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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10

his courtesies for granted, and never
say thank your" Is that any reason
why you should not try and make an
evening at home pleasant for him, ill.,
stead of forcing him by your selfishness
to seek his happiness somewhere else?
Is that any reason why you should not
think his opinion of your frocks, your
bonnets or your looks worth considera-
ton? Is that any reason why you
should appear before him in clumsy
wrapper and with your hair in papers?
Is that any reason why, when you have
man visitor, he should be made to
feel that you endured your brother
when there was nobody else, but that
when there was-well, then it was diff
ferent? Is that any reason why you
should not be glad of dance or game
with him as your partner? Is that any
reason why you should not listen to his
word of advice about other girls or their
brothers? Is that any reason why you
should not be interested in his story of
the shooting or the hunting, when you
do to the same tales from other people?
Is that any reason why you should push
him to the wall, except when you need
him, and then claim his attention as
your right? Because he is your very
own brother you ought to be ten-fold
more considerate of him than of the
brothers of other girls. Because he is
your very own brother you ought to
study his tastes and cater to them;
read the books that he likes and sug-
gest others to him; study the songs he
fancies and be Glad TO make new ones
known to him. In this way you will
make your brother your very own, and
to him " sister" will he the most de-
lightful among girls. Are you your
brothers keeper? Yes, in a way; but
you do not keep him by letters formed
of ill-temper, untidiness and lack of
courtesy, but by one made of every
feminine grace and frightened by a
sisterly love. That is the keeper that
will give you your brothers. love, and
make you worthy the heart of some
other girls brother, too.-LadieS' Home
Journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10

ings were hurt by those pictures on the
slate; but Fido never returned to tell
how that was.
This all happened three years ago,
and it was only Tuesday of last week
that Freddy was down town with his
nurse, and saw, standing on cage at
the door of cellar, little stuffed dog.
His hair was worn away entirely, and
the wind and rain had taken all the
curl out of his tail; but Freddy felt
sure the moment he saw him that this
was Fido. Down in the cellar was
man who kept dogs and cats and rab-
bits for sale, and in the cage on which
tido stood were some chickens. He
stood out there as an advertisement for
the man in the cellar. Freddy looked
at him few moments, and then he
pulled Maria's apron and made her
come away.
" Oh, poor Fido ~ he said, and his
sweet dark eyes were full of tears of
sympathy and distress; for there was a
light of angry despair in Fidos glass
eyes, and around his neck was hung
placard that said, in big letters, 8" Kit
tens for sale. "-EHsaJeh Bislond. in
Hdrper's Young People.
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The Art of Fast Walking.

Persons who have never been trained
to walk fast generally quicken their
gait by bending forward and lengthen-
ing the stride, at the same time bend
ing the knees very much at each step.
1t is pretty safe to say that no one can
possibly adopt this style and keep fair
walk at a faster gait than six miles an
hour. The fast walker must keep him
self erect, his shoulders back and chest
thrown out. He must put down his
forward foot and heel first, and with
the leg straight. He must take strides
so quick that they look short. He must,
if he expects to get good stride, work
his hips considerably, overcoming the
sidewise tendency of the hip movement
by compensatory swinging of the
arms. The length of stride in fast
walking is astonishing to those who
look at it, A little figuring will make
it clear why this is so. There are / $50
yards in a mile, or 1,760 strides three
feet long. To do mile in eight min
minute, or eleven feet second. Now
220 steps minute, nearly four sec
ond, is pretty quick work, as any one
may discover for himself. Even three
steps second, or $50 to the minute,
seems quick. The chances are that
your eight-minute man, although his legs
move so quickly that the steps seem
short, is not doing as many as 200 steps to
the minute. And, consequently, that the
stride is at least three feet six inches.
With little practice man six feet
high can easily maintain four-foot
stride for half mile. 1t is true that
fast walking is an artificial gait; but it
is also true that practice at fast walking
will quicken mans unartificial gait. 1t
is real gain to any man to be able to
walk mile in ten or twelve minutes
without overexertion or fatigue; to be
able to walk five or six miles for every
four he used to walk without any more
conscious effort, and with a sense of en-
joyment in the mere exercise that he
never had before. -Harper'S Weekly.
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WHEN putting away clothes for the
season if they are carefully wrapped
up one often has the trouble after
wards of opening number Of parcels
before finding the needed article. Such
parcels should not be laid away without
a list of their contents being written
on the wrapper. In the case of cotton
dresses, which are always folded in
paper when laid away, l pin bit of the
stuff of which the dress is composed to
the outside; then a single glance tells
the contents, and one avoids the ne
cessity of long search.
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A Girl's Own Brother.

