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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Adventures of a Chalice.

About 10 years ago the parish church OF
Glynde, Sussex, was broken into, and the
communion plate, together with the name
plates on the tombs roundabout the chan
Gel, was distracted. Some time after an
oXman on the estate had been to turn out
his oxen when he noticed something in the
pond which he at first thought to be fish,
but which subsequently turned out to be
an inscription plate from the tombs.
This led to further inquiries, and the es-
tate carpenter, who had been engaged in
doing some repairs in the edifice, was sus-
pected, and II careful examination of his
workshop led to the detection of particles
of silver in chopping block, and he was
apprehended and convicted Of the robbery.
Up to quite recently, however, no trace OF
the communion plate had been found, when
by some chance the chalice, which is of the
seventeenth century design, was discovered
in dealers shop at Norwich. 1t was at
once recognized, and it has been repur-
chased at II cost of $50 and restored to the
church, Westminster, Eng, Gdzete.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

Brook to be soldi The dear old place hal
lowed by many happy associations, though
an unpleasant stepmother held the scepter
there, was very dear to her heart. Was
there no way to save it' All, like haeh
the word rang in her ears The prizel the
prizell the prizelll A thousand dollars.
Should she win itf Was the sacrifice worthy
the labor it had cost herr Paris and its
golden dream must be relinquished that
Meadow Brook might be saved.
The mental struggle that followed ended
In victory for sacrfce-if meadow Brook
Farm" should win the approval OF the
judge.
Why need dwell on the hopes and fears,
the expectation and doubt, crowded into
the following days? 1t is only needful to
know that Miss Sarah Middleton was
awarded the prize, and that when asked
her choice in the matter she replied in as
steady u vol, as she could command:
The money, If you please, Mr.. Presi-
dent"
The mortgage on Meadow Brook was not
foreclosed. ne place is still pointed out
as the property of Josiah Middleton, and
Sarah Jane, Who still lives for her beloved
art, has fou' | golden coins in her purse
ever since the fame Of Meadow Brook and
it's story. which somehow got into print.
became spread abroad -BuBdlo Neios.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Across the Atlantic in the Valkyrie.

Yacht-racing is perhaps the best of
all sports, but we are not apt to THU X OF
it as dangerous. How many of US
know what daring deeds are inspired
by the international struggles for the
Americas cup? Now that the exciting
races are over, it is worth while 10 con-
slider the great perils sailors gladly run
TO meet when they undertake to fight
for the old trophy of silver that belongs
to the best sailing nation in this world.
Whoever wanl s to race for the Amer
ica's cup must dc 20 in yacht that has
sailed across the ocean. 1t will not do
to pack the racing craft on board an
ocean liner, and carry her as tenderly
as one carries model cutter in Park
lake row-boat. One of the clauses in
the deed of gift by which the cup is
maintained as an international racing
prize is that the yacht that challenges
for it must 60 under her own sail from
her home to the home of the club hold
ing the cup. She cannot even be towed
across.
The VOYAGE of the Vaikyrie across
the stormy, cyclope-swept Atlantic in
September will long be remembered as
OIL e of the most dangerous ventures OF
this kind. She is above all things
racing machine. To journey in her
from Southampton to New York at this
time of year is about as exciting and
perilous as trip from New York to
New London in four cared racing
shell would be. Although Lord Dun
ravens boat is narrow and deep, she
carries very heavy spars. She is very
little better adapted for ocean sailing
than a Long Island oyster boat. Her
deck sits no higher above the sea than
the deck of harbor tug.
The sailors were pitched about and
buffeted by the ocean for twenty-nine
days, eighteen hours, and fifty.two
minutes. They slept and snstched
their food-you could not call it eating
meal-when they coud and how they
could. During most of the time it was
all hands on deck. everybody stamping
about in rubber hip. boots and suits of
yellow oil-skins. R'ging seas swept
the little cutters deck, fierce gales
seemed bent on sweeping her off the
face of the sea, but she came flying
into port at last without the loss of
single spar. "And there wasn't as
much as finger bruised" says Cap
tain William Harvey.-Harper's Young
| People.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
How Edison Took Up Electricity.

