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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-18
" Wings Galore"

Isabel Spenser Freeland of Burling-
ton, N. j., writes the Ne,o York Sun
the subjoined admirable letter, de-
nouncing the slaughter of birds to OBJ
tain material to bedeck woman's attire:
"Under the above heading a Boston
paper comments on the announcement
in fashion papers that the modish
woman in the coming season must APP
pear in wings. This means, not that
her angel pinions are now to become
visible, but that she is to borrow the
wings of Natures most useful and
beautiful creatures, and decorate her
hat, wraps, muff and cuffs with the with
cred wings of dead birds, wrenched from
their little quivering bodies to deck,
not South Sea Islander, but a sup
posedly civilized womanl About three
years ago we were told that hoops were
once more to be worn. From England
to California went up cry of remon-
STRANGE. Clubs were formed and papers
circulated to secure influence against
the hoop-skirt. Whatever may be said
about that article of apparel, its use does
not necessitate the taking of life. Does
not each woman know that to encour-
age the fashion of bird ornaments re-
quires the destruction of millions of
birds every year? Does she not know
that farm crops are laid waste and noble
elm trees dying because the busy work.
ers that hunted worm and insect are
killed for her to wearp Do not
women care that the bird young are left
to starve in their nests in order that
the bodies or wings of the parent birds
may be used as ornaments for them?
The aigrettes, so much worn lately, are
the nuptial plumes of the white heron,
donned only during the nesting season.
Every one of these light airy plumes
on womans hat means tina bird has
been killed in the mating season, and
its young have miserably persisted.
Whole species of birds are becoming
extinct that every woman may bedeck
herself. Will not our thoughtful and
merciful women, who are promised
mercy as they show it, unite to prevent
this remorseless saughterS Every
wing, plume, or birds body bought this
season means the killing of at least one
other bird to meet fashions demand.
The movement against hoops was sue
cessful. Who will start crusade against
wings? Who will carry it onP l hope
all will speak at once, and speak
much and often. Let Anti-plumage
Leagues be formed in every town and
village If woman will not wear bird
mummies, birds will not be killed for
| herr
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SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.


L. M. HoLToN well.known resident OF
Bennington, dropped dead in his green
house last week. He was prominent con-
tractor and builder, and built the Benning-
ton Graded School building.
THE dwelling-house and barns OF Edward
Con OF West Addison were burned last
week Inc barns were filed with hay and
grain and the dwelling house was the most
expensive farm house in that town
The Winooski & Burlington Horse Rail-
road Company has decided to build line
to Essex Junction that will parallel the
Military Post road, and will enable its
builders to take passengers to Essex juno
ton and deliver them to all points in Bur
lington without change
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Original, Silas
Knight, deceased, Of Bridgewater restora-
ton and increase, Charles W. Jay, de-
ceased, of Sheffield renewal and increase,
George A. Clark of East Charlotte reissue
nal, widows, Pattie A. Woodbury. Of Wood
stock, Emma A. Knight OF Bridgwater; ad-
ditional, Edward Whittemore of Bread
Loaf
THE franklin County Christian Temper
ance League has appointed a committee to
investigate the records OF liquor cases in the
the justice records OF all the towns in the
county, and the records of the county court,
concerning liquor prosecutions The COM
mittee is making thorough examination of
the methods used in the disposal of convic-
tions for lquor-selling, and the result Of its
Investigations will be given to the grand
iury
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Foreign.

THE province of Podolia, Russian Poland,
has been officially declared infected with
cholera.
FRESH outrages have been perpetrated in
the Erzonzian district in Armenia. On
Au gust II a company of Turkish gendarmes
had sergeant killed by a band of brigands
Thereupon the Turkish authorities without
making an inquiry, decided that the assail-
ants were Armenian revolutionists from
Kemakh, who intended to release exiled
Armenians who are still in prison at Kars
A force of 900 Turkish troops was sent to
Kemakh, and five villages were pillaged.
Five thousand people were rendered home
less Men were tortured and women and
children ravished. Four monasteries were
sacked. 1t is reported that the Turkish
minor officials have formed an anti Christian
society to slaughter Christians if the porte
accepts the scheme of reforms the powers
insist upon.
THE negotiations which are pending at
Liverpool among the various TRANSATLANTIC
steamship companies regarding an advance
of rates apply only to rates for steerage pas
sengers and do not effect freight or first and
second cabin passengers. The difficulty has
hitherto been in such negotiations in get
ting every line to agree to a differential
rate for each ship, some lines insisting upon
lower rate for a slow ship than for a
faster one The indications now are that
this point will be settled and that the in
crease in steerage rates will take effect in
October. The officials of the companies are
extremely retcent and reluctant to give
any information on the subject, fearing that
spectators will take advantage of any Of
fetal confirmation of the reported favorable
aspect OF the negotiations to purchase tick
cts at the present rates and carry them I'M
til the advance goes into effect.
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Domestic.

