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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
A Common Obligation.

The high pressure at which life is
maintained in most families is destroy
ing the one element that makes a
house a home. 1t is impossible TO
make home what it should be un>
less its very center is rest. If it is not
the object of those who make the
home to preserve and reserve, with a
tenacity that cannot be moved, the
spirit of rest, the home loses the di-
vine end for which families were Gre
ated. A home that does not repre-
sent the temple of rest to the family
is not filling its place in the develop
ment of the solidarity which alone
preserves the family life, which alone
prevents the disintegration that leaves
so many families at middle life with
out common interest. / is impos-
sible for any home to be the place of
rest it should be if the individual
members do not carry to it contri-
button of their own inner life to en-
rich the lives of those about them.
He is beggar who takes but never
gives. 1t is not the prerogative of
one to make home perfect, minis
tering alike to the physical, the men
tai, and the spiritual needs of those
who belong under its roof; it is the
privilege of all. A home that shelters
only members of committees, organ
izers of societies, developers of at
tempts to provide amusement or edu-
cation for the betterment of mankind,
is a shelter, not a home. Those who
forget the large section of their world
confined within the four walls they
designate as home are not such bene-
factors as they consider themselves,
nor as their admiring friends consider
them. The first duty of every man
or woman is to the place, no matter
what its position in the social scale,
that he or she calls home; to make that
place the refuge of the best self, the
theater for the display of the best
powers, the temple where the soul finds
most intimate communion with its
Creator, is to fulfill ones highest duty
to man and Christian Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
People Who Make Mistakes.

THAT husband makes a mistake who
thinks his wife does not know enough
to be his counselor.
THAT wife makes mistake who tells
her husband none of her joys and all Of
her troubles.
THAT preacher makes mistake who
thinks people bring their heads to
church and leave Their hearts at home.
THOSE people make mistake who
are afraid 10 seek more religion for fear
they will lose some of their privileges.
THAT mother makes a mistake who
thinks her children too young to join
the church when they first begin to talk
about it.
THAT woman makes mistake who
thinks she can AIRY dlssipated man
and make a steady husband out of him.
EVERYBODY makes a mistake who
does not seek first the kingdom OF God.
The Rams Horn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
To Be Avoided.

A teacher in one of our Eastern
schools has prepared a list of words
and phrases to be avoided" and it is so
good that it deserves wide circula.
ton: Had rather, for Would rather;
Had better, for Would better; Posted,
for Informed; Depot, for Station; Try
and go, for Try TO go; Cunning, for
Smart; Above, for Foregoing; Like 1
do, for AS l do; Feel badly, for Feel
bad; Feel good, for Feel well; Expect,
for Suspect; Nice, or Real Nice, used
Unfortunately; Funny, for Odd or
Unusual; Seldom or ever, for Seldom
or never; More than you think for, in
stead of More than you think; Nicely,
in answer to question as to health
Just as soon, for just as lief; Guess
for Think; Fix, for Arrange or prepare
Real good, for Really good; Try an ex-
pertinent, for Make an experiment; 1t
storms, for 1t rains or it blows; Not as
l know, for Not that know; Every
man or woman should do their duty; A
party, for person.; Healthy, for Whole
some.-Horper'S Young People.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
How to See the Fair.

Nor, at Chicago, will you learn about
the things which are dear to you unless
you are very wise and steady, patient
and self-denying. Take day first to
satisfy your curiosity, to crafty your
sense of wonderment and your love of
beauty, to get your bearings and dis
cover how much exertion you can
support. Go all over the fair grounds,
and to the top of at least one of the big
domes or towers. See the fair, as a
fair, from its various centers, and from
different parts of its circumference,
especially from the lake. l think you
can do this in one or two days, If you
start early and end late, if you are
strong, and if you have yourself con-
veyed by all available means of convey
ance,-encircling railways, boats, and
rolling chairs, and if you do not step
inside single building except for the
ascent in search of your bird's-eye
view. Then go home, stay in bed the
following day, if you are wise, and the
next day spread the wings and stiffen
the spine of your conscience, and go in
search of the things you have come to
study-steam-b boilers or roses, fishes or
stuffed birds, needlework or statistics
Of idiot asylums, methods of slaughter
ing men or cattle, or of pres CRYING
human life or edible fruits. Stay at
this task until you have finished it, or
until it has exhausted your powers of
application. Then release and relax
yourself. Go to see something else
palms if you have been studying plows,
pictures if you have been studying
electric motors Century Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
The Cook Book.

