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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
Innings.

Nay, nay, dear chi d, cannot let you slight
Those inner stitches on your gowns fair hem
Because, you say, they will be out of sight
And no stern critic will discover them.
You do but build most inviting hedge,
Behind which falsehood and deceit may Turk,
When you embroder fair the outer edge,
And to the inner give no honest work.
The silken chain of habit which you wear
SO lightly now upon your careless youth
viii strengthen strand by strand then have a care
Else It may throttle the sweet soul of truth.
hold that every stitch untruly set
weaves a soied thread along your web of fate
And each deceitful seam may prove net
TO hurt and hinder, trust me, soon or late.
All, dearest child on everything you do
Let the white seal of honor stamp its grace.
Keep all your soul as clean with heavens dew
AS the pink flower of your tender face.
God makes no clumsy Innings. Mark this bloom
A fairy's glove" and though it grieves my heart
To send the smallest blossom to its tomb,
Wen tear the dainty little glove apart.
In this and every flower that we behold,
From crimson robe 20 pansy's purple vest,
God sews the velvet on the inner fold
And makes his Innings fairer than the rest
Is it not perfect from the slender stem
TO the brown dapples the curling rim?
God folds not careessly the foxglove's hem;
Then try, my little child, to be like him.
May Riley Smith.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
Suggestions for the Sick Room.

In period of sickness like the pres
ent, when so many persons are depend
ent on broths and other easily-digested
foods during their convalescence, it is
wise to call attention to various simple
forms of nutritious food.
A sAvORY custard is made of the
yolks of two eggs stirred into a cup of
warm beef-tea, the mixture being sea-
soned with salt and pepper, poured into
an earthen cup, and set in boiling
water and cooked in this way till il
thickens.
BEEFTEA, pure and simple, as it is
ordinarily prepared, is little better than
a stimulant, but it may be mixed with
other ingredients TO furnish a simple
and nutritious diet. Beef-tea and oat-
meal prepared as follows is recon-
mended by recent medical work:
Mix two tablespoonfus of oatmeal
and two of cold water, then add pint
of beef-tea which has been brought to
boiling point. Boil the mixture
slowly for five minutes, then strain it
and serve it," The same authority
recommends adding the white of a we'll
beaten egg to cup of hot but not boil
ing beef-tea or chicken broth Just be-
fore serving.
A MUTTON broth made Of the scraggy
neck part of forequarter of mutton is
an excellent nourishing soup for con-
valescent. Weigh out three pounds of
the neck. Separate the bones from the
lean and remove every particle of fat.
Cut the meat in small mouthfuls. Put
slice of carrot and small onion cut
in pieces in the soup-kettle, the meat
and quarter of cup of barley with a
quart of cold water. Let the broth
boil as slowly as it can, merely bubbling
at the side, for two hours. Boil the
bones in a pint of water, very slowly,
while the soup is cooking, and at the
end of this time strain them into the
soup kettle. Thicker the soup with a
large teaspoonful of flour and a table
spoonful of butter, and stir the soup
ten minutes after adding this thicken-
ing. If allowable, add teaspoonful OF
parsley to the soup just before serving.
Season it with salt and pepper. The
success of this soup depends on its slow
cooking.-Ne'o York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
Edison a Vegetarian.

Thomas A. Edison, according to a
friend of his, is vegetarian, eschew-
ing flesh, fowl and fish. He en- iovs
fruit of all kinds, grain of every variety
and likewise vegetables, especially those
that ripen in the sunshine. He is very
careful about his diet, holding that il
has a powerful influence upon the mind
and its actions, as well as upon the
health and vigor of the body. He has
studied the matter under the beams OF
the solar orb, under the flash of cleo.
tricity, under the laws of science and
in the light of reason. 1t seems that
he is unaware of anything like self.
denial in the practice of vegetarianism
and that he finds plenty of delicious
invigorating and exhilarating esculents
outside of flesh, fowl and fish.-Neu
York Sun,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20

LEMON CooKIEs.-Two cups of sugar,
one cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet
milk, two teaspoonfuls of lemon ex-
tract, one of cream of tartar and one
half teaspoon of soda. Mix quite hard
sprinkle with sugar and bake in a quick
oven.
PLAIN RAISED DOUGHNUTs.- Take
one quart of thick sour milk, two table
spoonfuls of sour cream, two teaspoon
fuls of salt and heaping teaspoonful
of soda. Mix and mould as you would
for bread. Let it stand in warm
place from one hour and half to two
hours; then cut in strips, putting the
ends together, without further mould
ing, and fry. Do not turn them over
but once, letting them rise we'll in the
hot lard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
Won MOltke's Great Success.

