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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-19
DOMES TIC DOTS.
telegraph News from All Parts ~
the Land Over Which the EtaRs
and Stripes WaTs.
The City of Pnra.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 1S-It is re-
ported that the Pacific Mail Steamship
company will bring the steamship City
of Para to the Pacific, and operate her
on the Panama line.
The company has several steamers in
the Atlantic which will be thrown out
of commission by the compact with the
Panama company, and ii is not tmprob-
able that at least a portion of them viii
be brought here.
The Texas.
NEW YORK. Dec 1S.-The official trip
of the U. s. S. Texas. which was to have
been made today, was postponed until
tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-19
Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-Chief Justice
Fuller announced in the supreme court to-
day that court would ADJOURN for the holi-
days ON Monday until January &
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-19

distance of war; It is now question
of the national honor on which the
queens government cannot bulge an
inch.
Yesterday we could treat 1t as an
exhibition of personal strong-headed-
ness. Today the situation is altered
We trust that prudent counsels may
yet prevail, but the difficulty rests en-
tirely now with America. We dare
not recede without shame. We have
seen too we'll what arbitration means
with America We paid the monstrous
Alabama war claim, but the United
States still refuses to pay the small
J2ar,ircr con yl.a m q
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-19
Is TT War:

The Graphic asks in its headlines:
RS 1t Warp and continued: Whether
st is a bugzboo or a second elaboration
M has brought us within a measurable
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
The Castor Oil Plant.

The castor oil plant, from the brown
seeds of which this useful oil is extracted,
is among the tropical plants that grow
readily here during the summer and It's
deep, metallic green, much pinated leaves
make il an ornamental plant.
The writer in walking by the arsenal in
Central park with friend who has spent
several years in India, was surprised to
hear what IA really useful plant it Is.
"The plant" said the friend land
many of its virtues have been known in
India for centuries, but it is "A fact never
thelcss that the first of this oil was eX-
ported to Europe from the West Indies
near the end IF the eighteenth century. In
India the oil is much used as an illuml-
nant. If the oil has been cold drawn and
has been carefully and properly separated,
there is none better. Another thing in its
favor is that, owing to its slow combus-
ton, saving of nc-quarter to one-half Is
made by using it, rs compared with other
oils. 1t makes an excellent lubricant and
is much used in the dressing of tanned
hides and skins. The natives use it large
" for preserving their water buckets and
without it the 'beeste wallah, or water
carrier, would have to renew his leather
bag or bucket in which he carries the wa
ter around much oftener than he does now.
1.-THE 'syce, or groom, uses it to Keep
the 'sahib's' harness in good order, and a
valuable attribute of the oil is, specially in
such climate as India, that it repels rats
! and vermin. In Asam the plant is widely
cultivated as food for the slkworm. The
stalks, which give an excellent pulp, are
used for matching purposes. The oilcakt
Is largely consumed as fuel and is alsc
used as a manure. In Jaipur the palace
public offices and streets are lighted with
gas made from "A cheap variety of castor
oil, grown for the purpose. The natives
use the leaves as fodder for their cattle
| declaring that it increases the yield OF
| milk. one thing they have not succeeded
yet in doing in India, and that is to produce
a marketable medicinal oil, This Is chieil.
made in France, Belgium and England
from the imported seeds, Bombay doing
largo export trade in this industry, New
York Tribune,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
A Relic of the Armada.

Ancient coins and other souvenirs Of the
past are constantly finding their way into
Irish banks l have seen handful of gold
pieces belonging to the fifteenth century
which were dug out under the ruins of an
old church. But the most curious thing
ever saw presented at a bank was handed
to me about this time. One day a beggar
put something wrapped up in brown paper
on the counter before me and asked if it
was worth anything opened the parcel
and found it contained q peculiarly shaped
piece of old metal, terribly eaten into by
rust.
asked the man where he found it, and
what he meant by thinking it was of value
and he replied that he picked it up on tho
seashore. He proceeded to scrape off some
of the rust and pointed to u thin plate Of
gold beneath. / requested him to leave it
with me for few days, and that evening
with the aid of some acids, l cleaned it up
so as to be able to perceive that it was "a
sword hilt of apparently very ancient
make. There was an inscription on the
gold, but with the exception of the word
"Dios, - it was illegiblc. l sent the hilt to
the museum and received reply inform
ing me that it was probably relic of the
Spanish armada, which had at last been
washed ashore after having been for CEN
turtles at the bottom of the sea- The au-
thorities inclosed 60 for the poor finder,
who needless to say, was delighted to re-
ceive them. -Chambers Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Boys in Turkey.

