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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-22
USE AYERS HAIR v1GoR FOR COLOR.

and use that oil and weIl-tried remedy, Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. for children teething;
1t soothes the child softens the gum, allays an
pain, cures wind collie and is the best remedy for
diarrhoea. rs ceuts a bottle. se1O-y
tt ERE ARE MANY FORMS OF NERVOUS De
Utility in men that yield to the use Of Carriers
Iron Pills. Those who are troubled with nervous
Weakness. night sweats, etc, should try them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-22
MAYER 3 RF so',
DOUBLE STORES, 9s7-9ss F ST.
A Superb Showing
OF Coats
And Capes

is ours-one not surpassed by any
in America as to style, fit, workman
ship and price-such an admirable
stock that it meets with praise from
every one who inspects it.
We want more ladies to know it
so We have made this a SPECIAL
WEEK in this department, and shall
continue Our SPECIAL LOW
PRICES throughout the week. No
greater values anywhere than these
Another lot of the 22-inch PLUSH
SILK CAPES which created such a
stir in Cloak Department, just
arrived Full sweep, trimmed
around collar and front with full
they f last. .p.... price, as long as $64S
22-inch AsTRAKHAN CAPE,
s v@peq Rhaaam nlen ss AND ne collar full 5000
One 2s-nch ELECTRIC SILK
JACKET, large sleeves, ripple back,
rolling collar, two buttons, box,
satin lined throughout. ............Poo.oo
24-inch SILK PLUSH CAPE,
handsome Jet and braid embroidery.
all over full sweep. Special price. Y =. ~
1 lot Of Best Quality MELTON
COATS, face lined, raw seams,
latest round lapel and collar, ripple,n %
back. Special price. .?i @.JS
lot Best Quality Blue and Black
BOUCLE CLOTH COATS, Rhadame
D D,le l.r , we've. eoilaf. spee'al SS.4o
lot SSponged Besver 3-button
BOX COATS, face lined, ripple SO
back, velvet collar. Special price. 1917
Best Quality BOUCLE 3-button
Clerical Cut MELTON COATS,
strapped seams. storm collar, Ria d.
dame silk facing. Special price,. P9./ ,
Ostrich Feather Boas.
lot 45-inch Genuine Ostrich
. nsaiaiF pr neas' iomos... Onn 1898
1 lot 45-inch Genuine Egyptian
Ostrich BOas. very full nicely ta- Do
pered. Special price. ............. PS'So
Ladies' Silk Waists.
lot Changeabe Silk Waists.
yoke front and back crushed col
price is e."a i!s. s'ee.e.. $3.25
lot Chameleon Taffeta Silk
Waists in blue, gray and green,
pleat 'front.' ua.A' speeial F price. wa $749
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Masts and Rigging.

Each of the three masts of all but very
small vessels consists of number of sticks
one above another. The "heel' of the top
mast comes "a little below the head Of
the lower mast and is secured by leap, )"
a sort of iron band, and a bar, called u
"fd. " Above the topmast comes the top
gallant mast, and above that the royal
mast
The running rigging consists of ropes
used in handling the yards and sails, and
every rope has IA distinguishing name
Halyards are ropes used to hoist yards and
sails. Braces are ropes used to swing the
yards around by.
To the beginner the names of ropes are
apt to be very confusing. Old salts are
fond of spinning yarn about lad who
wanted to go TO sea until he heard that the
fore topgallant studding sail boom tricng
lining thimhle block mousing was the
name Of about the smallest bit of rope on
board ship when he at once concluded that
uch being the case he could never expect
to master the name of the largest rope and
consequently decided to become farmer
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Hints About Screws.

Where screws are driven into soft wood
and subjected to considerable strain they
are very likely to work loose and it is Of
ten difficult to make them hold. In such
cases the use of glue is profitable. Make
the glue thick. lmmcrse "a stick about
half the size of the screw and put it into
the hole. Then put in the screw and
drive it home Us quickly as possible When
there is an article of furniture to be hastily
repaired, and no glue is at hand, bore
hole, insert the stick, fill the rest of the
cavity with pulverized rosin, then heat the
screw sufficiently to melt the rosin as it is
driven in. Where screws are driven into
wood for temporary purposes, they can be
more easily removed by dipping them in
OIL before inserting. When buying screws
notice that the heads are small and well
cut, that there are no flaws in the body or
thread part, and that they have gimlet
points. y screw of good make will drive
as easily into oak as others into pine and
will endure having twice the force brought
against it,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Expensive Trifles.

