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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
A Female Major.

Major Bel Reynolds, the only
woman commissioned during the war,
lives now Santa Barbara, CAL, where
she has good mtdical practice, She
is a great favorite among the veterans
on the Pacific coast, and is invited to
every one of their gatherings. She
was born at Shelburne Falls, Mass, in
1913, and at the age of fourteen was
taken by her parents to Iowa. Her
maiden name was AIa5ella Macomber.
She became a school teacher, and in
1860 was married to Mr.. Reynolds, who
went to live at Peoria, Ill. Her hus-
band was among the first to enlist in the
Seventeenth Illinois, and she went with
him to the front. He became assistant
Acknowledgement on the staff of General
McClernand. Governor Yates commits
stoned her major for her splendid SER
vices to the wounded and sick at Shiloh.
She remained with the army three
years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
POLITICAL.
An Answer to Tom Plat,

7. j. Deavitt, Eco, president of Cap
ital Savings Bank and Trust Company
Montpelier, VT, is one of the men who
got Tom Platt's anti.McKinley circu-
lar. Mr.. Plat received an answer
which probably gave him little setisfac-
ton. Mr.. Deavitt wrote:
CT have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication con-
tanning your interview in the New York
Sun, an alleged interview with Major
Mckinley in the New York Herald
and divers extracts from Major Nc
Kinley's record and speeches during a
long public service, to show him un-
worthy republican support for the pres
idency.
" First.-You complain because he
does not accommodate political schem-
ers, seeking his destruction to advance
other candidates by giving his views on
the money question. You condemn
him for his silence; l honor him for
it, believing it golden. The convention
that dominates has the right TO make
the party platform. McKinley's oppor-
tunity will follow, if nominated, to
write his acceptance, giving his views
on all questions affecting the welfare of
the American people. Any thing he
might say prior thereto would be pre-
mature.
Second-You complain that Major
McKinley's record shows him in favor
of free coinage of silver. 1 do not so
understand it. The record, fairly
quoted, shows him opposed to free
coinage. He voted with many other
republicans for silver when the silver
dollar was worth about one hundred
cents, but now, when it is worth less
than ffty-two cents, he and repub.
licans generally say it is bogus dollar
unworthy their support. If the re-
publican PLATFORM said Mckinley
about year since, declares for free
coinage will not be candidate. /
would not run on free silver plat.
form The distorting of splendid
record on which great man stands, to
accomplish the selfish ends of politi-
clans who favor other candidates, 1
cannot approve"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
Memorable Language of Abraham
Lincoln.

"THE Union must be preserved"
FELLOW. CITIZENS, we cannot es-
cape history"
"a NATION may be said to consist
OF its territory, its people and it's laws"
81 BELIEVE this government cannot
permanently endure half-slave, half
free"
"NO men living are more worthy to
be trusted than those who toll up from
poverty"
81 CLAIM not to have controlled
events, but confess plainly that events
have controlled me-
"IF our sense of duty forbid slavery,
then let us stand by our duty fear
lessly and effectively"
81 HOPE peace will come soon, and
come to stay; and so come as to be
worth the keeping in all future time"
GIN giving freedom TO the slaves,
we assure freedom to the free; hon.
orable alike in what we give and what
We preserve"
"HAvING thus chosen our course,
without guile and with pure purpose,
let us renew our rust in Gcd, and 60
forward without fear and with manly
hearts,
"IF this country cannot be saved
without giving up the prir ciple of lib
city, | was about to say would rather
be assassinated on this spot than sur
render it,"
"TO sell Or enslave any captured
person on account of his color, and for
no offense AGAINST the laws of war ia n
relapse into barbarism and crime
against the civilization of the age"
"Do not worry; eat three square
meals a day; say your prayers; be
courteous TO your creditors; keep your
digestion good; steer clear Of bilious
ness; exercise; go slow and go easy.
Maybe there are other things that your
special Gaze requires to make you
happy, but, my friend, these l reckon,
will give you a good lift"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
An Odd Meeting.

J. II. Wyman of Chicago went to
Newport News recently, and while
waiting for ferryboat stranger,
man about Wyman's age, came up and
shared his seat. They were waiting
for the same boat, says the Chicago
Tribune "You were in the Union
army" said the stranger, elancing at
button on Wyman's lapel. Where
did YOU serve?5' 81 was in the First
Wisconsin Heavy Al tillery, and put in
a good share of the time guarding the
big bridge over the Green river in
Kentucky" answered the Northerner.
You did twice helped to blow up
that bridge, and was there when the
third attempt, which you fellows
stopped, was made, 1t was a black
night in winter when we went up the
third time. There were only few of
US, but enough to do the work if it
were done quickly and we could pass
through the Federal pickets. We
reached a point 1000 yards south Of
where we thought your picket line was,
and was sent forward alone TO locate
the line and find some place through
which we could pass. l walked along
freely until thought ought to take
some care, and then l dropped to my
hands and knees, and went halfway for
a while. 1t was so dark could see
absolutely nothing. All at once L
struck dry bush, and snapped stick
ur der my knee at the same time. Then
rifle shot came from picket at
point not twenty yards away, and my
right arm was broken by the ball. The
fellow had fired at the noise and made
good shot. 1t alarmed the guard, and
our third attempt to blow up the bridge
was a failure. Were you there then?"
eyes" said Wyman. Il am the man
who sho- you. l never saw you, but
heard the moving of the brush and the
breaking of the twig. After | shot,
you walked straight to the right for
about ten yards, and then ran back to
your comrades" "That l did ex-
actly," said the Southerner. We
found your tracks in the sand the next
day. 1 did not know hit you. am
glad did not kill you, and I'm mighty
glad to see you" Then they shook
hands and took up the journey to-
gether.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

"Simon Boliver Buckner," was the
reply, which caused smile to come
over the congregation, but the brave
preacher went on with his duty. Name
that child" taking the next in order.
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard,"
and the smile grew into a smoker,
while Dr.. Savage grew red in the face.
He baptized the young namesake of the
engineer sDt5 onv s>eqs wen. on Sb Tita the he
gasped, reachins& H Sor ,to third. y" Al.
bert Sydney Johnston" came te en-
swer. The smile SS,s came godible,
Heaving sigh Of relieSjs> 10 teob '5F
fourth, little girl, whose rgender Ne
fondly supposed would precludS!ssIon-
tinuation of heroic reproductions, and
said: "Name this child" Mary
Stonewall Jackson Lee" came the re-
sponse that set the congregation into
roar, while the Union parson thought
he had held in his arms the whole
Southern Confederacy .-Pioneer-Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03
A Loyal Southern Woman.

just after the battle of Perryville, in
October, 1862, DR.. Savage, a strong
Union man, WAS at one of his appoint
ments to baptize some children, says
the Troy Times, There was large
crowd and Southern matron brought
her four childron to the altar. Name
that child" said the Union preacher,
laying his hand on the child's head.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

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Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

A STRANGE bird captured on the
River Tyne, forty years ago, baflled
taXidermists until recently, when it was
di, covered to be the barred h@matoris,
native of the Himalaya Mountains.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

RAGS for paper making are boiled
under steam pressure. A hundred
pounds of rags are mixed with from six
to twelve pounds of carbonate of soda
and half as much quicklime.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-03

A COURSE of Hoods Sarsaparilla IL is
spring may be the means of keeping
you well and hearty all summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

