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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
EdisOn's BOyhOOd.

From an article on the boyhood of
Edison in st. Nicholas we learn that
young Edison never had any boyhood
days, his earliest amusements being
steam engines and mechanical forces.
He left marbles, ball and hopscotch to
less ingenious urchins and constructed
plank roads or dug tunnels and caves
along the shore. Like many of the
worlds greatest men, Edison owes
much of his fame to his mother, 10
whom he was a devoted son. She
taught him his lessons at home, i'm
pressing him with the love and purpose
of study. Wherever he went in his
boyhood days Edison bad a workshop,
and every telegraph office in which he
tarried witnessed some electrical freak
of his restless brain. In some form or
other his subsequent inventions en-
body these boyhood contrivances. The
determination, industry, perseverance,
honesty and temperate habits of his
boyhood followed him into manhood.
The forty-hge distinct inventions with
which he has since revolutionized
modern civilization, his library of 100,-
600 volumes, the best equipped labora-
tory in the world, are but the larger ex-
preston of the tastes of the boy Edison
in whom his contemporaries were
unable to divine the wizard of the nine
teenth century.-ETchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
A Plmcky Young Girl.

A year ago last spring a German
named Cranefeldt, living a mile north
of New Doyle, H., died, leaving a
small farm to his widow and children.
His two boys we're too small to be Of
any use in carrying on the farm, but
his daughter Annie, who was about
eighteen years old, took up the burden,
and well has she carried it. Last fall
she ploughed, narrowed, rolled and
planted thirteen and one.half acres OF
wheat all by herself. This spring she
put in thirteen and one.half acres OF
oats, which have just been threshed
and yielded about thirty bushels to the
acre. She has also ploughed the ground
and planted twenty acres Of corn, which
she has cultivated well, and just "laid
by,' and she has as good an outlook
for a good crop of corn as most of the
farmers around here. She takes all the
care of four horses-two work horses
and two young ones-and does all the
work on the place. She is not very
large, but has lots of determination and
push. Most girls left as she was would
have sat down with 81 can't" while
Aunie started out with II will make
a living for the family" and she has
done it.-St. Louis Republic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
Culture and a Muscle Standard.

General Walker in his address on
" College Athletics" delivered in June
before The Phi Beta Kappa Society at
Harvard, secuted openly at the old.
fashioned idea of " keeping the body
UNDER" but really there is something
TO be said even for that. The appara-
tus of physical development, especially
in the cities, has become so elaborate
and expensive, that there is no great
novelty in the spectacle of the youth
who takes fifty dollars worth Of exer-
else as a preliminary TO attempting to
do five dollars worth of head work.
The body that is once thoroughly habit
ua ed TO lavish muscular exertion de-
mands such exertion to keep it com
Portable. If its tenant has assumed
other duties and cannot accede to its
demands, it makes him thoroughly un-
happy until it has been so far subdued
as TO know its place. A body that has
grown 50 obstreperOus as that is a con-
siderable inconvenience to a brain
worker. What he wants is a simple
tenement in which he can dwell with
out having his attention perpetually
distracted by its requirements. Ordi.
nary repairs he expects to make, and to
keep up the muscular establishment
that the taste Of the times seems to
affect is as much beyond his means as
life in a Fifth avenue palace.-Septem
Der Scribner.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
Dishonesty at Church Fairs.

To charge from fifty cents to one
dollar for a ~JOut0uniere which repre-
scented only the cost of picking the flow
ers out of the fields, is robbery pure
and simple, writes Edward w. Box in
cat Home With the Editor " in the
September Ladies' Home Journal. On
two different occasions that / distinctly
remember where l was asked fifty
cents for not five cents actual worth of
flowers, l vas laughingly told by the
young lady to whom | rendered a bank
note that, We never give change at
this fair, and gentlemen, like yourself,
won't insist upon it, we know" 1t was
not enough that | was overcharged,
but | must be twice robbed, and this, in
each instance. in a church and in the
name OF charity! Is it any wonder, l
ask, that it is so difficult to induce men
to attend bazaars and fairs? They
know what is in store for them if they
attend. They know hat the innocent
twenty-five cents admission repre-
sents an exit costing all the way from
SO to $25, in proportion to their good
nature. | am calling this practice by
its proper name, because | think it is
time that the great and noble works
done for honest charity in this country
should not be asked TO suffer, as many
of them are undoubtedly suffering to-
day, from this and other forms of abuse
practiced in the name of charity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
American Boys in Paris.

