The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-24

eating its flesh on one day, and all right
to eat il q week afterwards. "And he
lifted up his voice and cried out: I'll
be hanged if l know
AND there, again, is the young
chicken. We can all eat it when first
born, as an egg, and for while after
wards; but let the hen sit on it few
days, and nobody can think of eating it
without qua,ms 1t has often been re-
marked that "he was surely man of
courage who ate the first OYSTER" or,
perhaps, very hungry. Hunger will Of
ten introduce strange variations in
mans choice of victuals, and sometimes
good food is thus found in unexpected
places. We once caught and dressed
mess of frogs, and, by hard coaXing,
got leave to cook them. When brought
to the table, they looked so nice that it
was easy to get them tasted. That was
enough; all hands turned out catching
frogs for the rest of the afternoon.
WHILE clarifying the iron.clad Rus-
sian apples, we should never forget the
good men who spent their money and
time in bringing to this country the
choice tree fruits of England, France
and Holland. Before that, all the Or
chards we had in America were grown
from seeds; and very little of such
fruit was good for anything but cider,
or cider apple-sauce.
ONE of the first to import choice
fruit trees from England was DR.. Ben
iamin Vaughan; and for long time
about all the good eating varieties
known in Maine were grown on, or
grated from, DR.. Vaughan's trees
Very few of these trees, imported just
after the Revolution, now remain; but
we can remember when Vaughan's va
rieties were well known all over the
Kennebec valley. DR.. Vaughan also
brought over variety of cherries, and
the town in which he lived-Hallowel
Me-. is still a great cherry growing
locality.
THIS same DIR. Vaughan was quite
famous man in his day. He was an
Englishman by birth Qike our own
great-grandfather), but both of them
were stsunch adherents to the cause of
Independence. DR.. Vaughan was in
Paris at the time the news arrived of
the surrender of the British army at
Yorktown; and he aided John Jay in
making the treaty of peace with Eng
land. Mr.. Jay got Vaughan to go
from Paris to London to see Lord
Landsdown, and assure him person
ally that the full recognition of the
independence of the United States
was absolutely necessary TO the max
ing of peace. Landsdown kicked;
but Vaughan soon brought him to a
recognition of the necessity, and the
treaty was consummated shortly after
wards.
WE get some queer letters; all edi-
tors do, of course. A good friend asks
US why We compare the infdel Jeffer-
son with the sainted Lincoln. He
probably does not know that Lincoln
has been frequently charged with the
same fault; and he was, no doubt, for
considerable part of his life, unsettled
in his religious ideas. This has been
true of many great men. Their minds
do not allow them to take anything so
important on trust. They must exam
inc these great questions for them
selves. Perhaps our correspondent
will be pleased to read Lincoln's own
thought of Jefferson, expressed in these
words: "All honor to jefferson; to
the man who, in the concrete pressure
of struggle for national indepen-
dence, had the GOODNESS, forecast and
capacity to introduce into a merely rev.
dictionary document an abstract truth,
applicable to all men in all times and
gu w GlllL ann ~ lutI6 Jlldb lO'udJ, anu
in all coming days, it shall be rebuke
and a stumbling block to the very har-
bingers of reappearing tyranny and OPP
preston" These remarks are pre-
served in Warrineton's "Memoirs of
Lincoln -; and they refer to that most
Christian of statements, "All men are
created free and equal" which is en-
balmed in the Declaration of indie
pendence. 1t is " truth," as Lincoln
says-abstract in form, yet go clearly
and universally true,-that tyrants are
brought to full stand in the face of it.
America has produced great men, but
not so many of them that we can afford
to drop Thomas Jefferson from the list.
WE are under obligations to Mr.. E.
g. Lodeman, Assistant in Horticulture
at Cornell University, for copy of his
recent "Bulletin on the Spraying of Or
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