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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Painting Floors.

Now that the fashion is more and
more prevalent of using carpets that do
not completely cover the area of the
floor, and which thus escapes distor-
ton by being cut so as to coincide
with every angle, recess or curve, with
the walls, foor-painting should GER
tainly be more generally adopted.
Painted borders are all well enough,
but the whole area of the floor may ad-
vantageously be laid out in color.
This painting necessarily involves
printing, which in itself, as applied to
floors, is hygienic, in having the effect
Of closing the pores in which dust
lodges; the dust, with its darkening
and forbidding effect, never failing to
find Judgment, unless, indeed, the
boards should be of costly hard wood q,
which is the exception, not the rule.
1t may be said that floor painted all
over will not be seen; but without re-
plying that a painted border where the
whole area is not colored is a decep-
ton, we may remark that the entire
treatment of floor or cover affords a
security against unsightliness should
any portion of the central carpet acct
dentally be raised and that in the
event of its removal for the purposes
of cleaning, the painted floor suffices,
more especially if enriched with a few
rugs or tinted or patterned mats. In
the summer time a floor artistically
painted will often be found preferable
to carpet, as aiding in the movement of
the air, not harboring dust, and prov
ing on the whole cooler. Paint may
be so compounded and laid on the floors
as to suffer but little injury, even when
exposed, in long course of time.
Should the colors become dull, slight
vanishing will suffice to renew much
of their pristine freshness. There are
many rooms in house which would be
all the better for not being fully car
peted. Such especially are bedrooms.
When we speak of painting floor, we
do not refer to giving it a uniform hue.
The handsome designs carried out in
encaustic tiles may be repeated in col
ors. Geometrical figures centered
with small leaf patterns are particu-
larly appropriate; so, too, host OF
fresco patterns, these being varied in
successive tiers. Longitudinal lines
representing the chromatic scale of
colors might be repeated at certain in
tervals. Diagonal lines in different
hues, lying athwart each other, in
basket work style, would have good
effect. The borders, as a matter OF
course, should be differently treated
Manufacturer and Builder.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Coffee Custard.

Take one large tablespoonful of fair,
roasted kernels of coffee, crush them
coarsely, and throw into three pints of
milk; beat six eggs till light, add as
many spoonfuls of sugar, and stir into
the milk; put over the fire in milk
boiler, adding little salt; stir all con-
stantly, and remove from the fire just
as it begins to boil, and pour through q
coarse sieve. 1t will be found, when
cold, to be of delicious coffee flavor
far superior to the old way of put
ting in the milk a cup of strong
coffee, which impoverishes the milk
and also gives bad color to the GUS
tard. The above mode was never, we
believe, seen in an American work on
cookery. 1t was furnished the writer
by person once the chief cook to the
late Emperor of Brazil.-E1change.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
In the Pantry.
BY FLORENCE JOSEPHINE BoYcE

Mrs. Tea wishes recipe for making
good sponge cake. Here it is:-One
egg well beaten, one cup milk, one cup
granulated sugar, butter half the size of
a hens egg, two heaping teaspoonfuls
baking powder, two teacups -four
Melt the butter and sift the baking
powder in with the -four. An excellent
recipe for roll jelly cake is: Three
eggs, one teacupful of sugar, one tea
cupful of flour; beat yolks till light and
then add the sugar; then add the whites,
beaten stiff, and lastly stir in the flour
gradually; bake in long, shallow pan;
turn out on damp towel on the bread
board and cover the top with any kind
of jelly or thin layer of marmalade,
and roll up while warm. Slice as needed.
can vouch for the truth of Mrs. Teas
statement that chocolate frosting is i'm
proved by using maple sugar instead
of graduated, but if one wishes to
economic and have chocolate frosting
without using so much chocolate as the
boiled frosting requires, CRATE enough
chocolate into plain white frosting to
give it a light brown color, and it is
very tempting on almost any kind of
cake. A recipe which never fails when
good lemon pie is wanted is the fol-
lowing Grated rind and juice of one
lemon, yolks of three eggs, one teacup-
full of sugar, one teacupful of milk, and
two tablespoonfuls of flour wet in cold
water, and piece of butter half the
size of hens egg. Only one crust is
required; the whites of the eggs being
made into frosting for the top and put
on after the pie is baked and slightly
cooled. Can some one give the recipe
for making Delmonico pudding?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
WOman's Reign at Westward.