"Now that you have left electricity, how
did you first come to enter i :"
II will tell you. 1t was by peculiar in
sident l was selling papers on train
running out OF Detroit. The news Of the
great battle Of Shiloh, 10000 killed and
wounded, came in one night. knew the
telegraph operator at Detroit, and went to
him and made trade.
II promised him Harper's Monthly and
the New York Tribune regularly if he
would send out little dispatches along the
line aud have them posted up publicly.
Then went to The Free Press and took
400 copies. That emptied my treasury. |
wanted 200 more. They sent me up TO the
editor 1t was Wilbur Storey. dark look
ing man. managed to get up to his desk
and make a strong plea. He listened and
then yelled out, Give this arab POO papers
took 600 papers out. ! was taken Off my
feet when we reached the first little station.
The depot was crowded with men wanting
papers The next station it was worse, and
raised the price of the paper to 10 cents.
At the third station there was a mob, and
sold out. with papers going at 25 cents
apiece.
well, do you know, that episode i'm
pressed me that telegraphy was great
thing, and l went into it. Telegraphy led
to electricily."- Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
The Sins Of Society.

1t would be easy to name women
prominent in society by virtue of cir
beauty, talent, moral purity and force
of character, who have been powers for
good in their time, incentives to virtu-
Gus and noble living, respected by men
and acceptable to God. 1t would be
equally easy to mention others who.
Notwithstanding their gifts, have done
more harm than good; handsome. rich,
brilliant, capable, generous of heart
but lax in their sense of moral obliga.
ton, indiscreet in conduct, tolerant Of
evil, Indifferent to social scandals, they
demorallze by their example. One OBJ
vous sign of this decentralization is al
forded by the readiness of the commu-
nifty to overlook the sins of women
whom il admires. There must he some
thing wrong when we are prompt to fol-
give in a beautiful and witty woman
what we would not forgive in plain
and dull one. And what is true of the
leaders OF society is true of society 10
general. Tue entire community has an
interest in I" society,"" and is warran ed
in looking to it for help aud good Off es.
Let " society recognize the fact and
meet its obligations. Let those who.
lead it consider their responsibility and
aim to keep themselves pure, to set an
example of honorable and decent liv-
ing and to put to good use the privileges
which they enjov.-Rev. Morgan Dir,
in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Preaching with Effect.

Pere Honore, preaching course OF Lent
sermons, added to the effect of his elo-
quence by producing from beneath his hab-
it skull, which he would assume to have
belonged to various types Of sinners among
his audience. Now he would exclaim with
Hamlet: why might not that be the skull
Of lawyer' Where be his quiddits now,
his outlets. his cases, his tenures and his
tricks, Hal Hast thou never sold justice
for goldp Avon he would clothe the ghast-
ly relic with some fashionable female held-
dress and ex Iim, where now are ,ne
those bright eyes once SO Allied with the
witchcraft OF ensnaring love; where til Ass
cherry lips which formed such wicked,
wanton smi. app and so he would, as it
were, pass in review q series OF imaginary
characters.
Nor have similar methods Of arresting
attention been wholly untried among our
selves. 1t has been related, for example,
of a Yorkshire Methodist preacher that he
would take pair OF scales into the pulpit
with him and thus literally weigh in the
balance the characters as he wildly sketch
ed them. "You seem to think salvation an
easy matter" said Whitfield. "about as
easy as for me to catch this insect that is
passing by me-" He grasped at the Fly and
paused awhile. adding Significantly. but
have missed it."-Ttmpte Bar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Who Drivesf

A father and his little son we're rid
ing on a familiar road with a gentle
horse. To crafty his child The father
placed the reins in his hand, but at the
same time, unseen, retained his own
hold on them. AS they rode on they
saw approaching them, at terrific speed,
runaway team, The danger was
great and imminent, but the father
guided his horse so that collision was
avoided and the danger escaped.
When all was over the little son looked
up to his father, and, with choked ut
terance, said: thought / was div
ing, but l wasn't, was L, papa2" So
often does the child of God. when some
peril hiss been escaped, or some
deliversnce has been vouchsafed in
way uni ore seen, ard uni bought of have
occasion to say, " Father, thought
was driving, but | wasn't" 1t is
blessed to feel that the reins are in the
hands of one mightier and wiser thau
we are.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