Moltke's system was the easiest pos
sible to describe and the hardest pos
sible to master; it was to know every
thing about campaign before war was
even declared; it was the science of ac-
curate guessing, and the using those
guesses as if they were secret messages
from the god of battle. Moltke was
probably the only man who ever thor
oughly knew the military topography
of all Europe. After the maps of any
prospective campaign were elaborated
and tested, Moltke bent over them week
after week, nay, year after year, and
with his marvellous foresight he thought
out bo,C to ain, as if by inspiration.
There was no "starn in his warfare.
ErSt lC0gen, damn oCdgen, or, first know
the ground, then dash ahead, as his
practice was. To confuse the enemy,
he generally divided his army on the
march, but quickly brought it together
again in an engagement. While Bis
marck deceived Napoleon and cult
waited friendships with the German and
other important European states, Moltke
had but one thought: How to place the
most effective force on the Rhine in the
shortest notice. and then march on to
Paris. He improved every opportunity
to visit France and secretly verify his
maps. The exposition of 1867 gave
him chance to study Paris and its sur
roundings. 1t is said that when, late at
night, the first news of declaration of
war was finally brought to Moltke, he
quietly replied; Very well; the third
portfolio on the left" and continued his
nights sleep. In six weeks the sun
went down on Sedan, and Frances last
chance of victory went down with it.
He believed in doing his work thor
Oughly and for all time, and was not
content when the emperor was cap
tured, the army destroyed, and hui
initiating peace dictated; but favored so
weakening France as TO render her
harmless in the future. After the war
he was made count and fleld-marshal.
Although long a member of the reich
stag and one of its most striking figures,
he was wise enough to remember that
others were better able to speak on all
save military questions. The writer
remembers how MOltke listened to Bis
marck's plea for brandy monopoly, in
March, 1856. He sat among the con-
servatives, Just in front of the rostrum
llolu WHICH lue linpeIldl CuduCeIIOr
spoke. He wore plain and loosely
fitting uniform bound in red, with yell
low epaulets. His head was bent
slightly forward, his eyes were closed,
and his hands tucked into opposite coat
sleeves, so that neither hands nor cuffs
could be seen; hut he was not asleep.
A little later he walked about. He was
tall and as erect as young lieutenant.
His hair was still thick, and of sandy
gray color Although his beardless face
was thin and wrinkled, one would not
have guessed that he was more than
seventy.-Frederic Bancroft, in Hdr-
per'S Weekly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
New Walking. Gowns.

The summer wooden gowns remain
exceedingly simple in style. There is
still demand among ultra. fashionable
women for street gown that shall lay
on the sidewalk fully four inches.n
The extremely long waist that fashion
able dress-makers are using has neces-
STATED this frightening of the skirts,
in order to bring the figure into grace
full proportion. Until the extremely
long waists, now worn, are modified
there is likely to be a demand for trail
ing dresses, even in the street, where
they are certainly debarred by all the
canons of good taste. The grace of a
trailing dresa no one can deny, and it is
to be regretted that we can not retain
this for house wear and keep distinct
lively different style of dress for the
street. 1t is exceedingly desirable that
dress within doors shall be as beautiful
and picturesque as possible. Rich ma
terials that catch the eye by their rich
ness OF coloring and elegance are ap-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20

