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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
To Honor Mrs. Harrison.

Only once has the American woman
been so honored by the government as to
have her portrait handed down to pos
terity on official issues, in the case Of
Martha Washington, whose head adorns
the 81 bill. But there is movement on
foot among the national officers of the
Society of the Daughters of the Ameri.
can Revolution to try to secure public
recognition of their first president gen
eral, the late Mrs. Caroline Scott Harri-
son, wife of ex-President Benjamin Har-
rison, by placing her portrait upon new
postage stamp.
The idea originated in the fertile brain
of Daughter, who straightway talk
ed the matter over with her patriotic
colleagues, with the outcome that the
proposition was laid before the board Of
management of the national society
These ladies in turn weighed the pros
and cons and decided that it would be an
appropriate way to respect the memory
of woman eminent for her patriotism
The national board then put the idea in
correct form and presented the subject
to ex-President Harrison and his family
in order to first gain their assent to the
proposition before taking any further
steps.
The ex-president is now considering
the matter, and should he return
favorable answer the Daughters, "
through the national board, will proceed
to lay the subject before the postoffice
department, as the postmaster general
would be the official to take the decisive
step
The inception of the whole idea prob
ably came through the masterpiece in
portraiture of Mrs. Harrison, painted by
Daniel Huntington, president of the
National Academy of Design, which por-
trait was unveiled by the Daughter"
at their continental congress lately held
in Washington. The picture now hangs
in the executive mansion.
There is still pending in the United
States congress bill for enlarging the
White House by plan originated by
Mrs. Harrison.-NepY York Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
SkObeleff's Rebuff.

General Skobeleff believed in briefly adj
dressing men and stating clearly what was
expected of them before leading them to
an attack. He had n fine command of Ian
guage and personal magnetism that in
spired the confidence which impels masses
of men to concerted action. On one occa-
sion he had ordered a certain colonel to
carry out an important plan. Before NOV
ing to its execution the colonel attempted
to address his regiment, but not having the
trick of speech blundered for words and
finally broke down. When Skobeleff could
stand it no longer, he turned sharply on
the colonel, saying, so the regiment could
hear it, "If at moment like this words
fail YOU it is because you haven't any clear
idea of what you propose to do. AT times
like this the heart will speak, and if the
heart doesn't speak it is because you
haven't any heart for the fight" Then,
with few inspiring words, he sent the
regiment flying to its charge.-Sdn Fran
cisco ArgOndut.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
A Silencer.

When Whitelock was about to en-
bark as Cromwell's envoy to Sweden in
the year of 1866, he was very much dis
turbed in mind as he rested in Harwich
on the preceding night, which was
very stormy, while he reflected on the
distracted state of the nation. A con-
idential servant slept in an adjacent
bed, who, finding that his master could
not sleep, said: " Pray, sir, will you
give me leave to ask you question:"
Certainly" Pray, sir, don't you
think God governed the world very
we'll before you came into it?" Gun
doubleday" "And pray, sir, don't you
think that he will govern it quite as
well when you are gone out of it?"
Certainly" "Then, sir, pray excuse
me, but don't you think you may as
we'll trust him to govern it as long as
you are in it?" To this question White
lock had nothing to reply, and turning
about, soon fell asleep.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
The Helped and the Helpers.

