The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-25

safe to say that to " foraker" means to
get there with both feet.-MinneopoHs
Tribune.
THE innocent and guileless people
who live in cities are no match for their
country cousins. A writer in the Bos-
ton Post says that certain towns in New
Hampshire and Vermont have been
stocked with bogus antique furniture,
which is sold at exorbitant prices to
city visitors, who think they are get
ting old family heirlooms.-Ne1o York
Tribune.
A London Ne,Cs reporter the other
day discovered a man, a stevedore, in
London, who wouldn't take tip.
"No, thanks" he replied when the re-
porter offered him shilling for a slight
service, 81 would rather not. l am
teetotaller, and like to feel independent
even in strike times" That man could
make fortune by coming to New York
and exhibiting himself in a museum
NeW York Tribune.
IT is not very judicious nor courage
Gus advice which the National Baptist
Association gives the southern negroes
that they should abandon the South
in body to escape the prosecutions TO
which they are subjected. 1t might be
a fortunate circumstance for the coun-
try if the race problem could be thus
easily evaded, but it is obvious that
the plan the Baptist Association sug-
gests is wildly impracticable, aud un-
worthy of serious consideration
Boston Journal.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR is a
prudent man. Just as soon as he heard
that our aldermen had voted to visit
him in Washington about the Charles
River bridges he started for Boston to
head them off. He has been here and
seen the bridges and left the impress
sion that he will need no further alder
manic information. His action is hard
on the aldermen, but it confirms the
general belief that Mr.. Proctor is a
hard-headed, sensible man, who knows
the difference between a rose and
cabbage Evening Record.
EVERYWHERE the growl of discon-
tent is heard from the slaves of the old
kings, Toll and Tyranny. One of
these days-not far distant-there will
be a revolution-produced by similar
causes as the French revolution, yet
different, no doubt, in the nature of
outbreak-and the sagacious world will
be astounded again to discover that ex-
plosons explode. After which the sa-
gacious world will 90 right on and pre-
pare the programme for another eXplo-
sion. A trife monotonous the old story
is getting to be? And the key to it all
Isl Mans pig.-Cooley'S Weekly.
DOUBTLESS there are many who adj
mire that book of Edward Bellamy en-
titled " Looking Backward" and think
it a glorious picture, but one that can
never be, because they think men are
too selfish and too Jealous for money.
AS matter of fact. however, men
struggle for money for what it brings,
because, under the present system, they
must have it. But could men have the
luXuries of life, as they would have
under the system so glowingly de-
scribed in this book, without a perpet-
ual struggle for them, they would soon
) cease the scramble for wealth. -Rut-
land Telegram.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has met with
great loss. John Cranston, the re-
nowned rusher of its football team,
has committed matrimony. This fur
Their necessitates his engaging in some
business scheme, as his financial re-
,, sources are limited. Between being a
bridegroom, business man and stu
dent, John will hardly have, in the
opinion of the Harvard faculty, any
spare time to devote to the noble
science of foot ball. Mrs. Cranston
did not appreciate what large interests
were disastrously involved in her mar
riage. Had she appreciated them she
would no doubt have put off the we'd
ding until John had graduated Water
bury american.