My lady's workbasket in this day and
generation is furnished with expensive tri-
files, whose immediate use is not always
obvious to TIE uninitiated.
"Nine dollars for thread winder!" ex-
claimed Il country matron who, in her
search for gold thimble, had run across
some of these knckknacks "Well | new
er! l always wrap my scraps of thread or
silk around an empty spool or u piece of
cardboard like the scooped out piece of
wood the boys at home wind their fishing
lines on" She continued to regard with
interest the flat little square of gold with
its richly chased edge
'What is this?' she asked second later,
balancing between her fingers pcncillike
arrangement, exquisitely chased, with a
smooth, oval bulb ut either end
ga glove darncr That is worth Sill"
said the clerk, anticipating her next ques-
ton. She examined the glove darncr crit
ically, and, pursuing her investigations,
speculated in turn as to the merits of the
solid gold thimble holders the emery hold
ers, necdlccascs and other articles. She
could scarcelT express her amazcmcnt that
so insignificant, everyday an affair as a
little round tape measure could be CON
trived to cost 81, and a small ivory case
equipped with tiny gold handled scissors,
needlccase, imblc and bodkin, valued at
500, nearly took away her breath.
at seems II sin and II shame to waste so
much mo. = on nonsense" she declared
energctically as she left the store.-New
York sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Metal and Vibrations.

An interesting discussion has for some
time been going on as to whether repeated
vibrations of iron and steel change the
molecular structure and produce rupture
of those metals. Some of the most expert
enced metallurgists are of the opinion that
fracture caused by repeated strains is the
result of change in the structure, and
particularly that hbrous wrought iron il
transformed into granular under continu-
Gus shocks, while Others regard such an
opinion as entirely erroneous. Numerous
experiments instituted by so practical an
operator as Badchingcr of Munich, in
which bars of iron and steel were submit
ted to repeated shocks, lead him to the con
cluslon THAI strains of iron and steel re-
pcated froqucn,, :, millions Of times, bring
about no chan" of structure. Reference
is also made to certain experiments by
which bar Of wrought iron was made to
show in two fractures only few inches
apart two distinct sources of fracture tho
one sharply crystalline, the at cr fibrous, de-
pendent simply upon whether the breaking
force was II sharp blow or slowly applied
load. Another authority points out that
crystalline appearance ON the fracture is
caused by the manner Of brcaking-that
is, transvcrscly broken fibers show granu-
lar crystalline faces; but, when pulled
apart longitudinally, the same iron will
show II iibrous structure. Again the iron
in IA bar may be crystalline at one point
and fibrous at another.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
MISCELLANY.
Don't Forget the Old Folks.

Nay, don't forget the old folks, boys-they've not
forgotten you;
Though years have passed since you were HON g,
the old hearts still are true
And not night e'er passes by they haven't the de
sire
To see your faces once again. and hear your foot.
steps higher.
So write them now and then twill bring fresh light
unto their eyes
CLEAN the skies
You're young and buoyant, and for you Hope holds
her outstretched hands,
And life spreads out waveless sea, that laps but
tropc strands
The world is all before your face, but let your
thoughts oft turn
To where fond hearts will cherish you and loving
bosoms yearn.
And write the old folks now and then-'twll gladden.
fading eyes,
And make the world glow bright again and bluer
CLEAN the skies.
No matter what your duties are, nor what your
place in life,
There's never been time they'd not assume you
load of strife;
And shrunken shoulders, trembling hands and
forms racked by disease,
Would go down to the grave to bring you the pearl
of peacel
So write them now and then-'twill bring the light
into their eyes,
And make the world glow bright awhile and bluer
CLEAN the skiesi Memphis Appeal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
The Chinese Court.