But, he's my own brother" Is
that any reason why you should take
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10

A GREAT many women are annoyed
by the rapidity with which braid wears
off their dress skirts. The best quail
ties of skirt-braid are finer, and often
do not wear as long as the cheaper,
coarse ones. The very best material
for binding a dress skirt is bias band
of good velvet put on as a roll. 1t will
outlast three pieces of worsted braid,
and, moreover, will save more than it
cost in saving fine walking shoes from
the wear on the instep caused by the fric-
ton of braid. This often causes the
shoe to be shabby here before any other
part of it is perceptibly worn.
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advertisements.

There are
many white soaps,
each
represented to be
"just as good as the Ivory"
They are not,
but like
all counterfeits,
they lack
the peculiar
and remarkable
qualities Of
the genuine.
Ask for
Ivory Soap
and
insist upon having it.
IT'S sold everywhere.
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"JUsT as good" say some dealers
who try to sell substitute preparation
when customer calls for Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. Donot allow any such false state
ments as this to induce you to buy what
you do not want. Remember, that
the only reason for making it is that a
few cents more profit will be made on
the substitute. Insist upon having the
best medicine-Hood's Sarsaparilla. 1t
is peculiar to itself.
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IT is probably idle to tell people that
there is thousand times the danger
in sewer pipes that there is in thunder
clouds, but it is true, all the same. The
deaths by lightning are few indeed
Who of the readers of this paragraph
ever lost friend that way? Who of
them hasn't lost a score of friends by
the less brilliant and less noisy destruc-
ton that comes up out of drains?-
Hartford COurdnt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10

BUCKLIN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. Sold by all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10

Send 2-cent staElps to 4. Z. Oriway X Co.,
Boston, Mass, for best medical work published?
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DOES this explain it? One great rea-
son why woman has not reached emf
hence in the mechanic arts is because
she has never been able to rise superior
to the idea that the right way to drive
nail is to do ii with both eyes shut
RAMS Horn.
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Gbe 8onsebuIo.

Contributions to this department may he sent
either to DIR. I. H. HosKINs, Newport, VT, or dl-
rectly to THE wATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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FALLING SICKNESS AND
ST. VITUS' DANCE.


For years a cure for Epilepsy and other
Fits caused by disease of the nerves has
been sought. 1t is now conceded by phys-
clans, druggists and the people that the
long-needed remedy has been found in DR..
Greene's Nervura, which has, by curing
thousands of cases, proved that it is an alb
solute specific for these terrible nervous
remedy, and a sure and positive cure for
all nervous diseases. All druggists keep
it at S1.00 per bottle.
My son had been troubled with epilepsy,
loss of appetite, and had no ambition to do
anything. After trying several remedies
he took DR.. Greene's Nervura, and / can
truly say that il made him a ne,o boy. The
fits have left him, his ,chOle system is built
up dneW, and he is enjoying perfect heath.
1t is the best medicine ever used, and
after trying others, I find it has no equal.
Mr.. w. SCHUM,
20 West Forty-thrd ST., New York city
Considers DIR. Greene's Nervura the Most
Wonderful Remedy Ever Discovered"
three years ago, and was in very low con-
diton. She had commissions coming on at
the same time every month, which were so
severe that we expected that she would
never come out of some of them. Since
that time she was under the treatment for
eighteen months of first-cass physician,
who became discouraged, and finally al
lowed her to use DR.. Greene's Nervura,
which she has been taking ever since. She
has nerer had a conrUlsion or any symptoms
Of one since she began using this medicine !;
she is gaining rapidly in health and
strength, and is able to be about the house
and yard and do some light work. l con-
slider DR.. Greene's Nervura the most won
derfuI remedy that was ever discov-
cred. JOHN G. DILL,
Old Bridge, Madison Township,
MddleseX County, N. j.
Dr. Greene of "a Temple Place, Boston,
Mass its discoverer, is the famous special
list in the cure of nervous and chronic dis
eases. The doctor has devoted special at
chronic diseases through letter correspond
ence, and will give by mail his opinion and
advice in any case free of charge. The
perfection of this system renders complete
ment by correspondence is wonderful and
unequaled. Send for symptom blank to fill
out, or write him about your case.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-11
MINUTE HANDWRITING.
Notable Examples OF Delicate Penman.
ship, Both Ancient and Modern.

