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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10
As 1t Should Be.

The first official head to fall in Yer
mont is that of Hiram Atkins, superin-
tendent of construction of the federal
building at Montpelier, for which con-
gress appropriated $l45, 000 The APP
pointment and continuance of Mr.. At
kins in this office has been regarded by
the people of Vermont as a scandalous
proceeding. A political boss, he was
put in charge of a job for which he had
no especial fitness. An " offensive
partisan" who required rewarding, he
told his democratic friends privately
that he feared a nomination to any
office that he was better qualified TO
fill, because Edmunds would defeat his
confirmation in the senate. 1t was not
expected that the Office would neces-
sarily exist more than two years when
Mr.. Atkins was appointed. But it has
continued four years, and the walls of
the building are now hardly two feet
above its granite foundation. If Cleve-
land had been reelected president, as
Mr.. Atkins believed he would be, this
job could easily have been prolonged
for another four years to serve for
den ocratc Doodle in another presiden-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

THE senate adjourned on Tuesday
of last week, after a session of four
weeks. Less than dozen nominal
tions remained Enacted upon, and of
the nominations sent to the senate only
one was rejected. BY curious coin
cidence the final adjournment occurred
on the same date as in 1885, and, while
there are still several important offices
to be filled, the senate has performed
fully as much work as during the
special session of that year. Few NOM
nations of any Importance reached the
senate, four years ago, till March %,
and at the close of the session an I'M
usually large number of nominations
remained unconfirmed and two had
been rejected outright. President
Harrison has been more fortunate than
his predecessor With the single ex-
ception of the pugnacious Halstead,
his appointees have received the sena-
torial benediction and comparatively
few will require to be reappointed on
account of failure of the senate to act.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

such scene was enacted in a bank
parlor only a week or two ago. Less
desperate, but not less bold, was the
robbery of bank official in Cincinnati
a few years ago. He was cutting off
coupons from a pile of bonds, when a
stranger came in and entered into a
business conversation. When il ended
the visitor went out, having in the
meantime picked up, just under the
other mans eyes, many of his bonds,
and that without being detected until
he was fairly out of sight. These in
cidents not only show how much
brazen impudence may gain, but the
liability to fright and to imposition
which inheres even in the shrewdest
and most prudent managers of affairs.
They prove also that we are all liable TO
be taken off our guard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

WHEN steamers first began to ply
across the Atlantic the cost of cabin
passage one way was $500. Now it
can be obtained on good lines as low
as $50, or 500 for the round trip, and
very economical people can go for less.
We notice that tickets for all the eX-
penses of trip from New York to the
worlds Sunday-school convention at
London, July 2-5, are offered at $160,
and we have seen another advertise
ment, which takes in the great worlds
fair at Paris, for S115. AS to the de-
tails of these schemes we are not fully
informed, but when transatlantic visit
may be made for less than 5000, it APP
pears that some of our more prosper
Gus churches might benefit themselves,
as well as their pastors, by helping the
latter to an extra vacation. Three
days at the Sunday-school gathering, or
as many at the Paris exposition, ought
to plant vigorous crop of new ideas
in every minister's mind, and thus en-
hance his usefulness aud acceptability
to a marked degree.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

SENATOR TELLER has introduced a
resolution TO abolish secret sessions of
the senate for the confirmation of NOM
nations and is confident of his ability
to secure its adoption upon the re-
assembling of the senate. While
there are strong arguments against the
consideration of treaties in open ses-
sion, yet the consideration of nomina-
tons to public Office in this manner is
not open to the same objections. The
public certainly is entitled to know the
specific reasons why such nominations
are confirmed or rejected, and if their
curiosity is not gratified in legitimate
way false and misleading reports will
be put in circulation. In the recent
case of the rejection of Murat Hal
stead's nomination, the speeches of
several senators were incorrectly re-
ported and the motives which led them
to vote against his confirmation seri-
ously misrepresented. The abolish
ment of secret sessions will effectually
do away with the circulation of such
erroneous reports.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

