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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
A Story of Lincoln.

There is now among the patients at
sanitarium in Elmira an old man named
z. c.. Robbins, a patent lawyer, who
has been a resident of Washington
nearly half century. He Nat well &C
quainted with Mr. Lincoln, by whom
he was selected rs chairman of The first
police commission after his inaugura.
ton in 1861. He tells this story of the
martyr president: After the emancipa-
ton proclamation had been written it
will be remembered that six months
were given the Confederates TO lay
down their arms aud return to the
Union, in which case the proclamation
was not to be issued. The early cleo
tons had gone against the republican
party. A tremendous pressure was
brought to bear upon the president to
withdraw the threatened issue of the
proclamation. Letters poured in, som ;
imploring, some threatening, and many
weak-hearted men called to counsel
against the paper, until the staunch
auti-slavery people feared that Mr.. Lin
coin could not Withstand the pressure.
One day, about a week before the time
set for the proclamation, Mr.. Robbins
walked into the office of Private Secre-
tary Nicolay. While standing there
Mr.. Lincoln entered, put his hand n
Mr.. Robbins shoulder and said " Well,
old friend. the important day draws
near" Yes" replied Robbins, "and
l hope there will be no backing out on
your part" "Well, don't know"
said Lincoln, Peter denied his Mas
ter. He thought he wouldn't but he
did," The great day came. A few days
later Mr.. Robbins met Mr.. Lincoln
when the latter grasped his hand and
said: Well, friend Robbins, | beat
Peter"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
The Old Flag Respected.

Whittier has pictured the renowned
Stonewall Jackson as saying at Fred
erick, when old Barbara displayed the
Stars and Stripes, that whoever touched
hair of her gray head should die
like dog" And the following, from
the Sandusky Register, confirms the
fact that, although fighting in what he
considered a sacred cause, the gallant
Southerner still cherished deep re-
spect for :" the old flag" under which
he was born: During the war squad
of Confederate soldiers under command
of captain, captured a number of
United States soldiers, and with them
an American flag. The Confederate
officer, to show his contempt for it,
dragged it behind him through the dust
and dirt as he marched into General
Stonewall Jackson's camp with his pris-
oners. A Confederate soldier, seeing
the Stars and Stripes trailing in the
dust, raised his musket, took aim at the
Confederate officer, and in language
more forcible than polite told him to
lift that flag out OF the dust or he would
blow his brains out. The officer lifted
the flag out of the dirt, but took the
name of the private soldier who had
insulted" him, and reported the in
cident to General Jackson. The gem
eral asked what he had done to excite
the wrath of the private, and the cap
tain told him that he was dragging the
Stars and Stripes through the dirt. He
did not shoot your" saia the general.
"No," said the officer, she did not
shoot me-" The general made some
remark which indicated that he would
not have dealt harshly with the man
had he done so, aud said to The officer:
"That sol1ier was born under the Stars
and Stripes, as his father was, and he
still retains a respect and affection for
it, and an officer of our army who has
no higher appreciation of the senti-
ments of our people than you appear to
have is not fit to be on my staff" and
he dismissed the fficer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
When Teacher Gets Cross.

When the teacher gets cross and her brown eyes
get black
And her pencil comes down on the desk with a
whack
We chilluns in class sits up straight in line,
AS If we had rulers ms cad of spinel
It's scary to cough, and it's not safe to grin
When the teacher gets and the dimpes goes in,
When the teacher gets cross the tables all mix,
And the ones and the sevens egins playing tricks
The pluses and minus is just little smears
Where the crybabes cry all their states up with
tears.
The hggers won't add, and they act up like sin
When the teacher gets and the dimples goes in
Whom the teacher gets cross -be readers gets bad;
The lines iggle round till the chili.ns is sad
And Billyboy puffs and gets red In the T. oe
AS If he and the lessons running a race
Till she hollows out Next" as sharp as a pin
When the teacher gets and the dmples goes In.
When the teacher gets good her smile is so bri ght,
The tables gets straight aud the readers gets right
The pluses and minus come trooping along,
And tigers add up and stops being wrong
And chilluns would like (but we dassenO to shout
When the teacher gets good and the dmples
out Rochester Post-EIpress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has affixed
his signature to most important order,
which adds to the competitive list about
10000 offices that have heretofore been
distributed on the basis of politics or
favor rather than merit. The num-
Der of places in the classified ser
vice is thus increased to upward of
$4,000. This addition to it is by far
the largest that has yet been made. 1t
reduces the number of offices that can
be filed without competitive exami-
nation to mere handful, and will en-
able the government officials hereafter
to attend to their regular duties instead
of serving as office-brokers. Whatever
Mr.. Cleveland's immediate motive, he
has done a notable act in advancing
civil service reform New York 1'ri-
bune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
nation.

