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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
A Touching Discovery.

Some months ago the workmen who
were digging the foundation for the
new law-courts in Rome discovered a
sarcophagus buried thirty feet below
the surface. 1t was carefully raised
and opened. Within lay the skeleton
of young girl with the remains of the
linen in which she had been wrapped,
and some brown leaves from the myrtle
wreath with which, emblematic of her
youth, she had been crowned in death.
On her hands were four rings, one of
which was the double betrothal ring of
plain gold, and another with " Filetus,' y
the name of her betrothal, engraved
upon it. A large and most exquisite
amethyst brooch in Etruscan setting of
the finest work, carved amber pins, and
gold necklet with white, small pend
ants, were lying about. But what is
most strange, as being almost unique,
was a doll of oak wood, beautifully
carved, the joints so articulated that
the legs and arms and hands move in
sockets, the hands and feet daintily cut,
with small, delicate nails. The features
and the hair were carved out in the
most minute and careful way, the hair
waving low on the forehead and being
bound with fillet. On the outside of
the sarcophagus was sculptured her
name (Tryph@na Creperia) land touch
ing scene, doubtless faithfully represent
ing her parting with her parents. she
is lying on low bed and striving to
raise herself on her left arm to speak
to her heart broken fathe., who stands
leaning on the bedotead, his head
bowed with grief. while her mother sits
on the bed, her head covered, weeping.
1t seems bpt yesterday, so natural is
the scene, and yet it is nearly eighteen
centuries ago these stricken parents
laid so tenderly away their dearly
beloved daughter, with her ornaments
and her doll. Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Some Causes of Suicide.

Besides imitation, there are other social
influences which lead to suicide, but the
most powerful is that which we denote by
the general term, civilization. Self-klling
is emphatically the crime Of intellectual
peoples. Almost unknown to savages, rare
among Mohammedans, it RACES among the
nations most advanced in culture and re-
tinement with a ierceness exactly proper
tionate to their mental development. 1t is
said that Rome knew nothing of this curse
until after the establishment of the empire
1t was when the Roman legions had carried
their eagles triumphantly through the world
and brought back the means of luxury in
the spoils of Europe, Asia and Africa, that
life in the Eternal City began to be weary,
stale, fiat and improbable" To-day the
Germans, who are the profoundest thinkers
and the most cultivated people, are also the
most suicidal race in Europe. France comes
next, England third, Italy and Hungary
fourth; while, on the other hand, Spain, the
most backward of European nations in cul-
ture, Ireland, Portugal, Corsica and Dalma-
tia rank the lowest in the suicidal scale
OF the different regions of the same country,
the north and northwest of France outrank
in culture and suicide the centre and the
southwest; the north and centre of Italy
outrank the south and islands; and Saxony,
which in its schools and general culture sur
passes the rest of Germany, surpasses it o'so
in the number of its suicides. In short, so
universally does the rule hold mat the
strength of the tendency TO aeh-kllllng may
almost be regarded as pa inueX 10 a people
civilizations american feclew'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

ers which have come to the front dur
ing the past few months, says: Many of
them are dead-beats that are working
the movement for all it can be made
worth to them, and are reaching out
for official positions in which they can
sell out to trusting constituencies; but,
making full allowance for all of this,
the American farmers are not going to
be fooled a great while. They will
learn by experience, if not otherwise !;
and when they get the cobwebs out of
their eyes and brains, we are going to
see some things in these United States
made very different from what they are
now" In other words, the doctor would
have farmers exercise much care in the
selection of their leaders, taking them
from their own ranks and learning to
trust them. This is good doctrine
from a good doctor.-Ne,o England
Farmer
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
The Largest Farm In the World.