A lady friend once said to me, 1" If /
had my life to live over again / would
study harder, so that now | could teach
my children more. John is already
away ahead of me in books, and he
knows it. However, it is no use lament
ing; | am too old now to learn.n /
looked at her in Amusement. Sho
wasn't over forty and was busy making
an elaborate silk fair of drawn work.
She wasn't at all an ignorant woman.
How could she be too old to learn2 We
have only to read the lives of the most
noted men and women to learn that
many of them were long past middle
age before they we're financially able 10
even fit themselves for the work which
they had long wished to do. know a
farmers wife who, twelve years ago,
had not even good common school
educa ion, and last week | heard her
deliver grand address. She has be-
come hard student, CT ose reader of
standard works, and l already ht ar her
spoken of as finely educate ed lady. CO
thou and do like VI Sc EGchdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Wheat Bread.

The conclusion that wheat bread is unfit
for dyspeptics, sometimes jumped at be-
cause i'll effects are noticed to follow its use,
is erroneous. On the contrary, it has been
pointed out by Bouchard and others that
farinaceous food is peculiarly adapted to
some dyspeptic patients. 1t is the microbes
in the starch. which is capable of produc-
ing irritating acids, that cause the trouble
To avoid this Bouchard recommends that
only the crust or toasted crumbs of bread
be used by dyspeptics, particularly those
whose stomachs are dilated
The reason Of this is explained by the fact
that baking temporarily, though not per-
manently arrests the fermentation of
dough. When it is again heated by the
warmth of the stomach, the fermentation is
renewed. In cases where the breao is
toasted brown through, the fermentation
is thereby stopped permanently.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
The Pulse and the Temperature.

II you take a thermometer on hot sum-
mer day and watch it until it runs up I'M
der the influence of the sunshine to 9S4,
you will see it when it reaches that point
at the exact temperature of your body if
YOU are in normal health. Your tempera-
ture may fluctuate fraction above or be-
low 9S.4, according to the time of the day
or night, but it never varies to any extent
until fever or some other kind of disease
sets in. Then the temperature begins to do
what the pulse would not do-tell just how
dangerously sick the person is.
And one of the strange things about it Is
that it does not vary many degrees from
this normal point of 9S 4, no matter how i'll
the patient may become If there is a high
fever, it may run up to l04 or l05 and some
times to l06, but it seldom stays at this
point for any length of time. If it goes up
to 1903, the good physician who is watching
at the bedside of the sick person concludes
that death will so On put an end to the suf-
ferng. Sometimes, as in cases of cholera
it may drop several degrees below 1874,
but it seems to be impossible for it to
change many degrees from the normal
point. There are cases recorded where the
temperature ran up to ITO or liz and the
patient recovered.
The pulse, on the contrary, may change
many beats, and still the sick person will
not be in danger of death. But as rule
if the temperature reaches l0S or 100 death
soon follows.
A tiny thermometer called clinical
thermometer is used to indicate the tenn
persture. 1t is placed under the tongue or
close to the skin in the axilla or armpit
and left there for few minutes. BY an
ingenious arrangement the mercury in the
slender glass tube is self registering, 80 that
you may tell how high it was at any tims
after the temperature is taken, if the mer-
curry is not distur bed.-lSt. Nicholas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Queer Judicial Methods.

German papers tell of queer method Of
judicial procedure in parts Of the kingdom
OF Siam. In the absence Of trustworthy
witnesses the judge orders the two contest
ants to dive in deep water. He who is able
to remain below the surface the longer
time is the winner Of the suit The report
further declares that a particularly quar-
relsome merchant, who considered himself
too old to try the cold water proof pro-
cess" had a famous swimmer train his son
to perform marvellous aquatic feats In all
the subsequent suits the father was repre-
scented by the son, and AZ a result was al
ways victorious
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
WEDNESDAY,
MISCELLANY.
Miss Nancy's Gown.

