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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
New YOrk's ChurchgOers.

There are eighty-four Catholic
churches in New York city for Catho-
lie population of 100000. OF these
churches, three are of the Jesuit order,
two Capuchin, two Franciscan, one
Carmelite, one Paulist and one Domini-
can. There are ten German Catholic
churches, two Italian, one Bohemian,
one French, one Hungarian, one
French Canadian and one Polish. The
Polish church is in Stan. on street and
the only Catholic church in tt e most
densely populated ward of New York,
which contains 5000 inhabitants in
ITO acres of ground.
If, IS the church authorities expect,
this church is closed for religious usess
the Tenth ward will be the only one in
town of the twenty-four without b
Catholic church. The Twenty-fourth
ward has seven. There are 200,0
colored Catholics in the Unit S ates,
and those of them who reside in New
York, a small fraction of the whole
number, have church of their own at
the intersection of Blocker and Down
ing streets. Since its establishment in
1883 456 colored children have been
baptized there, 104 adults have been
confirmed, and ninety-two marriage
ceremonies have been performed.
There are three orders of colOred sisters
in the United States-viz, one in Balti-
more, established in 1929; one in New
Orleans, established in 1912, and one
in Savannah, established in 1883.
The total number of churches of all
creeds and denominations in New York
city is 600. Their seating capacity is
1926 900, and their value SS0,000,000.
The assessed value of the marble cathe..
dral, the most important of the Catho-
lie churches in town, is $4,000 900;
Trinity church is valued at "a 900 900,
Grace church is valued at $3.50 600, the.
Jewish Temple Emanu Ell on Fifth
Avenue and Forty-third street is val
ued at $500 900, and the Jewish Tenn
Pile Beth Ell on Fifth Avenue and
Seventy-siXth street is valued at $780,
600.
New York is very largely a ely OF
churchgoers. The total attendance
taken collectively on Saturday and Sun
day at all forms of religious worship
amounts to about 600, 900 in total pop
ulation of 81 100000, including the
sick, the disabled, infants, octogena-
rians and persons in public institutions.
There are more Methodists than Bap-
lists in New. York, more Presbyterians
than Methodists, and more Catholics
than Presbyterians. The Oldest Cath
Ollie church in New York is St. Peters
on Barclay street. Next oldest is St.
Mary's at Grand and Ridge streets.
There are forty-six Jewish synagogues
in New York city.-Ne,0 York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
A New York Woman Skipper.

The incursion of women into various
fields goes on apace, and the world has
now become accustomed to the idea of
feminine doctors, lawyers, dentists, golf
players and lecturers The only new
thing that woman has done of late was
the application of the wife of a prominent
New Yorker a few days ago for men,
bership in the New York Yacht club on
the grounds that she was skipper of her
own yacht, played the cook and cabin
boy, spliced the main brace without ask
ing permission from any human being
on board and paid her crew with her own
money. She had sailed the yacht from
New Rochelle to Buzzards Bay. under
stood navigation, wore yachting cap
on Broadway and claimed that she had
as good a right to be IA member of the
yacht club as any other tar who had
been admitted. 1t is an evidence of the
extraordinary sway which woman has
obtained at this end of the century that
the application of this lady, who is in ev-
erything except sex entirely desirable,
threw the club into panic from which
it has not yet recovered. Chicago Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
Women Physicians a Success.

Every New York state hospital now
has woman physician ON its staff, and
strong testimony to their efficiency and
to the beneficial effects of the law has
lately been given by DR.. Charles F. Nc
Donald, president of the state lunacy
commission, in letter to the president
of the Buffalo union. He declares as a
result of his observation that he would,
were he in charge of a state hospital, ia
vor the employment of woman physi-
clan even if the law no longer required
her services. He says, 81 believe that
the women physicians who have served
upon the stats of the various state hos
pitfalls since the law providing therefor
went into effect have, as a rule, done
good service, and that the proportion of
inefficient ones has not been greater than
among the men physicians engaged in a
similar capacity"
DR.. Mcdonald calls attention to the
disparity in wages between the men and
women employees in the state hospitals
and hopes the legislature may some time
remedy the injustice. The women ply
sicians receive $144 for the same services
for which the men are paid $210.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

An unusual number of women have
been called upon to preach in the pulpits
of this city in the past few weeks since
the installation of the Rev. Alice K.
Wright as joint pastor with her husband
in the Prospect Heights Universalist
church. Several weeks ago the Rev.
Anna H. Shaw filled the pulpit of the
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church,
and last sunday evening she preached in
the Central Presbyterian church. A
week ago Sunday, Rev. Phebe Hama
ford, the well known Universalist
preacher of Connecticut, filled the pull
pit of the Church of the Good Tidings.
The pulpit of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
which is to continue DR.. Talmage's-has
been recently occupied by the Rev. Mrs.
Baxter, well known London evangelist
who was in this country several years
ago and preached for DR.. Talmage in
the Schermerhorn Street Tabernacle
Brooklyn Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
Women Physicians in Turkey.

