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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-24

REMARKABLE REsCUE.-Mrs. Mich
ael Curtain, Plainfield, H., makes the
statement that she caught cold, which
settled on her lungs. She was treated
for month by her family physician,
but grew worse. He told her she was
a hopeless victim of consumption and
that no medicine could cure her. Her
druggist suggested DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption. She bought
a bottle, and to her delight found her
self benefited from first dose. She
continued its use, and after taking ten
bottles found herself sound and well !;
now does her own Homework and is
as well as she ever was. Ten-cent trial
bottles of this great Discovery at c..
Blakely's drugstore. Large bottles
fifty cents and S1.00.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-24
Good Housekeeping.

The good housekeeper will certainly
look well to the ways of her house
hold, but her eyes will be those of the
kind, just woman. She will not look
for miracles; she will not expect to get
the best supplies and service when pay
ing only the lowest price; she will not
hope to make something out of
nothing; she will be brave enough
to live within her means, even
if they be small; she will not be
afraid to do her work honestly and
well; and, finally, she will be so true
to herself at all times and so adjust and
simplify her domestic duties that she
will not exhaust body and mind in
trying to do two persons work for the
sake of keeping up appearances.
If you stop to consider what this "keep-
ing up appearances " means it puts
the people in very unenviable light,
for it simply means that people want
to give you false impression of their
possessions. No member of the family
is so much injured by this deceptive
life as the housekeeper. All her
power of body and mind is bent to the
task of making the best possible appear
ance with the smallest amount of eX-
penditure. Intellect is cramped in
the battle ard all repose is gone from
the home life. No matter how good
the housekeeping, the spirit of the
home-maker is not there. No woman
has right to dwarf her life for such
purpose. Let her make the most of
the means at her command, but let her
never sacrifice her physical, moral and
mental well-being to desire to make
display disproportionate to her cirum-
stances, for that is not good house
keeping Good housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-24
n(oral ann Reltgious.
The Conscience and Future
Judgment.

sat alone with my conscience
In place where time had ceased.
And we talked Of my former living,
In the land where the years increased;
And felt should have to answer
The question It put to me,
And to face the answer and question
Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts Of forgotten actions
Came floating before my sight.
And things that thought were dead things
We're alive with terrible might;
And the vision Of all my past life
Was an awful thing to face,
Alone with my conscience sitting
In that solemnly silent place.
And thought of far away warning.
OF a sorrow that was to be mine
In a land that then was the future,
But now was the present time,
And thought of my former thinking
Ola judgment day to be-
But sitting alone with my conscience
Seemed judgment enough for me.
And wondered if there was a future
To this land beyond the grave,
But no one came to answer,
And no one came to save;
Then felt that the future was present,
And the present would never go by
For 1t was but the thought OF my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then woke from my timely dreaming,
And the vision passed away,
And knew that the far away warning
Was a warning of yesterday;
And pray may not forget 1t
In this land before the grave,
That may not cry in the future,
And no one come to save.
And so have learned lesson
Which l ought to have learned before
And which, though learned it dreaming,
hope to forget no more
So sit alone with my conscience,
In the land where the years increase,
And try to remember the future
In the land where time will cease
And know Of the future judgment,
How dreadful so e'er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
VIII be judgment enough for me-
anonymous
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THEORIES that look well on paper
will not always work well in practice,
but many of them are well worth
trying.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-24

WHY, now can not get enough
to eat" says one lady who formerly
had no appetite, but took Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.
, 1890-08-14

THOMAS II. BENTON.

The Olympia Tribune urges that
Jessie Benton Fremont be awarded q
pension by congress. The REVIEW
agrees to that solely for the reason
that her noble old father, Senator
Benton, was one of the warmest,
most faithful and far-seeing friends
that the Pacific Northwest ever had
in congress. He spoke for Oregon
from the tribune and the stump.
The Willamette valley and Western
Washington were largely settled by
Missourians, and Senator Benton,
to his dying day, ceased not to dis
play the warmest interest In their
welfare.
Benton was quick to foresee the
importance of the Pacific coast to
the stars and stripes. His political
tours through Western Missouri had
brought him in contact with hardy
trappers and voyageurs who had
penetrated this wild region in the
dawn of the present century, and
from them he gathered surprising
fund of information about the broad
region lying west of the Rocky
mountains, and when the boundary
question came up in congress he was
one of the few members prepared to
speak advisedly. His long familiar
ity with Western character told him
that there was only one way to
wrest this region from atBritain,
and that was to settle it with sew
eral thousand frontiersmen, men
who always travelled with their
rifles slung across their arms, and
generally with their wives and
children. To induce these men to
pierce the fertile wilderness he ad-
vocated the donation land act, un-
der which man and wife were given
"a square mile of land, and allowed
to take III about as they chose. In
those days there was no waiting for
surveys by the national govern
ment.
Benton was the only man of his
time who grasped the fact that some
day the commerce of the Orient
would be carried to these shores.
AS he expressed himself "The fly
ing car and the magic boat have not
yet exhausted their wondcrs." He
thought the commerce Of the Orient
would be carried in boats up the
Columbia, and down the Missouri,
with Il rail portage between navig-
able waters. The development of
our railway system has made 1t un-
necessary now to depend upon the
slower method thus outlined, but at
the time Benton ventured his
prophecy 1t was looked upon AZ
chimerical.
Why has the democratic party so
long neglected, the memory of this
great man, whose political fortunes
were sacrificed 10 his love of country
, 1890-08-14
EDLSONS OPINION.


