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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
A PhilanthrOpic Woman.

Mrs. Mary Hemingway, who lately
died in Boston, provided by her will
that the entire net income of her estate,
which is estimated to be worth $15,-
600, 900, shall be devoted by her execu-
tors for period of not more than Is
years to the furtherance of certain causes
in which she was interested. These
causes she names as follows: First, ed
ucational work in Boston and vicinity;
second, the historical and educational
work connected with the Old South
Meeting House; third, the study Of
American archaeology. She bequeaths a
valuable farm in Massachusetts, known
rs the Lowry farm, to the Hampton (Va- J
institute, founded by General Arm
slrong Boston Commonwealth.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
Speaking French.

A Tennessee chaplain, the Rev. j. H
McNeilly, says that at Port Hudson his
regiment was encamped next to the
Thirtieth Louisiana, which was made
up of French speaking men. The French
language, naturally enough, was mys-
terry to most of the rural Tennesseeans.
One night all hands We're in the
trenches. Farragut@ fleet was in the
river, and an attack by land was also
expected. The Tennessee boys, who were
close to the boys from Louisiana no.
ticed that the frogs in the numerous
ponds Were croaking necessarily in a
kind of low, continuous chatter.
"Hark, boysn' said one fellow.
"These frogs have been camped SO long
by the Thirtieth Louisiana that they are
all talking Eremch"
AT another time some of the men
We're loungmg by the riverside when
they heard some French speaking wom-
en-, who were engaged i'll washing, talk
ing to each other.
Suddenly one Of the boys called to an
other, who was noted for his slowness
of speech;
"Come here quick, Sam, and hear
this woman talk! She can give just one
futter of her tongue and say more III a
minute than you can in week. -
Youths Componion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
The Duties of a Party Whip.

Reverting to the duties of whip and
fact that gentlemen of birth and social
position can be found to fill the post
The junior whips duties are not only
onerous, but irksome. They sit or stand
in the outer lobby of the house from half
past B to half past IL at night, and they
ask every member who passes where he
is going, whether he is paired and when
he will be back. If he is not paired
they have either to find pair for him
or to prevent him from passing out by
coaXing or threats, the former for pref
erence. When their party are in, these
gentlemen have to attend their Office
from ~ to g. Their hours of duty are,
10 hours, with intervals for lunch and
dinner, and this they do for 81, 600
year. When their party is out, they do
1t, minus their Office work, for nothing.
In addition to keeping an eye ON his
Juniors, the chief whip, who has f2, 600
a year, deals with the members ON their
more touchy side 1t is he who practical
ly distributes ribbons and titles and sees
that cards Of invitation are sent to this
man and that; that no one is given UNI
due preference delicate duty which re-
quires much tact and skill. Mr.. Tom
Ellis is popular, and that goes great
way. He has tact, and that goes further
AT present he lacks experience, but that
will come Cardiff Mail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
Spring Cleaning.

The mirror is under the mat,
And all of my wifes best apparel,
My dress suit and cravat and my finest silk hat
Hang Haunting upon the ash barrel,
Our china is thrown with the coal
with the hammer and hatchet upon it,
And the sewing-machine stands calm and serene
On the top of James beautiful bonnet,
The piano with legs in the air,
With the tall chandelier is entangled,
My oil paintings rare, with the baby's high chair,
Are all intermingled and mangled.
The moasses jug trickles away
Ger poItieres, lambrequins laces,
My fine busts of Cato and Shakespeare and Plato
Have all been deprived of their faces.
For chaos has come to our home
And order and law are a mockery.
My toothbrush and comb imbedded in loan,
And coal is packed up in our crockery.
Our brica-brac's piled in the yard
Our vases are smashed into flinders.
1t makes me half frantic to see my gigantic
Seal ring thrown away with the cinders.
In perfect serenity mild
The cook stove is laid on the table.
In a chaos wild is the furniture piled
AS high the tower of Babel.
And long for the rest of the grave.
For life is deprived of its meaning
For the privilege of dying Pm ardenty signing
Throughout the whole term of spring cleaning.
-Nec FORK World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
How She Entered Journalism.

Mrs Margaret f. Sullivan is one of the
best editorial writer's in the country, and
strangely enough it was in this very ca
pacity, 50 seldom filled by woman, that
she did her first newspaper work. She was
d 16-year-old schoolgirl when some subject
In which, as it happened, she was particu-
larly interested and about which she was
very well informed came up for discus
sion in the newspapers. She read the edi-
torials which were written about it, but
realized that they did not go to the root Of
the matter and after a few days wrote her
own views on the subject and sent the ar
ticle to the Chicago Tribune She did not
sign her full name.
1t was promptly printed and request
sent her for another article on the same
subject She sent one, and it came out
with the same flattoring promptness. Then
a note was sent asking her to come to The
Tribune office. She went a schoolgirl, in
short skirts and with her hair down her
back, and the grave and reverend seigniors
of the big paper were astonisLcd when
they saw her. After they had got thei1
breath they said it must be a mistake.
They wanted to see the man who had writ
ten those editorials. The young girl as
sured them that she had written them.
was worse than mistake That there
was es-well, they did not accuse her out
right of lying, but they Enthusiastically
looked their doubt.
The girl from school then said she would
be glad to accommodate them by sitting
down and writing IA few editorials whilo
they watched the wheels go round. She
was taken at her word and for several days
wrote brilliant editorials under lock and
key, as it were, in The Tribune office
Finally the doubling Thomases reluctant
ly admitted that the schoolgirl was Il bril-
liant prodigy ana not a clover fraud and
from that time until few years ago Mrs.
Sullivan was one of the leading writers on
the paper She finally severed her conncc-
ton with The Tribune to occupy an equal
ly high place on the staff of the Chicago
Herald.-Nelo York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
The Earth's Temperature.

One of the most learned of modern
biologists Sir William Thomson, has
expressed the opinion that for the last
90, 900, 600 years the rate of increase of
the earth's temperature under ground
has gradually diminished from about
one-tenth TO about one-fftieth of a de-
gree F. per foot. The present argument,
however, as to the date of the consolida-
ton of the earth, based ON the assump-
ton that the earth is simply a cooling
globe, is met with serious objections,
one of the most forcible being that as
the qualification of the earth probably
began from the middle and spread to
the surface it is not only possible but
likely that after firm crust had been
formed the upper portion still retained
some degree of viscosity. If, then, the
interior be viscous, some tidal oscilla-
lions must take place in it, and these
being subject to friction heat must be
generated in the viscous portion, and
the diurnal rotation of the earth must
be retarded. According to the suppose
ton of an eminent scientist-viz, that
it is only those strata which are
within some hundreds of miles of the
surface which are viscous, while the
central portion is rigid-then, when
tidal friction does its work, the same
amount of heat is generated as on the
hypothesis of the viscosity of the entire
planet, but instead of being distributed
throughout the whole mass, and princi-
pally toward the middle, it is now to be
found in the more superficial layers. -
NeW York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
The Black Death.

In England during the black deaths
first and most dreadful visitation in
1889 it was noticed that it carried off
the country villages, the poor and the
workmen in the towns, the monks and
nuns and friars-that is, all that por-
ton Of the population who We're i'll
housed, i'll clothed, i'll nurtured, or, like
those in the religious hSlses, lived ha-
bitually upon an insufficient diet,
among whom the practice of asceticism
in various forms tended to bring about
a weakening of their stamina and their
vital power.
On the other hand, the mortality
among the clergy was far in excess Of
that among any other class, and this
can be attributed only to their noble
self sacrifice i'll the discharge of their
ministerial duties among their parish
toner's. Breathing day and night the
pestilential air. working heroically
among the people III every stage of the
disease, comforting the dying and bury
ing the dead in the huge pits that We're
dug to contain the putrid corpses, the
priests dropped by thousands into the
same graves in which they had helped to
lay their people, and before the year was
out the supply of clergy had begun to
fall short very seriously over all the
land
At Florence, Boccaccio tells us, lit
became necessary to dig trenches, into
which the bodies We're put by hundreds,
laid i'll rows us goods packed in ship.
A little earth was cast upon each sue
cessive layer until the pits We're filled to
the top" AT Avignon several, almost
as soon as they We're seized with the sick
ness, 'were carried off to the pit and
buried. And in this way many We're
buried alive" AT Vienna "the dead
were buried in trenches, each of which,
according to one chronicle, contained
some 5000 corpses. " In London Sir
Walter Nanny provided new cemetery,
more than l3acres in extent, "in respect
Of the danger that might befall in this
time of so great a plague and infection. "
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
MISCELLANY.
The Land of Pretty Soon"

I know OF land where the streets paved
with the things which meant to achieve.
1t ia walled with the money meant to have
saved
And the pleasures for which we grieve.
The kind words unspoken, the promises broken
And many a coveted boon
Are slowed away there in that land somewhere
The land of &" Pretty Soon"
There are uncut jewels of possible fame
Lying about in the dust.
And many a noble and lofty aim
Covered with mold and rust
And. OIL this place, while it seems so near,
Is farther away than the moon.
Though our purpose is fair, yet we never get
there
To the land of " Pretty Soon"
The road that leads to that mystic land
Is strewn with pitful wrecks.
And the ships that have sailed for its shining
strand
Bear skeletons their decks
It was farther at night than 1t was at dawn,
And farther at night than at noon;
Oh let us beware OF that land down there
The land Of Pretty Soon"
Ella Wheeler Wlcor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
Women in Business.

1t is one of the most difficult things In
the world to map outa suitable and in ev-
cry way satisfactory career for young
woman of the present day. The evolution
of events has brought woman prominently
into business circles. That she will stay
there seems to be Il foregone conclusion
at least she is likely to remain there for
the present-and the question is, What Is
the best way for her to get along with the
new situation that confronts her?
In most cases she has gone into business
life because she must. 1t was absolutely
necessary for her to be her own breadwin-
ner or else to take her portion from some
reluctant hand. Unwilling to do this and
unable to endure the humiliation of what
has been for hong time to many women
an alternative only few removes from
begging, she has carved out her own way
and patiently and contentedly walks there
in, satisfied if she can win comfortable
subsistence from an always grasping and
tyrannical world.
The great cutlery that women will lose
their distinctivcly feminine qualities once
they get fairly launched into business has
proved not only false, but foolish, for the
sensible daughters of sensible parents have
learned long ere this that there must be no
nonsense in their daily walk and converse
ton, and that the department that they
have been taught for the drawing room is
quite as useful in the Office and counting
house as in the social assembly. A gentle
woman never loses her distinctive qualities
wherever she may be placed, and whether
1t may be at the typewriter, the cashier S
desk or in any other Of the departments of
business her innate refinement will show
itself, and early traditions will never leave
her. -Nelo York Ledger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
Consider the Children,s Tastes.

"What shall / make of my SOM" is
question often heard from the lips of per
picked parents. Perhaps the moro sensi-
BILE but none the less anxious query might
be, what will my son make of himselfY'
Before you try to make anything of boy
except to lay the foundation for his becom-
ing good and honorable man give him
chance to show his own preferences. In
nine cases out of ten he will hit upon the
right thing We are constantly being
treated to the sorry spectacle of n boy in
an office porting over musty accounts who
will loiter when chance permits at the
open door of machine shop, and whose
greatest delight is to pore over and repair
a refractory sewing machine or typewriter
anything that permits him to use his
brain in studying the intricacies of ma
chinery. l know young newspaper man
who is more at home on an engine or in
railroad yard than in newspaper Office
at homo in the sense of feeling happy
1t was mother who hit upon plan
early in her childrcn's lives of giving them
scrapbooks and telling them to fill them
with whatever they liked best, and now
the boy whose book was filled with pic
lures and stories of bugs and insects and
all manner of creeping things is noted
scientist in that line. l have been told
that at the tender age of 3 he would bring
in a stray ladybug or some insect from the
garden, build a house for it with his blocks
and lovingly watch and care for it.
Another son, whose name you would
all know as that of a railway magnate,
filed his with locomotives and cars and
driving wheels and cogs and all sorts of
engines.
Give the boys and girls too, chance
to be original. The scrapbook plan is
worth trying. If baby girl of four sum-
mers shows exceptional taste in dressing
her doll, foster that taste. Big salaries
await persons with original ideas in any
line of business or trade.-N. Y. Recorder.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
A Remarkable Tree.

The most remarkable tree yet discov-
cred hourishes i'll the island of Fierro,
one of the largest of the Canary group.
This island is so dry that not even a
rivulet is to be found within its bound
aries, yet there grows a species of tree,
the leaves Of which are narrow and long
and continue green throughout the
year There is also constant cloud sur
rounding the tree, which is condensed,
and falling i'll drops keeps the cisterns
placed under it constantly full. In this
manner the natives of Fierro obtain wa
ter, and as the supply is limited the
population must of necessity be limited
also. philadelphia Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
THE HOUSEHOLD.
HO! for Sunderland.

little song for bedtime,
When robed in gowns of white,
All sleepy little children
Set sail across the night
For that pleasant, pleasant country
Where the pretty dream. flowers blow,
'Twixt the sunset and the sunrise,
"For the Slumber Islands. hol"
When the little ones get drowsy,
And the heavy lids droop down
To hide blue eyes and black eyes,
Gray eyes and eyes of brown.
A thousand boats for dreamland
Are waiting in row,
And the ferrymen are calling,
For the Slumber Islands, ho!"
Then the sleepy little children
Fill the boats along the shore,
And go sailing off to Dreamland
And the dipping of the oar
In the Sea of Sleep makes music
That the children only know
When they answer to the boatmen's
".For the Slumber Islands, hoW
Oh, take kiss, my darlings,
Ere you sail away from me,
In the boat of dreams that's waiting
To bear you DER the sea;
Take a kiss and give one,
And then away you go,
A-sailing into Dreamland,
"For the Slumber Islands, how
st. Nicholas
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
AIN
Unprecedented Offer T!
GREAT VALUE for LITTLE MONEY
WEE ky n EWS
OF the World for a TrifIe F!
THE
New York
Weekly Tribune

a twenty-four page journal, is the leading
Republican family paper of the United
States. 1t is filled with interesting reading
matter for every member of a country fam
lily. 1t is a NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER, and
gives all the general news of the United
States and the world. 1t gives the events
of foreign lands in nutshell. Its "AGRI-
CULTURAL" department has no superior in
the country. Its MARKET REPORTS" are
recognized authority in all parts of the land.
1t has separate departT ents for d" THE FAM
lily CIRCLE" and "OUR eYoUNG Folks"
Its HOME AND SOCIETY" columns COM
mand the admiration of wives and daugh-
tiers. Its general political news, editorials
and discussions are comprehensive, brilliant
and exhaustive.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
For a Nerve Tonic
Use Horsford's Acid Phosphate

DIR. II. M. Harlow, Augusta, Me-,
says: I" regard 1t as one of the best
remedies in all cases in which the sys.
tenn requires an acid and nerve tonic.
| have used it freely with most excel
lent results.N
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

DON'T DELAY.-It is your duty to
yoursef to get rid of the foul accumu-
lation in your blood this spring, Hoods
Sarssparilla is just the medicine you
need to purify, vitalize and enrich YOUR
blood. That tired feeling which affects
nearly every one in the spring is driven
of by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great
spring medicine and blood purifier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

IT has been estimated that 10000
tons of candy are consumed in the
United States annually.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