Addressing company of persons IN
terested in philanthropic effort the other
day in Buffalo, Miss Grace Dodge spoke
of principle that is coming more and
more into these discussipns-the need
for the helped and the helpers to under
stand each other
81 do not WONDER" said Miss Dodge
''that the working women often resent
the interference of the persons who come
among them, and while yet holding
themselves aloof express a desire to
help them. These persons never seem to
consider that they may gain good as
well as do good in these cases. They
think that all the help comes from them,
and they resent the idea that they might
be in any way benefited by contact with
the working women as we'll as the work
ing women by contact with them. Yet
until the spirit of mutual helpfulness is
engendered there can be no true sympa-
thy between them.
IT once read funny account Of q So
ciety which the women of the back al
ley formed to relieve the distress of the
women Of the avenue, which serves as
an illustration of this point The wom-
en- Of the back alley came together and
decided to help the poor society women
who lived on the avenue 1t was called
the Needles Eye society, ON account of
the Scriptural allusion to the camel and
the needles eye. They planned to visit
them in their homes and talk with them
and do all in their power to make them
| happier than they were. So one timid
little back alley woman started out one
morning and rang the bell of large
mansion on the avenue. She asked for
the mistress and was shown in. The lady
Of the house appeared, and the little
woman began to ask the regulation
questions: How many children have
you? Is your husband living" What
does he do?' Then she went on: You
women Of the avenue must be very UNI
happy, You never have your children
with you as we do, as you must turn
them over to your servants, and, then,
do you not find the care of so many
! servants very trying? Your social duties,
too, must be a great strain ON you, and
we want to help you. We want to show
you how to live more as we do, so that
you may be happier But the mistress
of the mansion thought only that the
little woman was crazy and ordered a
servant to remove her just then the
good bishop came in, and he sympa-
thized with the mistress of the mansion
who had received visit from a crazy
woman, and yet five minutes later he
was advising the mistress to go down
and visit the women of the back alley
and to give them advice and help"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Remarkable Smile.

Mr.. Robert Pollok, Scottish poet,
while a student of theology once delivered
trial discourse before the Secession Di-
vinity hall, Glasgow, the subject of which
was Sin" His manner of treating it
was, in the opinion of his fellow students,
rather bombastic, and at some passages
there were audible symptoms of the amuse-
ment which they derived from Mr.. Pol
lok' S high flown phrases.
At last there came one flight of fancy
which was SO remarkable that the profess
or himself was fairly obliged to give way
and smiled. 1t was when the young
preacher had reached climax in his emu
meration of the dreadful evils which sin
had brought into the world.
"And had it not been for sin, " remark
ed Mr.. Pollok, with great vehemence OF
manner and tone, "had it not been fol
sin, the smile of folly had meier been seen
upon the brows of wisdom!'- Youths Com
fO1fiOn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
The Blaine Household.

Mrs. Blaine is working steadily upon
the life of her husband. The family
have been living very quietly in the IA
nous old red house on Lafayette square
during the winter and all of them have
been doing literary work. Mrs. Blaine
is to do more than to collect the material
for Gail Hamilton to write. Mrs Blaine
is literary woman herself, and the
two women will collaborate. The son
and the daughter are helping to get up
the material, although Miss Blaine will
soon be called away from her literary
duties to get married to Mr.. Truxton
Beale. 1t is understood that this we'd.
ding will not be long delayed 1t will
be quiet and home wedding, witnessed
by family party and intimate friends,
and these will include the Sherman,
Cameron, Lodge, Hit and Hale fam
lilies, and that is about all. In connec-
ton with the Blaines an interesting
thing is their love for flowers. A florist
who has had the greatest part of the
Washington fashionable trade for nearly
half century says that in the last 20
years no family i'll this city has brought
so much money into his establishment
as the Blaines. They never make any dis
play in this direction, but thousands of
dollars worth of flowers have been sent
to them Washington Letter, IN Boston
Advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Which.

Reader, there are two ways of be-
ginning the day-with prayer or with
out it. You begin the day in one of
these two ways. Which? There are
two ways of spending the Sabbath
idlyor devotionaly. You spend the Sab
bath in one of these two ways. Which?
There are two classes of people in the
world-the righteous and the wicked.
You belong to one of these two classes.
Which? There are two great rulers in
the universe-God and Satan. You are
serving under one of these two great
rulers. Which? There are two roads
which lead through time to eternity
the broad and the narrow road. You
are walking in one of these two roads.
Which? There are two deaths which
people die-some "die in the Lord"
others die in their sins. You will die
one of the two deaths. Which? There
are two places to which people 60
heaven and hell. You will 90 to one
of these two places. Which? Ponder
these questions; pray over them; and
may the issue be your salvation from
the " wrath to come. '-On,card.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