The dominions of the Ottoman porte
offer field for the women physicians.
The sultan of Turkey has just promul-
gated a firman by virtue of which wom-
en- can hereafter practice medicine in
Turkey upon presentation of their diplo-
mas Some persons may be surprised tC
learn that this news has a political i'm
portance of the first order Undoubted.
ly the issuing of the decree is due pri-
marily to the unwillingness of the Mus
sulmans to allow male physician to en-
ter their harems. This is permitted only
in cases of exceptional gravity-after old
women who are thought TO be magicians
or sorcerers have exhausted their efforts.
At the same time physicians are highly
respected and even venerated by the
Turks and generally by all orientals.
AS, however, it is only quite recently
that Turks have begun to study medi-
cine, nearly all the hysicians-certainly
all those of much reputation-in Turkey
have been and are Christians of that
country - Greeks, Armenians, Levant-
ines, as well as French, English and
Italians. 1t is easy to foresee that wom-
en- doctors from foreign countries will
have a brilliant future in Turkey and
will exercise an immense influence in
Turkish families. The sex of these ply
sicians will afford them free access to
harems. AS Turkish women have very
little elementary education and live a
very retired life, they are easily governed
by persons who are better educated than
themselves.
The woman physician in curing her pa
tents cannot fail to have great influence
over their ideas as to dress, mode of life,
usages and customs, their social and DO.
htical notions. 1t is quite likely that in
the course of some years slow but GER
tain transformation will be effected in
Turkish women, who will naturally wish
to initiate the life of their Christian sis
tiers in Europe. For the practice of med
icine in Turkey there is not required
national diploma, as in France. After
having finished his or her studies, no
matter where, the physician has only to
present his or her diploma and pass at
the Imperial School of Medicine a short
examination, which is mere formality.
g. Chryssdphides, IN Paris Revue
Blue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
Thoughts.

GOD never sends you anywhere that
he does not send an opportunity with
you.
are habitually filled with " active back
sliders"
PEACE is the sentinel of the soul
which keeps the heart and the mind of
the Christian through Jesus Christ
Huntington.
SKILL to do comes of doing; knowl-
edge comes by eyes always open, and
working hands; and there is no knowl-
edge that is not power.-R. w. Enler-
son.
1T is important to think right more
important to feel right, still more i'm
portant to do right, but to be right is
most important of all.-Lyman Ab-
bolt.
THE navigator when in dread of the
tempest casts out his anchor. We, too,
if we possess the anchor of hope fixed
in God, need fear no storm -Rutinus
of Aquilia.
No one can ask honestly or hopefully
to be delivere from temptation unless
he has himself honestly and firmly de-
termined to do the best he can to keep
out of it.-RuSkin.
All, they are these bits of struggles,
in which We learn to fight the gre at
ones; perhaps the Sc bits of struggles,
more than the great ones, make up life.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
MOTHER" Have you studied your
Sunday school lesson, my SOM" Boy
WHY no, mother, we have boss
teacher now, and we have nothing to-
do but to hear him talk; and he talks,
and he talks, and he talks. "-Erchange.
How many lay up riches which they
never enjoy to provide for exigencies
that never happen, to prevent troubles
that never come, sacrificing present
comfort and enjoyment in guarding
against the wants of period they may
never live to see.-Jdy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
Two Practical Women.

II Harvard university had been seek
Ing truly appropriate name for its fem
mime annex, it need not have gone back
to the obscure history of lord mayors
wife who died $50 years ago and who
gave few hundred dollars to the infant
college in the early days celebrated by
Holmes in well known humorous poem.
They might have named it Tileston col
lege or Agassiz college for the maiden
names of the two women who in our day
have expended more guineas than the
Widow Nelson did half pennies to pro-
mote education in practical methods, for
Mrs. Hemenway and Mrs. Quincy Shaw
have surpassed all our men millionaires
In their gifts. Not only this--they have
given not for ostentation or posthumous
glory as so many of the sex do when
they give at all, but quietly, steadily,
under their own supervision and man
agement, yet without hampering the gift
with impossible conditions.
university extension" the new fad
(of great merit indeed), was put in actual
operation here in Boston by these two
women long before our college professors
had borrowed the name from England
and organized "A society to push it along,
and "the endowment of research" was
taken up by Mrs. Hemenway in most
intelligent form before any institution
hereabout, except Agassiz's museum, had
done much at it.-Springfeld Repub-
ican.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
Miss Bayard's Court Dress.