The ceremonial of the Chinese court Is
somewhat exacting. 1t used to include,
If 1t does not now, complete prostratior
before the throne Last century Per-
sian envoy refused to go through the de-
grading ordeal Directions were given to
the officials to compel him by stratagem
to do So On arriving one day at the en-
trance to the hall of audience, the envoy
found no means of going in except by a
wicket, which would compel him to
stoop very low. With great presence of
mind and considerable audacity the en-
bassador turned round and entered back
ward, thus saving the honor of his coun-
try. London Standard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10

me. I feel better than have for years.
1t seems a seven days wonder to my
friends. Where | used to be pitied,
everything is the opposite, and there is
not day but what some one wants to
know what l have done to work such a
wonder
Before taking the Compound I had
constant hea laches; was constipated;
bloated; eyes weak, with watery whites;
bearing down palms, pains in the small
of my back and right side; took cold
very easily, which always caused intense
pain in ovaries. | did not want to 20
anywhere or see any one.
was called cross, but | could not
help it, feeling as did. coull not lift
anything or do any hard work without
suffering for days afterward Menstru-
alton lasted from eight to ten days, the
first two or three days being in almost
constant pain, day an nj int.
"LVdid e. Pinkhtm'S Vegetable Com
pound has made new girl of me; am
now well, happy, and strong" Yours
truly, A sTENoGRAPHER, Denver, Col.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Some Useful Suggestions.

A broken cup handle may be made very
pearly us good as new by using thick
paste of gum arabic and water, into which
has been FRED plaster of paris until the
mixture is Of the consistency of cream.
Perhaps here may be lamps to clean
among yor duties. If so, perhaps you
will like to learn that if new wick, be-
fore being lhcd, is soaked in vinegar and
allowed to dry, it will never smoke. And
that your chimneys should never be
washed, but rubbed clear with cloth
dampened with alcohol. When your burn
ers get black and sticky, carry them to the
kit hen, pour vinegar into Il pot, add ta-
blespOonful of salt and leave the burners
to boil in this. They will come out nearly
as fresh as new.
Have you the windows to washp No
need to slop water about. Pour upon your
wet cloth little kerosene, rub the panes
dry with newspaper and polish with a soft
towel Equally clever and labor saving is
The method of polishing your mahogany
dining table, using one part of vinegar to
three of pure raw linseed oil, and with a
soft wooden cloth lightly dipped in this,
polishing it to IA mirrorlike surface; also
the way to brighton and clean gilt frames
with brush dipped into pint of cold
water in which was mixed II gill of vine
gar and cleaning the piano keys with alco-
hol.-Illizahcth Bisland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
A Talk With Parents.

In one of her "Talls With Parents"
Mrs. Ada Marian Hughes discusses the
case of n mother who had severely pun
shed her 4ycar-old boy for drawing a
charcoal picture ON the parlor wall. The
child being IA mere baby, was unconscious
that he had been doing wrong. Mrs
Hughes says: Give your boy material Of
his own with which TO work out his ideas,
and treat him as if he were gift to you
from the center of all love and good and
not a representative of evil If your boy had
been supplied properly with lead pencils,
black and colored, and with plenty of pa
per, in sheets and in book form. he would
not have marked your wall. Printing pa.
per is best for him, and its cost is trining.
The cost of cigar will supply him with
paper for a month
The paper from the grocer makes excel
lent drawing paper, and costs nothing
supply him with plenty of sand ard clay
and paper, white and in 6.lors, for draw
Ing, painting, cutting, folding and past
Ing, and wood FOR cutting as he pleases,
and blocks for building and old paper
boxes and wooden boxes to form cities and
mills and cars and engines, and spools and
little wheels that have come from broken
machines thc works of an old clock NAV
be worth millions to him), and at least IA
good small saw, and "A hammer, and pair
Of pinchers and some small wire nails
Girls should have most of this material
too, with a slight variation, chiefly the
substitution of cloth for wood. The ma
terial for constructive occupation costs far
less than the material for destructive occu-
pation.-Jenness Miller Monthly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
The Possibilities of Pals.

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Proper Use Of the Bicycle.

