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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06
The HOUSEHOLD.
Two Prayers.

Our minister gets up to pray, an let's the spirit
flow,
An tells the Lord a lot Of things he thinks he ought
to know;
Tells him about the government, how ~politics1l
turn
Coz he don't mix in politics, an hez no way to
learn.
He breaches on the president. an describes his
evil natur',
An gives away the cabinet an our venal legisla-
tur';
Shows how corruption testers, an tells Of things, I
fear,
That the Lord-they come so sudden will be sur
prised to hear.
prayer,
%Sandwiched In with choice statistics which he picks
up everywhere.
They say the Lord knows everything, sometimes l
ulster doubt;
Now. know, our pastor tells him. thet's the way he
fms 1t out.
In the meetin' t'other evenin' he lifted up his
face,
An much interestln' gossip laid before the Throne
of Grace.
Chunks OF useful Information did he shrewdly in
t%ersperse,
Thet would make the Lord enlightened ez to all the
universe.
Then, Jim Drew, the drunken sailor, Jest riz up
there in the aisle,
An though twas in a holy place, we couldn't for
bear to smile;
But Deacon Briggs, he nudged me hard; SEE he,
"Don't grin that way,
For, don't ye see. he's sober, and the rascal's goin'
to pray"
He started in an SEE, 20 Lord Pm jest chuck full
er sin,
An there amt no place, I reckin, for your mercy to
squeeze in;
For Pm Jest good for nothin', an an ole wreck from
the sea;
Take mel amt wuth takin'-but l give myself to
thee"
Then he broke down an blubbered out, an Jest set
down to bawl,
An then there came a loud " Ameni" that near
burst through the wall.
We knew a spark of heavenly FIRE had touched this
earthly clod,
For his soul in all les nakedness had shown itself to
God.
There want much learnin' in his prayer. but yet II
travelled far,
An went Hoatin' up to glory, where the shinin
angels are.
The pastors prayer, so weighted down 18th iggers
facts, and proof.
the roof. Sam Walter Foss,
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She Rebuked Him.

Miss .Jarc Addan-the "St. Jane" Of
Hull HOu.o fanlo, whose work shows her
to be anything but an injudicious or de-
morulizing rhilanthrupist-tcllS Il story at
the expense Of those who are afraid to help
anybody for fear Of hurting somebody.
Tic incident ccurrcd in Boston, whore
Miss Aduum had been visiting the homes
of the poor. Her companion was a we'll
to do BOstunian, who had theories as to
the danger Of ''paupcrizing'' the poor,
which forbade him to give anything, what
ever the need.
In one house they found u destitute old
woman, whose condition moved them
both to pity. Tie young man stood FIRM
ly to his principle, however, and after
leaving tic house expressed to Miss Addam
the difficulty with which ne had restrained
himself from giving, aud so perhaps pau
pcrizing' the woman,
Immediately altcrward the two took "a
horse car, and the young gentleman start
ed at to ay his companions fare, but
Miss Addam stopped him.
81 do not recognize class distinctions, -
she said to the discounted thcorist, "and
/ object to being paupcrized." And sho
paid her own fare.-Youth's Companion.
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Care of the Baby.

1 have been talking with a young moth
er about her baby, writes a woman. She
tells mo there Is nothing in the world
about which every one is willing to give
so much free information and advice as
upon this subject of n new baby. One
woman who comes in to call upon her
looks the baby over and says, "You in it
too tight" Then she unpins its surcingle
and things, and the next woman who
comes in says: "Oh, you must pin its
clothes tighter. You'll make it pot bel
lied" Then she pins it up again.
Another woman says, "You don't feed
1t enough" the next woman says, "IOu
feed the child too much" Another wom-
an recommends saffron tea and somebody
else catnip. Another woman says, "You
battle it too often" another, "You don't
battle it often enough, " and another tells
a story about the ricketts,. One woman
says, "Never rock your child, and anoth-
or says, "Its clothes are too long"
Everybody examines its f~lannels, and
most persons think she dresses it too warm
and others warn her against Group. She
keeps IA poison antidote list on the wall
AND sleeps with IL thermometer on the head
of the bed and Group medicine under he:
pillow and carries camphor gum in her
pocket, She is in IA ilutter from morning
till night and from night till morning.,
AND is so approhcnsive that when that
baby looks crosswise she is plunged into
anxiety and despair.
Then, when her husband comes home
and she suggests a new plan of action lIr
that baby and confesscs that Mrs. Wiscacre
conflded the principle to her, he grows
fierce and assures her that he offered that
same idea weeks ago, but she refused to
follow it. Then he calls his female adyis-
ers cold hens, " and about that time any
young mothers cup Of sorrow is pretty
full.
There is such a lot of cruel realism
mixed up with the ideal in life.-Phila-
delphia Press.
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Private Soldiers of Means.