There is a man in this town who has n
male servant who is more faithful than
any dog that was ever born. He never
questions an order. If the man was TO tell
him to walk down to the foot of Main
street and jump off dock, he would do the
walking and the jumping with u simple
and unqucstioning faith
The other day friend of the mans came
into his Office and asked the man to lend
him his servant for n short time. The
friend wanted u package which he had left
at his house. The package was too valua-
bic to intrust to messenger boy, and he
was too busy to go after it himself. The
man loaned the servant, and the friend
gave him these instructions: Nov, John,
l want you TO go up to my house and walk
right up the front steps. The door will be
open, and you go right up stairs. My room
is at the head of the stairs. You go in, and
you will find big package on my dresser.
That's the pacakge l want, and if you get
back in an hour l will give you ST.
The male servant listened attentively
and said that he understood his instruc-
tons He hustled out and in less than an
hour returned with the package. He was
not in very good shape. His face was
bruised, and his coat was torn. One of his
the knuckles of his right hand
"Holy Moses, Johnl' exclaimed his en-
ployer. "What have you been doingS"
"Been in a fight" said John grimly.
"With whomY"
Fellow up at that mans house."
"What were you fighting aboutP'
"Why," said John in the most matter
of fact way, she didn't want me to walk
up the front steps. They had just been
painted.
"Well why did you walk up them them"
John looked reproachfully at his en-
ploser. Didn't he tell me to go up the
front steps for that packageS" he said.
Eyes, but
"They hain't no but about it. He told
me to go up them front steps, and went
up 'em, paint or no paint. I had to fight
the coachman, but went up"
"Hc seems to have given you pretty
hard fight, ventured the employer.
"Huh!' shifted John contemptuously,
cit wasn't n patch on the one the house
keeper and the chambermaid gimme"
The man began to get alarmed "Do
you mean to say you fought everybody in
that house," he asked severely.
81 dunno" replied John gravely. ~
| licked the coachman and the housekeepcr
and the chambermaid, and the cook. II
| they was anybody else | didn't have nc
truck with them; but, he added triumph
antly, 81 got the package, and l done what
| was told, and I'll go back and lick the
rest of the folks if you say so."-Bu6dl
cypress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Mrs. Cleyeland's Dainty Shawl.

Mrs. Cleveland gave a special recop-
ton i'll Washington recently to Nine.
Pogosky, manager of the New York
branch of the Russian cottage industries.
A handsome Orenburg shawl was pre-
sented to Mrs Cleveland These shawls
are made of goats down, preparation
of the wool of a special goat, once
brought from Tibet, but now domesti-
Gated in Russia.
The preparation of the wool is all done
by women. 1t is spun into very fine
thread, and this thread is knitted on
kneedles to form large shawl. A Rus
sian lady spent one year in knitting such
a shawl as the one presented to Mrs
Cleveland, which is so fine that it will
go through wedding ring.
Mime. Pogoslly explained the presen-
tation by giving short account of what
noble Russian women were doing for the
Russian peasant women and children,
and that Nine Dourivev wished Mrs.
Cleveland to awaken American sympa-
thy by wearing this shawl knitted for
her especially.
The Russian government has devoted
some money to the support of the Rus
sian cottage industries as it recognizes
the importance of opening in America
market for the work Of the Russian peas
ant women aud children. - Washington
Letter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
thoughts.

THEY that have learned of the Lord
Jesus to be lowly and humble of heart
profit more by meditation and PRAYER
than by reading and hearing. -St. Au-
guSttne.
No soul was ever yet saved and no
coed deed was ever done to. morrow.
Be careful, uear reader, lest to morrow
shall find YOU beyond the world of pro-
baton !-Selected.
THE coed which man doth is both
the work of God and the work of man
of God, as being the author, in giving
grace; Of man as being the actor, in
using grace.-St. Gregory.
WORRY is blind; but Col sees into
the future, and often sees the coming
relief just ahead. Worry is impatient;
but the patio mt God bids us wait and
see. Worry complains of the weight
of the loads; but Gods offer is to
tighten them by putting himself, as it
were, into our souls ard under the
loads. He then becomes our strength
"a strength equal to the day. This is
supernatural work.-Iheodore Cuy-
Ter, ID u.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Flying to Their Death.

