drainage is clogged and the
roots are inactive. Turning the plant
out of the pot, placing some bits of
broken crockery at the bottom, and then
some coarse material, the plant is re-
turned to its place and filed in with
fresh soil, and in short time it starts
into new growth and shows that it can
grow if the conditions are suitable.
Without healthy roots there can be no
vigorous growth. A supply of water is
necessary for the roots TO take from the
soil what they want, but the water must
pass off and not remain stagnant, or
disease and death will follow. The case
is exactly the same with plants in the
fields where there is an excess of mois
ture below the surface. Pot-grown
plants may still further serve to show
a bed effect of a surcharge of water in
the soil. All plant growers are very
careful in cold weather about watering
their plants at night, knowing by eXpe-
rience that the increased evaporation
will too greatly reduce the temperature,
and thus check and stunt the plants.
The case is the same in effect over
large areas where the water is held in
the soil below the surface. The tenn
perature is kept many degrees below
what it would be if good drainage ex-
listed. Vegetation commences later in
the spring, arrives at maturity later,
and is coarser in texture on such soils.
The market gardener, the fruit-grower
and the farmer can not afford to raise
crops on any but well-drained lands
I,ick's Mdqazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Autumn Days.

1t is well, these damp mornings and
evenings of September, to have little
fire on the hearth or in the CRATE, and
to give the sun free access to all the
house, especially to living rooms and
sleeping rooms, so that our dwellings
may be kept sweet and dry. There are
five cases of cholera on the shady side
of the street to one on the sunny side
There are eight cases of yellow fever
on the shady side of the street to one
on the sunny side. Florence Nightin-
gale could not nurse sick soldiers well
in the shade, and so unfavorable was
the shady side of the hospital in st.
Petersburg that the car ordered its
disuse. Redoubled care should be
taken in keeping cellars, out-houses
and the entire premises thoroughly
sweet and clean. Fermentation, mold
and decay advance rapidly these sultry
days, and we need TO use every precau-
ton to keep off disease. The drink
ing water should be inquired about,
and all possible corruption of that
fountain of health or of sickness
guarded against. To those who wish
to have flowers in their south window
during the winter we suggest that now
is the time to plant cuttings. Take
them from wood partly hardened, plant
in pot with sand at the top and rich
soil at the bottom. When the lower
leaves drop the plant has taken root,
and should be transplanted to larger
pot, and placed in the ight.-NeeC
York AduOcdte.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

erer, or a man of science. But, what
ever were his calling, we should feel
that it must be essentially practical.
Aud his conversation corresponds to
his appearance. 1t abounds in vigor,
in fire, in vivacity. 1t is always genu-
inely interesting, and often strikingly
eloquent. Thanks to his sharp and
persistent attacks of Anglomania, now
become practically chronic, Mr.. Lowell
may fairly be reckoned among the talk
ers of London. His trim sentences,
his fund of anecdote, his airy omnisci-
ence, his minute and circumstantial
way of laying down the law, are famil-
lar enough to diners out in literary and
political circles and the frequenters of
cultured tea-tables. -Ne,O ReuieW.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Mending.

Rents and tears in certain kinds of
material, such as the thin and delicate,
should be mended before the garment
is sent to the wash, prompt, judicious
treatment saving an ugly darn or patch
and much time, for we all know how
the various processes of the laundry
are not binding or healing to torn or
lacerated garment, but quite the con-
trary. If the dropped stitch in the
knee of your stocking, or the zigzag
rent in your white apron, receive this
timely, skilful attention, only the most
observing will be aware of your mis-
fortune. 1t will require some fore
thought not to cast the torn garment
into the hamper before mending, but
the forethought and labor pay, As in
timated, all garments do not require
this "previous treatment.-Mdil and
Express.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
New Uses for n Familiar Article.