Pliny the elder, that indefatigable
worthy, "ever young and ever fresh. Z"
relates that Cicero once saw the Iliad
Of Homer in a nutshell. Huet the
English antiquarian. whose pleasure it
was to search out the improbable,
acknowledges that, after much study,
10 has proved il to have been possible.
He says: "A piece of vellum ten inches
m length and eight in width, plant yet
firm. can be folded and inclosed in a
nutshell, using a large walnut A piece
of vellum this size can hold in its
breadth one line. which can contain
thirty verses. and in its length two
hundred and fifty lines. With a crow
quill the writing can be perfect. A
page of such a piece of vellum will
then contain seven thousand five hun
dred verses, and the reverse as much
the entire fifteen thousand verses of the
Had"
This was proved by Huet, says a
writer in Hdrper's Bazaar, before COM
pany of scholars and nobility. in the
presence of the dauphin, by using u
piece of paper and common pen.
Menage, a linguist and literary man,
a contemporary with Huet, records
having seen whole sentences not per-
ceptible except with microscope.
pictures and portraits appearing to be
only lines and scratches thrown down
at random. One such formed the face
of the dauphiness with pleasing
delicacy and correct resemblance;
moreover. poem in praise of this
royal lady, containing some thousands
of verses written by an officer, was put
into the space of eighteen inches.
1t is recorded that in the reign of
Queen Bess many were astonished ut
the exhibition of the whole bible put
into an English walnut no bigger
than n hens egg. 1.-The nut hoIdeth
the book; there are as many leaves in
this little book as in the great bible.
and there be written as much in one of
these little leaves as in great leaf of
the bible" 1t is mentioned that this
wonderful unreadable copy OF the
bible was seen by many thousand peo-
pie.
The library of st. Johns college,
Oxford, contains another unique bit of
handicraft. 1t is drawing of the
head of Charles l.. wholly composed of
written characters so minute that at a
distance the delicate strokes resemble
the lines of an engraving. The lines of
the head and the ruff are said to con-
tain the book of Psalms, the creed, and
the Lords prayer.
The portrait of Queen Anne in the
British museum is another instance of
success in minute penwork. This lilli-
putian drawing, hardly larger than
ones hand, develops upon its surface
countless lines and scratches, which
the official in charge assures the ques-
tioning public includes the entire con-
tents of thin folio, which in this way
is carried in the hand.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-11
A Dog'a Good Sense.

A rare instance of brute intelligence
was witnessed on Chestnut street the
other evening in dog which was ut
the wrong end of the rope; drunken
man was ut the right end OF. in other
words, the relative positions of the two
should have been reversed. The at
tention of several men who were pass
ing was first attracted to the pair by
the antics of the dog. The brute-that
is, the four-legged one-was almost a
fully bred pointer, and when first no.
ticed, was jumping up in the most sim
gular manner, each jump succeeding Il
tug of the rope in the hands of the
man. At times the canine, man, and
rope would become tangled in the most
inextricable snarl as the man and dog
made their way up the street
just watch that dog" suddenly said
one of the men who were looking on.
"He knows more than the man, by
Jover'
The man, dog. and rope had just got
out of IA snarl, when the man gave the
rope q vicious tug. 1t was then no.
ticed that the rope. which was about
the thickness of Il lanyard was fastened
dIOunu tue uOS ucCh III IL SIP huOt'
no collar being around the dogs neck.
At each tug of the rope it was plain
that the brute-the fore-legged one
was almost strangled, and when the
strain was removed the dog made his
regular jump. One of the onlookers
Indignantly started to rescue the suf-
ferinS quadruped, when he was stopped
by one of his companions who said:
Let them alone. Just see what the
dog will do"
The dog had just completed one of
his jumps, when it was seen that he
had taken the rope in his teeth and
thus relieved the strain on his throat.
He then trotted along contentedly I'M
til the man gave another tug and pulled
the rope from between the animals
teeth. This had evidently gone on for
some time, to judge by the WEAKNESS
OF the dog. But the animal pluckily
tried again and again and succeeded
each time in saving himself a chok-
inp-Phiia1eIDhi I,1dlLirer
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-11
Statistics as to Hunchbacks.

Ten years ago a remarkable charac-
ter died in Paris. He was known all
over France and the greater part of all
Europe as THE Learned HunchbacE.
He was very wealthy. and spent mint
of money in the last fifty years of his
life, travelling in all directions max
ing researches concerning his hunch-
backed brethren. 1t was in the mild
er portions of Europe that he found
the mis- ortune the most prevalent.
Spain supplied the greater number and
in a circumscribed locality at the foo.
of the Sierra Moreno he found that
there was one humpbacked person to
every thirteen inhabitants. They were
also found to be quite numerous in the
valley OF the Loire in France. The lit
tie humpbacked statistician came TO
the conclusion that there was one
humpback in every 1000 inhabitants.
or an aggregate of l. 900. 900 against the
estimated thousand millions of the en-
tire earth.
After the death of this eccentric in
dividual his heirs found in place of a
will voluminous manuscript of 1000
pages. all concerning humps. The
last page. although it said nothing
about the disposition of property. ex.
hump of marble raised over his grave,
with this inscription: Here lies
humpback who had taste for humps,
and who knew more about them than
any other humpback."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-11
Meath the Turkeys Foos.

