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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19
Supervisors in Session.

The county supervisors met State
Superintendent Palmer at Montpelier,
last week, for conference respecting
various important matters under the
new school law. The superintendent
made brief and sensible address to his
co-workers, and then the construction
to be placed upon certain provisions of
the law was considered, and the meth
DDS to be employed in putting the
machinery of the law into operation
discussed. On all points considered the
supervisors were in substantial accord.
For the most part they are young men,
and their appearance indicates that the
administration of the school law is in
the hands of body of exceptionally in
telligent officials, conservative in their
views, and sound in their judgment of
the requirements of the sch ools. 1t is
clear that neither superintendent nor
supervisors will enter upon any doubt
full or expensive experiments. 1t is
quite plain that a certain nonsensical
element that had crept into common
school instruction under the vicious
system of town supervision will be
weeded out of school room methods
and that the movement will be towards
making instruction plain, simple, direct
and useful. The supervisors aim at
reform, not revolution, in school
management, and the superintend.
ent leads them all in his ideas OF
what shall be the standard and the
practices in the school management OF
the future. The execution of the law
is in the hands of men that should
have public confidence.
The teachers, or those who will be
teachers under the new law, will find in
the supervisors friends and counsellors
not inquisitors. At the same time it il
apparent that the supervisors intend to
guard, with judicious care and rigor
the admission of applicants to teach
into the school-room. Certainly if they
fail at this point no amount of subse.
quent supervision can atone for theil
fault. Failure in the faithful perform.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19
The Literature of COmmencements.

There is always natural disposition
to make sport of the illusions of young
college graduates. Each commence
ment season deluges the public with
orations and essays in which the great
questions of the day in philosophy,
politics and history are handled by
these carefully-equipped young gentle
men and the problems settled off-hand
with the approved logical conclusions
and literary style dear to the collegiate
heart. Nobody takes these productions
seriously; the orators and essayists
themselves will smile at them a few
years hence. Yet these effusions repre-
sent the elimination of four years of
work under the best instructors and
educators of the country. In the mat.
ter of general culture the student has
necessarily gained much. He is able
to leave college broader-m minded man
than he would have been after an equal
period of technical training. If he has
not acquired much actual information
he has learned at least how to lay his
hands on the proper sources of informa-
ton, and this is no mean accomplish
ment Is this all that the college can
give to student in its fOur-year cur
riculum, and if it is all that it gives, is
it all that it ought to give? There is a
narrowing as well as a broadening in
fuence in college teaching. Much Of
the old tradition of cloister education
still clings to our institutions of learning.
The great lack of college education to-
day is its deficiency in practical training,
The college boy pursues his studies
at an age when it is most vital that he
should attain the basis for proper con-
clusions upon all the great questions of
the day. AS a matter of fact, outside
of few special branches he has no
such opportunity. In this respect col
lege instruction is better than it used
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

to be but it is still lamentably de-
ficient. 1t is for this reason that the
college graduate, coming out from his
course with the idea, so fully reflected
in his commencement Grafton, that he
has the world at bis fnger-ends, re-
ceives his first rude shock in his realiza-
ton of the fact that his education for
practical life must now be begun all
over again. In more limited way the
commencement Grafton is a painful
comment upon the neglect of the col
lege to teach the student the proper use
of his mother tongue. The college
teaches imitation, and the young writer
OF Commencement day is usually raw
compound of Carlyle or Emerson, with
a dash of Wendell Phillips, or some
other fascinating orator. There is an
almost complete absence in the course
of any effort to draw forth originality
The student who devotes himself after
his graduation to preaching or to writ
ing soon finds that his chief work for
many years must be to unlearn his
college teaching aud divest himself of
its impressions. When the college at
tains its true ideal it will make its
chief work the development of original
powers and faculties; teach the student
his own proper position in the world of
thought and action and give him a men.
tai equipment which will do him good
service in his first battle with the
world.-NeD York Commercial Adver-
fiser
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

A TENDER interest attaches to the
memory OF President Arthur. He was
great-hearted, high-spirited, chivalric,
the Chevalier Bayard of American poll
tics. On Saturday, without parade or
ostentation, modest monument was
unveiled above the resting-place, on
the banks of the Hudson, of this man
who in great crisis of the government
exhibited power and traits of character
that suddenly conquered enmities and
dissipated prejudices stronger and
deeper than those that ever weighed
down public man. His administra-
ton of Gar6eld's unexpired term was
distinguished for the honesty and ability
he displayed, for his impartiality,
his fidelity to the trust imposed upon
him amid circumstances that would
have engulfed only the strongest char
acter, the highest type of manhood.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19
Live Within Your Income.

