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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
A Word About Coffee.

Much has been written and printed
concerning coffee. Cook-books all con-
tain recipes for preparing it in different
ways. Every housekeeper considers
that coffee is something anybody can
make, and therefore she takes no par
ticular pains to make it. 1t is a fact
that on the breakfast table of nine out
of ten families, where nice cooking in
other respects is the rule, the coffee
will be found watery stuff, tasting
strongly of chiccory, or else 80 black
and thick as to be undrinkable by who
ever is used to the better-made article.
In the city the vast majority of house.
wives buy ground coffee at corner
groceries. l think the same rule is
good in the country, for most country
stores have their coffee-grinder. The
grocery mans profit is so large on
coffee that of course it pays him we'll to
grind it. And he can, in grinding,
adulterate it to so great an extent that
he would prefer to sell his real Java :"
and I" real Mocha" ground, even if he
had to sell at less price than in the
bean. The fact that the price is the
same, ground or unground, never seems
to show people plainly how well it
would pay them to grind their own
coffee. They may be sure the grocery
man does not do it for love. 1t is not
easy TO roast coffee, for it requires
much close watching, patience, and ex-
perience to bring it just to the proper
shade, not burnt, nor yet too light,
neither too little nor too much, but Just
right 1t can be bought freshly and
perfectly roasted in the larger grocery
houses of good repute. 1t is best to
buy not more than two pounds of this
at time, and it should be kept closely
covered until the last grain is used. l
have always found that one-third
Mocha and two.thirds Java make a
good combination. This costs about
thirty-two cents per pound at the larger
downtown houses. A coffee-grinder-
a good one-is worth fifty cents. The
comfort of the good &C flee it gives you
ID worth far more. 1t is true Bridget
will not grind it unless compelled, and
if she hasn't any coffee but unground
TO use; but it should be made case of
"needs must" If she is allowed to
grind it over night for use in the morn
ing, it should be put into a tightly
covered vessel until used. l use a
coffee-cup full, ground, for family of
five. This makes pound last about a
week. Put in an egg, shell, and fill the
pot about third full of cold water.
When it boils hard, add boiling hot
water to the quantity you wish to make.
When that boils up once, put in dash
of cold water, and cover the coffee
pot with folded towel, and set on the
back part of the stove until you wish to
use it. Ii you pour into silver urn,
be sure to scald the urn first, that the
coffee may not be chilled. Whoever is
used to drinking good coffee, bought
and made in this way, will never be
content with grocers' coffee again.
Always buy grinder to screw against
the wall. 1t saves time and temper,
and is at hand when it is wanted.-
Hdrper'S Bdzdr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Mutton TallOW.

Pure mutton tallow is one of the
most useful and inexpensive of medical
agents. For that class of sores and
wounds where a cooling, healing appli-
cation is indicated, its value is beyond
compare. Many an obstinate sore or
ulcer has been healed permanently by
pursuing the following simple method
Wash thoroughly, but gently, once or
twice day, with warm water and cas-
tile soap, dry with a soft cloth, and
cover with coating of tallow. This
should be spread on piece of linen or
cotton, the tallow being sufficiently
thick to prevent the cloth backing from
adhering to the wounded or diseased
surface. The importance of the utmost
clean mess in dealing with all troubles
OF this nature should by no means be
overlooked. Good Housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Color in House Furnishing.

A sense of warmth and richness can
be produced by the proper use of warm
tinted hangings, which cannot be
equalled by lavish and expensive if in
artistic ones. Every reader will recall
rooms beautifully yet cheaply fu nished
in this way. The writer has a vivid
recollection of a transformation 80
wrought in large square room. I'm
furnished it had not one redeeming
feature. There were eight doors,
grained in yellow imitation of oak af-
ter hideous by-gone fashion, very little
wall space between the doors, and two
long easement windows opening upon a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
How to be Happy, Though Married.