One hardly thinks of the private SOL
der as a man likely to make and save
money, yet he sometimes does both.
A thrifty soldier after several terms of
enlistment is likely to have a neat lit
tie sum in bank or invested. The pri-
vate is sometimes a landowner, some
times the possessor of a little shop. If
some Il of the perquisites of army life
falls to his lot he is likely to become a
small capitalist. A private from a post
lear a famous watering place spoke
with pride the other day of his good for
tune. His pay was S1o a month and
he had S15 a month extra for clerical
work. But besides all this he owned a
little bicycle repair shop, where a re-
pairer employed by the month looked
to the wheels of the fashionable folks
at the resort. Here the soldier cleared
$500 a year, so that his income above
living expenses was about $500 more
than many mechanics earn and about
the income of the best paid street
car conductors hat work nearly every
day in the year. When he gave this &C.
count of himself he was on furlough
and 200 miles from his post. He had
already been out beyond the Missis-
sippi seeing old comrades. He had
bought a bicycle on his travels and was
leading a life of pleasure and independ-
ence.-New York Sun.
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Napoleon and Grant.

The veteran rebel general, James
Longstreet, speaks quite frankly as to
the character and abilities of his promi-
nent associates and opponent. In a re-
CEN interview he said that Beaure-
gard was thoroughly educated in the
science of war, and if he hadn't had the
misfortune of coming into contact with
President Davis would have given
greater evidence of his ability. Stone
wall Jackson was a man of high charac-
ter, strong as a chieftain and general.
He was skilled in manoeuvers, and
here lay his greatest strength. He was
not a man of such great personal at
fractions as of moral worth. He was
very reserved" He spoke very highly
of the personal bravery and GOODNESS
of General Irwin Mcdowell, and said
that General Albert Sidney Johnston
was an overrated man, who owed much
of his fame to the personal friendship
of jeff Davis. General Longstreet con-.
sidered General Joseph E. Johnston
the ablest general the Southern Con-
federacy had. AS to General Grant he
said: He had very few superiors in
the history of the world. He was an
all. o soldier. There was never n
better. He was my friend before,
during and after the war. He was an
able tactician and strategist-one of the
greatest captains in history. Napoleon
was undoubtedly brighter and quicker,
but he did not have the equipoise of
Grant National Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06
SOLDIERS BUDGET.
Pretty Shooting.

Speaking of good rife shots, said a
veteran recently, l wore the gray at
Antietam in 1862, and the prettiest
shooting l ever saw occurred on that
day. There was a tall tree on the
banks of the Antietam and an old
Marylander's cottage was situated just
at its foot. The old man was away and
had left his fourteen-year. old boy to
take care Of the family. This boy had
managed TO climb up into the forks of
a tree, and had probably been al work
on his scheme several days before the
armies came up, for when they got on
the ground he had e%ntrenched himself
up in the forks of a tree with feather
beds, pillows and holsters, apparently
four or five deep, all around him. He
had prepared for a siege, too. with both
ammunition and food. When the
Union army came within range his old
squirrel rifle picked off more subor-
dinate officers in a few hours than the
army had lost before 10 weeks. No
amount of counter-firing did any 90 cd.
He would get his old blunderbuss re-
loaded, and with close scrutiny you
could see its long barrel creep over his
%improvised rampant, and as sure as the
crack OF he rifle came a moan and a
dead lieutenant or other officer would
follow. The Antietam, at the point
where the battle was fought, is narrow,
but it is very deep, and there seemed
really no way to dislodge the fearfully
destructive enemy, 80 the Union army
actually withdrew till the artillery
could run up a gun and train it
on the spot. And will you believe me,
the young sharpshooter actually killed
two of the gunners and wounded a
third, and almost produced a panic be-
fore he was d%islodged. He was liter
ally blown to pieces at last, but not till
after he had created CONSERVATION in
the ranks of the Union army.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06
The Fireplace,


Wherefore decorate the fireplace with
plants and screens and photograph racks,
fern backed glass and flower fronted silks
and muslinsy Nobody does it who knows
better, and all the people who have truly
elegant and artistic homes have learned
better. When the city houses of the rich
and great who have not merely handsome
but artistic homes are closed for the sum-
mer, the fireplaces are closed to prevent
air sucking down the chimneys, the damp
ers being turned across the chimney and
heavy paper pasted over them. But the
f1replaces are never closed while the family
Is occupying the house, whether in the
winter In town or in the summer out of it.
Imagine the John Jacob Aston place,
on the Hudson, with its fireplaces filled in
with plants, or artificial flowers tumbling
over the CRATES, or printed silks stretched
across the openings in the walls. Fancy
William Chase, the painter, or Bierstadt,
or any other one of the artists whose sum
mer homes are a delight to the eye, letting
muslin stop a gap in the house, as If it
had been made by accident instead of by
design. There are flreplaces all over the
Stokes castle at Lenox, every one of them
ready for it when not in actual use.
Decorations for ireplaces, indeed
faughl Any master or mistress of a home
lucky enough to have it either old fashion,
ed or new fashioned enough to contain fire
places need not bother about decorating the
fireplaces in summer. Nobody thinks Of
doing SO save the people who still have
marble topped center tables and waxed
flowers in frames on the walls or under
glass in the front windows. New York
Advertiser.
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"reminiscences of Chickamauga.

"Just here" said the veteran, 81
came upon a most sorrowful expert
ence. l was appointed to take charge
of n of the burying parties, consist
ing of six men besides myself. We
were hunting about among the heaps
for the wounded-for we left the dead
to the last-when it seemed to me that
l heard a low moan. dye hear that,
sergeant?' | said. Some chap groan-
ing?' he asked. Just that said 1.
Hunt for him. Dragging away the
heaps of blue and gray we came upon
a young fellow shot through the shout
der. Don't mind me- says he. Take
care of my brother We dug out a boy
in gray with a bayonet wound in his
Intervals. Hopeless case; no cure.
Called myself a consumed fool for my
pains, but sat down upon the dead
horse and looked on while the blue
brother, wounded in the shoulder, took
the gray brother, wounded in the
bowels, in his arms. | found them
there in the morning, in the same po-
%sition, both cold and rigid, and l am
not ashamed to say l had to rub some
wet OUT o. my es,"-Demorest's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06
Two Ways of Fishing.

Two clergymen were settled in their
youth in contiguous parishes. The
congregation of the one had become
very much broken and scattered, while
that of the other had remained large
and strong. AT a ministerial gather
ing DR.. A. said to DR.. B., Brother,
how has it happened that while 1 have
labored as diligently as you have, and
preached better sermons, and more of
them, my parish has been scattered to
the winds, and yours remains strong
and unbroken?" DR.. B. facetiously
replied, ooh, I'll tell you, brother.
When you go a-fishing you first get a
rough pole for a handle, to which you
attach a o d-line and a great hook, and
twice as much bait as the fish can swal-
low. With these accoutrements you
dash up to the brook with, There, bite,
you dogsl' Thus you scare away all the
fish. When l 60 fishing 1 get a little,
switching pole, a small line, and just
such a hook and bait as a fish can swal,
low. Then l creep up to the brook
and gently slip them in, and 1 twitct
'em out, twich 'em out, till my bssket
is ull."-Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06
Foreign.