Next to the evil of living beyond
ones means is that of spending all
ones income. There are multitudes
that are sailing so near shore that a
slight wind in the wrong direction
founders them. They get on well while
the times are usual and the wages
promptly paid; but panic or short Pc
Rod of sickness, and they drop helpless.
Many father has gone with his family
in fine carriage drawn by spanking
team till he came up to his grave; then
he lay down, and his children have got
out of the carriage, and not only been
compelled to walk but to go barefoot.
Against parsimony and niggardliness
proclaim war, but with the same sem
tence l condemn those who make a
grand splash while they live, leaving
their families in restitution when they
die. -Tdlmdge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

IT may be set down for certain, ="
opines the Springfield Republican,
"that Judge Veazey of Vermont is to
go on the interstate commerce commits
sion. Secretary Proctor and this Green
Mountain judge are warm friends, and
when the appointment gets along Judge
Veazey will be about ready to remove
to the national capital" 1t is to be
hoped that the Republicans prediction
will not prove as erratic as is usually
the case when the esteemed editor lets
himself loose upon the Vermont Sec
retary
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

ance of their duties in respect of exam
lining and licensing candidates will ham
per all their subsequent efforts and in
vite certain disaster, Applicants to
teach should prepare themselves for the
administration of the law on business
principles. Those who shall appear,
after an examination that is reasonably
searching, but kind and considerable
withal, qualified to teach, will be Ii
censed. This fact may have its terrors
for the consciously incompetent and for
those who have relied on favoritism for
the successful passing of an "exam-
ination " that was farce, but it will be
full of encouragement to that other
class of young men and women who
have, at great expense and with much
faithful study, prepared themselves for
the important work of teaching. There
are enough of these in the home market,
and they will be brought out under
the new order of things. Examinations
must, in certain sense, be merciless,
and the supervisor must, after a
license has been given, insist that
teachers give heed to advice, follow out
suggestions, or himself assume respon-
sibility for the failure or the inadequacy
of the instruction. And all this can be
done in a kindly way, with firmness, but
without antagonism or irritation. Such
seems to be the attitude of these school
officials at the Threshold of their new
duties. The situation is full of hope
and encouragement.
The opinion was unanimous that the
existing boards of education are charged
with the duty of selecting text books.
1t would be very desirable consumma-
ton if, through the supervisors, uni
formity of text books throughout the
state could be secured. The law re-
quires uniformity in counties only.
Unquestionably state uniformity is de-
sirable, and in the course of the ripen-
ing of this reform in school manage
ment the law will be amended and one
text book provided for all the scholars
in the state. Changes in text books must
be made to secure county uniformity.
Probably no greater change would be
required to secure state uniformity. If
by concert of action all the counties, or
the majority of them, can agree upon
text books, the way will be paved for
this further reform; if the counties act
independently, the reform will be de-
ferred for many years. Changes in
text books are vexatious and expensive.
If the counties settle down now, each
by itself, on the books it will use, there
is an end, for a long time at least, to
all hope of state uniformity. We hope
the supervisors and the county boards
will procure, by voluntary action, what
the law has failed to provide.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

TRUE to its record as the habitual
defender of the plutocracy, the 81.
Adams Messenger rushes to the rescue
of the millionaires who set the death
trap by which the Conemaugh valley
was devastated. 1t ended its efforts in
this direction with a column article
bearing this elegant and euphonious
title: Concerning that Dam Finally"
Our contemporaries defense is very
much like its rhetoric, somewhat
strained. If it were worth the while
it would not be difficult to show from
the evidence presented by the Mes
senger that the dam was Just what
n competent engineer described it to
be, in every respect of very inferior
construction and of kind wholly I'M
warranted by good engineering prac-
tees of thirty years ago" The Mes
senger has been so frequently hoist
by its own petard," it seems rather to
conspire for its own discontinue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