In days when George the Third was king,
And ruled the Old Dominion,
And Law and Fashion owned the sway
OF parllament's opinion,
A good ship brought across the sea
treasure fair and fine
Miss Nancy's gown. from London town.
Cut In the last design.
The pleated waist from neck 20 belt
Scarce measured half a span;
The sleeves, like balloons at the top,
Could hold her feather fan;
The narrow skirt, with bias gore,
Revealed an ankle neat.
whene'er she put her dainty foot
From carriage step to street.
BY skiful hands this wondrous gown
OF costliest stuffs was made;
Cocoons of France on Antwerp looms
Wrought to embossed brocade,
Where violets aud roses sweet
In blooming beauty grew.
As II young May were there Away,
And June and April too.
And from this bower Of delight
Miss Nancy relgned n queen;
Nor one disloyal heart rebelled
In all her wide demesne.
The noble house Of burgesses
Forgot its fierce debate
Der rights OF crown when Nsncy's gown
Appeared In halls of state.
Through jocund reel. or measured tread
OF stately minuet.
Like fairy vision shone the bloom
or rose and violet.
As hand in hand with Washington,
The hero of the day.
The smiling face and nymphlike grace
or Nancy led the way.
A century since that gay time
The merry dance was trod
Has pass ed. and Nancy long has slept
Beneath the church.yard sod;
Yet on the brocade velvet gown
The rose and violet
Are blooming bright as on the night
She danced the minuet.
ZueHd Cooke. in Harper's Bdsdr
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

In London thousands Of women and girls
belong 10 drink clubs, small sum being
paid by each member weekly in order that
several times yearly all may meet at some
public house and drink what has been CON
tributed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
Items OF Interest.

The ancient Philippians sailed the bodies
Of their dead and hung them up in IA smoke
house to be dried and cured. They were
thus kept for year, when, perfectly pre-
served they were turned over to the rela-
tives for burial.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

In Holland it is customary whel there Is
infectious disease in the house to notify the
fact TO intending visitors and the public
generally by tying piece of white rag
round the bell handle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

1t has been ascertained by Professor Ker-
not Of Melbourne university that the usu-
ally assumed weight of so to 100 pounds
per square foot, produced by dense crowd
of persons, may be largely exceeded
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

THE sign "lb" or "lbs," which is
often used instead of pound or pounds,
is of ancient origin, and is simply a
contraction of the word "libra," the
Latin for pound.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

Workmen near Laredo, Tex, exhumed
an old flintlock musket, full cooked loaded
and primed. The stock was partly petri-
fed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

HUMAN blood is composed of II s
parts of water, 6 2 of albumen, al of
coloring matter and 8 of saline.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

SCRoFULA, whether hereditary or ac.
quired, is thor ughly expelled from the
blood by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great
blood purifier. =
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

Boston was the first American city to
produce an American made umbrella.
That was over 80 years ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

IT is doubtful if thirty five per cent
of the lumber output goes into build
ings.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08

THE most dignided title among the
Hollauders was Stad holder.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-08
HOrsford's Acid Phosphate
The Best Tonic Known,

furnishing sustenance to both brain and
body.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-07
NOMINATIONS IN ORDER.

C indidates for Superior and Circuit Court
Judgeships Named
Though the rule was no nominat-
in5 speeches, eX-Sheritf Agnew in
nominating John A. Rose for Judge
of the Superior Court insisted on
making speech, in spite of the eff
forts of the Chair and the convention
to enforce the rule. Ex-Judge Moran
also insisted on making speech in
nominating Judge Gary, who, he
said, had been Endorsed by every
Democratic convention for twenty
four years. The result of the call
for nominations was as follows: The
Fourth Ward nominated Edward A.
Rosenthal, the Sixth r. NJ. Wallace,
the Eighth, John Barton Payne, the
Tenth Lawrence NJ. Ennis, the Elev-
enth John W. Showalter, the Twelfth
Frank W. Young, the Fourteenth
John w, ShOwalter, the Twenty first
Perry Trumbull, the Twenty-third
Albion Cate and w. d. Munhall the
Twenty-fourth W. Z. Duke and John
A. Rose, the Twcnty-ninth Frank
Young, the Thirty-secend L. o. Towne
and Judge Gary. The country towns
nominated R. II. Jampolis, Frank
Collier, and w. +. Cooley. Judge
Barnum nominated George B. Power
OF Evanston.
When it was seen that Payne,
Trumbull, Showalter, and Brown
were nominated several delegations
changed their votes to them.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-07