During a storm lighthouse will often
be surrounded by myriads of birds of
many species. Having been so unfortunate
as to start off in their migration on a fall
ing barometer they have got lost and flock
cd to the light, Tutoring about the Ian
tern and dashing upon it or against the
tower. One lightkeepcr, describing such
phenomenon, recently said that, as far
as he could ST by the beam IF the light,
the air appeared to be solid mass of
birds
When one considers the railroad speed
at which duck flies, it is not surprising
that the impact of its weight against the
plato glass should break it. Telegraph
wires across the line of migration on the
prairies kill great numbers of birds-wood
cock especially, because they fly low. But
all sorts of feathered creatures, from spar
rows to swans fall victims to this human
devAe. Among them snipe also are con-
spicuous 1t has been noticed that when a
telegraph line has been newly established
great many birds are slain in this way,
| whereas after two or three seasons com
paratively few suffer.
This indicates that birds learn by eXpe-
rience. People often wonder why the birds
that perch on telegraph wires are not kill
ed by the electricity AS n matter of fact
the current does not pass through their
| bodies but, taking the shortest route, goes
| beneath their feet. Anyway it would be
too mild to destroy them.
Waterfowl are destroyed in considerable
numbers by fish fykes-a kind of net which
leads the fishes into cul de sac from
which there is no escape The birds follow
the fishes and becoming entangled are
drowned. In the great lakes deep nets are
set for white fish 200 feet beneath the sur
face of the water.
Ducks are frequently caught in them,
showing how deeply they dive in pursuit
of hnny prey On the shores of some al
kaline lakes of the west, notably Owens
lake in California, great quantities Of
! grebcs, which are about the size of big pi-
geons, are sometimes found dead As many
as 30, 900 have been counted at Owens lake,
which is not very large sheet, This pie
nomcnon occurs every year Either the
water is injurious to them, or, as seems
more likely. they come TO the lake to catch
fish. and finding none dies of starvation,
on the Pacific coast, not far from Sar
Francisco. is a stretch of beach on which
after a storm. great numbers of ducks ant
divers and even many albatrosses may be
nicked nm. MS well ms petrels. cormoran {.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

IT MAY DO AS MUCH FOR YoU,-Mr
Fred Mi Her, of Irving, H., whites that
he had asevere kidney troubled or many
years, with severe pains in his back
and also that his bladder was affected.
He tried many so-called kidney cures
but without any good result. About a
year ago he began use of Electric Bit
tiers and found relief at once. Electric
Bitters is especially adapted to cure of
all kidney and liver troubles and often
gives almost instant relief. One trial
will prove our statement. Price only
fifty cents for large bottle. At G..
Blakely's drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Departed.

l stand beside her empty chair;
Her clothes, her toys, are everywhere,
But she has vanished.
listen for a voice that's stilled,
That all our house with music filled,
But JOY is banished.
Our little darling's gone away
To that fair world wherein they say
There dwells no sorrow.
Sometimes | think she's watching there
DER us, who in our wild despair
No comfort borrow.
My pathway lies through binding tears,
And sad will be the future years,
Filled with regretting;
One face is stamped upon my heart,
one love that cannot ser depart
Till life's sunsetting
And II I, patient, strive to wait.
Perchance she'll stand within the gate
To greet my coming.
Then no more hopes believed with tears,
No parting through the eternal years,
Nothing tut loving.
ChriStidn at Wor'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
MORAL AND RELIGIOUS,
A Pilgrim of Sorrow.

pilgrim of sorrow, pass down the valley,
With the weight of my cross leaning hard my
soul;
The stars gone out and the chilling winds rally,
And nights lonely shadows thick over me roll,
Hiding Paradise Gate
In the shame and the glory of Cslvary's trial.
have hearkened Loves steps standing fast in the
gloom;
The voices OF them that gave scornful denial
The beating of wings keeping guard at the tomb,
Under Paradise Gate
Done the journey, the heartbreak, the bearing of
crosses,
= Songs of heaven hear coming down the night
wind;
In their sweetness I kneel, all forgetting earths
losses,
And the cross turns a crown as my tired heart
find
Safe in Paradise Gatel
-Erchdn0e.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
MISCELLANY.
She Would BE a Poet.