HAM TOAST. -Scrape or pound some
cold ham, mix it with beaten egg,
season with pepper, lay it on buttered
toast, and place it in a hot oven for
three or four minutes. Dried salmon,
other relishing viands, answer equally
well with toast.
BEEF LIKE GAME.-Cut some slices
of beef into square pieces, put on etcl
piece of bacon, dredge flour over
them; skewer each into rolled shape {;
fry them in butter; when brown add a
finely minced ouior, a slice of lemon
peel, spoonful of capers, two bay
leaves, salt, spice to taste, wineglass-
full of vinegar, and glass of diluted
black currant jelly; stew ill the beef is
very tender.
MINCED VEAL AND EGGs-Take
some remnants of roast or braized
veal, trim off all Drowned parts and
chopped onion to light brown in some
butter; add large pinch of flour, lit
tie stock, and the minced veal, with
chopped parsley, pepper, SAT- and nut
meg to taste. Nix well and let the
| mlnce gradually get not; lastly, add a
few drops of lemon juice. Serve with
sippets of bread fried in butter, and the
poached eggs on top.
CORNsTARCH FRUIT.PUDDING.-
Peel four good.sized oranges and cut
them iuto very small pieces, removing
the seeds and tough skin; cover them
with cup of sugar Put quart of
milk in double boiler over the fire,
season with pinch of salt and sweeten
to taste. When the milk is lukewarm
take from it sufficient to mix two table
spoonfus of cornstarch into a smooth
paste. Beat the yolks of two eggs till
light, then add them to the cornstarch,
and, when The milk boils, stir the mix
ture gradually into it. Stir Till it thick
ems, then remove from the fire, and sci
aside ill it cools. When it is cold, add
the oranges, mixing all together. Beat
the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth
add tablespoonful of powdered sugar
spread over the pudding, and set in the
oven for a few minutes to brown. This
is, of course, to be eaten cold, and al
most any kind of fruit can be prepared
in the same way. Pineapple, straw
berries and raspberries are all delicious
Good Housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
Memories of a Country Newspaper.

My earliest memories, or those which
l can make sure are not the sort of
early hearsay that we mistake for re-
membrance later in life, concern
country newspaper, or rather country
printing office. The office was in my
childish consciousness some years be-
fore the paper was; the compositors
rythmically swaying before their cases
of type; the pressman tlinging himself
back on the bar that made the impress
sioE, with swirl of his long hair; the
apprentice rolling the forms, and the
foreman bending over the imposing
stone, were familiar to me when |
could not grasp the notion of any effect
from their labors. In due time | came
to know all about it, and to understand
that these activities went to the making
of the whig newspaper which my father
edited to the confusion of the locofocos,
and in the especial interest of Henry
Clay; l myself supported this leader
so vigorously for the presidency in my
seventh year, that it was long before |
could realize that the election of 1874
had resulted in his defeat. My father
had already been printer good many
years, and some time in the early
thirties he had led literary forlorn
hope, in West Virginian town, with a
monthly magazine, which he printed
himself and edited with the help of his
sister. AS long as he remained in bust
ness he remained country editor and
a country printer; he began to study
medicine when he was young man,
but he abandoned it for the calling of
his life without regret, and though with
his speculative and inventive tempera-
ment he was tempted to experiment
in other things, l do not think he would
ever have lastingly forsaken his news
paper for them. In fact, the art of
printing was in our blood; it never
brought us great honor or profit; and
we were always planning and dreaming
to get out of it, or get it out of US; but
we are all in some sort bound up with
it still. To me it is now so endeared
by the associations of childhood, that !
cannot breathe the familiar odor OF
types and presses without emotion
W. d. Ho'cellS, IN Scribner's Magazjne
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
Ironing Day.