Edison blames the physicians
for the malexecution of Kemmler
Although the nerve center Is found
at the base OF the skull, he says, na
ture has amply protected 1t. The
hair Is a non-conductor, as are also
the bones, and in electrical execu.
tons like that of Kemmler the
bones of the skull have to be pene
trated. MIR. Edison points out thai
In the cases of thirty men who
have been accidentally killed by
electricity In and around New York
the current was never turned into
the body through the head. From
this he draws the inference that the
deadly current should have been
sent through the body from one arm
of the death chair to the other. The
arms, hands and fingers are full of
blood, which is good conductor of
electricity. Let the hands be prop
erly cleansed and moistened," says
Edison, and the charge would pass
through the heart, causing instant
DEATH" According to Edison, If
Kemmler had received the whole
1900 volts into his body he would
have been burned up.
These, in brief, are the views of
Thomas A. Edison, the one man
whose opinion will outweigh those
of all others. 1t is yet too early to
declare electrical executions either a
failure or a success, The taking off
of kemmler was far less sh ockinp
than the scenes often attending the
infliction of the death penalty by
hanging. There Is yet the strong
est reason to hope that murderers
may be removed by means of the
electrical current, without retaining
consciousness one second after the
current strikes the brain. Unfort-
unately many people had led them
selves to expect too much of the new
method. Some seemed to think
that Immediately the current passed
through Kemmler's body he
would become u cold and rigid
corpse. The flame of life may be
instantaneously snuffed out, but the
expiring fires will still leave some
evidence of their existence, just as
an extinguished lamp does not inn
mediately become cold.
1t is not too much to believe that
the experiment of electrocution will
prove all that could reasonably be
expected of It, all that its intelligent
advocates claimed for it. But those
enthusiasts who seemed to imagine
that the machinery that killed
Kemmler would also compose his
features, leave him cold in death and
also place his body In coffin and
start it on the road to the cemetery,
will necessarily be disappointed.
, 1890-08-14


Puyallup Indian reservation and
report upon the matter of the dis
posal by the Puyallups Of their In
dividunl or tribal lnnds. Embraced
within the limits Of this reservation
are 1900 ncres OF land, held by
1000 indians, including men,
women and children. Under ordl-
nary circumstances this amount OF
land would be none too great for
l., 900 Indians. Less than that num-
Der occupy the Colville reservation,
lying to the northwest OF Spokane
Falls. reservation embracing q
800, 900 acres, as against the IL, 900
In the Puyallup reservation.
The Puyallup lands, however, ad-
join the city OF Tacoma, and have
acquired an enormous value. They
stand as a barrier to the growth of
the city, and as a consequence the
whole city is deeply interested In
the removal of the Indians. or
course there Is great danger that in
justice may be done the Indians,
and that spectators will take ad-
vantage of any action sanctioning n
change. Some such thought prob
ably influenced the members who
prepared the bill, leading them to
attempt the dlsbarment of residen ts
of Washington from service upon
this commission.
When the nsatter came up in the
senate MIR. Allen proposed, advocated
and secured the adoption of an
amendment removing the restric-
ton upon tho appointing power.
This Is not only n matter of justice,
but Is really in the interest of the
public and the Indians themselves.
A commission entirely composed of
stralgers would necessarily operate
at n decided disadvantage, and the
interests Of the state in the tide
lands and the rights of the Indians
would certainly be better guarded
by the presence upon the com mis-
sion of at least one Washingtonian
of admitted knowledge of the affairs
at interest and of unquestioned in
tegrity. If there is reason to sus-
pect that spectators will attempt to
corrupt the commission, the wiser
plan would seem to require that the
members OF that commission be
taken from the ranks of residents of
this state. Then, In the event of
corruption, they will have to face
the consequences, whereas a COM
mission of strangers might easily
betray their trust and avoid the
consequences of public indignation
by scattering to their respective
homes in distant states. The presi-
dent, though, should exercise ex-
ceptional care in the appointment of
30 important q commission.
The senate evidently looked at
the matter In this light, for it
adopted Senator Aliens amend
ment
, 1890-08-14
TERMINAL RA IES.

