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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
Migrating Birds and Their Flight.

Many discussions have been maintain
ed as to the manner of flight of birds in
migrating. The wild geese are well
known to have way of gathering in a
large flock and travelling in something
like a military procession, but for the
most part naturalists have differed in
their ideas on this, as they differ SEEM
ingly on most subjects, some asserting
that most birds fly low, others that
they fly high, etc. Some observations
made by Mr. w. Il. d. Scott, however,
at Princeton college on the night of Oct
10, 1880, give some data upon which to
base an opinion. His observations dis
covered large flight of migratory birds
proved by computations made at the
time to be flying from one to four miles
high above the earth. They were small
birds like the robin, wren, etc. This
leads us to another point-viz, the dan
gers encountered by birds in their annual
flight. OF course the greatest is by storms,
which beat them far from their course
out to sea, when they drop from exhaus-
ton and are drowned, or to the earth,
where the force of the fall is no less
fatal.-Mrs. j. B. SVuthU0rth, in TN
Albany Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
The Inventor of the Telephone.

Professor Alexander Graham Bell,
the inventor of the telephone, has just
completed a new residence in Washing
ton, his former home having been
purchased by Vice-president Morton
four years ago. During this time
Professor Bell and his family have been
much abroad, and have passed each
summer at their cottage at Cape Breton
and in voyages on their large house
boat. Mrs. Bell, who was deaf mute
until taught the lip language and to
articulate by her husband, is young
and beautiful woman, who converses
and understands all that is said with
perfect ease. AS soon as her new
home was ready for occupancy Mrs.
Bell returned from Paris and began
series of entertainments, the gather
ings at her house bringing together the
scientists and literary people Of the
capital, with the better elements of the
official and the smart set in interesting
combination. The members of the
National Academy of Science were es-
pecially entertained during the week
the servants of the country were in ses-
sion at the Smithsonian Institution
Hdrper'S Bdzdr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
Relieving His Mothers Suspense.

A Springfield mother sent her small
boy into the country, and after week
of anxiety has received this letter: &C
got here all right and / forgot to write
before. 1t is very nice place to have
fun. A Teller and l went out on a
boat aud the boat tipped over and a
man got me out, and l was so full of
water that l didn't know nothin' for a
good long while. The other boy has to
be buried after they find him. His
mother came from Lincoln and she
cries all the time. A boss kicked me
over and have got to have some money
to pay the doctor for fixin' my head.
We are going to set an old barn on fire
to. night and | should smile if we don't
have bully fun. / lost my watch and
am very sorry. l shall bring home
some mud turtles, and l shall bring
home tame woodchuck if | can get
'em in my Junk. "-Missouri Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
81 Hate My Mamma"

johnnie was boy of very good heart
and, as is the case with most people, his
walk had an angelic tendency 80 long
as things came his way. But OCCASION
ally circumstances bumped up against
his desires, and then he inwardly
damned the fates with a hastiness that
promised well for some strong, terse
English when he should grow up and
acquire the proper vocabulary. One
day he went into the kitchen to look
at all the good things his mother was
preparing for dinner. He lifted the lid
from the stewing apples, opened the
oven to look at the cake and stuck his
finger in the yet thin custard of pie.
His mother admonished him several
times in vain, and finally sent him out
in the yard to play with fervor thai
told Johnnie she could get along better
without his services. Johnnie pouted
After he had time to think the matter
over all his love for his mother wen
out of his little heart. So he took {
piece of chalk and wrote on the wood
house door, where she could see it:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
Phillips Brooks on True Education.

No man to-day can practice any of the
higher arts to the best effect, unless he
knows the history of that art. Our life
becomes eXtemporized and fragment
airy unless each man, taking up his
work in the world, not merely attaches
his work to the work of those who went
before him and begins where they left
off, but also knows something of the
way in which his art came to reach the
point at which he finds it, and so is able
to make the labor which he adds part
of one consistent and ineligible prog
ress, wrote Phillips Brooks in one of
his ablest literary essays, reprinted in
the Nep England Magazine for May.
We want to know the blunders men
have made, that we may not make
them over again; we want to know the
grounds Of the partial successes they
have achieved, that we may help TO
carry forward their successes towards
their full result. Let me remind you
what are some of the values that belong
to the study of the history of education.
First, there is the great general value
of experience. To know what other
men have done in the department
where you have been set to work will
make it unnecessary that you should go
over again what they have already
done. The student of the history of
education finds, to his great surprise,
that many of the educational ideas of
his own time, which seem to him all
fresh and new, were found out long
ago, were used awhile, and then were
lost again, only to be re discovered at
this later day. A wiser study of educa-
tional history would have made this re-
discovery unnecessary, and so saved
time and strength. If every generation
has to begin and prove over again that
two times two is four, what gener-
alton will ever get beyond the proof
that ten times ten is one hundred? And
then, again, to know how different
studies came to be introduced would
often throw great light upon the values
of those studies. There can be no
doubt that many studies have been in
troduced legitimately, for reasons which
were very strong, but which were tenn
porary, and then have remained like
ghosts haunting our schools long after
their living necessity had died away.
1t is always hard to get any study out
of our schools when it is once in. Each
teacher learning it as boy is naturally
ready to teach it as a man. AS John
Locke says, 1t is no wonder if those
who make the fashion suit it to what
they have and not to what their pupils
want" Here surely is the key to a
great deal of the conservatism and
traditionalism of our teaching; and the
surest way to break it down and to gel
rid of it would be such a wise study OF
the history of education, by those who
are to teach, as should show them how
the studies which they find in schoo
came there, and 30 help them to judge
whether those studies are to be dropped
as temporary necessities which have
been outgrown, or to be kept foreve
because they are forever useful.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
If l We're You, My Boy.