PROFESSOR FRANCIS WAYLAND, dean of
the Yale Law School, says that he has been
incorrectly reported in the matter of his
statement to the American Social Science
Association at Saratoga. He says that in
stead of saying that there were 5000, 900
habtual criminals in the United Sta es he
put the number at 100000. This misstate-
ment has caused much editorial comment on
Professor Wayland throughout the country.
FOUR members of the Louisville Legion
were instantly killed, last Wednesday
morning, by the explosion Of ammunition
in a gun caisson that was being taken to
Phoenix Hill for service in connection with
the national Grand Army parade. The
cause OF the explosion is inexplicable. The
four unfortunate men were sitting on the
caisson and their bodies were terribly
mangled. The accident cast a gloom over
the entire festivities of the day.
AN Empire State express train of four
cars made the run last Wednesday from
New York to Buffalo, a distance of 1864
miles, in 407 minutes, an average of 641
miles an hour. This breaks the record Of
63l miles recently made in England. The
train intended to run to Albany. 143 miles,
in 100 minutes, but made the time in
hours, IA minutes and % seconds. On Au-
gust 49, 1895, the London & Northwestern
made the run from London to Aberdeen,
$40 miles, in $40 minutes, an average of 63t
miles per hour. This was the record for a
trial trip up to and including August 90,
1895, but does not interfere with the New
York Oentraps title to the fastest regular
long-distance train in the world. There is
another important point to be taken into
consideration in comparing the speed of the
English racing trains with the Empire
State express-that is, the weight and char
acter of the trains. The English trains used
in the trials of speed weighed respectively,
10 tons, 105 tons and 100 tons. The Empire
State express weighed $50 tons.
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An Original " Ponce"

The following etter and original
"pome" are self explanatory. The
printers have followed copy uerbatim
ct kteratim ct punctuattn
Up. o. Box. 62) Corinth, Vt. s pit 18th. 90;
Gentlemen:
II the enclosed is worht its
space in your paper, (the Watchmen)
then l would be very please, to have the
same publish in your paper, (the Watchman)
andhopeing that
it will will rename
Yours Very Respectfully.
w. q, Avery.
P. s. l have enclose A stamp, for you
to sen back the enclosed, If 1t is not to
be publish, or let me know when you will
publish the same. w. @. A.
Young
Young, as now you do think thou TT, but
older and older, thou art growing old
but never young, or younger, till thou
hast cross ths golden river,
in TO paradise, when there you will be
astonish, with great delights, for to hear
and for to see the angels acomeing too
welcome you to your Friends, and theirs,
and to all of the hostsof heaven.
compose by w. G. Avery,
Cornth,
Vt,
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the Devil is always there and always
has the largest congregation? But, to
be just, Newport News is destined to
be great city, unless all signs fail. 1t
is ship-building point, and the finest
steamer | ever saw was built there
the " Newport News" plying between
Washington and Norfolk. But find
l am nticpating, and more of this in
future article.
l find, on reviewing this article, that
have entirely omitted, or inadequately
touched upon, many objects of interest,
but my trip was rapid one and so
must be this review. But cannot dis
miss without word the Soldiers Home
at Hampton. SO far as can be judged
from hurried visit, the Home is well
conducted and the veterans there
contented and happy. The rules are
not illiberal, and the old soldier is
made to feel thai he is enjoying, in his
old age, what his services in the field
have fairly earned.
OF Norfolk saw but little, as l only
landed long enough to change steamers
and did not enter the city, but it is APP
parent that there is enough there to
well repay the traveller for visiting the
city. / will remark, en- PEASANT, that
Norfolk barbor is a wide and deep one,
perfectly land.locked. There is an i'm
mense business carried on in Norfolk
in " garden truck" particularly melons,
sweet potatoes, peanuts, and tobacco.
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terated, probably with chicory. Second
Place a sample of the suspected cof-
fee on top of the water in wine-glass;
II 1t part floats and part sinks, it is
undoubtedly adulterated. Again, place
a spoonful of the coffee in white bot
tie OF cold water and shake well for
few minutes. If the sample is pure, it
will rise to the top, scarcely coloring
the water. II adulterated, it will sink
and discolor the fluid, for the following
reasons: Pure coffee is enveloped in an
oily substance which prevents the
grounds from absorbing the water; the
adulterant, being free from oil, quickly
becomes saturated. New York Trib-
une.
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Feminine Toilets.