Chamois leather is new discovery
in the art decorative world. To those
who do not know of its possibilities it
will prove a delightful material con-
stantly revealing hidden beauties. To
be used successfully, only the soft, pill
able pieces should be purchased The
hard pieces tear easily and are not sat-
isfactory. As is generally known,
chamois skins are now dyed, and can
be purchased in shades of olive, of
brown, of cream more delicate than
the natural yellow. The Decorator and
Furnisher recently gave instructions
for the making of many fancy articles
following, which is new: cone of the
handsomest and richest looking articles
made of chamois leather is curtain
for bookcase. Care and daintiness
are required to make it success, but
when finished it will well repay the
trouble. First, out of any old cloth,
cut curtain the size DESIRED this is
not to be used except to shape the
chamois on. for the skins are so irregu-
lar that it is difficult to shape it well
without a foundation. Basic the
pieces on, making them join without
overlapping more than enough for a
seam, if possible; when this cannot be
done, cut them to fit. When they are
fitted evenly and smoothly, with the
four edges straight, Join them with
feather stitching, using yellow or bronze
silk or both, fastening here and there a
few bronze or yellow beads. Cut deep
fringe top and bottom, putting one or
two strips underneath to make the bot
tom heavier. The one thickness is
enough at the top, as this is turned
over on to the right side. Across the
top, just below the fringe, paint in
bronze the following legend: Dreams
and books are each world Across
the bottom paint border of mingled
acorns, cups and oak leaves, using
water-c )lor and bronzes. With strong
piece of sewing-silk fasten irregularly
in the fringe extra strands made by
fringing first real acorn cup, bronze
or plain, then enough beads to make it
the same length as the fringe. Tie the
curtain to the pole with thongs of the
channels, the ends slitted two or three
times, which may be cut from the strips
trimmed off to make it fit. The lining
or foundation curtain should be re-
mONtu DelOTe lue ledlneT SlllCUlD1 Is
done. If the fitting has been well
done, so that the curtain falls into easy
folds. the result will be very original
and handsome curtain, an excellent
imitation of the best kind of Indian
work, which is the momentary fad at
present" 1t would seem on reading
this over that to haste the chamois on
lining of pongee silk-which can be
bought cheaply now-and work on to
this lining would support the Jennings
and make better finish. A band of
chamois might be laid at the top that
would turn over, or the fringe made
separately and worked on with silk and
beads. The same article suggests the
use of chamois for table-covers; mats
for lamp might be made with little
trouble by one who could use paints.
The most unskillful could use stencils
and bronze gilt, or silver paint. Hand
kerchief bags, button bags, book covers,
innumerable dainty, useful, as well as
ornamental, things can be made from
channels.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Poverty.

Bulwer says that poverty is only an
idea in nine cases out of ten, and we
believe it is so. Some men with ten
thousand dollars year suffer more for
want of means than others with three
hundred. The reason is, the richer
man has artificial wants. His income
is ten thousand dollars, and, by habit,
he spends twelve or fifteen thousand,
and suffers enough from being dunned
for unpaid debts to kill sensitive man.
A man who earns a dollar day, and
does not run in debt, is the happier of
the two. There are people, of course,
who are wealthy and enjoy their wealth,
but there are thousands upon thousands,
with princely incomes, who do not
know moments peace, as it were, be-
cause they live above their MEANS
Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Watering with Cold Water.

Great injury is often done to house
and garden plants by dousing cold
water from the well or cistern upon
them. In cities water is sometimes
thrown from hydrants over door-yards
but as it is sprayed, it is more or less
warmed by contact with the air before
it reaches the leaves, and still more
before it goes down to the roots of the
grass. The plants that are most apt tC
need watering, melons and cucumbers,
need heat even more. To pour water
of twenty to thirty degrees lower tenn
perature than the surrounding air about
their roots gives the plants a chill
which more than counterbalances any
good the watering may have done.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

A SCRAP OF PAPER SAVES HER
LIFE.-It was just an ordinary scrap of
wrapping paper, but it saved her life.
She was in the last stages of consump-
ton, told by physicians that she was
incurable and could live only short
time; she weighed less than seventy
pounds. On piece of wrapping paper
she read of DR.. Kings New Discovery,
and got sample bottle, it helped her,
she bought large bottle, it helped her
more, bought another and grew better
fast, continued its use and is now
strong, healthy, rosy, plump, weighing
one hundred forty pounds. For fuller
particulars send stamp to w. H. Cole,
druggist, Fort Smith. Trial bottles of
this wonderful Discovery free at any
drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Amsng the Whitest Things on EartI

Are teeth, beautiied 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 the
surest preventive of dental decay in
existence. 1t remedies with certainty
canker and every species of corrosive
blemish upon the teeth, and counter
acts the hurtful influence upon them of
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, 1889-09-25
misteIlanp.
"The Good Old Saxon Tongue"

The following poem appeared recently in
the Springfield Republican, but was written
some twenty-six years ago by Vermont
man, then in the Union army. 1t was one
of series published originally in La
noble county newspaper, entitled Stray
Shots from Masked Battery, by an Old
Gunner" The writer after the war lived
at Johnson, Vt. Although having had but
common school education, he was said to
be singularly we'll read in English and
American poetry. The poem runs thus
love the good old Saxon tongue,
Legitimate and strong,
That sweetly rings in honest prose
And sweeter still in song;
That has but one superlative;
Whose adjectives are few
As wise and foolish good and bad,
Fair, stormy old and new;
That meier confounds, with many words,
The false with what is true.
Has no inscrutable decrees,"
But boldly talks of fate
No 81 best regards or strong dislikes,"
But says " love-" hate"
That takes no journey round about
To reach a meaning plain,
But goes directly to its goal
And then Is off again.
And he who runs may read apace
Nor find his study vain
That needs no foreign phrase to add
To beauty or to strength
To crop its fair proportions or
To give the needed length;
That's pure and perfect in itself
No wrinkle and no spot;
That's sure, in fitting words to tell
Each sad or merry thought;
The most neglected, worst abused
Best tongue of all the lot.
And many worthy learned men
Chats in their own regard
Through schooboy and collegiate days
Have studied very hard
Der authors grave, profound, they wrought;
with pale and sallow look
Proud to be praised and nothing more,
The midnight hours they took
Latin and Greek to learn, but not
The English speng-book
o, love the good old Saxon tongue,
Legitimate and strong,
That sweety rings in honest prose
And sweeter still in song.
Oye, whose blue-eyed mothers sang
Saxon lullaby
To soothe your infant lids to rest
Or hush the rising sigh,
There is no language half sweet
On earth to you or /.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