l WOULDN'T be ashamed to do right
anywhere. l would not do anything
that | would not be willing for every
body to know.
WOULDN'T conclude that | knew
more than my father before l had been
fifty miles away from home.
1 WOULDN'T go into the company of
boys who use bad language.
/ WOULDN'T get in the sulks and
pout whenever l couldn't have my own
way about anything.
WOULDN'T let any other boys get
ahead of me in my studies.
l WOULDN'T abuse little boys who
had no big brother for me 10 be afraid
Of
1 WOULD learn to be polite to every.
body.
l WOULDN'T cry for anything when
mamma or papa told me it was not good
for me.-E1change.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
BrignOli and His Age.

On one occasion Bianchi, the noted
teacher, went on the stage to see Brig
noh, whom he found pacing up and down
like mailman, humming over his part.
"Why, Brig, what is the matter with
your Are you nervous? he asked.
Eyes, am nervous was the reply as
he walked harder ard faster than ever.
"But, Brig, you ought not to be nerv-
Gus. I've heard you sing the part 200
times. heard you sing it 80 years ago."
"Thirty years ago! Who are you that
should know so muchg'
"Who am II You know who l am,
and l know who you are"
Every well; you know what am, but
! am sure you do not know what you
are, and if you wish l will tell you. You
are fooll''-Ne,0 York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
A Good Summer Name.

Some years since, Nottinghamshire
clergyman, in bap'izing a baby, paused
in the midst of the service to inquire
the name of the infant, to which the
mother, with profound courtesy, re-
piled: "Shady, sir, if you please -
8 ShadyP' replied the minister. "Then
it's boy and you mean Shadrach, eh?'
" No, please your reverence, it's a
girl" "And pray" asked the inquisi-
tive pastor, Z" how happened you to call
the child by such strange name2''
" Why, SIR" responded the woman,
"if you must know, our name is
Bower, and my husband said as how he
should like her to be called Shady be.
cause Shady Bower sounds SO pretty
London Tit BITS.
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l HATE MY MAMMA

Pretty soon he heard his mothers
voice say, " Johnnie, come in here and
get this cake I've baked for you"
And, oh! how Johnnie felt ashamed
He went in and took the cake reluc-
family, but it was good, and he ate it
greedily after he had taken the first
bite. But he thought and thought
while disposing of the sweet bit BY
the time he had eaten it all, even to the
crumbs, his better nature conquered.
He went up to his mother, and picking
at her dress awkwardly, said, +" Mamma,
there's somethin' writ on the wood
house door, but it amt So" Troy
Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
II. DoDGE,s ESTATE.

= SIATt OF NEKMONI, Washington DISTRICT; e.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier. in said DIS
trct on the 18th day of April, A. b. 1898;
Fred Fuller and Henry W; Town, Administrators
of the estate of Charles r. Dodge, late of Calais, in
said District. deceased, present their administra-'
tion account for examination and alloyc.nce.
ton and partition of the estate or said do
ceased. Whereupon, it is ordered by said Court
ferred to session thereof, to be held at the
Probate ohce. in said Montpelier. on the goth day
of May, A. ID. 1898, for hearing and decision
thereon. And. it is further ordered that notice
hereof lie given to all persons interested by publica
ton of the same three weeks successfully in the
Vermont Waterman d State Journal newspaper
published at Montpelier, previous to said time APP
pointed for hearing, that they may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, If any they may
have, why said account should not be allowed and
such decree made. BY the Court.-Attest,
42A HIRAM CARLETON, Judge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
The Baby's Future.