The presentation dress of Miss Bayard
who made her bow to the English queen
at the recent drawing room, was of white
MORE. The decollete corsage had a large
bow of cream lace and yellow velvet
fastened with diamond agraffe. She
wore, too, a sash of cream lace also fas-
tened with diamonds. Her court train
fell from the shoulders and was of rich
white satin, trimmed around with ruch-
ings of the same.
The chief feature of these royal draw
ing rooms would Beem to be the court
train. 1t must always measure full four
yards, and as the throne room is reached
this immense attachment is spread out
IN all its amplitude, remaining thus dis
played as the first courtesy is made to
the queen. A line of gentleman ushers,
who stand opposite the royal receiving
company, then take the train in charge,
passing it from hand to hand as its wear
er passes along, courtesying constantly as
she proceeds. When the end of the line
is reached, the victim is allowed to hang
it over her arm, and thus encountered
backs finally out of the presence. 1t will
be seen that a serious responsibility rests
upon both the gentleman ushers and the
Iebutante. For either to anticipate the
movements of the other would produce
an awkward result. When it is consid-
cred that the presented women are sue
ceeding each other with great rapidity
and that the crush about them is at all
times severe, it will be gagged how diff
cult graceful transit between the lines
is.-London Letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
MISCELLANY.
The Man with the Overalls.

You may take for your hero the slmpering dude,
Or the bathrooms petted BRIDE
Arrayed In all of the latest styles,
Whose knowledge you say is wide
with their elegant manners and toney ways,
Who tip their hats as they pass,
And capture with fatter's lawless wiles
The heart of many lass.
with their shining feathers and faultless ties,
And the buttonhole bouquets.
We know them; we've often seen them pass
BY us on the worlds highways.
You may take for your hero the soldier trim,
Bright buttons and all of that,
But beside the man with the overals
They often seem poor and fiat.
know him; his heart is as tender and true
AS ever was in n mans breast,
And his strong right hand is as loyal still
As any we ever pressed.
/ know him, for into his eyes have looked,
And found by a mystical sign
Something that many who claim to be men
Have lost or can never divine.
He is a hero, I know by his air.
Though his clothes may be faded and worn,
As worthy of praise as the hero who dies
And away from the battle is borne.
Though humble his station. the humble may he
The great when life's curtain falls,
And over the line we shall some day meet
Our friend with the overalls.
-Ererydav Rhymes
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
Etiquette of the Wedding.

The maid OF honor relieves the bride
pf her bouquet at the altar and hands al
TO the first bridesmaid when it is time for
her to assist the bride with her glove
or to throw back the veil Later ON she
takes it again and presents it to the
bride just before she takes her husbands
arm and turns from the altar, writes Isa-
bel A. Mallon in The Ladies' Home Jour
nal The bride who is wise wears a
somewhat loose glove on her left hand,
so that the removal of it is very easy
matter. A bride always gives her brides
maids their gloves and usually presents
them with some little souvenir of the
wedding. The bridegroom usually gives
each piece of jewelry in which his and
the brides initials are combined. He
presents the best man and ushers with
their gloves, ties and very often their
scarfpins. Custom has made it proper
for the bridegroom to wear a gardenia in
his buttonhole, the best man an orchid
and the ushers bouquets either of white
violets or some other small white flower.
In entering the church the ushers come
first; then the brides maids, walking two
by two; then the maid of honor alone,
and then the bride on the arm of her
nearest male relative. In coming out
the bride and groom are first, the maid
of honor next with the best man, and
usually the bridesmaids, each walking
with an usher. l say usually because
sometimes the bridesmaids walk out to-
gether as they came in, with the ushers
just behind them. Indeed there is no
limit to the different ways in which the
bridal party may enter and leave the
church in these fin de steele days.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Baby's Compliment.

His father and mother were both away,
And baby and I had been friends all day
Many and gay were the games we Played
Baby ordered, and obeyed-
We cared not at all for the rainy sky,
We built us a bockhouse three feet high;
We threw pine knots on the nursery fire,
And watched the Aames'mount higher and higher
We hid in the most improbable hooks,
We looked at the pictures IN all his books:
We ran in tag " till his cheeks were red.
And his curls were tangled about his head
So whenthe twilight was closing down
Over the fields and woodland brown,
And nurse declared he must say good. might
He chung to me still in the firelight-
He trampled my gown with his rough little feet,
He climbed on my lap and kissed me sweet.
And as he scrambled from off my knee.
YOU'D make good mother" said Baby to me-
have had compliments now and then
From grown-up women and grown-up men;
Some were commonplace, some were new
Never one of them rung so true,
Never was one seemed half so real
Baby compared me to his Ideal. Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