l remember some years ago that an
American settled in one of the
%neighboring streets with her three
boys, who were OF an age not 10 con-
veniently stand being Gagged within the
narrow walls of a Partisan apartment,
and they went out to play in the street
as they had been accustomed in Amer
lea. To keep themselves in trim they
fought with each other after they had
vainly challenged boys of the neighbor-
hood. and the stones they throw often
times took the wong direction and
damaged doors and panes of glass.
The ringing of d~oor-bells, too, became
SO obnoxious that the people of the
street went to the cOmmiSSdtre de pO-
lice of their quarter and complained.
The mother, who was politely asked to
keep her boys indoors, laughed at the
interference of her neighbors and said
that her nerves forbade her doing any
such thing, and declared that as the
street was a public thoroughfare she
would send out her boys to play when
ever their noise disturbed her. The
boys, of course, also laughed in the face
of Partisan urban regulations and con-
tinued their pranks. But the French
police signiled to the woman on gov
ernmental paper that within a certain
time she must leave the house or be
locked up. She, indignant at the want
of freedom in European cities, went
back with her boys to America.-PariS
Correspondent of Brooklyn Eagle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
Man and Dog Compared.

1t is a poor sort of a dog that hasn't
more soul than some men, and what is
going to become of all that excess of
soul? asks a writer. Is it going to lose
itself in oblivion while the tricky, SEN
sual, unfaithful man goes on and on
forever? Take the best man you can
pick from average life; deprive him of
speech, blight him with popular preju.
dice, let him go without food and
water, hound him with a dog. catcher
and a lasso, give evil-hearted boys the
right to torment him, visit your wrath
upon him every time he opens his
mouth or frolics off with an old shoe
or a discarded cap just to show the fun
that's in him: tie tin can to his coat
tails and club him if he manifests a
proper resentment, and if you will show
me as much of nobility, long-suffering,
patience, forbearance and forgiveness
left in that mans soul after twenty-four
hours of such a life as is manifested by
the poorest little mongrel u that trots
the streets, l will draw you a sight
draft for fifty dollars. Yes, sir; if
there is going to be a heaven for some
men there will be an Immortality for
all dogs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
When Edison was Young.

81 was an operator in the Memphis
office when Thomas A. Edison applied
to the manager for a position" said A.
e. Rockefeller, a member of the Rem.
iniscence Club, s.. Louis. He came
walking into the office one morning
looking like a veritable hayseed. He
wore a hickory shirt, a pair of butter.
nut pants tucked into the tops Of J.uts
a size too large and guiltless of black
ing. Where's the boss?' was his
query as he glanced around the office.
No one replied at once, and he repeated
the question. The manager asked him
what he could do for him, and the
future-great proceeded to strike him
for a job. Business was rushing and
the office was two men short, so almost
any kind of a lightning singer was
welcome. He was assigned to a desk
and a fusilade of winks went the rounds
of the office, for the jay was put on
the st. Louis wire, the hardest in the
office. AT this end of the line was an
operator who was chain lightning aud
knew it. Edison had hardly got seated
before st. Louis called. The newcomer
responded, and st. Louis started in on
a long report, and he pumped it in like
a house afre. Edison threw his leg
over the arm of his chair, leisurely
transferred a wad of spruce gum from
his pocket to his mouth, picked up the
pen, examined it critically, and started
in, about two hundred words behind.
He didn't stay there long, though. ST.
Louis let out another link of speed, and
still another, and the instrument on
Edison's table hummed like an old
style Singer sewing machine. Every
man in the office left his desk and
gathered around the jay to see what
he was doing with that electric cyclone.
Well, sir, he was on The word, and was
putting it down in the prettiest copper.
plate hand you ever saw, even crossing
his t's and dotting his is and punctat.
ing with as much care as a man editing
telegraph for rat printers. ST. Louis
got tired by and by and began to slow
down. Edison opened his key aud said
Here, herel this is no primer classl
Get a hustle on you'll We'll, sir, that
broke st. Louis all up. He had been
: ra%w-hiding Memphis for a long time,
and we were terribly sore, and to have
a man in our office that could walk all
over him made us feel like a man whose
horse had won the Derby. l saw the
: wizard , not long ago. He doesn't
wear a hickory shirt nor put his pants
in his boots, but he is very far from
being a dude yet."-Practical Elec-
tricity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
MISCELLANY.
The Help that Comes too Late.