HENRY CLEws in his most recent cir
cular departs from the consideration of
financial matters long enough to deliver
q little lecture on the relations betwixt
the congress- the president and the peo-
pie, as follows:
The present curse of this country is too
much politics. Our statesmen are openly
vying with each other to distinguish
themselves by rash legislation for the
purpose of becoming a presidential pos
sbility with the unrehecting masses.
For every position of trust they have to
bestow, our citizens are more than ever
resolved to have honest men and honor
able statesmen; for mere politicians, or
those who are first politicians and second
statesmen, they have no further use,
and will have none of them. The
way in which this same class of men are
now trifing with the highest national in
terests merely to serve their own party
advancement is little short of infamy.
They are at this moment arresting the
business of the country and holding its
finances in confusion. and employers and
employees are alike suffering. Last No
vember's decision at the polls should
have convinced politicians that bad times
rec0iI upon members of congress who
have been instrumental in injuring the
business of the country through factional
and unwise Legislation.
Some of Henry's thoughts are not at
all bad, but it must be very tiresome to
the honest, intelligent, industrious, hard
working people of the country to be con-
tinually denominated by the "fnanciers,"
1.-The unrefecting masses" May be it is
deserved. Ii it is, it should not be so
longer. It is an excellent year in which
to begin to reflect. 1t will be cold day
for Mr.. Clews and his constituency when
the reflection commences.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

and was speaker Of the state house Of
representatives elected in 1894, the first
Republican house IN Missouri since the
early reconstruction times. He served
with great credit in the war for the
Union and physically is the beau ideal
of what a sergeant alarms ought to be
"a large, fine looking and impressive
man. If he ever has to march down the
aisle with the historic mace and drive
the belHgerent members into their
seats, he viii do it we'll. His deputy is
". C. Jones of Michigan, and the man
who pays the members their salaries is
]. L. White Of Wellsboro, Pa.
Last of all comes the chaplain, Rev.
Henry Nj. Couden of Michigan, who is
a veteran of the civil war, is noted for
very brief prayers and is blind. It was
by the merest accident, but it is a coin
cidence worth noting, that each house
should have q blind chaplain, but Mr..
Louden is as yet unknown to fame,
while the venerable DIR. Milburn has
had a national reputation for nearly 40
years. 1 was but a mere boy when
heard him tell an audience of students
how he lost his sight, and it seemed to
me that he was already an old man
when heard him preach in Salt Lake
City in 1869. Yet cannot say that he
is very feeble even now. At the age of
20 he was made chaplain Of the Twenty
ninth congress, in 1S45. Everybody
smiles at the Doctors oddities and ev
erybody loves him. And as he walks to
and from the capitol leaning upon the
arm of his adopted daughter even the
rudest crowd will hush its noise as they
pass by.
AS to the clerks of committees, only
the man of the ways and means usually
attracts much attention. The new one is
Herbert NJ. Lord of Rockland, Me-, who
has had long and quite varied expert
ence as newspaper man. He edited
paper in Tennessee during the boom in
the iron regions and subsequently was
associate editor of the Denver Sun. His
assistant is Captain E. L Merrill Of
Pennington, Me-, veteran OF the CIVIL
war who was assistant librarian OF the
Fifty-first congress. The law allowing
each member to have private secretary
was not taken advantage of generally IN
the Fifty-third. but in this house 1t ap-
pears that it will be worked for all it is
worth In fact, the most careless observer
cannot fail to see that the new members
intend to take all the patronage they can
get, and jocular Indiana member, AFTER
telling me quite gleefully of how many
proteges he had provided fcx end what
a good fellow he had selected for his
own secretary, added. "Yeu can just bet
your sweet life that this house intends
to live up to it's privileges.
J. a BEADLE :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29
Could Not Stand Els Dudish Ways.

Not long ago a merchant in a Kentucky
town, which has large colored popula-
ton, made bid for the trade of this class
of population by employing a negro clerk.
At first everything moved on swimmingly,
and the recognition of their race d ew the
custom of almost every colored man and
woman in town, but recently, though the
colored clerk is still retained, there has
been n great falling off in business from
colored customers.
An old colored citizen from the town in
question was in Louisville the other day,
and explained to white acquaintance
and former townsman what had wrought
the change. He said:
''Well, it wuz jis like dis, boss. Dat mig
gah couldn't stan prosperity. He wuzzene
there morn ell week fore he began to
wear good clothes an put on airs. In two
weeks he worked in Ell tailor made suit
an owned one Nv them long blue over
coats Wit a belvet collah. Las week hs
had eh gold watch biggern blackin box
an a gold chain AT looked like a trace
chain plated wifi gold. Us niggahs could'n
stan no dudish ways. '-Louisville Cou-
rier-J Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