"what will the baby be, mamma,
with kick and crow,
And hush a by.low
What will the baby be, mamma,
When he grows up into mani
win he always kick and always crow,
And wrigge his arms and his legs about SO,
And make up such horrible faces, you know,
As ugly ever he CAM"
" The baby will be soldier, my dear
with fife and drum,
And a rum.tiddy.tum,
The baby will he a soldier. my dear,
Whenh grows up into
He will draw up his regimentnto a row,
And flourish his sword in the face of the foe,
Who will HE them away on tremulous toe,
As quickly as ever they can.
" The baby will be a sailor my dear,
with u fore and an aft
And tight little craft
The baby will be sailor, my dear,
When he grows up into man.
He will hoist his sails with a 'yo.heave-hol'
And take in his reefs when It comes to blow,
And SILVER his timbers,' and so forth, you know
On the genuine nautical plan.
The baby will be a doctor my dear;
with powder and pill
And a nice little BILL
The baby will be doctor. my dear,
When he grows up into man.
He will dose you with rheubarb and calomel too
with draughts that black pills that are blue
And the chances will be, when he's finished with
you,
You'l be worse off than when he began.
" The baby will be a lawyer, my dear.
With a bag and fee,
And legal decree.
The baby will be lawyer my dear,
When he grows up into a man.
But oh, dear me, If ever you knew
What terrible things lawyer can do.
You would take to your heels when he came into
view,
And flee from Beersheba to Dan"
Laura c. Richards.
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HIGHLAND w
MO. 1909.
oEAL BROWN STALLION, foaled in

0EAL BROWN STALLION, foaled in
1885; 152 hands high, Sire, ABDALLAH
WILKES, sire of Saxon, 2.22l, Valda, 2.26f,
by the great George Wilkes. Dam, Black
Venus, by Ironsides, son of Administrator
2.295, by Hambetonan 10.
Highland w weighs LOO pounds, has
much substance, and is one of the most
beautiful and highly finished horses ever
offered to Vermont breeders. His blood
lines are of the most fashionable, tracing
twice to Hambletonian TO- with cross of
Pilot, Jr, u, Mambrino Chief IL, Henry
Clay 8, G. M. Clay 90, and thoroughbred
strain through imported Envoy. He shows
natural speed, and will be trained for a
record at the close of his season.
Will make the season of 1893 at stable OF
subscriber. Terms: $40 to warrant.
ERNEST G. BENJAMIN.
Glen Farm, South Woodbury., VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
BARRE TRAINS.
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing Jan. %, 1898.

Trains Going South and East ,oiH Leave Mont
pelier as follo,os.
9:OOA. Nj. MAIL. for Fitchburg Boston, Spring.
field New London and New York
1880 y. NJ. FAST TRAIN, for Boston via Low.
ell and New York via Springfield
1850 Il. M, MIXED, for Mortified and Roxbury,
5;55 p. Nj, PASSENGER, for White River
sI2:4O A. NJ. EXPRESS, for Boston via Lowell
and all points In New England, New York and South.
Trains Going North and West:
$3.50 A. M. EXPRESS, for Montreal. ogdens-
burg and the West,
Burlington and Rutland, Troy and New York.
1000 A. NJ. PASSENGER. for Burlington, st.
Adams, Richtord Rouses Point and St. Johns, max.
connections for Troy, Albany and New York.
1888 T.. NJ. PASSEN GER, fer Burlington, 81
Adams, Montreal, Ogdensburg and the West
ing Car TO Chicago
Through tickets TO Chicago and all points West for
sale ut the principal stations.
Suburban Train Service.
Leave Montpelier at t3;l5, 1900, 9:l5, 1910, A. NJ.
2;OO, $3.50, $500 $3.50 z. NJ. Arrive at Barre
twenty five minutes after leaving time
Leave Barre at t3;45 S:05 A. NJ, 1900 l2:i5, $780,
$40 1920 s;lb, p. NJ Arrive at Montpelier, twenty
Trains leave for Williamstown at Gals A. NJ. and
3;50P.M
Daily, Sundays included. Sundays only.
All passenger trains will stop at the Pioneer Works
to take or leave passengers when signalled.
t.. W. THOMPSON, Agent.
Y. w. BALDWIN, General Superintendent.
\. W. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17
CEORGE RRAnsHAM,s ESTATE.

W STATE OF VERMONT, Washington District, 90.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in and for
said District, on the LIST day of May, ID. 1893:
An instrument purpOrting to be the last VIII and
Testament of George Bradshaw, late of Berlin, in
said district deceased being presented to the Court
for Probate 1t ordered by said Court that all per-
sons concerned therein be notified to appear
sion of said Court to be held at the Probate ONCE in
said Montpelier, the 25th day of May, A ID.
1888 and show cause, If any they may have, against
the probate of said instrument for which purpose It
s further ordered that notice of this order be pub
lished three weeks successfully in the Vermont
Itdtchmqn e. State Journal, newspaper printed at
Montpelier in this state previous to said time ap-
pointed for hearing.
BY the Court.-Attest,
i2i HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
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UIRAMA. SAwyER,S ESTATE.