While the attention of the country
10 concentrated on foreign complica-
tons domestic troubles are apt to pass
unnoticed. But we should fail of our
duty to the public were we to pass over
without mention the serious situation
at Westward, Kansas, full account of
which is brought us by recent Kansas
paper.
Westward, it seems, was one of the
towns which elected a full set of women
officers. 1t will be remembered that
Bdgerton and one or two other places
did the same thing. Nor will the
trouble be forgotten which developed
at Edgerton over the refusal of the fe-
male board of aldermen to repair the
sidewalks, until finally Mr.. Seeley, hus-
band OF Commissioner of Public Works
Seeley, and president of the Edgerton
Prohibition Club, fell through hole in
a cross-walk and broke his neck. The
Bdgerton complication was deeply re-
GREETED by all friends of woman suf-
frage in Kansas, but the women be-
lieved that they were standing for a
great principle, namely: that men must
come home sober if they do not wish to
break their worthless necks, and they
refused to recede from their position on
the sidewalk question. The trouble at
Westward is of an entirely different
nature, and perhaps less serious. II
began with an ordinance prohibiting
the running at large of cows. These
animals were denounced as danger
Gus and unwelcome brutes," and 6
heavy fine was attached to the offence
of suffering = cow to appear on the
streets, with con6scation of the ANNA
and Imprisonment of the owner for the
third offence. This naturally irritateC
cow-owners, and gave the enemies o.
the city administration chance fol
criticism. They openly charged tina
the council had in consideration reso
luton Offering reward of ten cents
each for mouse scalps, but there is nj
evidence that anything of this kind wa
ever contemplated. A month after thu
passage of the cow ordinance a grea
scandal was produced by what is de
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Could Not Kill His Friend.

Sergeant Roosevelt last night gave a
bed in Central station to William j.
Higgins, a young soldier, who nearly
four months ago was dshonorably dis
charged from the United States army in
Utah, and has ever since been painfully
making his way back to his home in
Troy, N. Y. Higgins had his discharge
duly signed by the officers of the court
martial which thus disgraced him for
neglect of duty. He had been a men,
Der of Company F, Sixteenth Regi-
ment, Department of the Platte, and
was stationed at Fort Dushane, Utah.
He showed the effect of the past few
months hardship in his appearance,
though he must once have been hand
some young soldier. He told his story
in way that gave the impression that
he was truthful. 81 sacrificed honor
to friendship" he said simply. envy
self and friend named Franklin en-
listed from Troy just year previous
to the date of my court-martial. We
had served our apprenticeship in
the New York militia, and were as fond
of soldier life as of each other. A
years. service only confirmed us in our
liking for the army. l wished above
all things to spend my life as soldier,
and so did he. But he was quarrel
some and the fear of severe discipline
could not prevent his engaging in
brawls with his fellows. For one of
these offenses, which came to the
knowledge of the officers, he was sem
fenced to three months in the guard
house, which meant he should work on
the road with an armed guard over
him. l had been his guard several
times, and he made no attempt to es-
cape. 1t did not occur to me that he
would, as we were two hundred miles
from a railroad. | grew careless, and
one day when my back was turned he
took TO his heels. l saw him in time to
have shot him, according to orders, but
/ could not do it. He had been my
friend, and was endeared to me by a
thousand remembrances of little kind
nesses we had done each other. / let
him escape, but 1 would not have put
him to such test if had been the
prisoner and he the guard. l was sem
fenced to three months in the guard
house and to leave the army in dis
grace. When my time came to go my
comrades made up purse of S26 for
me. With this purchased clothes, for
my uniforms were, of course, taken
from me. | have walked good part
of the way from Utah since November
10, though l, of course, beat my way
on boats and freight cars whenever l
could. When l reach Troy l hope to
find friends who will help me."-Pitts-
burg Times.
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leads him TO fear the general command
ing great army is being reduced to
that step which he knows will bring
disgrace upon that general and de-
feat to his command, if he fails
to sound the proper note of warning,
the wives and children of those brave
men whose lives he permits to remain
thus in peril will accuse him while he
lives, and stand swift witnesses of
wrath against him in the day when all
shall be tried. If my suspicious are
unfounded, let my friendship for you
and my zeal for my country be my ex-
cuse for this letter; and, if they are
correctly founded, and you determine
not to heed the admonition and prayers
of this hasty note by Immediately ceas-
ing to touch a single drop of any kind
of liquor, no matter by whom asked,
or under what circumstances, let my
immediate relief from duty in this de-
partment be the result. am, general,
your friend, -"
Upon this letter, in the handwriting
of Rawlins, was the following indorse-
ment: "This is an exact copy of let
ter given to the person to whom it is
addressed, at its date about four miles
from our headquarters in the rear of
Vicksburg. Its admonitions were
needed and all went well. '-iSt. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22