What singular ideas on the subject of
feminine toilets men did once have to be
sure, and how much they usually know
about the matter nowadaysl This is
amusingly noticeable in current literature.
Such blunders were once not uncommon
as that made III Austin Elliot" by Henry
Kingsley, when he made his modest quiet
ly dressed little heroine wear ga big dia-
mond clasp" to her demurc, Quaker gray
cloak. i'm which she was won't to creep off
to weekday church services. Obviously
Mr.. Kingsley had no notion that if %
woman possessed big diamond clasp"
she would not wear it in the street as well
as anywhere else. This ignorance is rath-
or a relief to the man millinery of present
day novels Once in awhile one does come,
to be sure, to "A mistake like Mr.. Howcls
in april Hopes" where he made bride
In veil and satin drive directly from the
church to the trnin of cars But these slips
of the masculine pen are rare indeed any
more.-New York Times.
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Children's Fear in the Dark.

James Sully's Studies of Childhood"
include discussion of the element of fear,
and incidentally of fear of the dark and
the facility with which child comes to
see faces and animal forms in the lines of
cracked ceiling or the veining of piece
of marble. These slight and momentary
differences of blackness, these heeting ru-
diments of a pattern, may serve as q SEN
suous base for the projected images. The
child's excited fancy sees in these faint
Authorizations of the black formless
waste definite forms. These will naturally
be the forms with which he Is most ia
miliar, and since his fancy is tinged with
melancholy they will, of course be gloomy
and disturbing forms.
Hence we may expect to hear of children
seeing the forms of terrifying living things
in the dark. Here is an instructive case
A boy of years had for some time been
afraid of the dark and INDUCED by having
the candle left burning at night. On hear
ing that the London Crystal palace had
been burned down he asked for the first
time to have the light taken away, fear of
the dark being now cast out by the bigger
fear of fire. Some time after this he vol
unteered an account of his obsolete terrors
to his father. do you know, " he said,
"what l thought dark was? A great,
large, live thing, the color of black with
a mouth and eyes. Popular Science
Monthly
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Trifles that Wear Out Women.

Ruskin says we grasp at majesty in the
least things and abdicate it in the great
est. l believe we do, writes u bright wom-
an. That's what ties our faces up in hard
knots, droops the corners of the mouth
and sends other lines parallel with the
downward curve and makes old women of
us before our time l believe Susan b.
Anthony attributes her youthful energy
and her vigor to the fact that she has been
mentally absorbed by the great issues of
the cause to which she has devoted her life
Mrs. Anthony has no hard lines in her
face-in fact, she has grown old gracefully
enough to have assumed grandmotherly
air that is by no means unbecoming
Thirty years ago she was called an old
maid, and there was no hint of the ma
ternal nature in the tall, resolute looking
woman who struck out from the shoulder
and wore aggressive, angular elbows and
inartistic bonnets, and was ridiculed and
caricatured until the caricaturo became the
prototype and she the representative. She
is no older today than she was twoscore
of years ago, and the success that has
crowned her efforts has harmonized her
spirit and made her beautiful in old age.
l believe Ruskins idea about grasping
at majesty would prove to be an excellent
ohu Poi PeVuoi iono"oI VI youun' hc ileans
the majesty of thought as well as action,
you understand
In woman's sphere in life there is moth
ing that can transcend the majesty of
homemaking. There is no need to recall
the thousand details that are blended in
the sum total of homemaking House
keeping is relative to homemaking, and
there are thousand details under this
head 1t is in housekeeping where we
grasp at majesty in the least things and
never rise above the footstool of the throne
of the homemaker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-18
The HOUSEHOLD.
The District School.
DEDICATED TO A TEACHER.