The question as to how best to man
age husband continues to absorb the
attention of the wives. The latest con-
tributor to the discussion is the wife of
the lieutenant-governor of New York,
who says she finds that she gets along
best with her husband when she allows
him to smoke in the parlor, sit in two
chairs, put his feet On the sofa pillows,
puff cigar smoke in the curtains, throw
papers all over the floor and stuff old
letters and receipts down the neck of
the finest vase in the house. Nexr!-
Boston Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Gbe DouseboIO.
BabY's WALL.

Only beginning the journey,
Many mile to go;
Little feet, how they patter,
Wandering to and fro.
Trying again so bravely,
Laughing in baby glee;
Hiding its face in mothers lap.
Proud as baby can be-
Talking the oldest language
Ever before was heard
But mother you'd hardly think So
Understands every word.
Father Of all, o, guide them,
The pattering little feet,
While they are treading the uphill road
Drawing the dust and heat.
Aid them when they grow weary,
Keep them in pathway blest,
And when the journeys ended,
Savior, o, give them rest!
-E1chdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

WHEN the ex-regular soldiers organ
lied as branch of the Regular Army
and Navy Union, last winter in Port
land, Me-, they called their garrison
after Captain George D. Wallace, the
gall MT captain of the Seventh United
States cavalry, who was killed at the
fight at Wounded Knee Creek, S. D.,
in December, 1890, at the time of the
Sioux uprising. AT recent meeting
of the garrison, Mrs. Carrie Otis Wal
lace of St. Paul, Mimi, widow of Cap.
tain Wallace, presented them vi h
handsome life-size portrait of the gall
liant captain, which was placed in the
garrison room.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
Mistellanp.
What the Little One Wanted to Know.

neNM
Where do the old years go, mammal
Are they Gods, to give away?
Does he send them off to some poor old star
Or make them over2 Say
Did you tell me they're dead? II that's so
Has God burying groundp
How big are their graves l want to know
And are there mourners round?
You told papa that the year was sad
Where did you see its face?
Was IL because it had been so bad,
That the new one got its place?
1 want to kiss it good bye, Old Year,
If watch, will 1 see 1t go by?
And, o mamma, il it stops right here,
Will somebody have to die9i
Why is 1t always dark and cold,
When Happy New Year comes in?
Do all the new years live to be old7
When does the old begin?
Suppose that the old year goes away,
And the new one does not come?
Will it be all night and never day,
Or will the world be done?
Northeastern CongregdtiondliSt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
notice.!

There will be meeting of the stockholders of
Me Montpelier Gas Light Co., at the Office OF said
Company in the store Of Il. II, skinner In Mont
peier IT,, on the sth day OF February, 1892, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, TO see " the stockholders
viii vote to sell the main and service pipes TO pay
the Indebtedness of said Company, and To do any
ether business that may regularly come before such
"'''"S &AS + S n INFER Directors.
Montpelier. w., Jan. 10th, 1882.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

EXERCISE is absolutely necessary on
the part of The dam, for the proper de-
volopment of the young she carries.
Much better results may be expected
from animals that have had abundant
exercise before coupling than from ami
mails that have been closely confined.
Exercise conduces to good health.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03
IMPROVE YOUR PENMANSHIP!

For years GAsKRLL's COMPENDIUM has been the
standard publication for home instruction and its
use mas secured hundreds OF people good situatons
pendinm has never been sold for less than 81, but
special nducement we will send IL postpaid for
only 10 Cents. Address HOME PUBLISHING
CO., Burlington, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

For scrofula in every form Hoods
Sarsaparilia is radical, reliable rem
edy. 1t has an unequaled record of
cures.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-03

A RUBBER name stamp is an exceedingly
convenient article and the cost is trifing.
Order one of the Watchman Publishing
Company,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
Biters Were Bitten.