There is clinging to some of the early
settlers of Hendricks and Morgan
counties an impression that buried be-
meath huge stone somewhere in the
fertile valley of White Lick creek there
are valuable treasures. The story is
that when the Delaware indians were
forced to vacate their hunting grounds
along the creek they believed they were
to be sent from their lands temporarily,
and rather than risk carving their
wealth into a strange country they
buried it under huge rock until they
returned. The rock was marked with
a turkeys foot carved in the stone pro-
jecting above the earth.
Early settlers along the stream say
that several years after the tribe mad
vacated the lands lone Indian came
through the country in search of a
treasure which he said had been buried
under a stone. lie disappeared as
mysteriously as he came, but he left
behind him that tradition that remains
with some people to this day.
Following the disappearance OF the
Indians the settlers began TO search for
the treasure. Then it was found that
there were plenty Of huge stones
marked with turkey tracks," it SEEM
ingly having been favor tie pastime
OF the red man to carve out the imprint
of turkeys feet upon all the great
stones along the stream. Notwith-
standing this obstacle, many farmers
excavated beneath huge stones, and
were disappointed at not being re-
warded for their labor. 1t is doubtful
if there is great stone within three
miles of the creek that has not been
burrowed under in search of the treas
ure. AS late as ten years ago the story
of the treasure was revived along the
stream. and rocks that had never been
disturbed were burrowed under.-Ifs-
dianapoLis NepS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-11
An Economical Wife.

Mrs. w. was thrifty and practical
soul, and she came from family which
through all the country side was re.
nowned as being near" In other
words, she came of q race of people
who were the reverse of generous and
in herself she was, it may he added.
an excellent husband. but he was
stricken down with typhoid-pneumonia
and one morning the physician in
charge announced TO the weeping wife
that he could live only few hours at
most. In her way Mrs. w. was fond
of her husband and she was greatly
affected by the verdict which an
nounced her approaching separation
from him. The scene between her and
her husband was affecting in the extreme
and the nurse who was present in the
background, was moved to tears by
the agouizing fervor of Mrs WIS grief.
George" the weeping wife said at
last, what clothes do you want to have
on when-when-"
Tears choked her utterance, and her
husband feebly nun INJURED that it did
not matter to him any more how he
was arrayed.
Then you won't mind, dearest" she
said between her sobs. IF we put on
your old pantsP The new ones have
not been worn but once, and we can
send them back to the tailor, and no one
will notice what sort of pants you have
on in the cof-cof-coilin."
Dear George was too far gone either
to care what trousers were used for the
arraying of his remains for the tomb or
to appreciate the perfection of his
wife's economy; he simply moaned and
gave up the ghost, leaving his wife
free to practice any economical device
which should occur in her frugal mind
in the arrangements which followed
in doleful sequence Boston Courier.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-11
She Ruled With The Rod.

Because his wife sent him to school,
spanked him when he was bad and
locked him in the attic when she want
ed to 90 out, William Beeler, of East
Providence. appeared in court in Prov
idence, X. l.. rs petitioner for di-
vorce. His story was singular one,
and his wife, Mrs. Mary Beeler.
flounced out of the court room before
it was half done. He is now but 10,
and was led to the altar when 16, his
wife being 28.
From his testimony it appears that
she possessed the master mind of the
two. and at once undertook the di-
rection of the household. After they
had been married three months she in
sisted upon sending HIM to school that
he might become more of a scholar
than he was. lie refused to 90, and
was severely whipped for his dis
obedience. She was much the stronger
of the two, and he had to do as she
said.
A few months ago he became rebel
lious and unruly, and Mrs. Beeler had
recourse to imprisonment, and fire.
quently locked him in the attic cham
Der, to the solitary occupancy of which
she condemned him before the hcuey-
moon was over. One day he let him
self down with ropes made from the
bed clothing. and when he sought
his wife he found she had gone off
to Providence to enjoy life. Wrought
up to the point of desperation he fol-
lowed her, and found her at question
able place, sitting on the lap of a
strange man, smoking cigarette and
drinking champagne.
His wife, who had exacted the most
correct conduct on his part, even tc
the extent of selecting what books
he should read, ordered him home and
threatened to spank him as soon as she
got home. But she did not thrash him
as he supposed she would. Instead
she told him that henceforth she in
tended to follow her own course of
living, and that he might do the same.
Since that time they had not lived
together. The divorce was granted.