A tale of the ruin impending over
the tin plate makers of Wales is told in
a report TO the state department by
United States Consul Howells at Cardiff.
The operators find themselves helpless,
and have dissolved their board of con-
troll, while the tin platers' union finds
it impossible to keep the men in line,
and there is no uniformity in wages.
The American market is felt to be
hopelessly lost, and the greatest de-
mills in the district no fewer than 253
are idle, while ninety-one are being run
on 10 per cent reduction in wages,
forty at 129 per cent, ninety-one at 10
per cent, five at 20 per cent, five at 22t
per cent, five at rs per cent reduction
There are now twice as many mills as
are needed, and while 1900 men were
out of employment in March, the num-
Der of idle mills has quadrupled. Even
if no tin plate had been produced in
America the productive power of the
district would still have exceeded the
worlds demand.-Press Dispatch.
1t must have been severe trial for
Mr.. Quincy's consul at Cardiff to make
lhut LCDOlbS anu ~ lluob ndNC UCcn u
still more severe trial for the state de-
partment to print it, The tin-plate in
dustry in Wales may be going to the
dogs, but il is not through any fault of
the present Cleveland administration.
They have done all in their power to
aid it. About the time of President
Cleveland's second election, nothing so
stirred a democrat or mugwump to de-
rision as the idea that tin plate could
be made in this country and nothing
so provoked his credulity as The reports
of the growth of this "infant industry"
That sheet of American tin plate had
been made was denied. What pur-
ported to be American tin plate was
alleged to be the English article mas
querading in the stars and stripes.
Democratic consuls are now testifying
to the virtue and power of protection.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13

A HOUSEHOLD TREAsURE.-D. W.
Fuller OF Canajoharie, N. Y, says that
he always keeps DIR. Kings New Dis
covery in the house and his family has
always found the very best results fol-
low its use; that he would not be with
out it, if procurable. G. A. Dykeman,
druggist, Catskill, N. Y, says that DR..
Kings New Discovery is undoubtedly
the best cough remedy; that he has
used it in his family for eight years,
and it has never failed to do all that is
claimed for it. Why not try remedy
so long tried and tested? Trial bottles
free at G. Blakely's drug store. Regu-
lar size, fifty cents and 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
Dermumt @attbmam.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1896.
McKinley's Ascendancy.

California, Indiana and Michigan
have declared for Mckinley during the
week and the political mathematician
are now able to figure out a clear ma
jority for the Ohio candidate. McKin-
ley now has 473 delegates, his managers
claim, or some twenty more than a ma
jority. With this state of the canvass
assured beyond peradventure the land
slide toward the man who stands for
protection will begin, and when the ST.
Louis convention meets, June 16, his
nomination is likely to come by accla-
nation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
Nausea,
" a=SiCI<ness.

Both due to an unnatural con.
dition of the vital organs, caused
by unwonted surroundings or
excuses, either an unnecessary
generation of the gastric juices
or a partial suspension of the
natural functions of the life
generating parts, in other words
a state of mal-nutrition with its
ever accompanying unpleasant
sensations. For such a sickness
get nourishment, take
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
Memories of Him.

There are such memories Of him
About the place. my eyes grow dim
with sudden tears Whenever see
The mischief that he made for me
The band torn from my newest hat
And leaves from Shakespeare on the mat
Such memories Of him abound.
with tears and smiles glance around
The Uttered room, strewn with his toys,
But no more echoing with the noise
OF his dear feet G. Where was the art
Wherewth he climbed straight to my hearth
His mothers sweet geranlnms tossed
And tumbled all their beauty lost
And here an album out of place,
And there a sadly broken vase,
And there the sorrowing sunlight shines
Through tousled morning glory vines.
Would he were here, with his sweet looks.
He might have all my dearest books
To tear in tatters--S Shakespeare, all,
For Just his lightest footsteps fall,
For what ia Shakespeare to the kiss
And clinging of the one l miss?
Frank L. Stanton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
BOVinine

the weakest stomach retains it.
It's a concentration into the least
possible bulk of the vital elements
of lean beef, it nourishes and
starts every organ of the body
on its normal duty with no
apparent effort; this done, bad
feelings vanish Mr. J. A. Black
man, 1873 Z. 8Sth ST., N. Y.
writes Sailing from here last
August for Europe, tried every
antidote for sea-sickness, and |
found yours the only successful
one. On my return also used it
when / suffered no i'll effects
at all"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
A WOman's Pocket.

Just where IT is one never kaows-
Beneath the folds 1t never shows.
Above. below, before, behind
puzzle to the human mind
Man never knows his helplessness
Until he tries in woman's dress
To find the pocket.
He's new 10 matrimonial cares
Who volunteers TO run up stairs
And fetch a trifie, more or less,
His bride left in some other dress!
Believe me, Nature meier designed
That mortal man should ever find
A woman's pocket,
He opens wide the closet door,
Each hook so full of clothes galore,
That ere he finds the proper gown
Each dress In turn has tumbled down.
Into the placket hole at back
He thrusts his arm; alasl alackl
lis not a pocket.
He drags it out in his despair
Ane spreads 1t DER an easy chair
Lifts up each tuck and fold and seam,
Walks round and round as in a dream.
lie lluGn loO soou a man W swear
Yet undevoutly wonders where
She keeps that pocket.
He grabs it up, and, pushing down,
Upon her lap losses the gown,
'' In truth you are the better half
If you can find-Why do you laugh"
- laugh because you've brought me here
A petticoat, my hubby dear,
To find a pock,t."
Man keeps a score with equal grace;
They're always in the self-same place,
But woman. since the world begun,
Could never locate even one.
Well not except good mother Eve,
Who had no chance, as you'll perceive,
To wear a pocket.
No use for one in her scant suit,
Except, perchance, to carry fruit,
What paragons these men would be
Had Eve not let poor Adam see
That luscious fruit t. man forbid,
But kept the tempting apple hid
Inside her pocket
San Francisco Newsletter
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
Measuring the Baby.

We measured the riotous baby
Against the cottage wall
A lily grew at the threshold,
And the boy was Just as tall
A Royal riger-lily,
with spots of purple and gold,
And the heart of jeweled chalice
The fragrant dew to hold.
Without the blue-birds vhistled,
High up in the old rooftrees,
And to and fro at the window
The red rose rocked her bees.
And the wee pink fists of the baby,
Were never a moment still,
Swapping at shine and shadow
That danced at the lattice-sill.
His eyes we re wide as blue-bells-
His mouth like a flower unblown-
Two little bare feet, like funny white mice
Peeped out from his snowy gown;
And we thought with thrill of rapture,
That yet had a touch of pain,
When June rolls around with her roses
Wen measure the boy again.
All II e! in darkened chamber,
With the sunshine shut away,
Through tears that fell like bitter rain,
We measured the boy to-day;
And the little bare feet that were dimpled
And sweet as "a budding rose,
Lay side by side together,
In the hush of long repose.
Up from the dainty pillow,
White as the risen dawn,
The fair little face lay smiling,
With the light of heaven theron;
I{tt
Dropped from rose, lay still,
Never to catch the sunshine
That crept TO the shrouded sill.
We mea ured the sleeping baby
With ribbons white as snow,
For the shining rosewood casket
That waited him below;
And out Of the darkened chamber
We went with ch!ldless moan;
To the height of the sinless angels
Our little one had grown. Anonymous.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
SOLDIERS BUDGET.
The Soldiers Reprieve.