"I can never paint a picture"
SO she said,
And she cut In twain the canvas
She had spread,
Put her paints aud brushes by,
Had one little harmless cry,
Still she said, " Resolved am
Art to we'd
80 III write wondrous poem
To the moon
when it shines in solemn splendor
At nights noon.
Though paint not, can write.
Now my poem III indte,"
And she rhymed the livelong night,
"Moon-rune- spoon"
But she ne'er became poet
Her young head
Had sufficient sense to know 1t,
So she said
Since I've missed the muse of song,
And to art may not belong,
Would it then he very wrong
Jim to wed2"
Now she makes her home picture
Cunning art
Lives tender poem daily,
Fame apart.
Better these than written rune,
Rhymed harmoniously with spoon,
Poems of Loves honeymoon
OF the heart.
Detroit Free Press
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
For Dyspepsia
Use Horsford's Acid Phosphat.

DR.. o. G. Cilley, Boston, Mass, says:
4" have used it very extensively, and
with the most remarkable success in
dyspepsia, and in all cases where there
is arrangement of the liver and kid
neys."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
THE HOUSEHOLD.
A Little Sunbeam.

Up stairs, and down stairs,
Pat her little feet;
Climbing,
Ginning,
All the happy day.
Hugging dolly close and sweet,
Teaching her to dance and play,
Up and down the stairs!
Up stairs. and down stairs,
Laughing II she falls;
Flashing,
Dashing,
Like an April rain,
Paying calls to mammals house,
Bows and smiles and bows again,
Up and down the stairsl
Up stairs, and down stairs,
Gayly chattering;
Beaming.
Cleaning,
Moves the golden head;
Sunbeams always scattering
Wherever she may tread
Up or down the stairsl
Good Housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

The original Raw Food.
An unrivalled nutrient.
1t builds muscle and bone.
1t makes new blood.
Is retained by any stomach.
Satisfies the hunger of
consumptives.
Unaided it will sustain
strength for weeks.
Contains the largest amount of
nutrition in the smallest
possible bulk.
1t will sustain life by injection.
1t is simply the vital principles
of raw beef concentrated.
1t is prescribed and recon-
mended by more physicians
than any other food in the
world. We refer to any
physician you know.
For sale at all druggists.
THE BOvININE co. NEW YORK.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Impure State of the Blood.

1t invigOrates the Nervous System, stimn-
lates the Liver and Kidneys, tones the
Digestive Organs, and imparts New Life
and Vigor TO the whole system. 1t cures
the disease by building up the system.
MERRILL'S SARSAPARILLA is the
only Sarsaparilla which regulates the bowels
itself, thereby doing away with the old
fashioned pill dosing. Try it. ONE DOL
LAR PER BOTTLE, and it is for sale by
all frst-class druggists and dealers in patent
medicines, or sent, express prepaid, upon
receipt of price.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

In Turkey the house man lives in
cannot be seized for debt, and sufficient
land must be left to serve to support
him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

al HAVE taken Hoods Vegetable
Pills and they have done me great deal
of good. Mrs. A. Lager, Barre, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
THIS AGREEABLE PREPARATION is COMPOSED OF
THE MOST VALUABLE
Alternative, Tonic and Blood Purifying
VEGETABLE REMEDIES.

BY enriching and stimulating the Blood,
it invigorates and renovates the whole sys-
TEN, curing Scrofulous Humor. Scald Head,
Syphilitic Affections, Cancerous Humor,
Salt Rheum, Boils, Pimples, and Eruptions
on the Face, Headache Lassitude, Dizzi-
ness, Fantness al the Stomach, Constipa-
ton, Biliouencss Female Weakness, Kid
ney Troubles, General Debility, and all
diseases arising from an
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
Plan
What We Do

Some families want piano, but keep
putting it off till they can pay the whole
price cash down.
The result is that meanwhile they go
without, or else waste money in renting,
and then, perhaps, when the money IS
ready it is too late to enjoy or profit by
the use of an instrument.
A small payment to begin with, and a
little more than bare rent monthly will
buy an Ivers & Pond Piano in the same
time it would take to save up the money,
and the investment is all the time safer
than a savings bank, for the customer
has the piano all the time.
Call or write for particulars.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

ORDER your envelopes, note heads, bill
heads, statements, etc, of the WATCHMAN
Job office. Stock and workmanship always
the best, prices the lowest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoris
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria