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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
Knew Something of 1t.

" AT the first battle of Fredericks-
burg, in which our battery was en-
gagged" says veteran living at ST..
Johnsbury, "the rebels right in front
OF us had battery on side hill, from
which they poured shot and shell so
lively that our men were getting badly
cut up. We had new French recruit,
who had joined us week before, and
he could not speak word of English.
He was heard to say in his own AN
guage: Mon Dieu! II could have
the privilege Of sightiny our pieces
would soon Tx those fellows on the hill
side.' One of the comrades who under
stood French heard him, and stepping
up to the officer in command, told him
what the French recruit had said The
chance was granted and he did sight
the pie ces, and at his signal they were
fired. The next thing we saw was a
huge explosion where the rebel battery
was, and we heard no more from that
fort during the rest of the fight. We
afterwards found out that this man was
one of the practical artilerymen of the
French army. He was soon after pro-
NOTED to the rank of lieutenant
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
What congressman Say.

THE tariff should be uppermost in
every loyal Americans mind these
days. Barley twelve to sixteen cents
per bushel in North Dako-a ought to
bring tears to the eyes of the hardest
hearted free-trader.-The Portland, N.
D., Republican, February 10, 1896.
IT 80 happens that America is
filled with workers. There are idle
people, but they are fewer here than
elsewhere except now, when we are
living under the shadow of the Wilson
bill. If those workers are all getting
good wages they are themselves the
market, and if the wages are increasing
the market is also increasing. The
fact that in this country all the workers
have been getting better wages than
elsewhere is the very reason why our
market is the best in the world and
why all the nations of the world are
trying to break into it. We do not APP
preciate the nature of our market our
selves.-Thomas B. Reed.
IT is no longer a question of money;
it is question of work. 1t is no longer
a question of the free coinage of silver;
it is the question of the free coinage of
the American muscle. When every
mans muscle in the United States can
be coined into days wages, every
working day in the year, the question
of money is settled and at rest forever,
and prosperity comes back on the flood
tide of its power. 1t is not a question
of opening our minis to the products of
the silver mines of the world; it is a
question of opening our factories to the
working-men of the United States of
America. - Hon. j. M. Thurston
United States Senator of Nebraska.
THIS bill (the Wilson billy, in so fai
as it deals with the sheep and wool in
dustry, is arbitrary, invidious, and un
just. 1t places this great industry on
the sacrifcial altar and offers its ashes
as sacrifice to the avarice of the for
eign wool grower and to some extent
the greed of the Eastern manufacturer
and transfers finally by operation of law
to their Golfers the great bulk OF the
5000, O00, 900 invested in it, and turns
out of employment the 100000 mer
employed in carrying it on. A bill
which vouchsafes protection to the
manufacturer and refuses to extend i
to those engaged in the other industry
which favors the foreign producer a.
the expense of the home producer, IL
one which discriminates uniustly, un
necessarily, mercilessly and cruel,
against the agriculturist and in favor o.
the manufacturer, against the American
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SOLDIERS BUDGET.
A Memorial Day Tribute.


Like some stupendous elm tree
The Union army stands;
Its branches wave DER many grave
The graves that link two lands
1t spreadeth North, 1t spreadeth South,
1t spreadeth East and West;
1t hangs Ger the lannon's silent mouth,
Where bird might build her nest
But the old limbs of this monarch
Are dropping day by day:
BY battles SCARED, and by Times scythe marred
They are falling fasr away.
The bough that bore us the fruit Of peace,
That sheltered us through wars night
From the grand old tree are breaking free
And dying in our sight
We know there are strong young branches,
ALI full of the sap of life;
But each old bough that is dropping now
Grew dear through nations strife
We feel new pity and love and pride.
For the loyal boys in blue;
As the ranks close in and the lines grow thin,
And graves crowd fast on our view.
Thrice beautiful and sacred
Be this Memorial day,
When the warriors true, who wore the blue,
Are all of them wearing the gray
Wearing the gray in their whitened locks,
As, with steady martial tread,
They follow the ranks on mystic banks
And go marching down to the dead.
Scatter the floral tributes
over the thickening graves;
On the sun-kssed air, unstained and fair,
Our splendid banner waves.
Freedom grows we'll in countryssoil,
Behold how it blooms and thrives;
But we must not forget that its roots were wet
with he blood of a million livaa
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

and in favor of the foreigner. Hon. j.
H Mitchell, United States Senator of
Oregon.
CAN this republic, with all her ad.
mitted advantages, compete with Great
Britain and the nations of the CONT
nent, even in her own markets, with
labor abroad from one to two hundred
per cent cheaper than here7 1t can in
only two ways: First. BY enacting
into law the policy Of projections; that
is, nearly equalizing labor by duty.
Second. BY reducing the wages paid
our laborers nearly to the level OF Eu-
ropean wages. The first method, for
tunately, is now no experiment. 1t
has been on trial for a quarter of a
century and its fruits are known.
During that time, though for four years
millions of men were converted from
producers to destroyers, though lives
were sacrificed by the hundreds of
thousands, though treasure was ex-
pended and property destroyed by the
billions, yet we increased in population
a million year-more than England,
France, Germany and Austria com
bined in the same time. We increased
in wealth billion year,-Hon. Will
liam L. Frye, United States Senator OF
Maine.
WE are nominally 10000, 900 people.
That is what we are in mere numbers.
But as a market for manufactures and
choice foods we are potentially 175, 000,-
600 as compared with the next best ma
ton on the globe. Nor is this difficult
to prove. Whenever an Englishman
earns one dollar an American earns
dollar and sixty cents. l speak within
bounds. Both can get the food that
keeps body and soul together and the
shelter which the body must have for
sixty cents. Take sixty cents from a
dollar and you have forty cents left.
Take that same sixty cents from dol
lar and sixty and you have dollar left,
Just two and half times as much. That
surplus can be spent in choice foods,
in house furnishings, in fine clothes
and all the comforts of life-in word !,
In the products of our manufactures.
That makes our population as consum-
ers of products as compared with the
English population, 175,000,000. Their
population is 100000 as consumers
of products which one century ago
were pure luxuries, while our popula-
ton is equivalent to 5000 ,000.-Hon.
Thomas B. Reed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

For more than forty years have used John
sons Anodyne Liniment in my family. l re-
gard ii one of the best and safest family med
icines; used internal and external in all cases.
o. II. INGALLS,, Dea. I'd Bapt CHI, Bangor, Me.
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Our Book "Treatment for Diseases and Care of Sick
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He Rescued Lincoln.

However poor the Lincoln home
may have been, it affected the new
child but little, says McClure's Maya
zine. He was robust and active, and
life is full OF interest to the child happy
enoogh to be born in the country, He
had several companions. There was
his sister Nancy, or Sarah-both names
are given her-two years his senior;
there was cousin of his mother, ten
years older, Dennis Hanks, an active
and ingenious leader in sports and mis-.
chief, and there were the neighbors'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

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H E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and get
a free sample box of DR.. Kings New
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stance and to be purely vegetable.
They do not weaken by their action,
but by giving tone to stomach and
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Regular size twenty-five cents per box.
Sold by G. Blakely. druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE,
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERS
IND GENERAL.
ROxbuFy.

ROxbury.
Rolla Steele fell from the scaffold in his
barn, May g. and sprained his ankle.
Mrs. Delight Williams of Somerville,
Mass, Mrs. Kate Smith of Scituate, Mass 4,
and Matte Dunsmorc of Enfield, N. H.. ar
rived at j. Smiths on Saturday, May 8.
They intend to spend the summer.
John Flint, L. D., installed the following
officers Of the Good Templar lodge Tuesday
May 8: c.. T., Ralph Dunsmore; V. T.,
Ethelynd Heath cha plain, Fred Cram; sec
rotary, G. b. j. Edwards; f. s., Bessie.
Wiley T., Leon Roys; M. Claud Roys; d;
NJ, Lura Worcester; g., Henry Butterfeld,
S. Pearl Flint; P. G. T., Roma Flint.
Thetford.
John Porter and wife were visiting friends
in town recently. - A son was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer, May 8. - DR..
William Worcester made short visit home
two weeks ago. Mrs Worcester has had her
buildings painted both inside and out.
- Freeman Bond has completed the adj
dition to his house. - Emma Bond has
gone to Massachusetts to work. - DR..
Paine expects to move to Royalton soon
- Professor Gardner's reading was a
success. He is said to rank high as an elo
cutionist
Williamstown.
A friend who, from practical experience
ought to be able to Judge accurately, ven
lures the opinion that forty-nine out of fifty
who do much with fast horses find it los
ing business.
Thomas Saunders, now Of Massachusetts
and the owner of the old Gulf House prop
erty, has been in own of late. He is said
to have made great wealth in telephone
stock in the past. Always interested in
horses, he has just been making purchases
OF some here.
A ] eading granger expresses the opinion
that, since the state compensates in part
those who lose stock by tuberculosis, il
owes it to itself to take other measures tC
guard against the disease than those it has
already taken. He would throw upon the
owners Of stock greater responsibility in the
care and management of their herds in pre-
venting the disease.
Wolcott.
The Morse Manufacturing Company hat
purchased Lane clapboard machine.
George p. Foster Post, G. A. R., has en-
gagged General T. S. Peck of Burlington tt
deliver the Decoration day address. TIL,
post will attend services, May "a, at tn,
Methodist church, Rev. O. M. Stebbins will
preach the Memorial sermon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20

OUT of weakness comes strength
when the blood has been purified, en-
riched and vitalized by Hoods Sarsa-
parilla.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15

In April last Mr.. WV. Lord secured
a small quantity Of the seed Of the Aus
tralian salt bush from the University
at Berkeley, which he planted in a
seed bed. In June the plants were
three inches high and were transplant
ed in white alkali land at Clearwater
that nothing would grow in. No water
was applied to the plant whatever ;
but they grew amazingly until Octo-
Der, when they had attained a spread
Of ten feet across in each direction
about five feet from the centre, the
plants having been set out several feet
apart. Mr.. Lord has one OF the plants
on exhibition at the Los Angeles fair.
1t is claimed it will in q short time
draw all the alkali from the soil, and
as it is an excellent forage for cattle,
every n who has worthless alkali
land should plant it. In parts OF Aus
tralia at some seasons OF the year it is
the mainstay OF cattle. California Gull
tiyator.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
Bouth Eastern Nevada.

O. j. Boskowitz, who has just re-
turned from Southeastern Nevada, in
forms the Reno Journal that DeLamar
keeps growing and now has a popula-
ton OF about 1900. The owners OF the
April Fool mine are putting up a plant
to reduce $50 tons q day and expect to
have it running in April. New and
rich strikes are reported at Spring Val
ley, near the Utah line. There is a
quartzite lode which assays 1a ounces
in silver per ton and upsets all the the
cries of the scientists.
Lincoln county has the brightest
prospects for years. They expect the
Blake railroad from COTS will be COM
pleted this year. 1t is now in running
order from Los Angeles to COTS, a
distance OF over 20 miles.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15

A Washington dispatch OF the Sth
inst. says: II is almost certain that
the subcommittee OF the House Com
mittee on Appropriations for the Treas
ury Department will vote to cut the
appropriation for the Carson City Mint
10 such an extent that it will have to
be closed. Director Preston appeared
before the committee a day or two ago
and, when asked il he considered II
advisable to continue the maintain
ance OF the Mint at Carson City, re-
piled in the negative. The Mint now
costs the Government between $50, 900
and 100000 a year, yet it has done no
coming since June, 1898. The State OF
Nevada turned out only about $2,000,-
600 of gold bullion last year, practically
| all OF which was coined at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Preston thought that, in
asmuch as San Francisco was only 300
miles distant, the Mint at that place
could easily coin all the bullion for the
Pacific Coast. II is the intention that,
in case the Carson Mint is abolished,
it shall be turned into an assay office,
the expense to maintain which will be
only about half OF what it now costs
the Government.
Preston said to-day that he would
have recommended the adjustment
Of the Mint in his report Of last year
had it not been for the fact Of the scan
dial which was connected with it. He
feared that il he should have made
such a recommendation at that time a
suspicion might be cast on the officers
Of the Mint. The real thief is still un-
known, but the Treasury Department
does not want to connect any one with
the crime or cast suspicion on any n
at random.
The Carson City Mint was opened
in 1872, but operations have been sus-
pended two or three times on account
Of having nothing for it TO do. II the
Mint is turned into an assay office it
will be Il on the same basis as the
office at Helena,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
A Rival Of Cripple Creek.

A Butte, Montana, dispatch Of the
9TH inst. says; Reports brought to-day
from the new gold discoveries on Flint
creek, 20 miles from Anaconda, more
than bear out the first reports OF the
remarkable finds Of the precious metal.
L. U. LOOMS, a well-known and
experienced mining man, who is also
familiar with Cripple Creek, returned
from the new district to-day and de-
clares that Flint creek is a richer gold
field than the famous Colorado district.
He confirms the report that the Hun
CRY P~rospector," as Sam Snyder, the
discoverer Of the district, is called, has
a perfect mint OF gold in his claims.
The new strike is not far from the ia
nous Cable gold mine. which has
yielded over 5000, 900 in the last few
years.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
Youthful safecrackers.

The safe robbers who have been ter
rorizing Oakland, Alameda and Berk.
eley for the past three months have
been captured by the police. They are
mere boys. Bert Willmore, aged six
teen, and Ralph Ford, aged seventeen.
Willmore lives at Oakland with his
mother. Ford was formerly a hotel
bell boy. They confessed to 81 bur
glaries OF residences and stores. They
said they had realized only one hun
dred dollars from b~urglaries. When
caught they were in the act Of raiding
the grain houses OF Miles & Butler.
They say that at the robbery Of Gil
rard's piano house. a few nights ago,
they secured only sixty-Hve dollars in
money and fifteen dollars in ~jewelry.
Girard represented his loss at five hum
bred dollars in money, and seven hun.
dred in jewelry.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
ITEMS.
From the DsLsmsr Lode. !

From the DeLsmar Lode.l
The measles are said 10 be among the
children in town.
Lot jumping In the upper portion Of the
town Was part Of the life Of the past week.
Deer have been seen In the range Of
mountains about seven miles southeast Of
here.
Several cases Of pneumonia are reported
and some patients are said to be In q erie.
ical condition.
II 10 said that there were over so loca-
tions made where the recent float WA dis
covered last week about three miles north
OF here.
A number OF the boys who went 10 the
Spring Valley excitement have returned.
and nearly all speak eno~oursgingly Of the
new district.
With sickness still raging here 10 the
extent that 10 is, and such poor comforts
for the afflicted. the necessity Of q hospital
is more important than anything else.
This Is o suggestion we made about six
months ago. and II has so far gone unheed.
cd. while jsils and halls and many other
things have reached . good state Of per-
lection,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
DEPARTED DAYS.

Os-kha-na-poo, an aged Indian fish
erman. has made a living about Lewis
ton, Idaho. for thirty years by the cap
ture and sale Of salmon. says the Teller.
He is called the medicine" fisher
man OF the tribe, and he attributes his
ucces to charms and incantations.
His big catches in years past have
filed the local knights Of the rod with
envy. But the white fishermen have
been studying the nature Of the sal
mon, and have acquired such skill that
they now have wonderful success.
A few days ago old Os-kha-na-poo
came to his old fishing ground. He
found the same men there who had
tried to buy and bride him to divulge
his secrets and his charms.
The Indian smoked his medicine
pipe just SO many whiffs, chanted an
Indian presto-change and showed his
canoe into the stream. The white men
fshed by his side and caught many a
big salmon.
The Indian worked and called upon
the Gods that rule the water, but in
vain. He departed in disgust, unable
to comprehend the mastery Of science
over superstition.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15

newest OF all heating stoves and the most
economical Of any In use. Call and see
one In use at the store Of J. W. Lambert
a Co.. on Main street.
George II. Meiss dropped dead last week
while conversing with a friend at Wells.
Elko county. He had been Recorder Of
that county for two terms. He was 9
brother Of DIR. J. J. Meigs aud q native OF
Vermont and so years OF age. He leaves a
wife and three daughters who Of present
reside 10 San Francisco.
Louis Klein, an old aud highly respected
citizen OF Phoebe. died at tina, place on
Tuesday Of last week. The Record. In
speaking Of the deceased. says: Louie was
one Of the old residents here; vas engaged
in the early days In the brewery business,
and lstterly in the saloon business. He
had many warm friends and was 9 man Of
true pioneer ways.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15

How many suicides, think you, reader,
have been committed by persons driven
d~istrsught and hunted to their doom by
the demon Of chronic III health2 Count
less. Fol instance, we know. do we not,
that hypocnondriasis Is . monomanis-s
sort Of minor madness produced BY ohron'
ic dyspepsiaf Again, insomnia. or sleep
l~essness, often . result Of the same cause,
eliminates In q arrangement Of the ress-
oning faculties. 1t Is, therefore, OF mo
mentous consequence TO prevent the arri-
val OF disease at It's chronic phase, when il
daily and nightly scourges the sufferer to
q dangerously uncertain goal. No medi-
cine known to science. as q means Of ar
resting the maladies to which 1t is adapted,
exists equal to Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters. Among these complaints are chronic
indigestion and insomnia. kidney and
rheumatic ailments. constipation and liver
trouble. Appetite is improved by the Bit
tiers, the blood fertilized, and bodily sub
stance and vigor increased by Il.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
RIGHTS.

The following dispatch, according to
the Carson News, was received from
New York yesterday morning:
NEW York, Feb. 5, 1896.
Governor John L. Jones: The editor
Of the Recorder would esteem it a pleas
ure to print your views as to whether
belligerent rights should be granted to
Cuban patriots. Are Gomez and WASH
ington rebels OF the same stamp? Wire
answer at my expense.
GEORGE w. TURNER.
To this dispatch Acting Governor
Sadler replied:
CARSON Cry, Feb. 6, 1896.
George w. Turner: The people Of
this State are. at the very least, in ia
vor of according belligerent rights to
theC ubsns, but would be better pleased
to see substantial aid extended, SINH
lar to that extended to US by France
during our W revolution. We do not
know enough OF Gomez to fix his place
in history, but he certainly appears to
be a worthy example Of the type of
"rebels" made glorious by the names
Of Washington and Bolivar.
REINHoLD SADLER, Acting Governor.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15
Opening I'm G

The work on the chairman mine is
being pushed rapidly. Every day adds
new proof that the ore body, in which
the company is now sinking, is Of vast
extent and much richer than any that
has heretofore been developed, also
much freer and altogether a higher and
better character OF ore. The lowest as
says that have so far been made are
$S5, and running from this amount up
to $346 in gold. A Wine is now being
sunk to connect the 90 with the 100
foot level. which is the tunnel level
and through which the ore will be ex-
tracted.-W. p. News.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1896-02-15

The villainy OF Islander is one OF the
crying evils Of wanton malice that every
honest nan and woman despises. The
scandaious story recently published in
Carson and now denied and character
lied as a base SANDER has called atten-
ton to the prevalence OF backbiting
and slandering in the Capital, which
was recently designated by one OF it's
residents as a hot-bed OF vicious lying
and libel. Carson is not without its
parallels in this popularity. All towns
are more or less cursed by calumni-
ators, envious detractors from the
worth OF others, gossips and SANDER
mongers; and the Comstock has its
full quota. Two great writers likened
slsnderers TO murderers, in very SINH
lar language. Ben Johnson said that
slanderers "cut mems Threats with
whisperings." Walter Scott reproach-
fully described them as, "Low-breath-
ed takers, minion lispers. cutting hon.
est Threats by whispers"
Slanderers are vermin animated by
devils. They are vermin in that they
creep and crawl and nudge and wink
and whisper and hide, and do their
cowardly Offices under cover, in the
dark, with the cunning of vermin.
They are devilish in that they are
abandoned to the most iendish and
pitiless practices. Some future day,
when civilization has further advanced,
the wisdom and ingenuity Of man will
devise laws that will silence the whis-
pering tongues of character-murdering
malice, and then the black old earth
will come near to Wilderness and the
nobleness Of mankind will approach to
the God-like.-Virginia Chronicle.