A PROPOSITION has been made to
take the Columbian bell to the Holy
Land, and on Christmas eve, 1899, il
being connected by cable and wire with
all parts of Christiandom, so that the
1900ih anniversary of the birth of
Christ shall be celebrated by all the
world at the same instant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

A WOMAN of Hamden, o., answered
an advertisement recently which prom
ised to give satisfactory recipe for
making coffee. The reply was" Prac-
tice till you get 1t exactly right, then
keep on making it in that way"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t 10
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-fiv,
cent per hox. For sale nv C. B'ake', ,
Montpelier, VI.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

IT is believed that, just as the seeds
of plants are distributed by the winds,
so the eggs Of snails are scattered
abroad by the breezes, thus dissent
mating their species.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

PECULIAR TO ITsELF.-So eminently
successful has Hoods Sarsaparilla been,
that many leading citizens from all
over the United States furnish testimo-
mails of cures which seem almost mi
raculous. Hoods Sarsaparilla is not an
accident, but the ripe fruit of industry
and study. 1t possesses merit "pe-
culiar to itselfn
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

SHOULD no American meat be inn
ported into London for days, the price
would 60 up. If the Yankee supply
were entirely cut off famine prices
would prevail
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

PHIDIAs understood the art of soften
ing ivory 30 as, from single tusk, to
produce plate from twelve to twenty
inches broad
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
For Weak Nerves


1t is particularly useful in making
weak nerves strong, as it contains nee
essary elements of nutrition for the
nervous system, obtained from natural
sources.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

EVERY water. save that of springs,
contains animal life, but it is not neces-
sarily Injurious to health on that ac-
count.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

HOODS PILLS cure nausea, sick head
ache, indigestion, biliousness. Sold by
all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

THE Oldest peer in England is Ear
Grey, who is almost ninety.two years OF
age.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

FoLIos and quartos were the favor
tie sizes of books for 200 years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

ABOUT | 200, 900 arCicles are pledged
with London pawnbrokers each week.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11

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Small size DISCONTINUED old Soc size, now 25c. old
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-11
HAVE
You Seen Them?

Guyer's, Lamson & Hub
bard's, Merritt's and all
the nobby shapes in Hats.
New Neckwear. A large
line of Fancy Shirts, new
styles of Clothing, includ-
ing the new top coat,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-04
Ohrlstmas Trees and Tovs.

James Semerteen, Third and Lombard
streets, has an artistically. trimmed
Christmas tree which is illuminated by
electricity. At the gate of the large
garden in which the tree stands is a
lamp-post surmounted by an electric
light. In corner of the garden is a cot.
tage, each room of which is lighted by
two tiny electric lights. The door of
the toy building is supplied with an
electric bell. The electricity is obtained
by connection with the wires used in
lighting Mr.. Semerteen's residence.
Frank Beckley, No 1888 Lombard street,
has beautifully.adorned tree. At the
residence of Benjamin S. Lloyd and
William Jack, No. 1923 Lombard
street, is large frame work decorated
with evergreen, which contains a rail
road track arranged in a circle 10 feet
in circumference, and merry go.round.
On the track is train which goes around
the circle "a times per minute. The
train and merry-go-round are propelled
by steam. The novel toys attract a
large crowd to the windows of the house
every night.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-04
TIE oREMAroRY A SUCCESS.
SO pronounced by secretary Colquhoui
of the Board of Health and the Othe

so pronounced by Secretary ColquhOun
of the Board of Health and the Other
Visitors There Thursday Night.
A preliminary test of the new city
crematory was made last Friday morn
ing by Contractor s. s. Brown in the
presence of representatives of the Board
OF Health and members Of City Council.
About midnight 30 tons of garbage
were brought in from the streets and
parC Of it put in the furnace. Every
thing in connection with the heating
and in fact the whole crematory system
worked to perfection. When the garbage
had been burning some time two tons
more Of dripping wet garbage were
poured into the furnace. Immediately
big flare of flame curled up and COM
pletely enveloped the fresh material, the
long tongues of flames stretching from
one end of the furnace to the other.
Secretary Colquhoun of the Board of
Health expressed himself delighted with
the success OF the new crematory. At
this effort, with the parts of the furnace
all new, or green, as the mechanics say,
the furnace consumed at the rate of
seven tons of garbage an hour. The
contract is for but five tons. When the
additional two tons of wet garbage were
dumped on tue garbage already in the
furnace, which had been burning only
one and one-half hours, the result was
simply wonderful, the flames literally
licked up the fresh material as quickly
as il it were dry firewood.