comment In spite OF the fact that
the financial condition OF the coun.
try is in a deplorable state, the at.
tendance at the ball games increases
rather than diminishes. 1t NAV be
that our weary merchants, politi-
clans. doctors lawyers, schoolboys,
and clerks rush to the games to get
away from business. mental or school
worry AS money broker said, the
places where cash seems plentiful are
at the ball games and the dry goods
stores Most of the clubs in the
major and minor leagues will make
money this year, and the chances are
that there will be no changes in the
circuit next season. So it looks as if
the twelve-club League had come to
stay for another year at least
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-07

A SAYING of Robert Buchanan's
has been extensively copied in the
newspapers, to the effect that he has
not met one individual who has not
deteriorated morally by the pursuit
of literary fame There is nothing
surprising in this; 1T must be true,
in the nature of things. There is
scarcely an instance of an author who
has won lasting fame by the pursuit
Of it for its own sake. What made
Shakespeare, Goethe, Tennyson, Emer-
son, Northumberland made these
men write? They could not help
writing. The very act of pursuing
fame demonstrates that fame fees
the purSuer, is not his own. Remem-
Der what DR.. Holmes said that fame
usually comes to those who are not
looking for it; not to the person who
sets out with the determination to
be "celebrat individual"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-07

He has large clientage among the
Germans and will therefore prove a
popular candidate among that ma
tionality. OF his standing at the
bar, the fact that he has clientage
of the very best class is sufficient evil
dence.
Lawrence p Boyle is at present
attorney for the Election Board. He
was on the ticket with John W. Sho-
walter two years ago and ran ahead
of his colleagues. Mr.. Boyle is an
Irish American and is a great friend
of Judge Scales. He has long been
active in Democratic politics. Be-
sides being lawyer of marked abil-
ity he is an extremely popular man.
George kersten is one of the most
popu ar commandments in Chi
ca9o. He was horn on the North
Side and has always lived here. For
years he has been a Justice of the
Peace, holding police court at the
Chicago avenue station. He is a
stanch Democrat and fond of fishing
and hunting.
Austin O. Sexton was born raised
and educated in Chicago He was
admitted to the bar in 1915, and has
constantly practiced law for eighteen
years. He served in the Thirtieth,
Thirty-tlrst, Thirty-second and Thir-
ty-third General Assemblies from the
Sixth District, and has served as
Alderman from the Twenty-flfth
Ward since 1890. He is an able law
yer and a stanch Democrat.
William Prentiss was born in DAY.
export, Iowa, forty-four years ago.
He was States Attorney of Melon
ough County, Illinois, for six years
and Mayor of MacOmb, ILL.,, for four.
In 1886 he was the Democratic can
didate for Congress in the old Eley-
enth District. He is married and
has two children. He has been
resident Of Evanston for four years.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-07
A GOOD TICKET.
Continued from first page. J

said. contained a voting population
of $4,000. If given the representa-
tion on the ticket they asked they
would materially help the ticket.
Frank Collier, delegate from Palatine,
seconded the motion, saying he came
before the convention with hayseed
in his hair and milk on his boots to
ask this recognition for the country
towns. The motion was promptly
laid on the table. Frank Collier
questioned the decision, and asked
for roll call.
You're too late, Mr.. Collier; the
child is born, and its sex is known u
"All right" responded Collier, 81
hope his name will be Dennis"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-07

THERE was never more perfect
exemplification of the saying, "a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country" than the way in
which Spaniards regard the achieve
ment of Columbus in discovering
America At the port of Palos from
which Columbus sailed, a sailor was
asked if he did not regard Columbus
as bold navigator. He replied, with
shrug Of the shoulders: "NO; for
If you drop chip into the water at
this very point, it will float to Cuba.
The currents are such that it can not
go anywhere else"