lis a wearisome world. this world of ours.
with 'ts tangles small and great,
Its weeds that smother the spriuging flowers
And its hapless strifes with fate.
But the darkest day of its desolate days
Sees the help that comes too late.
Ali woe for the word that is never said
TIL the ear is deaf to hear,
And woe for the lack of the ~fainting head,
OF the ringing shout of cheer.
All! woe for the laggard feet that tread
In the mournful wake of the bier.
what booteth help when the heart is numb
what booteth n broken spar
OF love thrown out when the lips are dumb,
And life's bark drifteth far?
Ont far and fast from the alien past,
over the moaning bari
A pitiful thing the gift to. day
That is dross and nothing worth,
Though If 1t had come but yesterday
1t had brimmed with sweet the earth.
A fading rose in a death cold hand
That persisted in want and dearth.i
who fain would help in this world of ours
Where sorrowful steps must fall,
Bring help in time to the waning powers
Ere the bier is spread with the pail,
Nor send reserves when the flags are furled
And the dead beyond your call.
For battling most in this dreary world.
With its tangles small and great.
Its lonesome nights and its weary days
And its struggles forlorn with fate,
Is that bitterest grief, too deep for tears,
OF the help that comes too late.
-Hdtper'S Basdr
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
ImprOmptu Verse by Phillips Brooks.

The following bit Of nonsense verse is a
part Of one Of Bishop Brooks Letters from
India, printed in the September Century,:
Oh, this beautiful island Of Ceylon
With the cocOanut-trees on the shore,
1t is shaped like a pear with the peel on,
And Handy lies in ut the core.
And Randy is sweet you ask GertieD
Even when 1t is spelt with a X,
And the people are cheerful and dirty,
And dress in a comical way.
Here comes a particular dandy,
with two earrings and half of a shirt,
He's considered the swell Of all Randy,
And the rest of him's covered with dirt.
And here comes the belle of the city,
with rings on her delicate toes,
And eyes that are painted and pretty,
And a Jewel that shakes in her nose.
Aud the dear little girls and their brothers,
And the babies so jolly and fat, -
Astride on the hips of their mothers,
And AZ black as a gentleman's hat.
And the queer little heaps of old women,
And the shaven Buddhistical priests,
And the lake which the worshipers swim in,
And the wagons with curious beasts.
The tongue they talk mostly is Tamul,
Which sounds you can hardly tell how;
It. is half like the scream of a camel,
And half like the grunt of a SOW.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing July Is, lse,