There is a farm in the southwest of
the state of Louisiana measuring one
hundred miles north and south and
twenty-five miles east and west. The
one and half million acres of which il
is made up were purchased seven years
ago from the state of Louisiana and
from the United States government by
q syndicate of northern capitalists, by
which it is now farmed. At that time
it was a vast grazing ground for the
cattle of the few dealers in the neigh
borhood, there being thirty thousand
head of cattle and horses upon it. This
immense tract is now divided into con-
venient pasture stations, or ranches,
the fencing alone having cost fifty
thousand dollars. The land is best
adapted for rice, sugar, corn and cot
ton. All the cultivating, ditching, ETC.,
is done by steam-power, a tract of
about half a mile wide being taken and
an engine placed on each side. The
engines are portable and work a cable
attached to four plows, the area plowed
in this way, with the labor of only
three men, being thirty acres. Har-
rowing, sowing, etc., are done in the
same way, and there is not a single
draft horse on the estate. Horses are,
however, used by the herdsmen, who
look after the sixteen thousand head of
cattle upon the estate, which is trav-
ersed for thirty-six miles by the South
ern Pacific railway. The company
has three steamboats, upon the three
hundred miles of navigable waters
which traverse their estate, and also
possesses ship-ysrd, bank and rice
mills.-Ne1D York Ledger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Press Notes.

"THERE is Bob Lincoln and Fred
Grant and Webb Hayes and Alan
Arthur and Russell Harrison, all sons
of presidents, and not one of them has
to be dunned for long overdue tailors'
and grocers' bills, nor has the name of
any one of them ever been associated
with a scandal. Uncle Sam can well
afford to be proud of his boys. -
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE Mckinley tariff raised the duty
on oil-cloths. The NeD York Times
declared that this was done for the
benefit of the oil-cloth trust. The adj
vance in duty has stimulated home
production. Prices have fallen. The
oil-cloth trust has gone to pieces. The
Ne,o York Times has the news, but it
omits TO recall its prediction that the
oil-cloth trust would flourish and fatten
under the tariff.-Philadelphia Press.
DIR. HosKINs, agricultural editor OF
the Vermont Waterman, in speaking OF
some of the self-appointed farmers lead
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Randolph Normal School.

NJ Edtor:-The forty-ninth class mum
beriag twenty'three graduated from tba
Aandoiph Normal school on June 10, II ia
called one OF We best classes which has
gone out from thi school, They came fr m,ao
twelve different towns of Vermont and o,a
from Massachusetts,. At the close of tba a-1
ercises on Friday, Mr.. Tohn r Weed nc u, "a "a
half of the alumni, preSnted r. the IN instj
tuition an elegant piano. president Ro,,Ie.
of the trustees received it with hriaf oS sI,,I
sions to some OF the lettei Of ;rIjr.; aiiu,
donors, among whom were ar,i inir. iuua i
successful men all over the cuntv VIII 'nh
contained strong expressions 0 ;Sddo THICn
ness to and affection for their "a snheui
home. Some of the letters from, SGnooI
teachers would make good campait iIdo,i
ment for normal schools but no such iu
ment is needed. That they are doing o''ii
work is shown by an anonymous circtCut
lately distributed in our state containitLI
what was meant for presentation of tn,
superiCf advantages of what is called "
good dll-around culture" In these DAYS of
" special training" when the demand for
special culture is growing stronger each
year, when we must have special DEPART
ments of all sors in all our colleges and
special schools for ministers. LAWYERS doc
tors, engineers, Chemists, merchants and
farmers it will take more than the oninions
of two supervisors and as many academy
principals to prevent our brightest Young
teachers from desiring a normal school edu
cation. B.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Vermont and Kansas.