IT is reported at Constantinople that 3, 200
persons were killed during the fight at
Bitlis, between Armenians and Moham-
edans
THE Spanish troops will, in future opera
tions, carr homing pigeons, to bear dis
patches to the generals in command OF dis
tricts, to ask for re-enforcements, when ur-
gently required. and to carry other impor-
tant ne W..
IT is announced that Princess Maud,
youngest daughter of the Prince of Wales,
IL betrothed to Prince Karl, second son of
Prince Frederick, heir apparent to the
throne of Denmark. He is three years
younger than his oetrothed, who is twenty
six.
MINISTER TERRELL has cabled the state
department from C~onstantinople that he
has warned the porte that Turkey will be
held responsible for the safety of every
American missionary. Mr.. Terrell also
confirms the press dispatches about the
Armenia An riots of a few days ago.
1T is officially repor ed that the men of
the Jackson Harmesworth polar expedition,
who still remain in thu North, are neither
sanguine Of success nor devoted TO their task.
One of the men who returned to London a
few days ago on the steam yacht " Wind.
ward, which conveyed the expedition to
Franz Josef Land, declared that they
would have kissed our boots to have been
able to come back"
NOTHING 80 distressing as a hacking co 1gh.
Nothing 80 foolish az to suffer from il.
Nothing 30 dangerous II allowed to con-
tinue. One Minute Cough Cure gives i'm
mediate relief. w. X. Terrill & Co, agents,
Montpelier.
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NEW YORK " " " y
WEEKLY TRIBUNE y
OF
November 4, 1896.

Public interest will steadily increase,
and the disappointment of the men
whose votes turned the scale at the last
election, with the results under the
administration they elected, will make
the campaign the most intensely ex-
citing in the history of the country.
The NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE,
the leading Republican family news
paper of the United States, will publish
all the political news of the day, inter-
esting to every American citizen, re-
gardless of party affiliations.
Also general news in attractive form,
foreign correspondence covering the
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authority, fascinating short stories COM
plete in each number, the cream of the
humorous papers, foreign and domestic,
with their best comic pictures, fashion
plates and elaborate descriptions Of
woman's attire, with a varied and at
tractive department of household in
terest. The NEW YORK WEEKLY
TRIBUNE is an ideal family paper, with
a circulation larger than that of any
other weekly publication in the country
issued from the Office of a daily. Large
changes are being made in its details.
tending to give it greater life and
variety, and especially more interesting
to the m and young people of the
household.
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The COzy Corn r.

Fashion dictates that every cory corner
should have ut least ~ pillows. These
can lbs covered with all Li"as Of different
materials, but must harmonic in color
with each other and the corner draperics,
the whole being u part of the color scheme
OF the apartment. Violent contrasts should
be avoided, but il the general tone will
admit there should be one or two pillows
of oriental design, either of black satin
with the pattern couohed in gold thread,
or OF the new style, of cream colored cash.
mere, embroidered with the admirable en-
pire wreath.
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Domestic.

The First National Bank of McGregor.
Texas, was looted by burglars last Wednes-
day morning. The large steel safe was
blown open with dynamite. The amount of
booty secured is S10,0 900 in gold and paper,
the silver being untouched. The bank is
fully insured.
Tx his annual address to the legislature,
Governor Atkinson of Georgia recommends
the passage OF a law giving the family Of a
person taken from the officers and ~lynched
the right to sue the county for the full value
of his life. He also asks that the governor
be authorized to remove from office the man
from whose custody the prisoner was taken.
FIFTY cases of typhoid fever are reported
at Watertown, N. Y, and several deaths
from the disease have occurred. A similar
epidemic which occurred last spring was at
tributed to the water supply, which was
contaminated by sewage from other towns
on Black River, where the disease had been
prevalent. This time a number Of cases
have been traced to milk supplied by a
dealer who had typhoid cases in his family.
ALONG the river in the vicinity OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, it is predicted that there will
be no rise in the river this fall, and thirty
million bushels OF coal now lying in the
harbor cannot be moved until next spring,
when the annual freshet will float it out.
There is less than a foot OF water in the
Ohio river, and that great artery Of traffic is
Inv - bhtAS b&ab aAAAa BOA1 4NAN Va
cept in skiffs and fiat boats, is entirely sus-
pended. 1t is said the earth about this sec
ton is perfectly dry to a depth of eighteen
feet. The loss to farmers and manufactur-
ers is immense, and the amount Of sickness
due to the bad water is appalling.
FIFTY THOUSAND copies of a circular OPP.
posing statehood in Utah have been dis.
tributed throughout that state. The circu-
lar deals largely in statistics, showing the
cost of running the state government, and
closes by saying that statehood will add
$500, 900 to the burdens of the people. 1t is
said the circulars are being sent out from
Ogden by a former member OF the constitu.
tionsl convention. Many farmers have al.
ready announced themselves as opposed to
statehood, and it is believed by conserva-
tive politicians that the effect OF the circu
lar will be to add sufficiently to the number
of those already opposed, through fear OF
increased taxation and a dread of possible
Mormon church domination, to prevent
Utah's entrance into the list of sovereign
states.
IT'S just as easy to try One Minute Cough
Cure as anything else. It's easier to cure q
severe cough or cold with it. Let your mex
purchase for a cough be One Minute Cough
Cure. Better medicine; better results; bet
ter try it. w. e. Terrill & Co., agents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06