INSTEAD of planting twice as many
acres, raise twice as much per acre.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22

In reading over the literary items Of
the week, found not much to interest
me, until my eye caught sight of an
article headed jerks Dream" Imag-
inc my surprise to find it ended up with
a recommendation to use DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets. Nevertheless, being
a great sufferer from sick headache, l
determined to try them, and, to my great
joy, found prompt relief, and by their
protracted use, complete immunity
from such attacks. Pierce's Pellets
often cure sick headache in an hour.
They are gently laxative or actively
cathartic, according to size of dose.
As a pleasant laxative, take one each
night on retiring. For adults, four act
as an active, yet painless, cathartic.
Cause no gripping or sickness. Best
Liver Pill ever made. Smallest, Cheap
est, Easiest to take. For Constipation,
Indigestion and Bilious Attacks, they
have no equal.
Manufactured at the Chemical Labo-
ratory of the WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. 500 Main
Street. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22


J. l.. SMITH, Secretary and Treasurer Oneida Block
= Minneapolis, Minnesota,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Harp of Winter.
BY FLORENCE JOSEPHINE BoYcB.

by FLORENCE JOSEPHINE BoYcB.
Harp OF winter, cease thy moaning;
Evening shades have fallen low;
All the earth silent, sleeping,
Meath the moonlight's mellow glow.
why this moanlng2 why this groaning2
Tell me, is 1t ever 500
When the day is bright with sunshine,
when the night is filed with song,
when the path is strewn with roses,
Are there shadows all along9
Mingles sadness with all gladness,
As we journey on, and on7
o thou moaning harp of winterl
Change thy tune to one of cheer;
Watt the language of the rose.buds
To the spring-time's listening ear.
why this moaning, signing, groaning,
when the dawn of hope is here2
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22

WHEN you go to buy Hoods Sarsa-
parilla be sure to get it, Don't be put
off with an inferior substitute. Insist
upon Hoods.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
BEFORE VICKsBURG, MISS. q,
JUNE 6, 1861 A. NJ.