IN recent letter to prominent citi-
zen of New York Mr.. Gladstone clears
up his record in respect of his attitude
towards the United States during the
war of the rebellion and removes from
his escutcheon the one source of offense
to Americans-an offense his millions
of admirers in the great free North had
long since condoned. Mr.. Gladstone
says: " Allow me to assure you that, so
far as that cabinet is concerned, YOU
have been entirely misled in regard to
matters of fact. AS member of it,
and now nearly its sole surviving mem
Der, can state thatit never at any time
dealt with the subject of recognizing
the Southern States in your great civil
war, excepting when it learned of the
proposition of Emperor Napoleon, and
declined to entertain that proposition,
without qualification, hesitation, delay
or dissent. In the debate which took
place on Roebuck's proposal for nego-
tiation Lord Russell took no part, and
could take none, as he was a member
of the house of lords. l spoke for the
cabinet. You will, / am sure, be glad
to learn that there is no foundation for
e. charge, which, had it been true,
might have aided in keeping alive
angry sentiments happily gone BY"
Americans will be more than glad to
accept the above disclaimer. They
seek only relations of the closest amity
with England - relations, however,
which to be lasting must be founded on
justice and fair-dealing
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

BISMARCK lately said in a speech
that he had sold all the foreign secu.
rites he owned, on the ground that the
possession of such stock tended to mis-.
lead him to some extent in his judy
ment of the policy of the government
whose securities he held. The Iron
Chancellor sets all men in official station
and all persons occupying places of
trust and responsibility fine example.
The cabinet officer or member of con-
gress that takes or holds the securities
of corporation whose affairs may be-
come the subject of official action, the
judge who holds the bonds or the pass
of railway which may come before
him as party to suit, the state legisla-
tor who accepts favors from persons or
corporations who are to be affected by
bills to be passed or defeated, the news
paper published who is put under OBJ
legation to individuals or companies,
all are liable to be misled to some eX-
tent in their judgment of matters affect
ing these persons or associations which
may come before them for consdera-
ton. Illustrations are not far to seek.
Bismarck has given fine example of
a public virtue that is n OF yet so COM
mon as to escape remark when its ex-
ercise comes to the public knowledge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

A rubber boot and shoe trust is in the
air. Most of the companies are inter
ested, but there is difficulty in adjust.
ing conflicting interests. Some man.
ayers whose interests in commissions
as selling agents are paramount are not
so favorably disposed. A trust to con-
troll the entire lead manufacturing in
terests of the country is being organ
lied. The Standard Oil Company is
reported to be behind the enterprise
and the plan will doubtless be put
through. The promoters of the trust
have already bought several lead manu-.
featuring concerns.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

THE agreement framed by the Sa-
moan commissioners for the settlement
of affairs in Samoa was signed last
Friday, at Berlin, by all the members
of the conference. The draft guaran-
tees an autonomous administration of
the islands, under the joint control of
Germany and America, England acting
as arbitrator in the event of differ
ences arising. The Samoans are to
elect their own king and viceroy and
to be represented in senate COM
posed of the principal chiefs and
chambers elected by the people. Sa-
moa is to have the right of levying
duties OF every kind. The agreement
also stipulates that the Germans shall
receive money indemnity for their
losses. The United States commits
sioners made their adhesion condi-
tional upon the ratification of the agree
ment by the senate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

THE Connecticut legislature passed
bill the other day disqualifying liquor
dealers for holding the Office of regis
trars of elections. The governor de-
cided the measure to be unconstitu-
tional, whereupon the sagacious Solons
evaded the executive veto by passing a
new bill providing that liquor licenses
shall not be granted to registrars of
elections.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

CHICAGO, with population twice as
large as Boston, gave out of the public
library to readers last year Lila 1854
volumes, against 1,013,S47 for Boston.
Heretofore the Boston library led all
others in extent of patronage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

ACCORDING to the Boston Globe, the
election of Calvin S. Brice as chairman
of the democratic committee is to be
taken as vindication of his campaign
management. This must be consoling
to Grover Cleveland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

AMONG the smaller leagues that have
recently made their bow is the castor
oil trust. The telegraph announces a
trust combination, with capital stock
of S250,000 to 100000, the actual
value of the plants being less than
100000. The castor oil trust will be
immensely profitable. The latest trust
news is from the West, stating that the
plug tobacco manufacturers of the
United States have formed a trust, with
capital of $25, 000,000 It's also stated
that Leggett & Meyers, and Drum
mond & Co., and p. Lorrillard of New
York are at the head of the affair
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

This is written for the purpose of provoking
discussion. Our laws are drafted according
to certain forms that abound in repettions
and redundances, so that even lawyer has
no right to any more than an expression of
opinion with regard to them, and the won
der is that their opinions are never con-
sidered criminal GEORGE X. PERRIN,
Berlin, June TO-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19
Masonic Week.

Last week was Masonic week" at Bur
lington, and there was a large gathering Of
members OF the order to attend the meet
ings OF the grand bodies. The Council of
Deliberation assembled Monday morning.
Frank IL. Bascom, George c. Mayo and
Charles H. Heaton were appointed com
mittee on credentials, and after the reports
OF the officers and an address by the COM
mander-in-chief the following officers were
elected
Henry Lowe. 49,. First Lieutenant commander
Martin e. Healey. Second Lieutenant commander.
henry ~ Ross .;........... Minister Of State, 9. o.
Robert j. Wright GRAND CSanc rIior
Tpu D. ia Reynodi' Grand iaeasnrer
James i; CqT5an. Grand Engineer and &rchtec{t
Rnsse Johnson Grand Master OF
John H. Humphrey 900. Grand Standard. bearer
Warren R. D.ntOn 80. Grand Captain Of the Guard
Tuesday morning came the parade and
review Of the Knights Templar, who made
the finest display ever seen in the state.
The annual conclave of the Grand Com
mandery Of Knights Templar followed, at
which addresses were delivered by the
grand commander and others and the fol-
lowing board Of officers chosen:
VIII 7: Lewis Rutland; 49,. Grand Commander.
Geo: II: Kingsley, Burlington. Deputy Grand Com
Marsh o; Perkins Windsor, Grand Captain General.
Rev. +. S. Fisher, St. Johnsbury. Grand Prelate.
Geo. W. Sq,llres, Swanton, Grand Junior Warden.
Frank II Bascom; Montpelier. Grand Treasurer.
Warren g. Reynolds, Burlington. Grand Recorder.
Ro5ert j.. Wright, Newport Grand standard-bearer
N Manchne ss Brandon Grand swoTdbe
j. n. Williams, Bennington, Grand Capt of Guard.
At the thirty-sixth annual assembly of
the Grand Council of Royal and Select Mas
tiers, held the same day, grand officers were
chosen, as follows:
orrin W 0rcutt Deputy Grand Master.
Martin G; Healey ..... Grand Principal Conductor.
Edwin Q; ti66ard' Grand captain q Guard
F. D. Irue'''''''' Grand Lecturer
a. . Mes Grand Marshal
g. +. Morse. Grand Sentinel
On Wednesday the Grand Lodge, f. and
A. NJ, met and was addressed By Grand
Master A. A. Hall, who spoke eloouently
and impressively in relation to the affairs
of the order. In the afternoon the visitors,
at the invitation of Lieutenant-governo
Woodbury., enjoyed an excursion to Provi-
dence Island in the steamer Reindeer"
Thursday morning the Grand Lodge reas-
sembled and chose the following officers
Delos NJ Bacon. .........,,...De Deputy Grand Master
John II. Whipple..... ...... Grand Senior Warden
Charles W. whitcomb ............. Grand Treasurer
Heyant NJ E lead GFand Secretary
Rgney d; Marvin ....... Grand Junior Deacon.
~ SlSnoIs9n,i Grand Lecture
Harley G sheldon and T. S Peck Grand Marsha is
T. 5. Leonard..... .......... Grand Sword. bearer.
B. G. Barber and Asaph i Taft Grand stewsrds
Lafayette Soper. Grand Tyler.
The secretarys report showed net gain
in membership of 49, making the total
membership 1924 After the announce
ment of the staining committees and the pas
sage of the usual resolutions the Grand
Lodge adjourned. On Friday the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons held its
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19
0aattbman & suurnaI.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1889.

WORD comes from Johnstown that
enough clothing has arrived there to
supply the people for the next twenty
years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

SPEAKER BARRETT of the Massa-
chusetts house was presented with
soup-tureen at the adjournment of the
egislature-rather a suggestive gift.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

The secretarys report showed net gain
in membership of 17S, making the total
membership 1924. After the announce
ment of the staining committees and the pas
sage of the usual resolutions the Grand
Lodge adjourned. On Friday the Grand
Chapter of Royal Arch Masons held its
seventy.second annual convention.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-19

SUNDAY, June 16, at Z; 80 M, sermon
before the graduating class by Rev. j. X
Fuller. Wednesday forenoon and after
noon, examinations s: 90 P. NJ, address by
Hon. Edwin f. Palmer. Thursday fore
noon and afternoon, examinations; go
P. NJ. alumni meeting, lecture by Professo
w. +. Rocheleau; 500 p. NJ, b exhibition
Friday, at 9: 90 A. NJ. graduating exercises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-19

sUSPENDERS.-The latest is an Improvement on
the 'Guyot." See the patent attachment for your
comfort and you'll say Only 25c. pair.
UMBRELLAS.-"Gloria" Umbrellas Warranted one
year If they split within year purchase recoy-
cred free of charge. Those with 26-inch paragon
frames Sl25. 2S-inch, 81 80. 30-inch al as
SCARFS.-The Al, 6S and 75c. Summer Knot anc
Four-in-hands for clearing sale Pc. each.
25c. Scarfs, in all styles, reduced l5c or two for
25c.
White Lawn Ties reduced to doz for 25c,
Piquet Four-in-Hand, 20c.. or 3 for SOC.
White Bows reduced to DC. each. or SOC dozen.
COLLARS AND CUFFS-The quality and shane of
those Zoe Collars stamped with we'll known makers
name. 2 for 25c. here, without the name. Cuffs for
2Oc that cost 25c pair at that credit in
ACCOMPLISHMENTS full size and pure
linen. Reduced from l25xc. to 10c., and from Pc to
2Oc. for the clearing sale.
SCI Day Shirts and Night Shirts, valses, Toilet
Articles, Carriers for Half Hose or Bcyclists Mems
Jewery etc. at clearing sale prices that make this the
opportunity of a season.
sS Call tomorrow before O'Clock. as Saturday is
half day holiday here.
,c., THE PALAIs ROYAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-19
SPECIAL SALE Or R1BBoys

The telegraph, telephone, newspapers NAV be the
means OF quickly dispensing the news: but as there
quicker method Of spreading business news than
Milling show window with samples marking tbe
goods half the price they really worth and then
waiting for women to tell one another of what they
sawf Such news spreads faster than teleoraph or
newspaper information.
HERE'S PROOF OF 1T.
On Monday morning 9S5 pieces of ribbons FIRST a. v
Washington. Monday evening the largest show MIN.
dow was allied with samples, ie. MORE ana q q, SIN
Ribbons with Satin and Crown Edges and worth 25c
and 39c. yard. o,a marked lSc. and Isc. a yard
TUESDAY Gully 16) THE BIGGEST DAv,s
BUSINESS WAS DONE IN RIBBONS FOR NAM
A MONTH That the demand viii even be create
stl IL as certain as the fact that the Palas Row 40
the corner Of 10Th street and Pennsylvania. avenue
WHAT THE STOCK COMPRISES.
zoo pieces BLACK Aoire hbbons satin edge Nos q
TO 10.
az pieces Black Moire Ribbons, crown edre. So, .
to 10.
As pieces Black MORE Sash Ribbons. crown and
aatin edge, 10 12 inches wide
10 10.
2ss pieces cOlOrsd g. g. Ribbons. satin edss Nos.
TO l6.
1ss pieces cOlored Moire Ribbons, crown edge, Nos
2 10 l6.
10 10.
70 pieces colorsd Moirs sssh Ribboua crown edrs
o 10 IL inches vida
- The largest purchase of Ribbons ever made A
this season. In the twelve years. history Of the Palas
Royal. Apurchase that never would have been con-
IL not for the fact that prices were psd
enabling TIE Offering Of Raooss al assvlv haifprfes
TIE PALAIs ROYAL.
4 LLsNER
&17 Cor. 18th and Pa svA