1t is admitted that the late convention at
Cincinnati was controlled by western and
chiefly Kansas men, as well as that the
South and the East failed to take any I'M
portant part in the proceedings. The South
does not want any third party, nor will its
farmers favor such movement, because
there the race question absorbs all others
OF political nature. The South wants
more money and the pawn-shop feature Of
the alliance and free coinage of silver but
not if to get them, or any of them, is to I'M
favorably affect the democratic party in the
South. The South wants to keep its cake
and also to eat il, and any party relying on
the South for aid will have to part with the
cake. The farmers of Vermont have formed
league and formulated platform. This
platform demands sound currency, COM
pulsory education, rigid limitation of mo-
nopolies, equitable passenger and freight
rates, the prohibition of the liquor traffic
and of the adulteration of foods, restriction
OF alien land-holding, the prohibition of the
immigration of paupers and criminals and
OF class legislation, favOring an equal sys-
tenn of taxation, strict economy in national
and state government, and a graded in
come, with salaries to correspond to the
financial condition of the taxpayers. The
president of the league said that the farmers
OF the East were opposed to free silver coin
age and the sub-treasury scheme promul-
gated at Cincinnati Thus Vermont farmers
Il
that cannot be yoked with the breed offered
by the farmers of the West. 1t will also be
observed that the Vermont farmers do not
demand money, more money" but only a
sound currency, which we have already.
The difference in the demand of the Kansas
and the Vermont farmers is striking. Nor
IS the reason far to seek. The Vermont
farmers are " all-around " farmers who
have not gone to market with their eggs all
in one basket but have varied their prod
ucts so that on the failure OF one crop
others have succeeded and enabled them
to live. And having small farms they
own them. They have not bought more
land than they can pay for, nor have t1 ,bs
cropped what they have so as to exhaust v a.s
vitality of the soil. The Kansas Iar Iii
have started with land that woula y and
thirty bushels of wheat TO the acre. En- Tor
finding it profitable, have run III ,t uo ,wheat
more land and kept on cropping WIN I wa'a to
until they can only get from rhsv have
eigeteen bushels per acre, daht
farmed badly. Finding themselves t im uoo Il
with having done what they i nave u thaip
themselves. Had they diyersihe9 the ei
taTe es ' would dU not to-day be demanding
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Irish Girls.

In the remoter districts, away from the
villages among theTeaty Dogs and the haw-
thorn hedges, the roses boom red in the
cheeks of the Irish peasant gu However
she manages it on tie stir-about nd pota-
toes. she grows lush and vigorous anG fnll of
sap, like the green things that fill the lsIe,d.
The colleen bawi is straight; she IS NJ
infreouently tall her shoulders are broad,
her waist large lat supple, ana she looks as
strong as Young man. Her halr Is oroWh'
perhaps with a shade OF chestnut; some
times IL has a ripple in it, but oftener u Isl
lusterless and straight and, very possibly
so heavy as TO be almost mop-lke. haYts
seen peasant girls with braids that werF
like clubs, the tresses, when unbound, reaciI
ing the knees. Her forehead Is low siiu
the wave of hair is drawn back 10 lFd'S ~
uncovered her ewes are frank and hne her
complexion clear, though exposure TO .n 10
weather has darkened it and pat inVI ~
shades of yellow-brown, and the reu III nc. no.
cheeks is as deep as in the popples tnaS
brighten the wheattelds It's Splash =,
color, daring as If an artist HAD HunE ., ~ 90
a. dark spot of his canvas, more prlltlan ~
than one ever sees in the drler cllinate -. ot
what they are here pleased 10 eaIl ite
States" spreading its warm Dlush qui.11
from cheek-bone to chin. Inc peasan.sg g.,
ls often tine-looking, something's So 90,
lively handsome, but never WIN l Wnav Of 81
American would consider any uein 'ra'os ~ ~
more ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS young woman
hood. Her arms are not rounded. They
look muscular and hard Her 5 9nsf Is bnt
like an Aglazon's. She Is nor scinp Of p
she is stHrdy, as becomes soiDn Vi Sno
"foinest n;santhry in the world Her
i her tG S' fert 1ns s GSsT
head ar folded about her shoulders, and a
pet,icoat Of brown or dark blue stuff which
She weaves herself, and which stops half
way between her knees and her ankles.
and bare. They are large feet, and look
better in their naked shapeliness than when
Disguised for Sundays and holidays under
coarse yarn stockings--these she knits-
and tn cheap laced shoes, with the peculiar
combination of thick soles and high heels,
which CONF to the small market towns.
For defence asainst the weather she has a
long black CLOAK gathered at the neck and
provided with hood, and which is probably
the most characteristic article left OF the
old peasant costume Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Put His Foot in 1t.