Dear General The great sOlicitude
feel for the safety of this army leads
me to mention what had hoped never
again to do, the subject of your drink
ing. This may surprise you, for | may
be, and l trust am, doing you an in:
justice by unfounded suspicious, but if
an error it better be on the side of his
country's safety than in fear of Offend
ing a friend. l have heard that DR.. -,
at General Sherman's few days ago,
induced you, Notwithstanding your
pledge to me, to take a glass of wine,
and to-day, when / found box of wine
in front of your tent and proposed to
move it, which did, was told that
you had forbidden its being taken away,
for you intended to keep it until you
entered Vicksburg, that you might have
it for your friends; and tonight, when
you should, because of the condition of
your health, if nothing else, have been
in bed, find you where the wine bot
ties have just been emptied, in company
with those who drink and urge you to
do likewise, and the lack of your usual
promptness and decision and clearness
in expressing yourself in writing con-
duces to confirm my suspicious. You
have full control over your appetite,
and can let drinking alone. Had you
not pledged me the sincerity of your
honor early last March that you would
drink no more during the war, and kept
that pledge during your recent cam
paign, you would not this day have stood
first in the worlds history as successful
military leader. Your only salvation
depends upon your strict adherence to
that pledge. You cannot succeed in
any other way. As have before mem
toned, may be wrong in my suspi-
cions, but if one sees that which leads
him to suppose a sentinel is falling
asleep at his post, it is his duty to
arouse him, and il one sees that which
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
abe 8ouseboIo.

Contributions TO this department may be sent
either to DIR. t. II. HosKINs, Newport Vt. or d.
rest3y to THB wATCHMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Grants Brand of Whisky.

To most persons, in the light of Gen
eral Grants magnificent achievements
during the war of the rebellion, the
story that at times his efficiency was i'm
paired by the too free indulgence in the
use of stimulants, will recall no more
serious remembrance than President
Lincoln's retort, when some such re-
port was brought to his ears, that he
wished he could find what brand of
whiskey Grant used so he might supply
his other generals with the same sort of
inspiration. But the paper read before
the John H. Rawlins Grand Army post
of Minneapolis last week by Judge j.
M. Shaw on the life of General Raw
Inns, shows that the man who stood
nearest General Grant during the war
entertained grave apprehensions from
his chiefs weakness in this respect,
and did not hesitate to protest against
it. Faithful are the wounds of friend.
Judge Shaw in his paper paid this hand
some compliment to both General Grant
and his faithful mentor. 1T is I'M
doubtedly true that at one time, and at
very critical period, there was a Turk
ing demon of temptation and awakened
appetite haunting this great man which
came very near getting him into its
tolls. The temptation, the combined
struggle of the two friends against it.,
the final grapple and the triumphant
outcome form hitherto unpublished
episode in the history of the war which
will reflect added luster upon the char
acter of both of them. This statement
Judge Shaw substantiated by reading
copy of letter addressed by General
Rawlins to General Grant on this SUBJ
ject as follows:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25
THE ST. CHARLES HOTEL.
The Tw o Popular Hotels, the St.
Charles and Muller House,
Are now being run under one man
agement.

And known SIS the St. Charles.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25
lightweight Tin Sheets.

PITTsBURG, Sept. %. 1t is now
an assured fact that America will
no longer need to import tin plate
or lightweight sheets. The latter
industry, the most important one,
has ever been lost sight Of in the
immense mass Of matter published
on the subject OF tin plate. There
never has been any difficulty in
the manufacture in American roll
ing mills of lightweight sheet ex-
cept the insufficient tasiff, ami
this has been remedied by the Nc
Kinley act. One Pittsburg firm
which imported all its light sheets
has agreed to buy them from a
Pittsburg company just as soon as
it is ready to operate. There are
two tin plate manufacturing com
panies in Western Pennsylvania,
the United States company, whose
plant is at Demmler station on
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
ten miles from Pittsburg, and Mr..
Laufman's establishment at Apollo
Armstrong county.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25
MORNING APPEAL
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER %
NOT WISE.