Away In Turkey we cannot help feel
ing sorry for the poor little boy in his red
fez, with his small share of toys and his
monotonous Koran to commit to memory
But he has his horse, and every Turkish
boy can ride, and no doubt you have heard
the phrase He can ride like a Turk"
have not been able to fiI& any national
fete in the land of FL salem aleikum
peace be with your, save the great mill
tary parade which takes place when the
sultan goes TO church, and this is very
rare, for he seldom attends worship.
Some friends of mine who witnessed his
majesty going to church on a Sunday in
Constantinople say the procession accom-
panying him WAS the grandest military
display they ever witnessed. First in the
procession came the sultan, next in the
royal cortegc were his sons, his mother, his
nearest relatives, then his favorite wives,
With the other women of the harem. All
GonstantinopIe turns out in gala attire,
and the center of the square of the mosque,
with its gilt crescent and dome, was q
solid mass of soldiers in gorgeous uniforms
and magnificent armor.-New York Mail
and EXPRESS. -rl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
A Heroine OF Chile.

During the rebellion in Chile one young
girl had the chance of distinguishing her
self at moment of danger and hesitated
not an instant in embracing it, This was
the daughter of John Claudio Vicuna, and
her father thus described the story Of her
horoism to the author of Ozark Days In
Chile:"
Zone evening at o'clock, during my
absence, my daughter was writing some
letters for me at a table Suddenly she
heard crash of broken glass, followed by
room, and there had been so much bomb
work of late that instinctively she guessed
what had happened.
Before she could collect herself suffi-
GENTLY to rush for the door a second bomb
was hurled in and rolled almost to her
feet, providentially without exploding.
This she picked up and threw from the
other window into the court below. Then,
seeing that some brown paper was smol-
dering in half open box of rifle cartridges,
she quickly dashed large jug of water
over 1t.
"By this time the servants had rushed
in and succeeded in extinguishing the fire,
which had caught the curtains and furni-
ture.
But my brave girl, remembering that
had gone out unarmed, took my revolver
snd started out alone to meet me on my
way home, and it was not until had been
provided with the weapon that she told me
what had happened"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
The Literary Hack.

Hack writer's, who arc also bohe-
mians, tell pretty yarns about the
great sums of money that they earn.
l fancy that the bohemian hack usu-
ally computes his earnings in this
way: When he conceives an idea for
a 500 article, he counts that he has
made 800. Then when he gets an
order for the article he counts 500.
When he writes it, there is another
hundred; when he turns it in to the
editor, another hundred; when it is
accepted, another; when he gets the
money, still another. So with this
one poor little article the sanguine
and cheerful bohemian hack will in
the end, according to his happy
method of computation, have made
$500 No wonder that we hear of lit
erary hacks who make S10 900 and
$40, 900 "a year But they do not make
it by long shot. 1t is not possible
for hack unless he have some spe-
oial and exceptional good luck to
make more than Sc, 900 a year.
have made that much, bpt ! av-
erage only little less than S., 600 a
year To do this l work every day
in the year, and in all my walks
abroad my eyes have to. be, always
open for Subjects. 1t may be interest
ing to make q transcript from my
account book for year. This will
show the sources of hacks income
and indicate in some measure the
amount of work that had to be done.
l do not for obvious reasons state
what wears account this is:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
girl yet. Like as not she's got the