DEDICATED TO A TEACHER.
see once more the district schools
The mistress stern and prim,
with eyes that flash warning look
Above her glasses rim.
I see agaii the battered desk;
The primer and the slate,
With ninety copies Of one word
Because came In late.
hear, in sleepy droning tones,
The morning lesson read:
And know d" The horse did run away"
And Little pigs are fed"
That dog Is meant for dog;
And cat spells cat;
That and "me /" are both myself,
And sit lis sometime " sat"
That three and three are always six;
And FIVE from nine leaves four;
That one can go In two but twice;
In three but one time more.
Again frantic wave my hand,
To let the teacher see
That can tell what Billy can't,
IAN insect is bee"
Or, perhaps, I mean the other way.
Else why should Billy smile,
And be told to take my seat
And think little while2
All, well; those days we're long ago
When, with respectful awe,
gazed upon the rattan there
Beside the open door.
No longer do | have to stay
An hour after school,
Because whispered once or twice
Or broke some other rule.
But now, in life's tumultuous strife,
sometimes long to be
little boy. and shout and play
And learn the rule of three.
Boston Journa
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To Test Coffee.

An expert tester of coffee gives the
following experiments for detecting
authorizations of coffee: First-If the
ground coffee harders or 'cakes when
placed between the fingers, it is adul-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-18
PROOF Is POSITIVE
THAT LYDIA E. PINKHAMS
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Is Daily Curing Backache, Dizziness,
Faintness, Irregularity, and all Fe-
male Complaints.

ESPECIAL TO QUA LADY READERsl
Intelligent women no longer doubt the
value of Lydia Il. Pinkhdm's Vegetable
Compound. 1t speedily relieves irregu-
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lions, weakness Of the stomach, indiges-
ton, boating, leucorrhGa, womb trou-
BILE, flooding, nervous prostraton, head
ache, general debility, etc. symptoms OF
Womb Troubles
are dizziness, faintness, extreme lassi-
tude, "don't care" and "want to be
left alone" feelings, excitability, irrita-
bilty, nervousness, sleeplessness, fatu-
lency, melancholy, or the blues" and
backache. Lydia E. Pinkhams Nege-
table Compound will correct all this
trouble as sure as the sun shines. That
Bearing-DOwn Feeling,
causing pain, weight, and backache, is
instantly relieved and permanently cured
by it's use. Under all circumstances it
acts in perfect harmony with the laws
that govern the female system, is as
harmless as water. 1t is wonderful for
Kidney Complaints in either sex.
Lydia Il. Pinkham's Liver Pills
work in unison with the Compound, and
are sure cure for constipation and sick
headache. Mrs Pinkham's Sanative
Wash is frequently found of great value
for local application. Correspondence
is freely solicited by the Lydia L. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, and the
strctest confidence assured. All drug
gists sell the Pnkham remedies. The
Vegetable Compound in three forms, -
Liquid, Pills, and Lozenges.
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UNDER THE DoCToR's CARE
" Hoods Sarsaparilla has done me more
good than doctors. / am almost seventy
two years old, and have been under the
DOCTORS care great deal. One year
ago last April / began taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and have taken ten bottles.
| shall continue to take it as long as it
helps me as it has in the past. Harry
Cheney, West Burke, Vt.
HOOPS PILLS cure all liver ills.
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For Sale at a Bargain +!
100000 People Wear

House, Barn and Building Lot on Mechanics St.
One acre of land. partly covered with fruit trees,
On Mortified street; House and small Building
Lot. First-cass investment. A. j. HOWE,
Real Estate Agent
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HOOPS PILLS cure all liver ills.
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LIST OF pATETgS