Mr.. Alpha Messer, master of the State
Grange, recently published letter in
the Ne,0 York Tribune on matters con-
nected with the agricultural college
question in this state. This commune
cation drew out an unsolicited letter
from Professor Herbert futile, of Cor
nell University, to Mr.. Messer person
ally. This letter bore no mark of
privacy or injunction of confidence.
Professor futile had volunteered to
take hand in the discussion. In a
subsequent communication to the New
England Farmer Mr.. Messer made
effective use of some statements of the
professor to sustain his position. that
an agricultural college, as an annex to
literary institution, had been, and
must always be, failure so far as bene.
fit to practical agriculture is concerned.
The professor stated that, notwithstand-
ing the peerless advantages of Cornell
"a farm of one hundred acres, elaborate
barns, fine collection of stock, tools,
free tuition, ETC., and liberal appropria-
tions for experiments" -only about
thirty students in agriculture had gradu-
ated in twenty years, and many of these
were Observation-Disclosures, Brazilians,
ETC." "There are to-day" exclaimed
the professor, "just thirty-one students
in agriculture out of total of 1,30Ou'
1t turns out now that the professor,
who is graduate of the University of
Vermont, had intended to espouse the
cause of his alma mater, but had unwit-
tingly been making very damaging
argument against her. By way of re-
pairing the damage he had done, he
writes another letter to the NelU Eng
land Farmer, complaining of Mr.. Messer
for making public use of private let
ter, and trying to set himself right on
the main issue. But the last state of
the professor is worse than the first.
Mr.. Messer makes a keen rejoinder,
vindicates himself in the use he made
of the first letter, and sharply touches
up his maladroit antagonist. On one
point in Professor Tuttle's letter Mr..
Messer says:
In this connection I take exception to
the statement in Professor Tuttles letter
when he says that last winter in Vermont
a movement was started TO rob the State
University of the Morrill, fund and apply il
to the endowment of a separate agricultural
college 1t may be quite serious matter
to sustain this charge and prove that in this
connection the people OF Vermont are a sci
of robbers. The people of the state have a
strong and well-founded conviction that
they have some right to the funds which
have been granted them by the general gov
eminent, and they can not understand by
whatpower or authority the Burlington Uni
versity becomes greater and stronger thar
the state which granted the charter for it,
existence, and they will not quietly submit
to the title of robbers when exercising the
rights granted them by the constitution IL
caring for what has been given them for tn,
growth of industrial education and the de
velopment of the agricultural interests o
the state"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
dNattbman 4 guurnaI.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE "a, 1891.
THE success of the United States in ma

THE success of the United States in ma
terial development is the most illustrious
of modern times. The American nation
has not only successfully borne and sup
pressed the most gigantic and expensive
war Of all history, but Immediately after
ward disbanded its army, found employ
ment for all its soldiers and marines, paid
off most of its debt, given labor and homes
to all the unemployed of Europe as fast as
they could arrive within its territory, and
still by a system of taxation so indirect as
not to be perceived much less felt. Be
cause it is my deliberate Judgment that the
prosperity of America is mainly due to its
system of protective laws, 1 urge that Ger
many has now reached that point where it
is necessary to initiate the tariff system of
the United States.- Bismarck.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

more money and arraigning everybody for
gone backward The remedy for the evils
they have brought on themselves lies in ra-
tional farming. 1t is not money that they
want, but sound judgment. They can by
degrees restore the fertility of their land,
and by diversifying their crops can become
prosperous. Neither free coinage nor loans
on their crops can medicine their ills away
They must rally their common sense and
farm with judgment And they must di.
versify industry also. They must create
handy markets for their products. -Phila.
delphid North american.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Artist and Historian.

When boy in the teens, we took
from the old Passumpsic railroad library
at st. Johnsbury somewhat bulky &C.
tavo volume bearing the inviting title,
Pictorial Field Book of the Revolu-
, 1891-02-27

\ cargo may consist of several quali.
ties Of oil. AID these are separated from
each other by narrow water spaces.
some two years ago n sailing vessel was
built BY the BIrrow SAip5uildlng com
plny 20 the order of an Antwerp firm.
She WAS designed to carry petroleum in
ball; in competition with the steamers.
Tho success attendant upon this new de
partnre may lead TO the more extensive
c~rITtrction Of vessels of a similar nat
-a-2atH1lsum xessels- cannot be used
Tor any other purpose OF account of their
peculiar Errar cement and smell. \ pro
PosIl to carry palm oil in 4 similar man
ner has been found impracticable on &C
c.unt Of The corrosive ingredients which
attack the steel instead Of preserving it.
as petroleum does.
Apr0pus to this departure in British
s~lipbuildiDg it Is stated that the Per
siaus a. far back as 1860 were known to
carry petroleum in bulk in their own
vessels on ttc Caspian. Petroleum car.
Hrss are generally fitted with electric
ligH.. so IA to insure u minimum Of risk
FROM iir'. With every prccnution that
ua.r.u science can suggest the carriage
of tA.t oil is bcset with much difficulty
aul dunger.-ChamDcrs' Journal.
, 1891-02-27