girl yet. Like as not she's got the
money in her pocket"
"That's sol" exclaimed the others.
But no one of them seemed quite will
ing to lay hands on the trim little figure
at the sink
"Come, Miss, turn out your pocketsl"
cried the toughest looking of the men.
Mary could not help stealing glance
at Will. She saw that he had grown
very pale, and was regarding her with
beseeching yet hopeless look. She
gave him a bright, reassuring glance,
and, stepping to the table, proceeded to
empty her single pocket of everything it
contained. Then she turned the pocket
inside out, and held it up with the tips
of her fingers.
Will that do2" she asked.
"S'pose it'll have to-" was the sullen
reply.
The search went on for fifteen or
twenty minutes longer. Then team
was heard approaching, and the rob-
bers, with nervous timidity and appre-
hensiveness of men not accustomed to
such business as they were in, stole out
the back door. The moment they had
left the room Mary Hewitt dashed to
the front door, threw it open, and
screamed for help. The approaching
carriage proved to be that of the min
lister. The good old man drove into
the yard, slowly alighted, and ex-
claimed:
"why, my dear! What is the mat
ter?"
Matter enough, Mr.. Nortonp cried
Mary, in faltering voice. There are
burglars in the housed" And then she
broke down completely and began to
sob. But by this time WILLIS lusty cries
for help had drawn the minister through
the house to the kitchen, where he
hastily proceeded to cut the cords which
bound the young mans hands and feet.
The would-be robbers, thoroughly
frightened when they heard the team
drive into the yard, had by this time
made their way to the woods on the
other side of the pasture, and did not
venture to return,
1t was a grateful and amused, though
somewhat sgitated, little circle that sur
rounded the half baked sponge-cake,
as Mary drew it from the oven, and eX.
claimed, as she ran knife through the
pasty mass and disclosed the roll OF
bills:
Four and twenty bank-notes
| Baked in pie
When the pie was opened
| Cook began to cryl
And cry she did, from nervous reac-
ton and for very joy. But Will says
she is the dearest, bravest, cleverest lit.
tie sister in the whole wide world
James Buckham, in The Outlook.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
st. Dympna's Shrine.

In very early days Gheel seems to have
been a kind of Lourdcs. A certain ST
Dympna, who lies buried there-an Irish
woman, by the way-was supposed to have
les fables d'esprit under her special pro-
lection. 1t was the custom, therefore,
throughout the Netherlands for persons
who had insane relatives to take them to
her tomb and there offer special prayers to
her for their recovery If tradition is to
be relied upon, the saint was by no means
loath to give proof of her benefccnt power
and wonderful stories are told of the way
in which she used t9 restore geas9n 70 those
who had lost it. Still even in those times
miracles were not wrought every day.
Some of the sufferers who went to Ghcel
had to wait for months-nay, years-bcforG
they were healed, while others were never
healed at all And while waiting they had
to be taken care of. At first the inno-
cents, as st. Dympnas proteges We're call
ed, were all lodged in little huts or caves
around the church, but as the fame of
Gheel spread abroad they increased in
number, and it became necessary to make
other arrangements. They were then
boarded out with the peasants living in
the village, and there were so many OF
them at length that every family had its
innocent.-Cornhill MAGAZINE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

the snowdrop and the arbutus, taking
just as much care as possible.
/ am the helpful March wind, hot ho
Springs message l bring as / blow, blow,
blow,
sang little March to the baby pussy
willows swinging high in their cradles
on the branches above. The little
blossoms stretched themselves and tim
idly pushed out further. Finding
everything mild and gentle, they grew
holder, and said: "Thank you, little
March, for waking u.s."
am the helpful March wind, hol hoi
Many blessings 1 bring as I blow, blow,
blow.
What do you think crept up softly be-
hind him as he was singingp His little
sister April When she heard his
song, it made her 80 happy she didn't
know whether to laugh or to cry. But,
finally, the tears showered down her
cheeks; as she looked up through her
tears, she saw March pass out of sight.
He had left her to carry on the work
which he had begun for the year.
Elizabeth S. Delapierre, in The Outlook,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Running for Boys.

