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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Be Courteous.

NoblesSe oblige is principle that APP
plies everywhere and under all condi-
tons, but nowhere and under no condi-
tons with such force as to ones be-
havior when he forms part of an audi
ence. People who pride themselves
on being well bred often astonish their
neighbors by aggressive rudeness which
is as conspicuous by its superfuousness
as by its popularity. A man disagrees
with the preacher, and he rustles
with any one within sight, he endeav-
ors to communicate his disagreement
through his eyes; if the music does not
meet with his approval, he manages to
convey that fact to as many of the peo-
pie about him as possible; if a blunder
is made, he makes it more conspicuous
by his manner; even his nervous con-
dition is forced upon the attention of
his neighbors. He recognizes no law
but his own will; he is, consciously or
unconsciously, an ethical anarchist.
He realizes no ethical relations that
should control manners as an express
sion of opinion, or as means of in
citing to good behavior those about
him. The critical are made more criti-
cal, the ignorant are convinced that
such behavior must be the mark of
knowledge and 80 initiate the lawless-
ness of bad manners, and the interested
are troubled by self.doubts. That the
etiquette of the moment demands that
the whole attention should be given to
speaker, performer, or singer, is not in
harmony with the views of him who
enjoys getting up side-shows wherein
he can make his existence evident.
We hear of the man whose prominence
is due to birth, worth, or accident, but
in an audience he is as unit to legion
compared with those who achieve
prominence by the ability to ignore the
principle of noblesse oblige.-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Concerning Jam.

Few of the rising genera ion remem-
Der the world before the "gem jar"
but the middle aged remember with
sorrow the many golden summer hours
of their youth spent in holding down
the refractory paper while an elder
member of the family wasted strength
and energy in getting the string round
the top in the tightest manner possible.
First on the list came the white paper,
all neatly notched round, dipped in
brandy. Sometimes, for scientific rea-
sons unknown to the writer, few
grains of graduated sugar were sprin-
killed. on this. Then came the outer
covering of thick brown paper, likewise
notched, and then the string, which
often broke at the trying moment of
the final tug. The white pound pot is
still on many storeroom shelf. 1t is
well to make use of it. Buy package
of very best toilet paper. Cut two
rounds for each of your pots, each
round large enough to overlap an inch.
Have ready saucer of milk, which, by
the way, had better be boiled first to
destroy all heterogeneous. Dip the
paper in the milk one round at time,
for if left soaking in the milk it will be-
come too pulpy. Cover each pot with
sheet and in about five minutes, when
that has slightly dried, put on second.
These will form sort of parchment,
and your jam will keep excelently.
The writer speaks from experience of
years.-GOod Housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
ANOTHER LIFE SAVED.

ENoC S. SMALL, of Windham Centre,
Me-, writes For some time have been
very sick with kidney disease and was
given up to de in fact l did not expect
to live much longer. l was all bloated
up to nearly twice my usual size, and
had continued pain in my kidneys and
liver. | tried doctors medicine in vain,
took two bottles Of very well-known
sarsaparilla, without receiving any BEN
eft, and at last began taking Aliens
Sarsaparilla. The first few doses made
me feel worse, and | thought | should
have to give it up, but | continued its
use and had not taken half bottle before
began to feel very much better. con-
tinued to improve and now | consider
myself cured. have no pain, the sore
ness and weakness are all gone, and
am gaining strength every day. I
think Aliens Sarsaparilla saved my
life, and am glad of an opportunity to
speak in its praise and to recommend it
to others.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Making towards OF Children.