There was much knitting of brows and
cudgeling of brains among the Latin
scholars in the house recently. An after
noon paper appeared a. day or two ago
with a Latin motto, ''Nunquam animus
sed ignis via" The college graduates in
the press gallery put their wits to work,
and after one of them had discovered the
meaning, it was decided to put the
university men on the floor to the test.
Representative Wilcox, of Connect
cut, who studied law at Yale, gave it up
with the expression that he could do 1t
better If the sentence was not incom-
plete. Representative Buchanan, of
Virginia, who is an alumnus of two Vir-
ginia universities, tried in vain to help
Mr.. Wilcox in the translation. Mr..
Wilson, of West Virginia, one of the
ablest men on the. floor, said that he did
not recall the quotation, and that 1t was
impossible to catch its full import with
out the context. Literally he thought
it would read, Never the mind (spirit)
but fire makes the way" and he added
that he would try and find it.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylva-
mia, who, with Judge Stewart, of Vir-
ginia, wrestled with the problem,
thought the quotation was from some
press reporter, or had probably origi-
mated from some old Greek who was not
very familiar with the Roman language.
He made a free translation, without re-
spect to grammar, which read, Never
mind, but fire away Washington
Post.
, 1891-02-27
PROPER CRITICISM

THE LEADER has no desire to indulge
in personalities in retaliation upon the
Sun The remarks which we have made
about the hoard Of trade and Senator
Warren were based upon very different
grounds and were precisely such as we be-
lieved the occasion warranted. The Sun
is entirely mistaken when it says that
THE LEADER is determined II be dis
pleased with everything the Wyoming
senators do and that this is clearly indi-
Gated by our editorial comments
upon the arid land law introduced
by Senator Warren. Now us a matter of
fact, we distinctly asserted the contrary in
the very article referred to. We did say,
however, that his bill should have in
cluded ali the lands and If these could
not be secured a compromise could
more readily be made on the basis of
ceding the agricultural lands alone to tie
state. Ia the Judgment OF the Sun this
is rank treason, but as it happens to be
common sense we must reiterate that our
position was a correct one.
, 1891-02-27
An QUESTION

The state ownership Of the public lands
would be the starting point of Wyoming's
agricultural prosperity. With these
lands once iu our possession, with the
water already owned BY the state, capital
lists would have a substantial basis upon
which to commence negotiations. 1t need
not cost the state a single dollar at the
outset for the construction OF irrigation
works on whatever scale might be consid-
cred necessary. With an assured and
sufficient supply OF water, such as would
be afforded by the North Platte for IN
stance, a vast acreage Of laud couli be
brought irrigation and rec Gained to
agriculture. Private capitalists you'd
readily enter upon such an undertak
ing and defray all the ex-
pense of surveying and constructing
~irrigAting canals. In consideration of the
outlay Of money thus involved the state
could give to them outright a certain
proportion OF the land thus reclaimed. In
this way the land which the state would
still retain would prove far more valuable
than the original quantity before the work
of reclamation had been commenced.
Besides there would at once be enlisted a
valuable immigration bur,au which from
self interest would endeavor to attract
hither a class Of settlers who would prove
a distinct acquisition to the state. From
that moment would date great advance
meut in material prosperity. One such
successful enterprise would ncouraR
others and o the state would
be dotted with prosperous agricultural
communities capable OF supplying the
entire state with farm products and per
haps shipping a good deal abroad. In
this manner we wouli soon become prnc
tically self supporting and much OF the
money which is now drained out OF the
state never to return, would then remain
here to stimulate industry and the inter-
change Of products.
There is no question whose favorable
settlement would Rave 50 c'ose and i'm
pOriant a bearing on our future prosperity
as the one OF the state ownership of pub
lie lands aud every citizen who has the
good Of Wyoming at heart should lend
his aid to it- contamination.