AbinnltuClhk guy TO- o'o
Trains Going South and East UiH Leave Mont
pelier as foloi0S:
70 4. NJ. ALL. for Fitchburg, Boston, Spring.
deld, New London aud New York.
I2:25 p. NJ. FAST TRAIN, for Boston via Low
ell and New York via Springfield.
1870 p. NJ. MIXED. for Mortified and RoXbury.
5;55 r. NJ. PASSENGER, for White River
Junction aud Windsor.
and all points in New England, New York and South.
Trains Going North and West:
$3.50 A. NJ. EXPRESS, for Montreal. ogdens.
$50 A. NJ. ACCOMMODATION, to st. Adams,
1000 4. VI. PASSENGER. for Burlington, St.
Adams, Richford and Ogdensburg, mar ing conneo.
lions for Troy, Albany and New York.
$3.50 y. NJ, PASSENGER, fer Burlington, st
Adams, Montreal, ogdenshnrg and the West
$3.50 J., NJ. WHITE MOUNTAIN PASSENGER.
for Burlington, connecting with Champlain Trans
portatiOn Compauy's boats.
8 5 T.. M. FAST Pullman Sleep
ing Car 10 Chicago.
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West TO
sale at the principal stations
Suburban Train Service.
Leave Montpelier at 70 rs. 6;Cc. stl5. lO:l5, A. NJ,
2:O5, 4:05, 6;25, $50 p. NJ, Arrive at PARE twenty
FIVE minutes after leaving tiMe.
Leave Barre at t3:ib, sos A. NJ 9;lI ls;.ea3 K
1: 40, 1870, $3.50, p. NJ. Arrive at Montpelier, twvnty
five minutes after leaving time.
A train leaves for W~illiamstowH at 1 SOS p. NJ.
DAILY, Sundays included. : Sundays only.
All passenger trains will stop at the Pioneer Works
to take or leave passengers when signalled.
L. W. THOMPSON, Agent.
r., W, BALDWIN, General Superintendent.
S. W. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
Blind to Her Own Blindness.

Curious" said an optician recently
to a Tribune reporter, chow sensitive
some people are to the evidence of adj
vancing age given by their eyesight.
With many customers / am actually
obliged to resort to deception to suit
their requirements. Last week an ell
derby oma came into my store and
inquired for glasses. She said she
knew her present glasses were too
strong, couldn't stand old glasses, eyes
too young and all that. | tried her
eyes and found that the real trouble
was the reverse of her statement.
Madam" | said, "your glasses are
too weak" "Sir?" Precisely, you
need two numbers stronger" "Young
man, you must be insane" she said,
getting angry. 81 have only worn
glasses a few months, and | wish the
mildest sort. l know it is 30, because
the pair you have selected hurt my eyes
dreadfully." OF course that settled it.
/ explained that | might have been
mistaken, examined her eyes again and
said / had a pair of very mild glasses,
not so strong as her former pair, in
fact, but of excellent make, which |
could recommend. l produced a pair
and she tried them. Are they weaker
than you showed me before?" she
asked. "Yes, very much, madame"
Weaker than my present ones?''
Somewhat" "Well, now, you see |
was right" triumphantly, ~ haven't
seen so we'll in weeks. These are ex-
actly right, and I'll take them just as
they are" "Of course, we can't put
old glasses on young eyes," l said as
pleasantly as l could, and she went out
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
NINRA b. LANGMAID,s ESTATE.

NESIAIE OFF WashingtOn Distrlct, IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, In said
District, on the POD day of August. A. d. 1888.
George NJ. Webster, Administrator of the estate OF
Myra h. Langmaid, late of Cabot, in said District,
deceased, presents his administration account for
examination and allowance, and makes application
for a decree of distribution and partition Of the
estate of said deceased. Whereupon, it is ordered
by said Court that said account and said application
be referred to "A session thereof, to be held at the
PROBATE ONCE, in said Montpelier, on the eth. day
OF September, A. D. 1898; for hearing and decision
hereof lie given to all persons interested by publica-
ton of the same three weeks excessively in the
Vermont Waterman e. State Journal a newspaper
published at Montpelier, previous to said time
appointed 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 C~Ourt.-Attest
$3.50 HIRAM CARLETON. Judge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
That Lamb of Mary's.

That d" Mary had a little lamb
We're willing to allow,
But that was years and years ago.;
IT must be mutton now,
. It's fleece was white as snow" of course,
This, too, we will allow,
But, gentle reader, don't you think
1t must he whiskers now?
And every place that Mary went
The lam went, ~too-allow
That this was so, once on a time;
1t must be different now.
1t followed her to schoolo one day
We also this allow;
The teacher turned it out, of course
Where is that teacher now
ID What makes the lamb love Mary sou
The children %cry-allow
This to be true-those children must
BE very old folks now.
And Mary! Well, she lived one time,
hat also we allow;
But we have wads of wealth to bet
She isn't living now.
ATLANTA Constitute
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
A Small Boys Bank Account.