LADIES who surround the stems of
their corsage bouquets with moistened
powdered willow charcoal, which may
in turn be wrapped in moss or cotton,
will find their flowers remaining fresh
long after the departure of all beauty
from those of their less thoughtful
neighbors. The same substance placed
in the bottom of the vase in which
flowers are kept will be very useful,
provided the stems are cut off with a
sharp knife once or twice day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

IT Won't BAKE Breadth othe words,
Hoods Sarsaparila will not do inn ossbil-
ties. Its proprietors tell plainly VIII at it has
done, submit proofs from sources of I'M
questioned reliability, and ask you frankly
il you are suffering from any disea SO or az
lection caused or promoted by impure blood
or low state of the system, to try Hood B
Sarsaparilla. The experience OF others is
sufficient assurance that you will not be
disappointed in the result.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Badly Drained Soil.

Probably no better illustration can be
given of the effects of water on grow
ing plants than what we see in the case
of plants growing in pots. Every pot
is provided with hole in the bottom,
10 allow the water to drain out when
the soil becomes saturated, and with
the exception of water or bog plants
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
Gbe 3uusrbolo.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt, or d.
rectly to THR wATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25
SAVE YOUR MONEY
A, y. 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 a re-
duction of 5000, $500 and $500 on each
Suit Tennis Coats and Caps, White Elan
mel Suits, Boys Blouses "a complete stock
of Summer GOods-at No. Is Main Street
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

WORTH makes the dress, the want Of 1t
.he bather. Shoe and Leather Reporter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

Carefully selected securities constantly hand in sizes
suit the of investors, and which afford safe and
profitable investment for of years. Also strictly first
class shome paper running from six to twelve months.
Prompt payment guaranteed in every Deposits IN the
amount Of fifty dollars and m6o0aras receiOa for Ohsch
hfcats 7OH be issued bearing interest at the rate Of FER
cent fer auunm. F. A. DWINELL, PRESIDENT.
GEORGE W. WING TREASURER.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-24
FOR INVESTIGATION.
Counciliann Van Gsdel's Btn Relating
to the Insane Asylum.

Councilman San Osdel's Hill Relating
to the Insane Asylum.
The following is Councilman Var
Osdel's bill providing for the iuvestiga-
ton of the Yankton insane asylum. II
is understood that it was amended tC
require the committee to report PRIOR &c
March LIST.
Section l. That a Joint committee
consisting OF two members OF the council
and three members of the house, be ap.
pointed by the president of the council
and the speaker of the house respect
lively, to investigate the condition of the
territorial hospital for the insane al
Yenkton, Dakota.
1t shall be thu duty of said committee
to make q thorough investigation of the
buildings OF said institution and Of the
character and nature OF the work done
on the recent extension OF said building,
and of oil defects sherein and OF the re-
sponsibility for the same.
The said joint committee shall also
make o thorough investigation OF the
management and conduct OF the affairs
of said hospital.
Sec. 2. Said committee shall have
power to employ at q reasonable COM
pensation, suoh expert and professional
services, including clerical and steno-
graphic services, as may be necessary,
and shall have power to send for persons
and papers TO take I'LL necessary testi-
mony,
The officers OF snid hospital shall Of.
ford the said committee full access to
said hospital and Gil the records thereof,
aud furnish them all needed facilities in
their power for such examination.
Sec. b. Said committee shall have
power, If necessary, to hold their seH-
sions during q recess or after the adj
iournment of the Legislature.
For ali such sessions held during q
recess or adjournment of the Legislature,
members of the committee shall be en-
titled to the Same per diem as Is now
allowed by law to members of the legis-
~lature, for the time necessarily occupied
in such investigation.
The travelling expenses Of said COM
mittee shall be paid by the territorial
issued by the territorial auditor. who
shall issue the same upon q certificate
signed by the president of the council
and speaker OF the house, who shall have
power TO sign the same during such re-
cess or adjournment.
Sec. 4 Bald committee shall make 8
full report of oil their proceedings in the
premises. and OF their expenditures, &c
the legislature, If such investigation il
completed before the final adjournment
OF the Legislature, and If not, to the sue
ceeding territorial or stsve Legislature.