practical jokers sometimes come to
grief" says William Jordan, one of
Nebraska's big bonanza farmers, to a
GLo6e-Den1ocrGt reporter.
cat Omaha some years ago fell in
with a gay party of drummers en- route
to Lincoln. In the party was young
Bostonian making his first trip west.
He imagined he was liable to be way
laid and massacred any moment by
Indians, and the drummers were care
full to strengthen this impression. We
finally determined to get up an Indian
massacre for his benefit, so commit
tee was detailed to get him into the
smoker and tell him blood-and-thun-
der stories, while the rest did the Ind
ian act.
"The night was pitch dark, and when
the train stopped at lonely water
tank four or five drummers quietly
dropped off, surrounded the smoker,
set up frightful yell, and began firing
off their revolvers.
"We expected the young Bostonian
to crawl under a seat and say his
prayers, but he disappointed US. He
whipped big 45 out of his grip, threw
up window and began to blaze away
at the mock Indians in manner that
took all the fun out of the joke. 1t had
been raining. There was deep gully
full of water on either side of the
track, and through this the jokers
rolled and plunged to get out of the
way of the whistling bullets. When
they crawled back on. the train they
were the sorriest-looking set of stage
Indians you ever saw"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
It's a Trick of the Trade.

Il was surprised to learn a few days
ago." said one gentleman to compan-
ion in an 81" road car last night, ac-
cording to the N. Y. advertiser, shat
the grapes we eat at dessert, especially
the white varieties, may have been
plucked from the vines month be-
fore. A few days ago went to a
fruit store near my home and asked
for two pounds of white grapes, Incl
dentally remarking that they were for
my little boy. who was sick.
"'Why don't you take one of these
five pound baskets?' asked the dealer.
They are somewhat cheaper when
bought in such quantities, and besides
/ will put preservative on the grapes
that, while it will not impair their ap-
pearance or taste and is not in the
least injurious to the stomach, will
keep them for two or three weeks.
Taste one of those grapes and he
pointed to big basket of fine fruit.
"The grapes were sound and of fine
flavor. Those grapes you have eaten,'
he said, have been in stock two months
and can probably keep them as much
longer. do not know what the pre-
servative is composed of. l get it
from big firm of chemists down town
and they guarantee there is nothing
injurious in it. have never tried it
on any kind of fruit except grapes, but
/ guess it would prove just as effica-
cious on peaches or plums."
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
MIGHT HAVE BEEN ACTING.
But If So, She Had the Talent of Bern
hardt.

Occasionally, in the gamut of famil-
lar notes which are sounded on the
harp of humanity in this big city, there
rings one that is new-some marked
variation on an old theme. Beggars
are familiar object, and the direct
appeals which are made to sympathy
are such palpable attempts to play on
feeling that one becomes hardened to
them.
A novelty of this kind occurred the
other night as gentleman was pass
ing through West Twenty-fourth
street, says the N. Y. World. The
clock was striking midnight. He saw
sitting on the lower steps of a brown
stone house a woman. She was dressed
poorly, she was about 60 and there was
the droop of WEAKNESS in her spare,
bowed figure. A small paper box and
a few papers were resting on the steps
in front of her.
The gentleman stopped and asked:
@Why don't you 60 homer"
"Oh, l just set down to rest myself"
she replied simply.
"Have you got bed to go to? Do
you want any money!" inquired the
gentleman.
@Oh, no! / don't want anything ex-
cept to rest few minutes" she re-
turned in the same weary tone, but
with no air of courting sympathy.
A poor old woman who declined the
offer of money is rather surprising
object, especially when her appearance
speaks of poverty and age and weari-
ness. But if she were independent
enough to wish to avoid aims it seemed
as though she had right to her few
moments rest on the hard, hot steps.
So the gentleman passed on.
But her looks, her tone, the hour of
the night, all worked on the man. He
felt that he ought to give the woman
something. He went back. She was
still dropping on the steps.
81 think you had better take this, :"
he said, putting some money in her
hand.
@Why, what is this!" she exclaimed,
lingering it. ga dollar! You can't
afford this. I never can repay you"
But the man was on his way again.
And as he passed along he thought, 81
wonder if that could have been a new
| bluff"
But it probably wasn't. There are
no Bernhardts sitting around on door
steps at night, and the thing was too
beautifully done if it were acting to be
anything short of the highest art.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
Cigarette Smoking in Europe.