my Fred can't understand it,"
And his voice lie quivering with pain,
While the tears kept slowly dropping
On his trembling hands like rain;
For Fred was so brave and loyal,
So true, but my eyes are dim,
And cannot read the letter,
The last shall get from him
Please read it, sir, while l listen
In fancy see him dead
My boy, shot down ike traitor,
My noble, my brave boy, Fred"
Dear father" so ran the letter,
Tomorrow when twilight creeps
Along the hill to the churchyard,
Ger the grave where mother sleeps,
When the dusky shadows gather,
They'll lay your boy in the grave,
For nearly betraying his country
He would give his life to save.
And, father, II tell you truly,
With almost my latest BREATH
That your boy is not a traitor,
Though he dies a traitors death.
"You remember Bonnie Wilson,
He's suffering deal Of pain
He was only that day ordered
Back into the ranks again.
carried all of his luggage
With mine, on the march that day;
gave him my arm to lean on,
Else he had dropped on the way.
Twas Bennie's turn to be sentry,
But took his place, and /
Father, dropped asleep, and now
must die as traitors die.
"The Colonel is kind and thoughtful,
He has done the best he can,
And they will not bind or blind me-
shall meet death like a man.
Kiss little Blossom; but father,
Need you tell her how fell?"
A sob from the Swallowed corner
Yes, Blossom had heard 1t all.
AS she kissed the precious letter,
She said with faltering breath:
"Our Fred was never traitor,
Though he dies a traitors death"
A little sun-bro@ned maiden,
In a shabby time-worn dress,
Took her seat half-hour later
In the crowded night express.
The conductor heard her story
As he held her dimpled hand,
And sighed for the sad hearts breaking
All over the troubled land.
lie tenderly wiped the tear-drops
FROM the blue eyes trimming DER,
And guarded her footsteps safely
Till she reached the White House door
The president sat at his writing,
But the eyes were kind and mild
That turned with look of wonder
On the little sly-faced child,
And he heard Fred's farewell letter
With look of sad regret
"'Tis a brave young life" he murmured,
And his country needs him yet;
From an honored place in battle
He shall bid the world goodbye.
If that brave young life is needed,
He shall die as heroes die"
Rose Hartwich Tho
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
POETRY.
Written for the Waterman.
Spring Fashions,

They say bright red and purple will be the latest
thing"
And by all the tulips in the garden beds this
spring
The hyacinths and crocuses prefer mu CHI gayer
shades;
The dafods wear yelow-the color seldom fades.
OF course for small feld-boomng the styles not
so bright
The daisies still continue to dress in simple whte
And clovers last seasons shades, all honorto
their pluck,
with now and then AN extra leaf to bring the finder
iuclr
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13

BROADLY speaking, the principles of
International relationships are one and
the same with the principles of indi-
vldual relationship. Whatever is right
Tor me to do must, under parallel cir
cumstances, be right for the state to do.
Whatever is wrong for me to do must,
under similar circumstances, be wrong
for the state TO do.-Rev. II. Newton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13

PURE, rich blood is the true cure for
nervousness, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the One True Blood Purifier and nerve
tonic. .TaDIt E3RRs
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
Administrators Sale!

There will be sold at public auction on the prem
ises Thursday the 18th day of May, 1885, all the
real estate belonging to the estate of William H.
Dewey, late of West Berlin, said real estate being
two farms, of about 100 acres. with good build
ings. House new, with modern improvements, and
big enough for any farm house New horse barn
and carriage house attached to house. One other
small barn. not new but in fair condition. Good
granery, sugar house, tool house, etc. with never
failing running water One farm of about llO acres
with good, comfortable farm house. not new but
well built, substantial aud well kept New COW
barn, ninety by fifty feet, with basement cellar and
all modern improvements, with new horse barn and
carriage house thirty by forty feet attached Good
granery, sugar house and all other small buildings
necessary to large farm. Running water TO house
and barns from spring near by which was never
mostly new, and built by the well-known carpenter
sufficient warrant for any building wherever he is
known These farms Join and have been carried on
together as great farm flor years although the
sold together, or separately, purchasers wish to
bid upon The moving and tillage land of both farms
is all river meadow and in high state of cultivation
good soil and verv easy of cultivation. Abundance of
wood and pastures well waered There is a good
sugar orchard each place, School house joins the
farm Store, p0st-oice and flag station one and one
half miles on good road and only about four miles
from Montpelier. II not sold before, quantity of
hay will be sold The above sale to commence at
ten o'clock A. NJ.
SARAH q. DEWEY. Administrators.
Dated at Berlin, April "a 1896.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13

ORDER your envelopes, note heads, bill
heads, statements, ETC., OF the WATCHMAN
job office. Stock and workmanship always
the best, prices the lowest
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
Administrators Sale.
| will sell at public auction on the premises IN
Waterbury Village, on
Thursday, Nav "a, 1896,