The decision of the Interstate
commerce commission In the case
of the San Bernardino board o'
trade against the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad opens up q
broad range Of important pos
sibilities. Spokane Falls Is more
directly interested I'm this decision
than many people have yet con
sidered. The broad proposition Is
laid down in this decision, In sub
stance, that the merchants oil
Spokane Falls, under the Interstate
commerce law, should not be
charged more than terminal rates
unless there Is actual water competi'
ton at the terminals. Possible
competition will not justify such
greater charge under the provisions
of the fourth section Of the act"
Yet right now the shippers of this
city are paying more than terminal
rates upon products and merchnn'
disc that are subject to absolutely no
competition by wafer Mt the termi-
nails. Much of this merchandise
and produce comes from the cities
In the Mississippi valley and Is pro-
duced there only. Everybody knows
there is not the slightest probability
of manufac lures and products pc.
culiar to the interior being shipped
by rail to the Atlantic seaboard, and
there transferred to the holds of YES
sells, to be shipped around the Horn
to the North Pacific coast, while
three transcontincntal railroads have
direct lines to the Northwest.
Clearly this ruling by the commits
sion opens up new advantages to
Spokane Falls The extent of those
advantages can be better determined
by the wholesale merchants here. IL
is n question that concerns them
more directly, but at the same time
the whole city is interested.
Under this ruling, If 1t sustained
and enforced, Spokane should
become the main distributing center
of all products and manufactures
not actually carried by vessel to the
terminals of the transcontinental
roads now here, because those com.
panies have no right to charge
higher rates than are charged the
terminals. This Is common sense
and il Is justice. 1t Is worth inves.
tigation by the business element of
the city.
The fact that interior cities have
failed to enter protest has no bear.
ing upon the case. According to
the decision just rendered, "The
filing of schedules of rates with the
commission, as required by statute,
raised no presumption as TO the
legality of such rates, aud no onlis-
sion or failure to challenge or dis
approve the schedules, If so filed,
can have the effect of making rates
lawful which are unreasonable
, 1890-08-14
SPOKANE FALLS REVIEW. THURSDAY AUGUST

and his aght against the extension
of slavery? 1t looks not well, this
neglect of Benton's memory aud ex-
altation of that of Calhoun. Benton
denounced Calhoun's secession ana
notification doctrines as "hre-
brands, (" and although representing
slave state, and himself a slave
holder, he took high ground Tor
the restriction Of slavery ana
the preservation Of the Union.
His attitude lost him mis-
seat in the senate, defeated him In
the race for governor OF Missouri,
and cost him the support OF the
democratic party. Not long ago a
monument was reared above the
grave of Calhoun, on which occa-
sion Grover Cleveland, then presi-
dent Of the United States, wrote II
ponderous eulogy of the arch rebel,
the fountainhead of secession, and
the man whose influence for evil
has been greater perhaps than that
of any other American. Ii Is men
like Calhoun and Voorhees,, Hen
bricks and Seymour, before whom
the democratic party bows the knee
in hero worship. They have little
veneration for such men as Benton
and Douglas,
, 1890-08-14
THE VOLTS LONG no W..