John Martin, aged thirteen years,
who lives in Brooklyn, started in bust
ness as a newsboy about a year ago on
a capital of five cents borrowed from
bis mother for that purpose. Since
then, although he attends school morn
ings, he has by strict attention to bnsi-
ness and practical commercial ability
been able, after buying his clothes,
and making his mother a present of an
armchair, to deposit over 800 in the
bank.-EGchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06

IT SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOUSE,
j. b. Wilson, 37l Clay street, Sharps-
burg, Penn, says he will not be with
out DIR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, that
it cured his wife who was threatened
with pneumonia after an attack of
" la grippe" when various other rem.
edies and several physicians had done
her no good. Robert Barber of Cooks
port, Penn, claims DIR. Kings New
Discovery has done him more good
than anything he ever used for lung
trouble. Nothing like it. Try it. Free
trial bottles at G. B.akely's drug store,
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
nRRIN DAVIS ESTATE

YUM NIl1oTV.NIINN NVIIOEs
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District of Wash
ington Commissioners to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Orrin Davis, late of Plainfeld,
in said District, deceased, and all claims ex-
hibited in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
will meet for the purposes aforesaid at the
residence of Fanny Davis, in the town of Plain
field, in said District, on the lith day of September
and 18th day of January next, from one o'clock p. M.
until -four o'clock p. NJ, each of said days, and
that six months from the jth day of August,
A. ID. 1893, is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims to us for ex-
animation and allowance.
Dated At Plainfeld, this 2lst day of August, A. d.
1893. WlLLAkD !; MARTIN Commissioners.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
AURA A. BEMIs' ESTATE.

II IOMMINOTONFKS NUITJE.
Ghe undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District Of Wash
ington. Commissioners to receive, examine and ad-
Just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Laura A.. Bern's, late of Marshtield,
In said District. deceased, and all claims exhibited
In Offset thereto, hereby give notice that we viii meet
for the purposes aforesaid. at the dwelling house of
Ira Bemis In the town of Marshfeld. in said District,
on the Sh day of September ana 9Th day of February
next. from one O'Clock =. NJ. until four o'clock =. M,
each of said days, and that six months from the It'll
day Of August, A. r.. 1893, is the time limited by
said Court for said creditors to present their claims
to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Marshfield. this 10th day OF August, A. ID.
1898. GEO. q. DAVIS.
$50 q. ID. COLE. INoihihlssioheTF'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06
VukE LAwRENCEsE ESTATE.

IL STATE OF VERMONT, MashingtonDistrict IS.
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said Dis
trict. on the 18th day of August, A. ID. 1893;
Francis Il. COnnor, Administrator of the estate of
Luke Lawrence, late of Worcester, in said Dis
trict, deceased. presents his administration ac-
count for examination and allowance, and makes
application for a decree of distribution and par
tition of the estate of said deceased. Whereupon,
1t Is ordered by said Court that said account
and said application be referred to a session
thereof. to be held at the Probate Office. in
said Montpelier. on the 2d day of September,
A. ID. 1888, for hearing and decision thereon: Ana,
it is further ordered. that notice hereof be given
to all persons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Vermont Waterman
d State Journal, a newspaper published at Montpelier,
previous to said time appointed 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,
5a6l HIRAM CARLETON, Judge,
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LEGAL NOTICES.
SoPHRoNIA II. EDSoN's ESTATE.

SOPHISONIA X. EDSON'S
- COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District Of Wash
ington. Commissioners TO receive, examine and ad.
Just all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Sophrouia X. Edison, late of Mortified,
in said District, deceased, and all claims exhibited
In Offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
for the purposes aforesaid at the Mortified Savings
Bank, in the town Of Mortified, In said District on
the 2Oth day Of September and 9th day Of December
next, from ten o'clock a. NJ. until one o'clock p. NJ,
each Of said days. and that six months from the
I'D day Of August, A. ID. 1893. Ia the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present their
claims to US for examination and allowance.
lated at Mortified, this 30th day of August, A. ID.
1898. VA. CLARK. JR. r.umo,ou
WB9 G. IS. WILLIAMS, commissioners