Clerks Robert S. Hatcher of Indiana and
Ebert L. Lampson of Ohio, Tally Clerk
f. II. BrittOn of Michigan and Disburs-
ing Clerk Henry Robinson of Pennsyl-
vania. It is the last who complies those
thrilling pamphlets of which Populist
orators make such use in showing the
extravaganza of congress.
House Postmaster Joseph L. McElroy
is also a man of wide experience. He
was captain in the Ohio volunteers dur
ing the war, served two terms in the
Ohio legislature and represented his
state on the Chickamauga military COM
mission. He has also served long as an
Ohio river steamboat man and was one
of the pioneers to California in the gold
mining times. This Office has furnished
to history one sensation only. One Off
cial against whom almost everything
was charged escaped Impeachment by
resignlng, but it is now known that the
trouble was due to the fault of near
relative, whom he shielded. Captain
McElroy s first assistant is Paul S. Dry
an of Cleveland, and his other subordi-
mates are II messengers and one labOrer.
These men work harder than any other
. employees of the capitol, in some in
stances being on duty 5 hours per day.
When the house is not in session, MEM
bers get their mail at their residences
four times daily and early in the
morning and late in the evening at all
times.
Ex-Doorkeeper of the House A. B.
Hurt of Tennessee has been clicked up
stairs" as Halifax said of cabinet in
the days of James II, for in three days
after leaving the house he got an ap-
pointment in the postoffice department
worth 81, 200 per year, being 500 more
than the doorkeeper gets. His successor,
William J. Glenn of Cuba, N. Y, is
lively politician, good newspaper man
and all around hustler. He is editor of
The Cuba Patriot and has long been a
member of the Republican state commit
tee for the Thirty fourth New York dis
trict, which averages the largest Repub-
1ican majority of any district in the
United States. He holds over all the
other officials in patronage, having 145
subordinates. The members, however,
attend to all these except the doorkeep-
er's own clerk, who is Frank B. Lyon
of his own town. Sergeant at arms Ben
jamin F. Russell is of Steeleville, Mo-,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

DURING the Populist administration
considerable portion of the time of the
assistant secretary of state wass occupied
in furnishing figures for use in cam
paign documents, and particular stress
was placed on the great saving of money
as compared with the previous admins
Sration. The state accountant is now
performing the same service for the Re-
publican administration, and he, too. is
sending out campaign literature illustra-
tive of the economical results of a bust
ness administration. At this rate it can
not be long until the affairs of the state
can be conducted without any expense
whatever. If each succeeding admins
tration is to show less expense than its
predecessor, the people will not SO much
mind paying the salary of an official
whose chief occupation is to show them
how they are saving money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