People are very prone to say, "What
little coward that child isl" forget
ting entirely that it is such as they
who have made the little one what it is.
No baby is born afraid of the dark, the
big policeman or any of the one hun
dred and one bugaboos that nurses and
parents conjure up to terrorize the
small wrongdoers, but it is made cow
ardly by the frightful fictions concocted
for its benefit. Tell a child the truth
about everything always, no matter
how trivial or unimportant it may be,
and it will soon come to have perfect
confidence in everything you say. A
little one declines to 60 into dark
room to bring out its doll that was left
there because some one has told it of a
great boyle man that turks in the dark
apartments, ready to spring upon little
children. Suppose we were strangers
in a strange land and one of the inhab-
itants told us of some fend that lay in
hiding in the nearby forest, wouldn't
We be very apt to shun the abiding
place of 80 formidable boyle? 1t is
the same way with children. They are
strangers in a new and untried land,
and rely implicitly on the statements
of those who have greater knowledge
of this large and wonderful world.
Therefore, nurses should be trained to
tell the truth regarding the most unim-
portant happenings and affairs.-Phila
delphtd Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Lincoln at Gettysburg.

John G. Nicolay, who was Mr.. Lin
coins private secretary, and who &C.
companied the president when he made
his immortal speech at Gettysburg,
contributes an article to the February
Century, describing the occasion and
comparing the various versions of the
speech. He thus describes its deliv-
cry: At about eleven o'clock the presi-
dental party reached the platform.
Mr.. Everett, the orator of the day, ar
rived fully half an hour later, and there
was still further waiting before the
military bodies and civic spectators
could be properly ranged and stationed.
1t was therefore fully noon before Mr..
Everett began his address, after which,
for two hours, he held the assembled
multitude in rapt attention with his
eloquent description and argument. his
polished diction, his carefully studied
and practiced delivery. When he had
concluded, and the band had performed
the usual musical interlude, President
Lincoln rose to fill the part assigned
him in the programme. 1t was entirely
natural for every one to expect that this
would consist of few perfunctoiy
words, the mere formality of official
dedication. There is every probability
that the assemblage regarded Mr.. Ever.
EFT as the mouthpiece, the organ of ex-
preston of the thought and feeling of
the hour, and took it for granted that
Mr.. Lincoln was there as mere official
fgure-head, the eliminating decoration,
so to speak, of the elsborately-pl
pageant of the day. They were there
fore totally unprepared for what they
heard, and could not Immediately real
ize that his words, and not those of the
carefully selected orator, were to carry
the concentrated thought of the occa-
sion like trumpet peal to farthest pos
terity. The newspaper records indi-
cate that when Mr.. Lincoln began to
speak, he held in his hand the manu-
script first draft of his address, which he
had finished only short time before.
But it 10 the distinct recollection of the
writer, who sat within a few feet of
him, that he did not read from the writ
ten pages, though that impression was
naturally left upon many of his audi
tors. That it was not mere mechan-
ical reading is, however, more definitely
confirmed by the circumstances that
Mr. Lincoln did not deliver the address
in the exact form in which his first draft
is written. 1t was taken down in short.
hand by the reporter for the Associated
Press, telegraphed to the principal
cities, and printed on the following
morning in the leading newspapers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21

BoNNY EAGLE, Me. Gentlemen -
Your Sarsaparilla has been of untold
value to me. For twenty-six years have
suffered from acute rheumatism; have
had rheumatic fever eight or ten times,
and have hardly been free from rheumat-
ic pains for many years until about sew
en- months ago. For the last six or
eight years | have suffered terribly. I
have spent hundreds of dollars for doc
tors and medicine, but could get no BEN
eft. | tried all the remedies known, in
Guiding two kinds of sarsaparillas, but
continually grew worse, until l was I'M
able to do even the lightest work
could hardly move around. | was in
this condition, and had been so for over
year, when | began taking Aliens
Sarsaparila. have now taken six bot
ties, and have hardly felt twinge of
rheumatism for seven months, during
which time | have been doing a mans
work every day. | can now do as much
hard work in a day as the majority of
men, all of which is due to Aliens
Sarsaparilla. ELLIS B. USHER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
In the Literary Stocks.