When the REVIEW declared that
the democratic party was endeavor-
ing to manipulate the Farmers
Alliance for political gain 1t ex-
pected an angry protest from the
democratic press; that alone was
needed to verify the assertion. OF
course 1t has come. The Wilbur
Register Ia democratic paper, one
of those sheets that pose as the farm
ers' friend and at the same time
uphold the democratic idea Of tariff
reform-that is, high protection for
the Eastern manufacturer prod
ucts, and free trade in two Of Wash
ington's leading lnduetrles-wool
and lumber-in short, the Mills bill.
or course the Register doth
protest too much" that
the party 1t represents
has no such intentions. In the
next breath, however, 1t gives the
whole snap away by declaring that
the Farmers Alliance was or
ganized because of the failure of the
republican party to keep Its pledges
to the farmers In the past. If that
be true, then why the necessity of
the organization of II new party?
Why not allow the farmers to vote
the democratic ticket? Because the
democratic leaders very well know
that they can't ram such falsehoods
down the throats of the republican
farmers. And their only hope lies
in an attempt to drag the Alliance
into politics, and cause it indirectly
to weaken the republican party and
strengthen their own.
Then the Register proceeds to
tell the farmer about his grievances
that he has to pay high prices for
his clothing, etc, and receive low
prices for his products. Just how
this would be remedied by the Mills
bill, which proposed to place wool
on the free list d-go-on-t -tarih-tax-
ing the wool growing farmer for ev-
erything he buys, is question the
democratic party has never been
able to answer and never will.
Grover Cleveland was president
Of the United States for period of
four years Is there n republican
farmer in all tbs state who believes
he was more prosperous during that
time than he is Mt present under the
republican administration of Mr..
Harrison?
When the REVIEW SHE'D a club
at the democratic wolf in sheep
skin 1t entertained no expectation
of calling forth the cry of n lamb.
1t expected the "wolfs long howl
on Ounalaska's lonely Shore" and
1t has not been surprised.
, 1890-08-14
no w no GET IHERE.

r. you have set your heart upon a
federal office, something that will
take you away from home and get
you out of the way of the rest of the
boys, don't ask for it, don't show
your hand, but instead make q break
at everything everybody else Ia af-
ter. BY and by you will reduce the
other boys to that frame of mind
where they will unite solIdly in
favor OF any proposition looking to
your turning your back upon the
state, no matter hCw lofty your am
bition. Then II you have "a friend
at court, and there Is u vacancy ly-
ing around Washington, you will
probably get II.
That may not be the game played
by Judge Calkins, who is now
named as a probable successor to As
sistant Postmaster General Clark
son, but it is not entirely foreign to
his apparent tactics. Mr.. Calkins
may get that important place.
, 1890-08-14
n FAIR LAND.

The alarming crop reports COM
piled by the statistician of agricul-
ture at Washington will probably
be reflected In more buoyant grain
market. So sudden and sharp a
blight falling upon so wide an area
can hardly result otherwise than In
sharp advance in the worlds
markets. This blight and the re-
ports of cold and frosty weather
from parts of Minnesota and the
Dakotas are new proof, IT such were
needed, that the Mississippi valley
can not be relied upon for equable
weather and certain crops. 1t is
only upon the North Pacific coast
that the farmer finds those condi.
tions of soil and climate SO essential
to assured success. Here we avoid
those sharp contrasts of weather so
trying alike to the growth of crops
and the health of man. The soil Is
principally volcanic ash or n dark
loam, and capable of perpetual culti-
vation. Here variety of resources
removes practically all danger of
overproduction, and in the event of a
surplus fleet of grain vessels lies at
our harbors to carry the grain to
starving Europe.
These and host of similar con.
siderations explain the remarkable
growth Of Washington. They point
to the incontrovertible fact that the
Pacific coast is destined to become
the richest and most populous Sec
ton of the United States. The
country is easily capable of support.
Ing five times as many people as
now inhabit the Atlantic coast
states, and the construction of new
railroads and the natural growth of
population point unerringly to the
future Of this favored land.
Soon after the termination Of the
revolutionary war Alexander Ham
ilton predicted that the population
of the United States would be
doubled within thirty years. He
was right, and that ratio of increase
holds good to this day. Thirty
years hence the United states Will
have somewhere not far from $780,
600, 900 people. 1t is not improbable
that the Pacific coast will then have
a population of 25, 900, 900 or 80, O,OOO,-
600 people, and Washington will
probably have ten times as many
inhabitants AS are now within her
borders-possibly more.
This is favored land. 1t offers
a wide variety Of resources and a
remarkable diversity of climate
conditions capable of maintaining
a populous and cosmopolitan people.
The prophecies of the past have, one
and all, fallen short OF the realiza-
ton. 1t is not now probable that
any predictions appearing reason
able at present will fall beyond the
target of naturalization.
, 1890-08-14

the regime of panic and anarchy
monetary obligations might be
wiped out of existence.
II Senator Stanford's mad project
OF throwing open the treasury doors
to the farmers of the country had
found support and been carried into
execution the consequences would
nave been similar to those that
wrecked the Argentine Republic,
but upon an infinitely broader scale.
An era uof extravaganza and specu.
lation would have been followed by
the inevitable depression and a
financial panic that would have
dwarfed all previous hurries. But
the American people can stand pros
perity, and Senator Stanford's dan.
gerous Ideas went no farther than
publication and discussion. The
strong common sense of the people
protested against the bubble, and 1t
was never blown.