THE four highest structures in the
United States are the Washington mon
ument, the Pulitzer (World) building,
Park row, New York, the smokestack
or chimney on the Omaha and Grant
Smelter at Denver, and the tower of
the American Surety C%ompany's build
ing, New York city. The first is 300
feet and five inches, the second 375
feet and six inches, the third $50 feet
and four inches and the fourth 306 feet
and one inch.
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Advantages of the Bleaching Ground,

Bleaching powders, chloride of lime and
chemicals are damaging things to use ON
good fabrics. They will inevitably decrease
their wearing qualities, and unless used
with the utmost care are likely to make
holes in the goods. For all around bleach
ing a grass plot is the best of all places.
To spread the linen out on the green turf
and keep it well sprinkled with soapst
for a few days is to insure n bleach Us
feet as one could ask. Failing of this, d
great deal can be done on the roof of II
porch or on the lines in the yard. Many
housekeepers do not seem to be aware that
If clothes are hung out of "a suds dripping
and allowed TO drain and dry in Il briglt
sunshine they will bleach almost Us well
as on the grass. They may be sprinklcd
again and again, and for this purpose II
force rur.p that can be used in "a pail Of
water Is of very great advantage,
In localities where there are no drying
grounds or bleaching ~lities of any other
sort a good deal may accomplished by
hanging Il little frame from the window
n putting the pieces to be blcached upon
this. One ingenious woman has had a
hinged frame attached to the outside of
the window sill. The frame turns up
against the wall and is secured with a
hook. Whenever it is necessary either to
bleach or dry anything, the franz is let
down, a strong cord fastened at the outer
end and drawn through a ring at the top
of the window, keeping 1t in position.
Here stained table linen or other articles
are hung out and kept wet with soapsuds,
bleaching out in n very satisfactory fash
ion.
Any of these ways is far superior to
the chloride of lime bleaohes or any of the
thousand and one labor saving compounds
with which the market has for the last
few years been flooded New York Ledger.
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PARIS is said to be the c~leanest city
in the world. Every morning 2 900
male and 600 female scavengers, divided
into 149 brigades, urn out to perform
the toilet of the capital. The men
work from four in the morning to four
in the evening, less two hours off for
meals, or ten hours a day. The women
are engaged in the morning only.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give pei feet satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cent? per box. For sale bv c. Blakely,
Montpelier, Vt.
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NERVES ON EDaE.-"I was nervous,
tired, irritable and cross. Karl's Glover
Root Tea has made me well and happy"
Mrs. E. b. Worden. For sale by W. Z.
Terrill & Co., Montpelier, Vt.
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EXPERIMENTS indicate that spiders
have a long range of vision. 1t is
not always possible to tell, however,
whether the lower animals perceive ny
sight or hearing or by the action air in
motion has on their bodies. 1t is as
serted that mice are sensitive to mo-
tons of the air which to human ears
create no sound whatever.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-06

The accepted and betrothed lover has
lost the widest charms of his maiden in
her acceptance of him. She was heaven
while he pursued her as a star; she can
not be a heaven if she stoops to such a one
as he.-Emerson.