The vote in the last Congress
showed clearly that the silver
question was not then a partisan
issue. Democratic and Republic
can members voted together in
favor OF the free coinage of silver,
and members OF both parties
united in opposition to that meas
ure. The silver question has
heretofore been more IA matter of
sections than OF parties. The
agricultural States favor free
coinage, especially those In the
West. The mercantile States op-
pose free coinage. The South is
divided on the question. The
same may be said OF the Eastern
States. In New York and Massa-
chusetts, with their great money
centers, there is much hostility to
free coinage. The opposite is the
Case in some OF the large manu-
featuring districts Of New Eng
land. 1t is probable that the sill
yer question will be taken out Of
practical political issues at the
next session Of Congress by the
pa sage Of law for the free coin
age OF silver.
Under these circumstances, tho
Santa Cruz Sentinel, thinks it is
not wise politics for either party
to make the silver question very
prominent in State platforms the
present year. The sagacious
course would be to declare In
favor OF such an adjustm ant OF
the coinage laws as will secure an
adequate volume of the cirou ating
medium, and not arouse antagon-
isms by pronouncing too strongly
for or against specific methods OF
effecting that object. We feel per-
fectly certain that either party
will weaken itself in 1892 if it
strongly opposes free silver coin
age in it's platform next year We
may be mistaken, but it looks to
US from this distance that the Re-
publican leaders in Ohio and New
York are making a grave blunder
by taking such strong ground in
opposition TO free coinage. 1t
looks like an attempt to forestall
the action OF the National Repub-
lcan Convention Of next year, and
commit the party in advance to
the policy OF the gold bugs. If
the Republican party opposes free
silver coinage Ia the next Presi-
Dental campaign its success will |
be doubtful. We hold i. to be the |
duty Of every Republican journal |
to speak out boldly upon this mat
ter and express it's true sentiments
before it is too late.
The Republican party is not |
owned by politicians it is the
party OF the masses. The opinions
and sentiments and needs OF the
great American poople should al
WAYS be the main guide in shapiur |
the policies and platforms OF that
party, The full and free express
sion of those sentiments and needs
is the proper function Of the Re
publican editor, uninfluenced and
unawed by that class of so-called
leaders whose pole star is eek
pediency,"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25

North Dakota hasn't been q
State very long but she is coming
to the front with some new di-
voroe procee dings.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25

John Bull is shipping millions OF
dollars to America to buy grain
for his subjects.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25
CHAS. II. IRISH,
Civil Engineer, Surveyor and
Consu!t,nd Engineer.

Will make Surveys {. Lining
CLAIMS for Patent, and viii 10 sill
kinds Of above and below ground
Surveys for Mines, including re.i-
able Assays Of the Ores o. same.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-25

He solic:ts orders for all surh
work, and for Hydraulic and
Irrigation Sur ;eys, and will DO all
wolk in the line of Surveying and
Engineering. Only Good and Re
liable instruments used. Address =
O .J0x $40, Reno, New. a16
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-08

the shore near Poole the 2sth Marcn. T40o
"A little tea. one leaf I did not steal.
For guiltless bicod 10 God appeal.
Put tea In one scale. human blood IN tother,
And think what 'tis 10 slay thy harmie1s
brother
II there is a shrine in England sacred to
the poet Shelley It is here at BOurnemouth
He was born at Field Place. in the county
of Sussex, and was drowned in the Gulf OF
Spezzia in July. ls22 His body was re-
covered and was inferred in the burial
place at Rome for Protestant strangers
Mary Woolstouecr0ft Shelley, his wife.
died near Bournemouth, and was buried
in the ehurchyard az Bournemcuth, IN
February, 1851 She was hfty-fOur years
Of age at the time Of her death. Their son,
Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley. died two years
since az the family seat. near Bourne
mouth. where his widow. Lady Shelley,
stin resides They had no children. and
the title of baronet passed 70 Colonel SbeE
lev. Of Avington, near Winchester. The
latter is a nephew Of the poet and cousin OF
his son, the late SIR Percy. In the quaint
, old Priorv church at Christchurch Head,
at the eastern edge Of BOurnemOuth. may
| be seen a beautiful memorial 20 the poet
and bis wife Il Is an exquisite marble
sfigy Of Shelley, recumbent, supported in
the arms Sf his kneeling wife
EDGAR l. WAzEMAN.