on account of complications, but the
new man went at it with the sublime
confidence of a veteran lawyer and dip
lomat. By a special act of grace the men
in charge of the reporters gallery re-
manned, and there are others about the
capitol who are never disturbed, and
whose faces have long been familiar to
visitors. At their head was the venera-
BILE Captain Isaac Bassett, who was
appointed a page by Daniel Webster
and remained in the senate nearly GO
years. The venerable coIored man who
sits by the door of the supreme court
room and pulls it open with a knotted
cord Of green silk is probably known by
sight to more people than any one of 800
congressman, and lastly the squad of
manned soldiers created by Judge Hol-
mans bill many years ago remains with
Us.
There are many, however, from whom
we grieve to part. No more shall we be
cheered by the broad and genial face of
Reading Clerk HOughtaling, beaming on
US like the full moon at dawn of a sum-
mer morning, or hear his resonant voice
toning off the bills, or his happy laugh
at the jokes in the newspaper men 8
gatherings His successor, Mr.. Robert S.
Hatcher of Indiana, is a prominent man
in his state, and we hope we shall like
him as we'll in time. OF all the new Of
ficials we are we'll acquainted only with
Clerk Alexander Mcdowell, who remains
the same genial gentleman as when rep
resentative at large from Pennsylvania
in the last house. He is so years old,
| and, though his biography never men
tions it, he served three years in the
Union army before reaching the age of
30. The Office Of clerk, as everybody
knows, is full of history and has been
held by several men who were great in
their time.
No clerk has ever transgressed the law
| far enough to attract notice, and no
startling episode has occurred in the
| office, but one clerk once got the house
| in such tangle over an organization
that John Quincy Adams had to take
control, override the rules and ''put the
! question myself. " The fool friends of
/ Emerson Etherige, who got the Office
because he was a Unionist exile from
! Tennessee, threatened that he wou Id rev.
olutionize things by making up a roll
including several mere claimants, but
| the popular indignation was SO great
that he hastened to disclaim the inten-
ton. stOur course is SO thoroughly
/ fenced in by law" says Mr.. Mcdowell,
'.that we can't very we'll get out of it
| without breaking our necks, and SO none
Of as erer tries it, His iSSnediate sub
| cr6inates are his own clerk, William J.
| Browning of New jersey, Journal Clerk
n. 7. Crutch6sld Of Kentucky. Reading
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29
The Dream Came True.

''Dot makes me no difference said the
German driver of beer wagon, whose at
tention had been jokingly called to the
fact that he had but Is barrels of beer on
his wagon, and Is was an unlucky num-
ber.
81 don't believe in dot IS peezness, any
how, nor dot Friday peezness.
mot superstitious, heyF' laughed The
Star man.
81 don't know vot you mean by suber-
stition, replied the German, "but dot 1 8
and Friday peezness is all nonsense. L
used to think it Yos nonsense to believe
that somebody died when a dog howled,
but dot has been proved true, SO believe
it now"
"Ever see any real proof of it2'' asked
The Star writer.
''Weu, bet you'll One night last week
went home and went to bed, and in the
middle of the night dog in the alley
commenced bowling. My wife stuck her
elbow in my side
'' Hans, you hear dot dog howl?'
81 said, Yes 1 hear dot dog howl
50 Well, somebody is going to die
''I told her dot was all blamed nonsense.
Don't wake me up again-let me sleeb.'
pretty soon she woke me up some
more. Dot dog is bowling again, Hans,
and bet you somebody will die
''Den 1 rolled over and told her, Il bet
somebody will die if you don't stop wax
ing me up some more and she let me
sleep till morning"
"WeI, did anybody def" was the query
of the listener.
''Surel When got up in the morning,
I looked in the paper, and, by lingo, there
was a man died over in Baltimorer'-
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29
4 Rhffosopher.

''You haven't made quite as many
speeches as I thought you would have
marked up to your oredit,' said the wife
of the new congressman.
NO. was the reply, 81 haven't had a
great deal to say
"You know, when you were elected,
your constituents kind o. thought you
would turn things upside down and re-
form the entire system of government.
maybe they did. But there's one thing
you can set down as a great moral truth,
and that is that it's a heap safer to do
nothin an do It we'll than it is to do lot
O. things an do 'en wrong. ''-Washington
Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-29

Mr.. VIM. P. ST. JOHN, president of
the Mercantile National bank of New
York, who occupies the anomalous posi-
ton of being an advocate of the free
coinage of silver and at the same time
the president of one of the largest bank
ing institutions in the country, has issued
ID circular in which he offers to bid on
the forthcoming issue of bonds for any
one wishing to invest He proposes
further to furnish the necessary gold and
not draw it from the treasury. All he
asks for managing the transaction is a
commission of Il of one per cent on
the amount of bonds purchased. The
STATE JOURNAL receives nothing for ad-
vertising this proposition, but does it
purely in the interest of such of its patri-
otto readers as may wish to invest their
surplus capital in this way.