DIR. Champonniere says that women will
find the wheel II perfect means of exercise.
He sternly condemns the idea of bicycle
racing for women. Searching by wom-
en-, he maintains, cannot be too severely
denounced rs it may lead to serious evils
and irrctrieyably iniure the health instead
of building it up.
If wheeling is kept within wise limits,
1t will give To women muscular develop
ment which many of them sadly need. 1t
will improve the general health and radi-
cally modify many forms of malaise en-
gendercd by too sedcntary life.
1t gives besides suprlencss to the figure
and precision and address to the move
ments and cultivntcs courage and quick
ness of eye. Wheeling too is one of the
few sports IN which IA husband and wife
and their offspring can all participate at
the Same time and with equal benefit.
Women should be very careful not to do
too much mt the start. The lessons at first
should not hc too long or too frequent. No
long rides should be taken and no climbing
should be done except on the gentlest
gradients.
long time should be taken to habtu-
ate the muscles 10 tie new exercise, and
even after size is iEu.cd TO the cXcrtion the
woman who contcmpla,cs II series of long
rides should enter course of gradual
training.
The golden rule for the female 'llcyclist
is medication. Fast riding not only re-
qurcs more energy, but is too great IL
strain on the heart. Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
A Strange Sensitiveness.

Many persons show so strange a sensi-
tivcness to the question of age that their
friends may well avoid the entire subject.
When Mrs ;. c. Hall was at least 20 years
old, she met at n reception IA young clergy
man who was apparently delighted to SEQ
her.
Mrs Hall, said hc 81 remember read
ing your books when | was u chilli. and
that l was especially charmed by the Irish
stories"
"Then, sir, flashed Mrs. Hail. "if you
read my books when You were IA child, you
ought to know better than to say So "
The mother of Julia kavanaugh was %
woman of great intellectual power and un-
usual force of character, but even when
she was so years old she was ashamed of
her age.
One day she went with her French maid
to the cemetery at Nice to visit the tomb
she had erected to her daughter. The two
were standing before the stone when the
maid innocently read the inscription. Ju-
liza kavanaugh had then been dead seven
years, and her age, 54, was of course re-
corded
"Madam must be very old" remarked
the maid
"Old" exclaimed Mrs. Kavanaugh
"Why should be oldf What do you know
about my agcy"
Mademoiselle was 81 when she died. 5"
continued the girl land she has been dead
some time. Therefore madam must be
very old
Mrs Kavanaugh said nothing, but next
day she sent a mason to the cemetery and
had the telltale figures removed Youth S
Companion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10

AN ASTOUNDING BUsINEss,-So large is
the demand for Moxie, after eight years
there is not room enough in the new twelve
acre union station in Boston to make it, II
1t should be used as factory. There are
now twenty factories in the United States,
all in charge of the Lowell office. The COM
pany had over thirty bushels OF testimonials
sent to them voluntarily last year. Scores
of helpless people from malnutrition of the
brain and nerves many people who be-
came insane from overwork thousands of
cases of nervous exhaustion, and as many
of weakly cJnvalescents, were recovered
after medicine had failed. Thousands of
people write from all over the United States
to congratulate the company, and state that
viii using it they can do double the work
they on hit TO and not break down. What
are its possibilities in the future if eight
years will win its present conditions? There
is no surprise that the stock of the company
is not for sale. There are two reasons for
its popularity, |. e., its harmless, luscious,
useful character and its value compared
with the price-sixteen cents per bottle il
bought by the case of twelve bottles and the
empties are returned. Signature of A.
Thompson, NJ. d, on label over the cork
on the genuine. Will send case TO remote
sections OF the country, freight free, for
$500 per case, and pay back sixty cents for
the empty bottles and case. Address Moxie
Nerve Food Company, Lowell, Mass, or
apply TO any druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
SUM MARY OF NEWS.
Domestic.

JAMES r. GARFIELD has been nominated
by the republicans for state senator in Ohio.
He is a son OF the late Pre- sident Garfield
and he receives his first political honors on
the fourteenth anniversary of the day on
which Guiteau shot his father.
DELEGATES from the Canadian and Amer
lean Protective Associations held secret
convention AT Detroit, Mich, last week. for
the purpose OF forming an international
protective association. Officers were elected
but their names are kept secret.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC train was held IN
last week Wednesday in the Cow Creek
canyon The robbers took jewelry, money
and other valuables from the passengers
and rifed the mail pouches, but failed in
their efforts to break open the express car
Mrs. LELAND STANFORD sails for Europe
this month, and, while there, will sell her
jewels so that she may apply the proceeds
to carrying on the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University at Palo Alto. The need of ready
money is given az the object The Jewels
are valued at 81 100000.
THE strike in the Elkhorn mining region
OF West Virginia is growing serious. The
1000 miners who have been out on strike
are reduced almost to starvation, and, as
many OF them will be refused employm emit.
are growing desperate. Adjutant White Of
the governors staff thinks troops will be
required to preserve order. The strike has
lasted two months.
The country around Denison, Texas, was
Hooded last week. 1t has rained almost
constantly for the past month"; with no
prospect OF abatement The oat crop is
much injured, cotton is in the weeds, and
the farmers are respondent. Red River is
rising and threatening to overflow its banks
The rainfall is the greatest in twenty years.
The corn crop is intact and will be one of
the largest yields ever known.
REV. JOHN A. BROOKS, pastor OF the Chris
tan Church Of Memphis, Tenn, has re-
signed. In his resignation he did not clearly
intimate the reason for such q step, but It
has developed that it was due to the persist
ence OF several women OF his flock, lead ers
in society, in playing progressive euchre and
similar games where prizes were contested
for. After exhausting his powers Of pers ua-
sion and Christian counsel, DR.. Brooks an.
nounced to them that these social practices
must cease or he would resign. The issue
was made and his resignation was accepted.
The same issue is said to have caused his
predecessor to give up the pastorate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Covers for Dainty Books.

Useful as well as ornamental covers
for books and magazines may be made
out of linen, silk or brocade, and subse.
quently decorated, writes Florence Bar.
rett in The Ladies' Home Journal.
How to protect the lovely covers of an
edition de luxe while we read and enjoy
the book is answered by these temporary
covers. For George Eliot's "Romolo''
bound in white and gold, make one Of
scarlet MORE, with the name "Romolo, "
and the design ON the cover repeated in
gold thread, For Browning bound in
white and stamped with sweet peas, an
appropriate cover would be gray MORE
on which is embroidered q branch of ap
pie blossoms with tiny brown thrush
on the branch. For the poets line from
their worls-from Longfellow, for in.
stance:
The gentle wind, sweet and passionate
wooer
Kisses the blushing leaf.
For Hood
Boughs are daily rifled
BY the gusty thieves,
And the book Of nature
Getteth short of leaves.
For Scott:
/ cannot tell how the truth may be.
say the tale as twas said to me.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
Nothing Like it on Earth,
AND IT COMES JULY "a.

"Oh, they're all alike" may apply to the
ordinary circus, but does not TO Buffalo
Bills Wild West Show and Worlds Con.
gress of Rough Riders, for nothing of a
similar character, or to be compared to it,
was ever organized under a canvas canopy,
or that of the stars themselves. 1t is an ex-
clusively distinct wonder Of both magnitude
and realism, and such tremendous object
school of Frontier Life and International
Craftsmanship, as Col. W. +. Cody-"Buf-
falo Bill''-only could organize. Before its
inception he had won national fame as the
first OF scouts, Indian fighters and hunters
and with it, even when much smaller than
it is at present, he made himself the best
known and most popular man of his era,
receiving the admitting personal recogni-
ton of the royalty and distinction of the
Old World, and appeared before many mil
lions of people, on both sides the sea. Sue
cess has bred in him the emulation to sur
pass himself, and the present season he has
done so in perfecting most stupendous,
splendid and realistic entertainment OF his
toric value and irresistible attraction. A
grand stand, with seats for twenty thousand
people and brilliantly illuminated by a
double special electric plant OF $50 600 can
die power, incloses a colossal arena, such
as is required for the displays, and sports in
which some twelve hundred persons and
six hundred horses participate; illustrating
the military, rough and savage equestrian
ism of the world, and every phase of that
far Western life of daring and danger.
which possesses so much romantic fascina-
ton for all We cannot here attempt to
enumera-e the multitude of reproductions
and pastimes which go to make up this
monster show; but they constitute an exhi-
btion which is everywhere creating a tre-
mendous furore, and as they will not be
seen here second time, IL Is safe to assume
will attract thousands here on Wednesday,
July "a.