Every American boy should learn to
run. In Greece in the days when men and
women took better care of their bodies
than they ever have since every boy, and
girl, too, was taught to rum just as the
American child is taught to read. And as
far as we can judge by the statues they
have left behind them there were very
few hollow chested, spindle legged boys
among the Greeks. The Persian boy was
taught to speak the truth, run, ride and
shoot the bow.
The English boy is encouraged to run
In fact, at some of the great English pub
lie schools boys of 10 and ii years of age,
like Tom Brown and East at Rugby, can
cover six and eight miles cross country in
the great hare and hound runs. Every boy
Is turned out twice Il pyeek, out of doors,
and made to run and fill himself full of
pure fresh air and sunshine and gain
more strength and life than any amount
of weight pulling or dumbbeu work in
stuffy gymnasiWns would give him. See
the result-the English boys, as whole,
are stronger set than we American boys.
Every English schoolboy is TO some extent
an athlete And that is what American
boys should be. Not because football,
baseball and tennis are valuable in them
selves, but for the good they do in
strengthening boys bodies.
BY playing ball every day for hours in
the open air, by exercising his arms, back
and leg muscles in throwing, batting run
ming and sliding, by going to bed early
and giving up all bad habits in preparation
for the games, boy stores up strength,
which he can draw on all his life long
That is why every boy should be an ath
lete. But not every boy can play football
or baseball He may not be heavy OF
strong enough; he may never be able tc
acquire the knack of catching or batting
the ball. Every boy can become runner
S. Scoville Jr, in ST. Nicholas.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
A Message to the Sun.

Sir Robert Ball, who has an unequaled
faculty of throwing light upon astronom-
ical facts which are ordinarily beyond the
power of the human mind to grasp has
underworld in the last of his lectures to
suggest the uncomfortable distance of some
of the stars in the heavens.
Taking electricity which will travel
around the world seven times in one sec
ond, or as it is generally calculated, $780,
600 miles a second, as the unit of speed,
Sir Robert Ball shows that 1t would take
eight minutes to send message to the
sun. To reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest
star, however, would take no less than
four years. Many Of the still more remote
stars would be still unreached if an cleo
trical impulse had been dispatched to
them at the time of the battle of Waterloo,
50 years ago, and had been continuously
travelling in their direction at its normal
gait of $50, 600 miles a second.
Again, there are over our heads thou
sands of stars so distant that If the news of
the discovery of America by Columbus
had been circulated far and wide through
the universe by the fundamentally of the
telegraph these thousands of stars are ele-
waited into boundless space at an altitude
so stupcndous that the announcement
would not yet have reached them. Many
stars are only known to us by the 'impres'
sion they make on a Photographic plate.
Many of these are so far from this earth
that If the tidings Of the first Christmas
at Bethlehem many years ago had beer
disseminated through the universe by the
electric current all the seconds which have
elapsed in the /, 1874 years Of our present
era would not have sufiiced for the jour
ney .-Pittsburg Dispatch
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Long Lived Norwegians.

Norway is a small country, and the say
ings and doings of its people do not get
Into newspaper type very often, but the
Norwegians nevertheless have claim
upon celebrity due TO the fact thai the av.
erage length of life is greater there than in
any other country in Europe. Recent sta
tistics show that for males the average Is
48 years and 3 months; for females it is 8!
years and months
1t is u valuable commentary on this that
the mortality in Norway is II per cent less
than in the center or west of Europe, this
being due to the fact that far smaller
number of infants die there than in any
other country. New York World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

The year when made more than
Sc, 900 1 had one fee of 81, 900 for re-
writing a book for wealthy gentle
man who wished to show to the
world that he could do something
else besides accumulate money. He
did not pay my fee very cheerfully,
and as the book brought him no
fame, but came quite stillborn from
the press, he blames me for its lack
of success. And he is quite right. If
it had been printed as he wrote it, it
would have added materially to the
gayety of nations and would proba-
bly, have rivaled as a curiosity that
wonderful Portuguese grammar
which expounded English as she is
spoke. Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
The Whitest City in the World,

There cannot possibly be u whittier city
than Cadiz, unless it be built of snow. The
best way to approach the port is to take u
trip on one of She small steamers which
ply between the ports of Marocco and
Spain. AS you near the coast you sec in
front of you white mass which appears to
be floating upon the water, just us you are
The first thought of n foreigner is that he
Is in sight of an iceberg The white mass,
glittering in the sun and rendered more
dazzling by the blue sea and sky, looks ex-
actly like monster ice mountain partly
melted, so that outlines of castles and hill
appear upon It, but only for second does
the illusion last for you know there arc
no icebergs in that part, and you are quick
IL informed that you are looking at Cadiz.
No other town in tho world presents such
q magic appearance
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Central Vermont Railroad.
Commencing June 80, 1895.