One of the things that not even the
newspaper readers know is how much
the masters of thought and the mis-
tresses of song get for the testimonials
which they publish to the merits of
Jones' Nerve Tonic and Jenkins Balm
for the Complexion. In the same cate
CORY of Information not had, belong
the facts as to the degree of remunera-
ton which is effectual in overcoming
the natural reluctance of popular con-
temporary writers to have their por-
traits appended to the newspaper ad-
vertisements of their impending stories.
Apparently in these days they all SUBJ
init to it. DR.. Hale, Mr.. Howells, Mr..
Stockton, Mark Twain, Mrs. Burnett,
Miss French-portraits of all these,
and of almost all the rest, have become
almost as familiar to the readers of
newspaper advertisements as the illus
tration that gives point to the legend,
See that humpl" Whatever the
EUeninq Post may say about the impro-
priety of having ones picture pub
lished in such a way, nothing worse is
gsing to be said about it here than that
it clearly entities its victim to special
pay over and above what he gets for
his literary work. If you hire man
to burn the Westinghouse, pay him
what the job is worth. But if he is
caught, and clapped in the stocks, and
put on exhibition before the public as
the guilty man, pay him something
extra. 1t is not fair that he should be
spectacle for nothing.-Harper's
Wseklu,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Story OF Elizabeth Peabody.

Not all the story of Elizabeth Peabody
was told at the time of her death. 1t is
known to many of her friends that she
was engaged to be married to Nathaniel
Hawthorne in her youth. Hawthorne
had not yet met Sophia Peabody, her
younger sister, who afterwards became
his wife. He was instantly attracted to
her upon meeting her, however, and al
though the two young people strove
against their mutual affection, it came
to the knowledge of the elder sister,
who told them at once that her heart
had room for them together as well as
separately, and she proved it in her
life and by her devotion to them.
Sophia Peabody made the famous bust
of Laura Bridgman, and the sum of
money she received for it from DR..
Howe paid for her wedding trousseau.
Elizabeth Peabody was the heroine of
Mrs. Browning's well-known poem,
Bertha in the Lane" She outlived
by many years the sister for whom she
"sewed the wedding-gown," and was a
living heroine, instead of dying like
the elder sister in the poem.-Boston
Transcript.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
The Twin Bed.

Fashion has given its sanction to the
use of the single bed, and large num-
bers of so-called twin bedsteads are
now in the market, many of them made
of costly woods rich with carving. They
are 80 designed that when placed side
by side the effect is that of one wide
oedstead, whereas a separate spring
mattress and bedclothing are provided
for each one. 1t is we'll known that
the double bed is unhygienic, and med
ical journals have been condemning it
for some time past, one writer claiming
that injury to one or the other of two
people sleeping in this way is sure to
result in time. Particularly is this true
with regard to the young and the aged;
but by the use of the twin bed they
may occupy the same room and sleep
side by side without harm to either.
There is no class, perhaps, who need
the refreshment and rest which comes
of occupying bed alone 80 much as
household servants, and they are the
people of all others who are condemned
10 the very poorest sleeping accommo-
dations. In city houses this is notably
the case, and in one home known to
the writer the five servants are all
obliged to sleep in one large room in
the basement In every other respect
much kindness is shown them, but in
order that the family may be lodged
luxuriously they must suffer, By the
use of single beds two members of a
family who now occupy separate rooms
might be made very comfortable in one,
thus providing an extra room to be
given up to the servants. 1t is far
wiser and filter to show consideration
in this way to those who serve us than
to be constantly making presents of
money and cast-Off clothing-a practice
which never fails to have demoraliz-
ing effect. Two iron bedsteads painted
white (each three feet wide), placed
side by side, look we'll if dressed with
spread of pretty light-colored chintz
and round bolster covered to match.
This is The neatest and most tasteful
way of arranging bed in the daytime,
and seems to be coming into very gen.
eral use. The old-time valance has
also been revived, and this, if used,
should be of the same chintz as the COW
ering, or all in white if the bed is 80
draped. 1t is particularly suited to the
iron bedstead just mentioned, and may
easily be fastened about it, but it must
be kept daintily fresh and free from
dust, otherwise its revival would prove
a disadvantage. Picturesqueness should
always be secondary feature in a bed
room.-Hdrper' Bazdr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Optimism.