Iron the starched clothes first, then
the bulky articles. The hand will be-
come tired in time, and if the light
pieces were taken first, there would be
no strength or spirit left to attack the
full ironing is to have the clothes thor
oughly dampened and the irons very
hot. The dampness prevents scorch-
ing, and with the hot iron one can
make every pass tell and do away with
that muscle-wearying and clothes
destroying rub, rub, rub, which is
necessary to produce even an unsatis-
factory result with dry clothes and
chilled irons. Table napery, especially,
should be very wet, in order to bring
out the pattern and result in a gloss.
Pillow-cases and similar articles should
be ironed from the seam, in order to
fold even; handkerchiefs should be
pulled out so as to lie square, and then
be ironed flat. Never iron handker-
chief in creases, and always iron it on
both sides. Properly speaking, hand
kercLief is an article with no wrong
side. Embroidery and embroidered
rutiles should be ironed on the wrong
side, aud strip of a thick blanket
provided to press them or. This brings
out the pattern and is another labor
saver, making unnecessary the olden
" bearing down" process. In the labor
saving line, also, is placing sheets,
neatly and evenly folded, under other
articles which are being ironed. Sheets
treated in this way will be found quite
smooth enough to use, after a little
additional pressing on the hems,-
Good Housekeeping,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
Fathers Rights.

There is one class in the community
one patient, Woodworking, long
suffering and accomplishing class
who never strike for their rights, con-
corning whom little is said, and yet
who demand our sympathy and our
concern. We refer to fathers. Moth
ers are adored in art, exploited in lit
erature, heralded in song, and en-
balmed in memory. If a boy goes
safely through humps, measles and
malaria, his mother is commended for
her care of his physical life. If he
does well at school, the teachers are
sure that he has sympathetic and ju-
dicious mother, who spurs him on and
keeps him to the mark. If he becomes
a great man-great anywhe ere, in poll
tics, craftsmanship, war or engineering
no matter what-we are told that his
mother was an eminent woman, and
that he derived his intellectual acumen
and his moral balance from her. Mon.
uments are erected to the mothers OF
great men; but who ever in his widest
dreams imagined the building, by sub
scription or otherwise, of monument
to the father of general, a poet, OF
a musician? The father is, as rule, il
the background when the biography il
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05

A MILLION FRIENDS" A friend
in need is a friend indeed" and not less
than one million people have found just
such friend in DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs, and
Colds. If you have never used this
great cough medicine, one trial will
convince you that it has wonderful cur
alive powers in all diseases of the throat
chest and lungs. Each bottle is guar
auteed TO do all that is claimed, OF
money will be refunded. Trial bottles
free at G. Blakely's drugstore, Mont
pelier, Vt. Large bottles, fifty cents and
one dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
MISCELLANY.
Our Modern Public Schools.

RAM II in, cram 1t in.
Children's heads are hollow;
Slam 1t in jam It in,
still there's more to follow
Hygiene and history,
Astronomic mystery,
Algebra, histology
Latin, etymology,
Botany, geometry,
Greek and trigonometry;
Ram 1t in, cram 1t in,
Children's heads are hollow.
Rap ii in, tap 1t in;
What are teachers paid for2
Bang 1t in, slam it I'M
what are children made for?
Ancient archaeology,
Aryan philology,
Prosody, zoology,
Physics climatoogy,
Calculus and mathematics,
Rhetoric aud hydrostatics;
Hoax It in, coax II in,
Children's heads are hollow.
Scold 1t in, mold it in,
All that they can swallow;
Fold it in, hold it in,
Still there's more to follow.
Faces pnched, sad and pale,
Tell the same unvarying tale,
Tell of moments robbed from sleep,
Meals untasted studies deep;
Those who've passed the furnace through
with aching brow, will tell to you
How the teacher crammed 1t IN,
Rammed it in, iammed 1t in
Crunched It In, punched 1t in,
Rubbed 1t in, dubbed 1t In,
Pressed 1t In and caressed itin,
Raped it in and slapped III in,
When their heads were hollow.
-Arthur's Ne,r Home Maya in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
An Ocean Steamship That Was Lost.