Granted to Southern inventors t7is
week. Reported Gy c. 4. Snow g. Cn.
soiicitors Of American aud Foreign
natcn.S. Orr L. $. Patent Office.
W"Shii. gton. D. c.
4. "A. AIlea. AStor. W. Va. Fnldin.
coop. &c. J, Baldwin, Jr.. Baldwin.
La, Shaking. settling ana snmpacting
machine. j. o. Beazley, Baltimore
Md. Retort- yaporizer. ~ VI. Burgh-
er, Clay City. Ky. Conduit electric
railway. J. J. br;re'life 4 p. T..
Click, Dayton. Va. Air distributor FL
iniaacts. H. Coilins. Sulphur SNtin4s
AK. Scfaper or eXclvator. j. T..
Dnnean, Delthos. Tenn. Locking hp-
wee for wagon end gates J s E9n
s.sF. Z. Peterson q H. X. Tga,ers. Bal
timore. Md. Raking aud cleaning at-
tachment FOR CRATES. L. J.. jackson
& ". Fitzgerald. Memphis, Tenn.
Water still. j. K!ar. Rodney. Miss.
Detachable coffin Iaudlp Il. Lnoini4.
and w. II. Phillips. Chattanooga.
Ten. Calculator. ID. II. Marshall, &tt.-
vens Gleea. Va. Coffee roaSter. J. i.
Matthews. Baltimore Nd. Fender aud
brake ior railway cars. j. Miller,
New Orleans, La. Automatic crank
Pin oiler 4. II. Murray and @. 5.
We'ch. Huntington. " Va. Die or
mold toi making clay shingles. ".
y. NewbeGry, Dothen. Ala Plow.
". Il. Nichols, WeIlshury. W. VI.
l'.lck dlier. p. S. Ridello. Wood
stock. Va. Sash lock. ]. r. Sasle Il
IL IaNlor. Baltimore, Mil. Coal-wae
on. @. W. Swartz, Florence. Ala.
Converter system for electric railways.
y. n. Wade, Richmond, Va. Mes
Gelegister.
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Nj. Edward Atkinson and MI. An

Nj. Edward Atkinson and Nj. An
drew Carnegie unite in the declaration
of the former that "all the material
conditions of this country are condnc-
tive 80 period of great prosp perity,
never greater, and that nothing stands
in the way but the threat Of the de-
graduation of the standard OF value
In word, those two gentlemen be-
lieve that the hair of the dog is good
for the bite. But the silverites tell us
It is because silver as the standard OF
values has been degraded that pros
perity has SO long stayed away
Richmond Dispatch, Dem.
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THE BOUNTY.

It cannot be said that the honnty
o,tInoi, At Washington is at all pro
missing. 1t has not been so from the
ht ginning of the session and the only
hope Of success has been III the active
and energetic efforts of our Congress
men. A few weeks ago we were told
that there WAS little chance of success.
Then came some encouragement.
OuI Congressmen presented the unes-
ton In so strong light as to win
aufnpev ot converts to the justice of
their claim and it Was hoped that
oilers c0;lla be won as well.
The recent decision III the Miles
case has acted as d serious check ON
all efforts to recover the earned bonn-
ty of 1894. 1t could not have been
worse or the decision occurred at Il
more inopportunc moment, for it not
only declared that the bounty was m
recoverable by law and that Congress
had a right to repeal it q any time or
minute, but it declared against boun-
ties in general. The arguments pre-
sented by the court are directly op-
posed to those advanced by our Con-
gressmen. and coming as they do
from y judicial tribunal. it would be
folly to pretend that they will not
have their weight and inhnence
They have already had the effect OF
greatly altering the attitidc Of several
Senator's and Representatives in re-
gard to the bill to pay portion of tbf
earned bounty of 1894. Several VIII
favored that measure are now doubt
fnl or even opposed to it,
The claim is one due in equity and
Justice, and must rest on that basis
Tie decision of the Court of Appeals.
| which denies the planters a lega
remedy, places all the more response
! biiity on Congress to grant the relict
asked for. The difficulties are all tie
greater than they were. bIt tins
should nerve ear Congressmen t.
greater efforts, for 50 much depend:
| on them. The planters canno: aiiftnrl
to lose the money which they had
earned and to which they are clearly
entitled in justice and common hon.
| esty without the entire State suffering
from it.-Times Democrat.
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When the average farmer realizes
that it is best for him 10 make His
farm as nearly rs possible self-sup-
porting. without regard to whether
his neigh5ors make mHel, money or
none by raising cotton. then cotton
will again be q profitable crop, what
ever it's price.-Maeon Telegraph,
Dem.
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The currency bill IS evidently par
alleling the experience Of the tariff
bill. A measure will, if possible, be
put through tie House, no, in the
hope of making it law, but to give the
Senate the opportunity 'o'frame an
act 10 which the House will be forced
to yield assent.-Brooklyn Eagle,
Dem.