Experienced statisticians have de-
monstrated that it requires the products
OF three acres of ground TO support a
person through life, giving us a capac-
ity of 200 persons to the square mile of
territory, allowing for wastage. Occu-
patton in excess of this indicates an
abnormal condition. Belgium has $50
persons to the square mile: England
and Wales, 391; Great Britain and
Ireland, go; Netherlands, POI; Italy,
237; France, 10; Switze rland, 175;
Germany, 200; the United States, 10,
showing conclusively that European
nations are overstocked and the sur
plusage must migrate to more open
officially, to the United
States, which Cffers the greatest free
dom and best surroundings of any
country on earth. Germany has a
population of $4,000, 900, with an area
less than some of our states; she could
be set down in Texas and still leave a
state of 10000 square miles unOccu-
pied. Italy, with its $4,000 900 could be
set down in the Dakotas and leave a
large area unoccupied. Belgium has
5000, 900 living on $4,000 square miles.
Wisconsin has 5000 square miles, which
would entitle it to a population of
$4,000 600 as compared with Belgium.
Our population in 1850 was 10000, 900;
in 1890 it was 60,0O0,000. At that ratio,
in 100 years we should have popula-
ton of 100000, living under and
enjoying the protection of our govern
ment, speaking the same language, and
bent upon the same destiny; it would
present a phenomenon, the parallel of
which the history of the world cannot
furnish. Its contemplation staggers
the imapinatiOn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20

fanaticism pure and simple. Here his
friend interrupted saying: General,
there is one kind you have not men
toned; it is not displayed in war, but
might be called hearthsome courage.
1t is the sweet, long-patient, uncom-
planning fortitude of the wife-the
mother" You are right" answered
the general with a sigh, "and the
greatest of all is woman's courage. -
NeD York Truth.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20

THERE is more catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years it was supposed to be incurable.
For great many years doctors pro-
nOunced it local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and, by constant failing
to cure with local treatment, pro-
nounced it incurable. Science has
proven catarrh constitutional disease,
and it therefore requires constitutional
treatment. HALLS Catarrh Cure, manu-
featured by F. j. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market. 1t is taken inter-
nally in doses from ten drops to tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Ca Sold by druggists at seventy'fve
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
MisteIlanp.
Margaret.
she stands alone upon the shore
a. ....tta. a. o. -

she stands alone upon the shore
And smiles " Good-by."
Framed by the naples arching Ger,
And leaf and stream and sunset sky,
The boat stlll clings to the darkening strand,
The shadows grow on either hand
And glide away-the stroke is slow.
The very oars seem loath TO go
The pale moon reaches forth to get
The rivers jeweled amulet,
While on the air of even.tide-
flushed all the sounds Of night beside
Comes sweet Good-by."
All, me! 1t is no trivial thing
To say "Good-by";
And the desire Of each may bring,
In years to come no fond reply.
Yet, 1 rejoice that have met
Thy hand, thy voice, oh Margaret
Dim grows the fast receding shore,
Though fingers still the laggard oar.
Good-by" The day in transport dies,
While echo faint and far replies:
Soft, sweet Good.by"
ErUfsf A. Bqog.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20

EVERYBODY knows that at this sea-
son the blood is filed with impurities,
the accumulation of months of close
confinement in poorly ventilated stores,
workshops and tenements. All these
impurities and every trace of scrofula,
salt rheum, or other diseases may be
expelled by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla,
the best blood purifier ever produced
1t is the only medicine of which 900
doses one dollar " is true.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
abe 9uussbuIo.
May.

Sunshine and showers,
More daylight hours, birds and bowers,
Springing grass and opening flowers.
Black skies, and then blue,
with the sun shining through
Clouds that are gone like the dew.
Living fields green,
With the soft, silvery sheen
OF the still river between.
The forget.menot blue,
with q word for you,
If you're a friend that is true.
The arbutus sweet,
Hiding low at our feet,
our merry searching to greet.
The Golden Coquette,"
ON earth's soft carpet set,
with shining pearly dews wet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
AGENTS.:

J. L. SMITH Secretary and Treasurer On eida Block.
Minneapolis, Minnesota,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
The Minnesota Saving Fund and
Investment Company

Is one of the largest Building Loan Associations
America,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28
ONE MORE SLAUGHTER.