Trains Going South and East ,oiA Leave Mont
pelier as follotos'
S:55A Nj. MAIL, for Fitchburg, Boston, Spring
I2; 80 p. NJ FAST TRAIN, for Bostonvia Low
eI sol: a1s I p M, PKssENaES, for White River
.I2:4O A. NJ. EXPRESS, for Boston via Lowell
and all points in New England New York and South
Trains Going North and West:
1850 A, NJ. EXPRESS, for Montreal, ogdens-
Io:iSA. M. PASSENGER. for Burlington, st.
Adams, Richford. Highgate Springs and ogdens-
burg making connections for Rutland Troy Al
$50 p. M PASSENGER. fer Burlington. st,
Adams, Montreal. Ogdensburg and Richford. wag-
ner paror car to Montreal CONNECTING az swanton
81 IS r. nj. EXPRESS, for Burlington. Con.
Meeting with G. t. Co.'s boat for Plattsburgh' ar.
g: Is p. Nj. EXPRESS for Burlington, St. AL
bans Rouse's Point and Montreal Pullman sleeping
car Montpelier to Chicago without change Due
junction for Troy, Albany and New York.
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West tor
sale at the principal stations.
Suburban Train Service.
Leave Montpelier at 7;l5 9;l5 1850, A. NJ, l. 10,
| $3.50, 1900 P. NJ Arrive at Barre twenty minutes
Leave Barre at 40, $50 A. NJ, 90 M, S05, $50,
| $3.50, p M Arrive at Montpelier. twenty min
| utes after leaving time.
Trains leave for wlismstown At l'lO p NJ an
sDaiiy, Sundays included. Sundays only.
All passenger trains will stop at the Pioneer orks
| to take or leave passengers when signsied.
| E.w. THOMPSON, Agent
p. W. BALDWIN, General Superintendent
J o. W. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
ESTATE OF soLoN F. CUMMINs.
DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON, SO,

DIsTRIOT OF WAsHINGTON, IS.
In Probate Court held Montpelier in and for said
District on the 9th day of August, A. d. 1895;
Albert Q. Cummins, Administrator of the estate
of SOLON +. CUMM1NS, late of Montpelier, in
said District deceased presents his administration
account for examination and allowance, and makes
application for decree of distribution and partition
OF the estate of said deceased. Whereupon, 1t
Ia ordered by said Court that said account and
said application be referred to a session thereof.
to be held at the Probate ONCE, in said Mont
peler. on the 18th day of September. A ID. 1895,
for hearing and decision thereon And IL Ia furth
ordered that notice hereof be given to all in
terested by publication of the same three weeks
cessively In the Vermont Waterman State Journal,
a newspaper published at Montpelier, previous to
said time appointed for hearing that they may APP
pear at said time and place, and show cause II any
they may have, why said account should not be al
lowed, and such decree made.
1855 HIRAM CARLETON Judge
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
ESTATE OF JAMES BOYLES.

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District OF Wash
ngton commissioners to receive, examine and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against the
tate of JAMES BOYLES, late of Marshheld, in
said District deceased, and all claims exhibited
In offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
will meet for the purposes aforesaid at his late
residence, In the town of Marshfed in said District,
on the 18th day of September and the nth day of
oclockP NJ. each Of said days, and that six months
from the 18th day of August, A. d. 1885, Is the time
limited by said Court for said creditors to pre-
sent their claims to us for examination and allow
Dated at Marshhed, this 3lst day of August, A. d,
1895. EDGAR a. LAMBERToN,l Commissioner.
64-66 e. V, SPENCER.