On March II, ls4l, the steamer President
left New York for Liverpool with a large
number of passengers, including a son of
the Duke of Richmond England and
America mourned her loss, and poem APP
peared in the London Times which was
touching tribute to the memory of the lost
ones This was a favorite verse of the poem:
Speak, for thou hast a voice, perpetual sea;
Lift up thy surges with some signal word;
Show where the pilgrims of the waters be
For whom nations thrilling heart is stirred.
-NelC York World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05

LET us visit our neighbors more and
know them better. Can we not ex-
change papers, bCoks and ideas, seeds
and slips and cuttings, with advantage
to us all? Profit by the eXperit nee OF
others. If they have tested and found
desirable any variety Of fruit or grain,
or successfully introduced some success
full breed of live stock, adopt these
rather than something untried and
new,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
THE HOUSEHOLD.

Contributions to this department may be sent
either to DIR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport Vt, or di.
rectly to THE wAToHMAR PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
Cures Others

Will cure You. is true statement Of the
action of AYERS Sarsaparila. when
taken for diseases originating in impure
blood but. while this assertion is true ot
AYERS Sarsaparilla, as thousands can
attest, it cannot be trutlfully applied to
other preparations, which unprnciplcd
dealers will recommend. and try to i'm.
pose upon you, as lust as good as
Ayers" Take Ayers Sarsaparilla and
Ayers only, if you need blood-purfer
and would he benefited permanently.
This medicine, for nearly fifty years,
has enjoyed a reputation, and made a
record for cures, that has never been
equaled by other preparations. AYERS
Sarsaparilla eradcates the faint OF he.
reditary scroiula and other blood dis
eases from the system, and it has, deser-
yedly, the confidence Of the people vi
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05
Stop and Read This i!

We find IL sell of
hard to get rid of the old Novt a
people who will goods al u price We want meet
and show the goods That's prices
have marked W 10 the bus they are
mostly dark colors single breasted light weights
going them, NJ first pick is the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05

THE czar's throne is said to be worth
four times as much as Queen Victo-
ria's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-05

FOR THE CURE OF LIQUOR. OPIUM MORPHINE
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
Accident at the Railroad.


An accident occurred on tho railroad at
this plsee LAST Saturday that shoaad be a
warning to the boys against Iqml ing on the
cars while in molten or while d[andipg at
tho depot unloading.
Charlie B. Coaurs, q son of Mr.. F. II.
Counts, and the telegraph messenger, was
sitting on the platform between two cars OF
the matsri,l train that wa, shifting at the
depot. His legs we're hanging gut on the
side when the train backed and his foot
struck post in the passway to the passen-
gop depot and threw him off, In bio fall his
foot struck a sharp corner of tie post, tear
ing off the fesh on one side, and throwing
him almost under the cars. His back and
head were also struck as he fell and he is
now sufering from the wounds and the
effect of the conclusions. 1t was narrow
escape for the little fellow, and if he had
not had the presence of mind to move his
b.dy quickly from under the cars as he fell,
he would have been crushed to death.
Fortunately no bore, were broken, and
Charlie, although suffering great pain, is in
good way for P'inS able 70 resume his
duties.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
a Pissar. 81 Lselh.r, sA..l,.