A terrible "aCCident" occurred last
week in the Fourth Avenue tunnel,
through which the entire passenger
traffic of the Hudson River, New York
Central, and all the Now England rail
ways centers to this city. An outward
bound New Haven tram crashed into
an empty train of palace cars on its
way to.the Mott Haven yard, killing
six emp Dyes and manning for life or
severely injuring u number Of others.
Owing to the fact that in utter dis
still in use ON the New Haven cars, the
wreck took fire and some people, who
might otherwise have been saved, were
actually roasted to DEATH
Of course, a coroner is lat work. " IN
vestigating; the press is clamorous for
Justice" and scapegoat, and the Ell
gineer of the New Haven train, upon
such prtma facie evidence of criminal
negligence" as is afforded by the dis
astrous result of the collision, has been
arrested. The probability is that this
engineer, together with some other
inferior wage-slave, will have to
shoulder the whole responsibility of this
accident" and to pine away in prison
and shame after many years Of faithful
service, while the Nanderbilts dance
merrily with the -four hundred" and
Chauncey Depew cracks bad Jokes at
business or political hanquets
Now we emphancally declare that the
parties primarily responsible, the parties
that should in justice be visited with
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28
THE MINERS FUND

The list of contributions to the miners
fund up to date shows total of 1902. IA
divided as follows Collected by the
Central Labor Federation Gncluding
S329 contributed by the New York
Section of the S. l.. p, $493 90 COL
lected by the Socialist Labor Party,
S46S As; Total, as aforesaid, 1859. "A.
Contributions are still coming and we
shall publish the full list in our next.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28
STUPENDOUS STUPIDITY.

In its annual review of the railroads
for the year $780, the Financial Chronicle
earnings of number of companies,
whose aggregate length of road is, in
round figures. 12S,O 900 miles. or about
three-quarters of the total mileage of the
country.
According to this statistical authority,
the gross earnings of the roads in ques-
ton during the year under review were
l,O07 million dollars, showing an increase
of - millions as compared with 1889;
their operating expenses" so-called,
were go millions, or IS millions in ex-
cess of tie previous year; and their net
earnings. or clear profits. were 32S
millions. or ii more than in 1889.
Much stress is laid upon the large in
crease of operating expenses" and the
comparatively small increase of net
earnings. The year 1890, as we all
know. was one of enormous traffic, but
we are told that the companies carried
freight at greatly reduced rates. thereby
undergoing large increase of operating
expenses" without getting proper
tionate increase of profits.
If, for the sake of argument we
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28
WHAT Is THE TROUBLE? BY F, E.
TOWER.

Under this title clever little pamph-
let has just taken the field in the pole
mics on the Social Question. Economic
ally, it is out and out Nationalist or
Socialist. The tone of its pulse too is
free of that Emphatic phlegm that,
while it feels and sees the wrong, is lev
enough to speak with frigid Indifference
of the social crimes of the present social
system. Its six chapters strike the key
note of each subdivision. They are:
olives and Lazarus in Modern Life;
"Stinging Facts and the poison in the
Sting; whats the Matter; or the
big Hole in the Fence; "Labors Geth-
semane, or the Big Hole made Bigger:
"Mouldy Customs; or People who burn
their own Houses; and lastly, What
shall we do: or the Red Sea Crossed"
From beginning to end the existing
social system is scored with deserved
merclessness, and the solution of the
Social Problem: National Co.opera-
ton" is presented with cogent and terse
reasoning.
Painful, nevertheless, it is to come
across, in a work of so much practical
merit and such humane tendency, the
evidence of antiquated race prejudice,
The author speaks of American as Anglo
Saxons, and to that race, it seems, he
awards the palm of absolute superiority.
Now then, quite a while ago Daniel
DeVoe punctured this "Anglo-Saxon'
bubble in his immortal poem The True
born EngGshman. If this Anglo-Saxon-
ism is myth even with regard to Eng
land, how much more mythical must it
not be with regard to our own United
States-a country whose people are
churned out of every possible race, tribe,
nationality, and sept in civilization.
Moreover, be this as it may, certain it
is That the bright burning torch of civil
ization is not the gift of any one race or
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28

\ lady of much culture, experience
and observation, who has not only
studied and mastered the science of
economy in books, but tested theory by
personal Investigations of the most prac-
teal character, writes to us from Chi
cago that she attended lecture recently
delivered there in the Interest of
Anarchy" by Victor Yarros. He is
She says, IAN infant that has wandered
too far from his cradle. He tlippantly
asserted that the condition OF wage
humanity was improving. As | have
been searching that question by direct
observation and can claim that the con-
trary Is true, asked him to produce
his proofs. facts, etc. why, Universal
History-Common Sense - and Karl
Marx ii,D demonstrated it. The .4rbei-
ter Zeitung this morning calls him a
Quaker Anarchist"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28
LITERARY NOTES.
THE CRYSTAL Button, BY CHAUNCEY
THOMAS,
canoe,