Cigarette smoking is on the decline
in Germany and on the increase in
France, which is the more strange, as
French cigarettes are notoriously poor.
No country is worse off for its tobacco.
Cross the frontier to the south and
you fare well in Spain, cross it to the
southeast and the trabucos and the
menghettis are relief; even in Ger
many the homegrown leaf is at least
tolerable. But the French cigars are
bad and the French cigarettes are not
better.
In one of the Paris factories they
turn them out at the rate of 1900, 900
day. When factory girl has made
her regulation pile, 5000 cigarettes
have passed through her fingers. The
phrase is scarcely accurate, for, of
course, it is the familiar little cyliuder
machine that is used; it is only in
Spain that the cigarette is still hand
made The French factory girl is
fairly we'll paid. though there was
threatened strike few days ago. She
gets four shillings day and the work
is not hard. There was some talk
about it not being healthy. The gov
eminent sent a commission to report.
The unhealthiness was said to be due
to the powdered tobacco, the dust that
got into the lungs. 1t seems that this
was not true, and the making of ciga-
rettes is said to be more wholesome
than the smoking of them.-PGU Mall
Budget.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
DIPLOMATIC TOMMY.
How He Avoided Punishment by Skilful
Diversion.

"Tommy," said Mr.. Fosdick, severe
ly, "your mamma says you have been
naughty, and ! must punish you.
Come with me-"
"What are you going to punish me
with, pa?" asked Tommy, as he accom-
panied his papa to an upper room.
with this strap" replied Mr.. Fos-
dick, producing a CAD which Tommy
remembered very distinctly, having
seen and felt it on former occasions.
"The strap is made of leather, isn't
it, papas"
"They make leather out of the skins
of cows, don't they, papaP"
eyes, and the process is called tan
ming, which makes the tanning I am
about to give you with this strap par
ticularly appropriate. ;"
81 saw COW to-day, papa"
That's strange" Mr. Fosdick an
swered, sarcastically.
"1t had its skin on yet, and when it
came down the street woman was
afraid and came inside our gate till
the COW went by. I don't know what
makes women afraid of COWS, do you?"
@No,"
"You amt afraid of COWS, are you,
papa?"
NO"
"You are brave man and amt
afraid of anything, are you, papaP 1
told Rats Robinson yesterday you
could thrash any man on the street,
and Rats said his papa could wallop
daylight out of you. He couldn't,
could he, papa?"
"Well, should think not"
"Of course not, That's what told
him."
at was quite right of you to stand
up for your father"
"Oh, I always do. Do you know
what Rats Robinson's real name is?"
mo. What is it?"
"It's Nicodemus. l don't think
much of a papa who would name his
boy Nicodemus, do you?"
''No, don't"
"Where do names come from, papa?"
"Oh, from different places. Some
are found in the Bible"
Thomas is Bible name, isn't itP"
"Yes."
"Did you hunt it in the Bible to give
it to me when l was born?"
q knew it was there"
"Is it in that big Bible in the par
lor?"
Eyes"
"Do you ever read the Bible, papaP"
"Why do you ask me that?"
Because my Sunday-school teacher
says that everybody ought to read
some in the Bible every day, and"-
There, that will do. Go and see if
your mamma doesn't want YOU"
And Fosdick hung up the strap and
put on his hat and went DOWNTOWN
Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
The Baby's Substitute.

The story is related of well-known
auctioneer, who formerly lived on
Walnut Hills, but is now resident of
Mt. Auburn. On one occasion he had
been entertaining some New York
friends in a lavish manner, and re-
turned home in the early morning
hours little the worse for his recep-
ton. His wife. who was awaiting
him, discovered his condition, and be-
ing in neglige costume tossed the kew
out of the window to him. He finally
effected an entrance into the house,
and meeting the reproachful glance of
his better half made vain effort to
conceal his real condition from her by
taking the baby from the cradle and
rocking it in an unusually sober man
ner. He left the room for a moment,
and when he returned picked up the
nursing bottle instead of the babe.
His wife says he rocked the nursing
bottle for three solid hours until he
fell asleep singing a lullaby to it.
Cincinnati Commercial.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
Natures Monument to Washington.