At o'clock In the afternoon, one.third interest,"
in the property known as the sc. @. Sheple Farm.
consisting of about one hundred acres, with good
buildings, and included with the above Is onehird
interest in the sheple system OF water works, the
scribed property, and now supplying more than one
hundred families In Waterbury Village with water
for domestic purposes; also one undivided half Of
the building lot opposite Waterbury National Bank
upon which stood the Davis ~ Crossett block before
II was burned In 1894, and twenty acres OF wood
land, known the Proctor land, and adjoining the
pasture land of DIR. Henry James. The above prop
erty i'll be sold on above date II not previously dis
posed of. FRANK n. SMITH,
Admir- Luther Davis Estate,
Waterbury, VT, April 8 1886.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-30
BIG BUSINESS.
Merit the Only Founda-
ton to Build Or.
Interview With Prominent Druggist upon
Iwo Notable Suoccsscs-Public Warned
Against limitations.


There has OF late been kind OF moral
waNe showing its influence among out
male popu.auon. Many men have realized
thdt tncy were smoking ana tobacco spii-
ths the'r iiNes away, aud they have pre-
iviitu condition oil manly vigoi and ro-
nust letlth. skinny nion have quit smcN-
i"r VIC cgais, dried up nicotine soaks
nave iifcd ulen pipes. hardened GA thaWs
haNc SUI Out then guilds. anu p.,lud cigar.
e'.e suHheis aaNe thrown away thc dvau.y
CORN tack. You can tell them hy the new
hrighIness In their eyes. the new tlestici-
" IN Their step. the inc color Ia their
Face. and the Visible increase in their
Mci.ht. not 10 speak OF Il new cheerfu.nvss
OF DISPOSITION which tells that they are
Enjoying Inc sood things OF llic and Il
YOU ASA one OF thcm what did il. he al
WAYS says. al is No-To- Bac. and / got
~ at Hvo w iieycrs drug stcr,, No. ~
Jlj Main street."
IN essential in every community IS the
reliable urug store. where nothing is soli
tnat ~ not vOuchrd FOR. where no fainl
mistakes are maze. Such a one Is the well
known establishment mentioned above
hptcGshlN reliable drug store. I he
bet y. csciiujion IN the word IS not OF
benefit unless property ccmlouudo L.
tiv'iN day We read IA the paper warming
against owing from those ~hO substitute
iaF's and initattuns .li atandStd prpl1-
iaipns hrcausc 1t PAWS iRggcl profit
Accuracy. honesty. wide awake aiicn-
ten icus iiia ioInGaii0n 81 lhc sutccss
agtt WAS ASK ed about In, remarkable
boom Ia The sale OF No-'ro-liac.
My rcv" he said ia The reporter, the
success OF n preparation lies ia what u
ioe not what iis advertised to dr. Merit
count. nuii.ne else You can udNertse
FROM NOW til doomsiav aud II III" article
docs Not pnsstss merit 50 " u not acni"Ne
success. That is why Nn-lo-iiac with
coinisaraiiNey little aiscrtsinh has hal
80 remarkable sale. 1T cures thc tohsc-
go habit ana restores the Vital functions.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-30

: ,,yle Of playing cards So Is .,' vs.
ss ~, !. broadway window The pct
N - photographs of prominent
hrds a's rhov all wanted TO he
s, I'D i''S Queens, 50 thaS ,hT ,i imsep so
70 Sc, Wy would be content TO be
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-30

CHERClI Sl-HpEn

Belmont. Texas. April 27.-Thc ladies of
the Methodist, church gave an ice cream
supper last Friday night, the proceeds of
which were sS3.
chidrcn's Day was observed at tho
Sart ST church yesterday and last night
thcN had nice concert. from which they
rea ized nent little sum. to be applied ~
Eantisi nlssinns
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-30
MISSIONARY MAss- MEETING

foakum. Texas, April 2S--A Baptist
missionary mass-mec,ing. participated in
Nv largo number of the prominent d.
vines aud laNnon of that faith from all
phrts of the state. convened here this
morning. aud will be In session the re-.
malnder Of the. week. This is the second
meeting Of tho kind ever held In the state,
and the deliberations Of the body will he
looked on with interest 10y Baptis,s
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-30

FOR SALE OR RENT---A twenty Ave
acr. pear farm ncnr Hitchcock. Calves
ton county. well improved. good dwell
ing house, outhousos, etc. AmeriS,n
Brewing Association. II