Ysu may reap your harvest of wheat and tares,
You may gather your cookie and barley,
You may husband a harvest of Joys and cares,
Laboring late and early;
The grain of gold
And the poppy bold
And the cornflower blue for adjoining;
But the fullest of the seven fat years
VIII be Cleaned by the cleaner next morning
You may draw your nets, you may draw your line.
Find svery fish in plenty:
You may angle for honor, hook titles fine,
And of places and posts fill twenty
The fish of weight
Swallow up your bait
Your lures and your wiles not scorning;
But the lustiest trout, there's no matter of doubt
viii be caught by the fisher next morning.
You may think out thoughts that witty and wise
You may think some deep, some shallow,
You may store your brain with truth or with lies,
You may let your brain lie fallow.
Thought is good,
Be 1t understood;
But this fact on your mind must be borne in
That the latest thought that mankind can be
taught
Will be thought by some thinker next morning
You may cling to this world of time and sense
You may think of another rarely;
You may sigh, All whither2 and ask, All whence?
And find life puzzling fairly.
Yet life is sweet,
We still repeat,
On this dear old earth we were born in,
Good bettered to best, best chan ged into blest,
When we wake to Gods cloudless next morning.
--Bldckwoods Maya zine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Mushroom Culture.

The mushroom is vegetable which
many people are exceedingly fond of.
Possibly the spice of danger which at
tends the dish adds relish If 80, the
agricultural department is doing its best
to lower the market value of the article
by eliminating the chances of accom-
panying harm. 1t may be of interest
to note in passing that the mushroom
has a heterogeneous value about four
times as great as bread, oatmeal,
potatoes or leguminous fruits, 80 is
desirable and economical food product.
The department insists that a much
larger proportion of the various kinds
of mushrooms are edible than is gener-
ally supposed, and deplores the preju.
dice which has grown up in this coun-
try against their use. Savages in the
United States and civilized people else
where use fungi as an ordinary article
OF consumption, but Americans seem
to have been overmuch frightened by
the occasional occurrence of fatal acct
dents from such use. In France the
mushroom is widely cultivated. There
is one farm, at Merry, l think, which
contains twenty-one miles of beds and
produces fully three thousa d pounds
: daily. The natives of Australia have
large truffle which they call native
bread" The Chinese are unable to
raise enough for home consumption
and import edible fungi from Japan
and Tahiti. Terra del Fuego seems to
be the only country where cryptogamic
plants form staple article of food.
In America mushrooms are distinctly a
luxury, and are chiefly used from cans
bearing foreign labels, in spite of the
fact that the country is especially rich
in edible fungi. The state botanist of
North Carolina has found one hundred
and eleven different species in that
state alone, which he is perfectly
willing to eat. AS investigation pro-
crosses it seems evident that nearly all
Vthe varieties found in Continental Eu-
rope are indigenous here also, and
more besides. The agricultural de-
partment has limited itself to forty
species for which it is willing to vouch,
and which are carefully described, and
pictured in natural colOrs, believe, in
pamphlets recently issued. The papers
60 further than this. They tell how
each of the twenty varieties may be dis
tinguished from the poisonous toad
stool which most nearly resembles it;
how each species should be cooked to
airing out its special flavor; what it
tastes like when 80 cooked, and how to
cultivate the ordinary variety known
as common meadow mushroom. There
should be no more accidents from eat
ing poisonous fungi, for the depart
ment is continuing its investigations
and will publish the results from time to
time.-Kate Fields Washington.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21