OF society. Many IN
stores, mills, and
shops, tens of thous-
ands are on the never
ceasingtreadmillearn-
ing their daily food.
All are subject to
the same physical
laws; all suffer alike
from the same physi-
cal disturbance; and
the nature of their
duties in many cases
quickly drifts them into
he horrors of all kinds
If female complaints
-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

HOODS PILLS become the favorte
cathartic with everyone who tries them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

AN ordinary gas jet consumes as
much oxygen as five people.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

IN Finland and East Turkestan thun-
derstorms are wholly unknown.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
WORKING WOMEN.
THEIR HARD STRUGGLE
Made Easier by the Timely intervene
ton of One Woman,

tsPECtAL TO OUR LADY REApERs.l
All women work. Some in their homes,
some in church, and some in the whrl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16

UNCLE SAM has volume of money
at this time of about 81 SOC, 000, 000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-07
THE DEATH RECORD.

AIamae Lundquist, the little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Lundquist, died
yesterday at 500 Chandler street Of in
fiammation Of the bowels. The funeral
was held at 10 o'clock this morning from
the family residence.
Carrie Miller, the four year old daugh-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs p. Miller, of APP
Chandler, died this morning at $50, of
whooping cough. i he funeral will be
held from the residence at 2:30 P. N. to-
morrow.
Mrs Mary Sawyer, whose home is at
1909 Quincy street, died at 1880 Thurs
day night, OF consumption The funeral
was held today at 3 D. m. at the Second
Baptist church, under the auspices of
the order of the Eastern Star, of which
she was a member.
William Cornelius, who lived with his
mother in South Topeka, died last night
at z o'clock. He has been very low for a
long time. His remains viii be taken to
Little Rock, Arkansas, on Monday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-07
A. RI. DENOTNCES

The Employnent of Z. s nTarshsIs By j.
j. Kinney of the Santa Fe.
At the meeting Of the Topeka mem
bers of the A +. Z. this afternoon the
following was adopted
Whereas. The military Of this count
ny has been turned over to irresponsible
parties. as in the instance
Of the United States Mar
shal's Office of the state Of Kansas hav-
ing been turned over to one J. J. Kinney
who is sending armed forces into differ
ent states, and thereby melting its citi-
zens to violence; therefore be il
Resolved, That the maintenance in
violate, of the rights of the states, and
especially Of each state, to order and
control its own domestic institutions ac-
cording to its Judgment exclusively.
is essential to that balance of
power on which the perfection
and endurance Of our political fabric de-
ponds; and we denounce the lawIess in
vasion by armed force Of the soil OF any
state or territory, no matter under what
pretext, as one Of the gravest of crimes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-07
JOCKHECK GETS A GUN.
He Seeks to Keep tkq Cours House
Builder on HIS Lots.

He Seeks to Keep thq Cours House
Builders or HIS Lots.
George Fl. Evans, contractor for the
new court house, today tore down the
fence 10 the JOckheck property and be-
gan driving stakes in the yard, under the
decision Of the supreme court last even
ing, in which Judge Hazen was affirmed.
Carl Jockheck was either in ignorance
of the supreme courts ruling or dis5atis-
fed with it, for he told the
laborers in strong language to keep of
his premises. Contractor Evans told the
men to 90 ahead and have no fear of the
result Jock heck is said 10 have got bis
revolver and threatened to shoot a col
ored laborer named Ward.
" ard had an axe and defied Jockheck,
and the latter decided to make no further
resistance against the fifty or more
laborers employed by AIr. Evans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-07

". d. Driver. editor of the Blackman,
the local colored organ. returned from
ST. Joseph today where he succeeded in
organizing his interest here into a stock
company with a stock Of Sc, 800 Besides
the publication of the paper they propose
to do . publishing house business where
literature Of interest to cOlored men viii
be published and distributed The plant
is Intended to cover the field Of Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Okla
homa. and lis principal Office will lie at
Topeka
We put on new neck bands on shirts.
Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and la
Vest Eighth street