THE Rhode Island state election that
occurred on Wednesday of last week
was not exactly prolific in results, the
only candidate elected being the demo-
cratic encouragement. Four tickets
were in the field and the electoral
lightning, having such an extended
territory over which to gambol, failed
to strike in any particular locality hard
enough to hurt. The democratic ticket
led, but failed to secure a majority,
and the legislature will elect. The
complexion of that body is still uncer-
tain, as there was no election in several
cases. There is a republican majority
of ten in the senate, with four senators
yet to be elected, and a democratic
majority of fourteen in the house of
representatives., with a choice yet to be
made in twelve cases. The balance of
power on joint ballot thus depends
on the result of the new elections in
districts which failed to make choice
last week. In the meantime little
Rhody must sit on the fence-with a
slight leaning toward the democratic
side.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

THE versatile Boulanger has made
another break, and bad one this time.
Learning that the government was
about to prosecute him, together with
the other members of the Patriotic
League, the general Immediately trans
ferred his valuable person to Brussels,
and from that safe distance is now
issuing his manifestos, giving vent to
big talk and prophesying the speedy
humiliation of the government. Bou-
LANCER had a great opportunity, but
seized it by the wrong handle. Had
he remained and faced his accusers he
would have been hero, and France
adores heroes. As it is, he is refugee,
and the nation seems inclined to laugh at
his precipitate flight. The spectacle
presented by Boulanger, directing the
movements of the nationalist party in
France from his retreat in Belgium,
is analogous to that of general lead
ing his troops to battle from the seclu-
sion of his tent at the rear. Such a
policy smacks of cowardice. The gen.
erals departure will make no difference
in his prosecution, which was sane
toned by the chamber and will be car
ried out in his absence. The runaway
patriot will be handled without gloves,
as the ministry is on the war-path and
is determined to destroy Boulangism,
root and branch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

THE appointment of Patrick Egan
as minister to Chill is regarded in the
could country" as severe comment
on the Irish policy of the British
government. In England Patrick was
a hunted outlaw; in the United States
he is an honored and respected citizen,
chosen by the head of the nation to
represent his adopted country abroad.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

THE visit of a man to Denver bank,
the other day, and his compulsion of
the president to cash for him check
for $2l 900, the alternative being death
from pistol-bullet, or from the eXplo-
sion of bottle of nitro-glycerine, reads
like an extravagant romance. Still,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10
dNattbman T. SuunaL.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1889.

MIR. ATKINS wants his good repub-
lican friends to understand distinctly
that when his official head shall fall
into the basket it will not make him
feel bad" The tumble has come.
The decapitation was, no doubt, great
sport for Hiram, but rather rough on
the waste-basket.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-10

ROBERT T. LINCOLN sails for London
about May l5
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
INKS OE LONG AGO.
The Fashions That Prevailed In Ancient
Rome and Greece.


According to the Roman naturalist,
Pliny, and other authors, the basis of
the ink used by ancient writers was
formed of lamp-black, or the black
taken from burnt ivory and SCOT from
furnaces and baths. Some have also
supposed that the black liquor which
the cuttle-fish yields was frequently
employed. One thing is certain, that
whatever were the component jpgredi-
ents, from the biackness and solidity
in the most ancient manuscripts, from
an inkstand found at Herculanaum, in
which the ink appears as thick as oil,
and from chemical analysis, the ink of
antiquity was much more opaque, as
well as encaustic, than that which is
used in modern times.
Inks OF different colors were much
in vogue. Red. purple, blue and gold
and silver inks were the principal
varieties. The red was made from
vermilion, cnnabar and carmine; the
purple from the murex. one kind of
which, called the purple encaustic, was
appropriated to the exclusive use OF
the emperors.
Golden ink was much more popular
among the Greeks than among the
Romans. During the middle or dark
ages the manufacture both OF it and Of
silver ink was an extensive and lucrG-
tive branch of trade, and the illumin-
ated manuscripts which remain are
striking proof Of the high degree Of
perfection to which the art was car
ried. The making of the inks them
selves was distinct business; and an
other connected with it, and to which
1t owed its origin, was that OF ;n-
scribing the titles. capitals, as we'll rs
emphatic words, in colored and gold
and silver in1s.--N. Y. Mail and Ex-
press. --" ~
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
BEAUTY AND HEALTH.
The Effects of Tight Clothing on tho Pc
son of Its Wearer.

The Effects OF Tight Clothing on the Per-
son of Its Wearer.
Now that rational ideas as to dress
have acquired a definite place in pub
lie esteem. it may be imagined that the
practice of tight lacings and customs
of a like nature, if known at all, are
not what they used TO be. A case of
sudden death lately reported from
Birmingham proves that it is still to
early to indulge in such illusory ideas.
The deceased a servant girl of eXcita-
BILE temperament, died suddenly in an
epileptoid fit, and the evidence given
before the coroner respecting her death
attributed the fatal issue to asphyxia,
due in great measure to the fact that
both neck and waist were unnaturally
CONSTRUCTED by her clothing, the former
by Il tight collar. the latter by belt
worn under the stays. We have here
certainly those very conditions which
would lead us to expect the worst pos
sible consequences from "A convulsive
seizure. There is no organ of the body
whose free movement is at such times
more important than the heart. Yet
here we find, on the one hand, it's
movement hampered BY tight girdle
30 placed that it could with difficulty
be undone at a critical moment; on the
other, contrivance admirably adapted
to allow the passage of the blood to
the brain, while impeding its return.
This is no isolated case as regards it's
essential character, though, happily,
somewhat singular in its termination.
Minor degrees of asphyHiation, we
fear, are still submitted to by n good
many of the self-torturing children of
vanity. The tight corset and the high
heel still work mischief on the bodies
of their devoted wearers. Taste and
reason, indeed, combine to deprecate
their injurious and vulgar bondage,
and by no means unsuccessfully. Still,
the evil maintains itself. Cases like
that above mentioned ought to. if they
do not, open the eyes of some self-wor-
shippers of the other sex who Needless
ly strive by such means to excel in
sickly grace. We would strongly inn
press on all OF this class the fact that
beauty is impossible without health,
and would advise them, in the name of
taste as we'll as comfort, to avoid those
methods of contortion, one and all, by
which elegance is only caricatured.
and health may be painfully and per-
manently injured. Lancet.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
A Russian Empress Watch.

At the time of her coronation at
Moscow, in 1924, Catherine l., En-
press of Russia, was presented with a
watch as wonderful in every particular
as the famous Strasburg clock; even
more wonderful when the delicacy Of
its construction is taken into consider
alton. II weighed seven ounces, and
was both Il repeater and IL musical time
keeper. On the opposite side from the
works or time-keeping part of the won
der there was an exact counterpart of
the holy sepulcher with a carved i'm
age of the Roman guard; this scene
could be viewed through the glass in
the case. Upon opening the case the
imitation stones would roll away from
the mouth of the miniature sepulcher,
the guard would kneel, angels appear
at opposite sides of the opening, and
about this time the music would start
up and play in soft, sweet strains the
Easter songs so well known to all Rus
SLAMS. The maker of this wonderful
piece Of mechanism is said TO have
worked upon it almost uninterruptedly
for period of nine years. Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
EFFECTS OF SMOKING.
How the Use of Tobacco Breaks Dow
the Health of Boys.

the Health of Boys.
If one is going to smoke at all, it is
not boys, but tough men, that can
Withstand the effects of tobacco
burned in paper. The adult smoker,
tobacco that he knows all about, may
or may not iujure himself according to
his constitution and to the amount of
his smoking. The boy who buys cigar
cites is sure to injure himself.
Now, will take the most favorable
case of all, and the rarest. Suppose a
boy has lot of good cigarettes, and
smokes few of them every day. Is
there any injury to that?
can tell you, for ! have had such
boys for patients. Such smoking. even
in so called moderation-as if there
were any such thing as moderation in
stimulants for the young-will do three
things for him: First, it will run his
pulse up to one hundred or more per
minute; second it will reduce his
weight below the healthy standard,
and third, it will reduce his strength
and general vitality, as will appear in
his pale complexion and his diminished
appetite.
If this is true of boys smoking under
the least injurious conditions, how
much truer is it in the more frequent
cases where bad and adulterated to-
bacco and excessive smoking combine
in their attack upon the delicate tis-
sues of the growing ladp The physi-
ologist will tell you that the effect of
stimulants in general is to check the
changes in tissue, this means to check
the growth. The simple fact is that
young people need no stimulants of
any kind unless as medicines. Tea
and coffee are not good for children,
and it is mistake to give them to
children. Much more are cigarettes
injurious, because tobacco is "a much
stronger stimulant than tea or coffee.
In conclusion, cigarette smoking is
one of the worst of habits, physically.
that boy can form. 1t Injuries the
heart and the digestion. and it tends
to check the growth. 1t gives lad
false and silly notions and it does not
bring him into good company. The
parents duty is simple one. Let him
point out the injuriousness of the habit;
let him laugh mt it, and if this is not
enough, as it should be for any right
feeling boy, then let him forbid it with
penalties, and do reasonably what is
to be done. am not one of those who
think that severe measures are often
necessary in the management of chill
dren that receive careful and aflec-
tionate training. But If, in some cases
nothing else will do, it is we'll to con-
slider that u switch in time saves nine.
DIR. Titus Munson Coan, in Harper's
Young People.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
Closed for the Night.

Sharp Parent Cat head of stairs)-
Clara! It's time for yo IL to go to bed.
Clara Gn the parlor)-Why, pa, Mr..
Greene is here!
"Oh! l beg pardon. l thought it
was Mr.. Brown, and | haven't any
patience with Mr.. Brown. He always
kisses you with such loud smacks that
it wakes me up. Stay as long as you
please, Mr.. Greene. You are always
welcome"
Mr.. Greene --Um!-thank you, but l
was Just getting ready to go, and II
promised my chum I'd be back early.
Good uigatI-~N. Y. Weekly,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
CALIFORNIA; Indian Patriarch,

1t is claimed that "Old Gabriel" an
Indian in the Monterey (California)
County Hospital, is one hundred and
fifty years old. 1t is proved to the sat-
isfaction of many people that "Old
Gabriel" was grandfather in 1890.
Father Junipero is said to have taught
him the trade of stone cutting in 177l,
and he became so expert at the busi-
iess that he managed the construction
OF the San Antonio Mission in 1881.
Nothing is said about "Old Gabriel's"
acquaintance with George Washing
ton, but II they had ever met the In
dams recollections would be valuable
II not too taucifuL L-Harper'S Razar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
Yankees the Best Canvassers.

employ scores of men in my busi-
ness, and they are constantly chang
ing. am obliged to select from the
applicants who come TO me the bright
est and most alert of them, and | have
reduced my rules of selection to a sys-
TEN. Where were you in business
lastp" l always ask, and then the an
swer prejudices me. If the man has
been working in IA small Western town,
he's no good, and don't want him.
Ten to one he's got into lazy and reck-
less habits and doesn't care Il snap for
small profits. | can't do any thing
with a man who doesn't know that "a
dollar is made of 100 cents. If the
man tells me he's been working in a
large Western city, I'm better salts
fed, but still this class doesn't suit
me. Their ideas are too large, and
they're too Independent for their own
good. Their address is not insinuat-
ing, they are likely to be above their
work, and they are fonder of talking
to the people they visit on business
than they are of canvassing. The
clever young man who has been brought
up in small Eastern town makes a
good canvasscr, but the best of them
all is the man who has drifted about
from business to business in a large
Eastern city like New York or Boston.
They've got enough knowledge of the
world to make every edge cut in can
vassing. and they are plausible enough
to sell Il clock to II jeweler. They can
make five dollars while the Western
man would be ringing the door-bell. -
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
GEOGRAPHICAL POETICA.
A Book Which, When Published, Will
Create Profound Sensation.