Among the many monuments to
Washington is one which every visitor
to the Cape Verde islands will remem-
Der as one of the most colossal and
marvellous freaks of natural sculpture
in existence. Along the further side
of the harbor of San Vicente (the prin-
cipal town. rises bold ridge of dark
gray volcanic rocks, the crest Of which
form an exact likeness of our immortal
George, seeming as if lying face up
ward as if in peaceful sleep. The hero's
large, bold features, the backward
wave of the hair, his massive shoul-
ders, and even the frill of the shirt
front are all reproduced on gigantic
scale with wonderful exactness. This
strange monument, sharply outlined
against the deep blue of the tropical
sky, is one of the first objects that
meets ones eye in approaching the
island. Its gigantic proportions, with
the boundless ocean for a background,
forms portrait wonderfully true to
nature and overpowering in its mag
nificence Louis Republic.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
JIM's REVENGE.
Bullets for the Man Who Served Him
Mule Meat for Beef.

It was a gentleman like Mr.. Jim of
whom heard this fascinating story,
and which for grim humor cannot be
surpassed, says the St. Louis Republic.
Nor can Mr.. Jim, for so / shall have to |
call him, be blamed for avenging HIM
self for the trick that was played upon
his taste and gastronomic Judgment.
One of the bright spots on the Colo
RADIO desert is Los Palmas. 1t is few
miles to the north of Salton and on
fhe old Arizona stage road. 1t is truly
an enchanting place, for here spring
bubbles up and its waters spreading
have caused rich dark grass to grow,
and palm trees of gigantic height
spread out their beautiful fan-shaped
leaves. Close to the marsh was stage
house, where rest and food was sold
for both man and beast. The remains
of the adobe could have been seen
year ago, but l am told the heavy
rains of last winter entirely swept
away the vestiges of this memento OF
pre-railroad days.
Mine host of the time write was a
wag, though his humor was not OF
that quality which endeared him to
men. The fare he furnished was even
ruder than his wit, but what he lacked
in richness of mentality he made up
in his charges, which compared favor
ably with the terrific demands of the
modern railroad eating house. 1t was
a much-traveled road and custom was
brisk, for only by this route was Arl-
zona accessible, and as many mines
were being worked in the territory the
wag was never idle.
One day, so the story goes, Jim
stopped at the stage house for dinner,
and his eyes were gladdened, and so
was his appetite, by the sight and taste
of fresh meat. Jim ate heartily and
praised the flesh with the air of con-
noisseur. He asked for several relays
of tender cut and with many an oath
declared that never had he tasted such
delicate beef. The host, too, was
pleased, and charged him exhorbitant-
" for the feast.
On the way to the river Jim repeat
edly referred to the gorgeous meal, and
wound up his remarks with many an
encomium on the hberality of the
stage house proprietor. There was,
however, one in the outfit who did not
share Jim's admiring views, and finally
remarked:
"D'ye know what you eat back
thar2" throwing his thumb over his
shoulder and indicating the position Of
Los Palmas.
"Beef," was the laconic rejoinder.
%'Tan't nuthin' of the kind. That
was an old mule what dropped dead,
an he sed yer could eat it and think IL
was beef"
A laugh went up at Jim's expense.
@Are ye tellin' straight goodsP" in
4uired Jim, anxiously.
He was assured on that point.
Jim left the camp fire, resaddled his
burro, and rode straight for Los Pal
mas.
The proprietor was at the door.
did yer give me mule meat this
afternoon to eat? Tell the truth
now"
The host faltered out that he wa:
short of provisions and had been com
PEELED to dress up the defunct mule
but was sorry, etc.
He fell dead in the doorway with
two bullets in his body.
Jim rejoined the company and Incl
dentally remarked that he guessed
there would be no more mule mea
sold for beef at Los Palmas.