III STATE OF VERMONT Washington District, IS,
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier in and for
said District on the LIST day of May, ID. 1888:
An instrument purporting to he the last VIII
and Testament of Hiram A. Sawyer. late Of
Middlesex in said District, deceased, being pre-
sented to the Court for Probate, it is ordered by
said Court that all persons concerned tn erein be
titled to appear at session of said Court, to be held
at the Probate Ofiee in said Montpelier the 25th
day of May, A. ID. 1893. and show cause, if any
they may have, against the probate of said
instrument; for which purpose 1t is further
dered, that notice of THIS order be published three
STATE Journal, newspaper printed at Montpelier in
this State previous to said time appointed for hear
ing. By the Court.-Attest
PA HIRAM CARLETON, Judge.
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u ANsOM DICKEY's ESTATE.

~ COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
r, The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Ran
dolph Commissioners to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Ransom Dickey, late of Orange
in said District, deceased, and all claims or.
hibited In Offset thereto, hereby give notice that
w Huntlngton's clearinghouse In Washing
ton, on the LIST day of June and 26th day
OF October next, from ten o'clock A. M. un-
III four o'clock p. M, each of said days, and
that six months from the 29th day of April
A. ID. 1893 is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims for eI-
animation and allowance.
Dated at Washington, this 2ath day of April, A. D.
1898. q. o. CALEF - -
4345 L. G. SMITH, commissioner.
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DESERVING PRAIsE.-We desire to
say to our citizens that for years we
have been selling DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, DIR. Kings
New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran-
tee them every time, and we stand
ready to refund the purchase price if
satisfactory results do not follow their
use. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
They are sold by G. Blakely, druggist,
Montpelier, Vt.
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In GENERAL.
In Quiet Bays.

In quiet bays by storms unspent
moor my boat with calm content.
l sought of yore the deep. wide sea;
The tempest set my spirit free.
loved to match my puny power
With nature in her stormiest hour.
And now bring my little boat
Ia quiet bays, to drift and float
Idly upon the idle tide;
The sea for me Is all too wide;
l seek no more my spirits mate,
The awful. wind.swept sea of fate.
Charlotte Pendleton, in MAY LippincoWS.
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$500 Reward I!

We will pay the above reward for any case Of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Indi-
getion, Constipation or costivehess we cannot cure
tons are strictly complied with. They are purely
Vegetable. and never fail to give satisfaction;
Sugar Coated, Large boxes, containing 80 Pills, Is
cents. Beware of counterfeits and limitations. The
genuine manufactured only by THEJoHN O. WEST
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COLUMBUS MORGAN

Great sire of Trotters and PAGERS. Roll of honor
fast filling number of candidates for the 2; 2C
list or better. Terms of service $4,000 to war
rant For pedigree and full particulars see small
bills A. j. MOWER.
Calais, VT, March, 1893.
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WEIGH & DARLING.
LEGAL NOTICES.
MERvIN ROBERTS, ESTATE.

MERvIN ROBERTS ESTATE.
Nl COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
r, The undersigned; having been appointed by tho
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington, Commissioners, to receive, examine and adj
lust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Mervln Roberts, late of Marshfeld
IN said District deceased and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto, hereby give notice that will
meet for the purposes aforesaid, at his late resi-
denee IN the town of Marshield, in said District,
on the 9th day of June and 10Th day of October,
next. from one O'Clock p. NJ until four o'clock r. M
each Of said days and that six months from the 2lst
day of April A. ID. 1893, Ia the time limited by
said Court for said creditors to present their claims
to us for examination and allowance
Dated at Ma,shfeld, this - day of May, A. ID.
1893 ELI S. PITKIN, l,.,...-.
4345 JOHN L. SEVERANCE GNo'nihssiohers.
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For Sale!

whole or any part, of the following described prop
erty situated on the line of the Wells River rail-
mostly tmbered. The railroad passes through II
her she'd near mills large boaadingbonse and
an extra fine barn for horses. Three tenement
houses In fair condition. The machinery in the
three mills is in good fair condition. and comprises
three water wheels. circular saw MILL two hand
edgers slap saw, planer and hatcher, board planer,
shingle machine capboard mill and all attach
ments, etc., etc. bowl mill also one traverse sled
Might exchange portion for other property.
ALBERT JOHOSNOTT.
Montpelier, VT. January 10. 1893.
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r. u PIT u r. e!

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