Those who have never been 10 Lockhart
Shoals should visit that interesting spot.
Leave Union early in the msrcing-spend
four or fiye hour, enjoying the breezy aimes-
phers, and sisht-sseing at the shoals and
return home the same day.
Lsckhsrt shosls is on broad River, Unisn
county, IL miles northeast Of Union, 35
miles southeast of SpartanSurg and 1s miles
west sf Chester, thus showing that these
shsals aud wonderful water power lie in the
beat farming section, and decidedly the
finest cotton section in South Carolina.
The place can easily be reached by wagons
frsm ID miles east to west, and by wagons
and small boats from rs miles north and
south, making trip Of only one day.
AN HISTORICAL OLD PLACE.
Lockhart Shoals is no new place, but is
well known to all the older people Of the
county. 1t is, In fact, very historical old
place. Three miles above the shoals is the
town Of old Pinckney, settled by emigrants
from Pennsylvania; and was the nrst county
seat Of Union, and wher. the old Jail now
stands. Two miles above the shoals is the
homestead place of the Farrars,' q family Of
tho finest old South Carolina caste, and the
most prominent people in the county.
Two miits below the shoals is the cid place
where Governor David johnson, Of this
State, was born, aud where he lived for a
long period. Aftcr Governor Johnsen's death
exrGovernor Thsmss b, Jeter came iu pos
session Of the properly.
About the year 1918 the State built canal
at Lockhart Shoals, for navigable purposes,
and the soil I masonry is still there, and very
interesting to look at. This canal was built
Of the very finest kind Of granite, and from
the appearance Of the way tho rocks are
dressed and put in. it can readily be seen
that it was frst-c!ass job, executed by
skilled workmeu. II is said to have cost
the State over million dollars.
Lockhart Shoals is a beautiful place. The
scenery is perfect, reminding one on either
hand of the ':Douuty Spots depicted BY
Turner'S Landscapes. It is at Lockhart
Shoals that the winds laden with the per:
fume Of flowers, blows softly over a largs
grassy lawn just above the shoals. where
! there is soon 10 be town.
The climate is good, and sickness arising
from climatic influences, or maiariai chill.
or fcvor ars unknown. The place Is more
elevated than any other point o. the river
and for this reason the summer nights are
cool, which inspres refreshing slssp.
q. MIG.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28

BSJ> Dr.. Ksely, the dsceverer of tn,
chloride of gold, as a cure for the taste Of
alcoholic stimulants and the me rphine habit,
has sold out to a syndicate for $40 ,OOO, 900.
1t is supposed that he had amas.ed fortune
Of $5,OO0,OOO from his discovery before he
sold out to the syndicate.
We are Of en- tpli that there must be
something wrong in the government when
individuals can amass such immen nse fortunes.
Will some Que tell us wherein the govern
ment can be charged with wrong in DR..
kseley's good or great fortune?
If we are not mistaken, De-. Mscune, of
the National Economist, few years $40,
'chen lie wa' poor man, aud the great ligh.
Of the Alliance order, played vigorously
upon that string, attempting 10 show the
tendency of the government to make wealthy
individuals at the cost of the masses +; at the
same time he WAS getting inde pendently
rich out of tho great patronage he received
from the "poor and oppressed farmers" as
he sycophantly called the farmers of the
South. Aud to-day, 50 we learn, he is livip e
in highest style at Washington. There wa,
no harm in his getting rich. The govern
ment was not to blame for il; and there 3
not q man in the country that would net
have done the very same thing if he had tho
sense and tact TO successfully pursue the
same course.
We are all, from the poorest oven to the
richest, trying to make monsy-the poor TO
get rich and tho rich to get richer. 1t is
human nature, and tho tendency Of gov
eromsnt that did not stimulate the ambition
Of its people TO become rich, would be to
make a nation Of poverty stricken dolts.
1t is no more true that the labor of the
poor mau makes the rich man richer. than
that the wealth of the rich man is the means
by which the poor man becomes rich. If
there were no rich people in the wo rid there
would be no factories, railroads, telegraph
lines, ships for commerce between nations.
or anything else requiring concentration of
capital, or TO excite 10 action the labor. lbs
skill and the inventive genius of tho door
man And we believe il would be a hun
dred-fold worse il there were no poor peop'e
IL all Of us, or even half, were rich the
human race would become i'm mbeci;ss for want
OF employment for themselves and money.
We believe the Almighty has arranged the
whole matter much better for our peace and
happiness than the finite minds of socialists.
anarchists, Ocalaites and labor organizations
could possibly devise. At any rate, al
though poor hard working man all our life.
we prefer trns'ing our present and future
happiness and welfare TO His infinite wi.dom
and justice.