THE CRYSTAL BUTTON, BY CHAUNCEY
THOMAS,
Lamaftine said novels are to the East
what opium is to the West. The saying
was absolutely correct at the time; to-
day it is not wholly SO. A class of fic-
ton is spnnging up that can hardly be
ranked among narcotics. People feel.
the stress Of time and rush Of labor de-
prive them of the opportunity to study
and find out the cause of their FEELINGS
AT this stage rises the artist. Some
chlseI their sermons in marble: others
pant them on canvass; others again
print them in the garb of novels. The
novels of these closing years Of the 10Th
century are pen sketches, intended to
breed discomfort and, on the whole.
point to the path Of progress.
The "Crystal Button" is one of the
most recent of such productions. While
greatly inferior y 'Looking Backward".
1t Is superior to many others that have
caught the popular eye That this world
can be made a "pleasure house" instead
of 'penltentiary" that the "necessitv
for money getting STILES the nobler am
bltions and cultivates the unworthiest
feelings; that "begging is the product
! of social maIadjustments"; that "social
cooperation is the redeeming aim of
progress, these are views expressed
one may say demonstrated, in this little
novel, which will surely contribute its
mite towards removing from the minds
of the apathetic among the exploited
the stock opinion that 'poverty always
was and always will be-, and may stir
them to better thoughts and more active
deeds.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28


ported in contravention 10 the law Of the
State Of Illinois, and probably also in
defiance Of tine United States law against
FOREIGN contract labor, and in fine middle
Of a hard winter. white thousands Of
resident vorkmrn were hungering and
frrrzin,, il, .n,forrnd idInpa.s tbo.n ron,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-28
CHICAGO.

The situation in Chicago is assuming
every week darker outlook. Ignorant
alike Of economic causes and effects, but
acting upon the captalaic principle of
economy at amy cost. the directors Of
the Worlds Far have broken their
pledges to the organized labor Of that
city and are attempting to carry out
their gigantic enterprise with the cheap
est labor which they may be able to OBJ
tain. The result of this hcartless and
marrow minded policy is already seen in
the fact that the great Exhibition, which
was expected by all the people of Chi
clgo to be such boom in many ways, is
curse to them even before its f0undn-
tions have been laid. Thousands Of un-
employed are pouring into the city from
all points Of the compass, Unable to find
work at the Worlds Fair, where full
contingent of scaha have already been
engaged, they apply everywhere but in
vain, until, finally, they must tramp
away, or starve, or steal. The freight
trains on all the railroads centering in
Chicago are loaded with such people,
and we are credibly informed that in
some instances tramps actually took pos.
session of passenger trains, refusing to
pay fare or to get out. The streets of
the city have become insecure to an
unusual degree, crime is rampant, and
the police, who boasts Of its ability to
put down free speech and to terrorize
honest labor, is paralyzed by burglars
and murderers.
For this concentration of unemployed
labor at Chicago and its fearful conse-
quenCes the directors of the Worlds
Fair are justly held responsible. Had
they kept faith with the organized trades
of the city and proclaimed through the
press that they would under no circum-
stances employ men who were not good
standing members of those trades, no
such influx of scahs and tramps would
have taken place. They could have OBJ
tanned from the unions all the labor,
skilled and unskilled, that they needed,
and at the most reasonable rates for the
labor organizations of Chicago viewed
the coming Exhibition with favor and
pride, and were not inclined to make
other than moderate demands in return
for honest treatment But instead of
looking upon the Fair as an achievement
that the labor of all countries in general
and of Chicago in particular might be
proud of, the mean spectators who
control its management considered
merely that it afforded an excellent OPP
portunity of furthermore degrading that
labor. The occasion was therefore i'm
proved from the very first stroke of the
pickaxe and, as it turned out. with uu-
precedented rashness. Aliens were i'm,
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