Physicians generally fail to recognize.
organ itself instead of the cause of the trouble
The noted specialist. Franklin Miles, NJ. D.,
to the study Of this subject, and the principal
discoveries concerning 1t are due to his efforts
Dr.. Miles Restorative Nervine, the unri-
vailed brain and nerve food, is prepared on the
principle that all nervous and many other
difficulties originate from disorders OF the
nerve centers. Its wonderful success In curing
these disorders Is testified to by thousands In
every part OF the land.
Restorative Nervine cures sleeplessness,
ual debility, St. Vitus dance, epilepsy, etc, 1t
is free from opiates or dangerous drugs. 1t
Is sold on positive guarantee by all drug
Co, Elkhart, Ind. on receipt of price, 81 per
bottle six bottles for Is, express prepaid.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
A BETTER MAN.

c. Y. FULLER, Blacksmith, East I'm
ion, Me-, writes For four years have
had kidney disease, which has been con-
tinually growing worse, although took
medicine that claimed to be sure cure.
My trouble consisted a severe pain in
the lower part of my back and hips, and
also complete loss of appetite. | be-
gan taking Aliens Sarsaparilla, and two
bottles have cured me. The pain left
my back and hips and has not returned
since. My appetite is complete, for the
first time in years. Aliens Sarsaparilla
is decidedly the best medicine / ever
used, and | will recommend it to all. 1t
cures.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
Misery Of Being i'm Debt.

To be hungry, ragged and pennliess
is not pleasant; but this is nothing to
the horror of bankruptcy. All the
wealth of the Rothschilds would be a
poor recompense for years. struggle
with the consciousness that you had
taken the money or property OF trusting
friends-promisng to return or paw
for it when required, and had betrayed
their confidence through insolvency. |
dwell on this point, for l would deter
others from entering that place of tor
ment. Half the young men in the
country, with many old enough to know
better, wonld "go into business -
that is, into debt-to-morrow, if they
could. Most poor men are so ignorant
as to envy the merchant or manufac-
turer whose life is an incessant strug-
gle with pecuniary difficulties, who is
driven to constant borrowing, and who,
from month to month, barely evades
that insolvency which sooner or later
overtakes many men in business; so
that it has been computed that but one
in twenty of them achieves pecuniary
success.
For my part-and l speak from sad
experienced would rather be con-
vict, slave, than to pass through life
under the harrow of debt. Let no
young man misjudge himself unfortu-
nate, or truly poor, so long as he has
the full use of his limbs and facul.
ties, and is substantially free from debt.
Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, con-
tempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are
disagreeable; but debt is worse than
them all. And, if it had pleased God
to spare either or all of my sons to be
the support and solace of my declining
years, the lesson which | should have
most earnestly sought to impress upon
them is: "Never run in debit Avoid
pecuniaIy obligations as you would
pestilence or famine. If you have but
sixpence, and can go no more for
week, buy some corn, parch it and live
on it, rather than owe any man money :"
OF course, | know that some men must
do business that involves risks, and
must give notes and other obligations;
and do not consider him really in debt
who can lay his hands directly on the
means of paying at some little sacrifice
all he owes; l speak of real debt-that
which involves risk or sacrifice on the
one side, obligation and dependence
on the other-and l say, from all such
let every youth pray God to preserve
him evermore.-Horace Greeley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21
A Social Call.

There goes the bell A visitor guess,
And I'm fright and haven't time to dress.
H'm Mrs. Gossip, from across the way;
What put 1t in her head to call to. day?
To see what she can see-that's all no doubt
That woman's nothing but gad.about
l hate her, with her superclious airs
That horrid girl is bringing her up stairs;
IT'S Mrs. Gossip, declare why this
Is quite a pleasure am sure. "a kiss.)
So kind of you to call-'tis quite a treat;
Let me remove your shawl pray take a seat.
We're all upset this morning, 1t is true,
But we can always find a seat for you.
Pray, don't apoogize-there is no need;
Pm very glad you've called am. indeed.
Boston Courier