Book which, When Published, Will
Create a Profound Sensation.
We are about getting out book to
contain biographies of all the occiden-
tai and accidental poets of the hemi-
sphere. Applicants will, please, write
out the answer to the following ques-
tions:
What is your full namep
Your name when you are not fullp
The name you maintain in the COM
munityP
When you were born, and why2
Male or female? Don't give an
hasty answer.)
Where werey your grandparents born.
in this country or any other?
What asylum do you reside IMP
We're you born in the city or in the
woods?
Did you early lisp in great numbersP
Is yours very bad attack
Are you educated or not?
What colleges didn't you attendp
What is the color of your red hairP
The estimated length of your feet?
Did you ever have poem printed!
Did you ever have any other kind OF
fitsp
What do you think your station is
among the great bardsP
How often does the spasm come on?
Are you saddest when you write?
Have you ever consulted a physician?
If male, how old? (We know the
poetic age of all female writers.)
Do you effect the present style OF
trousersp
How often do you change your style
of stockingsp
How were you brought up and what
editors brought you down?
Are you married, and how often?
Do you consider divorce a failure?
What do you think of onions as soul
foodp
Do your poems come in a kind of
spontaneous combustion, as it we e9
What is your height-when you see
your name in your village weekly pa
perP
How many poems, in the course of a
year, do you turn and have returned?
What is the extent of your poetical
works, and what trade do you follow
for pastime?
What publications have your effu-
sions disappeared in?
Were any OF your ancestors ever
burned for writing poetry?
What other renowned poet do you
think you resemble?
What soap do you use, If any?
Do you ever have 10 rewrite any OF
your poems?
Can you compose poetry and tho
baby at the same time?
Do you consider one or all of your
poems the best?
What is the size of hat required after
you finish a poem?
Write answers to the best of your
ability and don't sign your name with
cross. Send photograph of yourseli
or your next best friend ana live dol
lars, not for publication, but as guar.
antee of good faith.-A. w. Bellaw, in
Time.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28
ABOUT TRouT-FiSHlNo.
A Few Hints to Young Men Who Know
Nothing About tho Sport

A Few Hints to Young Mon Who Know
Nothing About tho sport.
The following rules are believed to
be comprehensive; but If you don't see
what you want ask,for it. If you don't
want what you see, you don't have to.
In the first place, pick your fishing
grounds. If you can pick somebody's
trout-pond, you are apt to have better
luck. In this case do not obtrude your
self upon the owners attention. He
may have other fish to fry. Trout in a
strangers private pond always bite
better at night. So, sometimes do the
dogs.
Before starting on your trout trip,
lay out most of your money on rod.
This is de rigeur. A split bamboo one
with gold trimmings and few dia-
monds in the butt, will do. You will
not catch any trout with it, but it is
useful for catching suckers. of which
you are apt to do good deal more,
any how. When you go fishing you
can hide it in the bushes and borrow a
bean pole from some country boy.
Trout are fonder of this sort of tackle.
Ubi beam iii patria, is their motto.
AS to flies, don't be too ily-just mus.
cous enough. You will need brown
rain-shacklo, an ensanguined ibis. a
roller process miller and shoohy. These
are to stick in your hat. To fish, hor-
row some cocleroaches from your hotel
and few worms from the above-said
C. b. 1t is also important to carry the
customary bottled bait on your own
hook. The fisherman who can not await
bite with baited breath will not catch
any thing, and doesn't deserve to.
In fishing, do not talk. Trout are apt
to resent such familiarity on the part
of an utter stranger. Wait and do your
talking at the supper table, where you
can introduce them to yourself-fried.
Frying ovcrcomes their clammy re-
serve.
Having fished enough. you can en-
gage the boy from whom you borrowed
the bean pole to catch something for
you. Then resume your diamond
hilted rod and return to the hotel with
1t and your fish.
II you would be the most famous
fisherman that ever lived, you can do
it very simply. In telling of what you
caught, say invariably that those
which got away were all small. This
may come hard at first, for every one
else will be telling "but you ought to
have seen the one l hooked in the
Green Pool - four-pounder, sure. /
could have sworn when he got away"
But stick to your story and you will
be the hero of the summer. After
they have had you de Nnaticoed and
pronounced not insane but just honest,
the mammas of lovely daughters will
besiege so model a son-in-law, and all
the capitalists will be ready to take
you into partnership. Most informa-
tion mills would charge you about 800
for this pointer alone. but all ask is
ten per cent. OF the heiresses and the
partnerships. Time.