The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-08-20

a visit in neighboring towns. She
will be in Vermont probably till near
the last Of next north, when she will
go back to Littleton, a suburb of Den
yer, and her present home.
certain one of our good mothers
here, would claim no more for her mn
steal talent than did Artemus Ward,
who told his audiences che was sad
dest when he sang, and so were those
who heard him." The six years old
daughter Of this mother had the gift
of song, that was being cultivated in
school, and exercised in her home,
naturally the mother caught up or
tried to some of the musical gems,
that fell from the lips of the little
miss, One of these efforts saddened
the daughter to the extent that she
had to speak out and say to her man.
ma, "you haven't got the key. We
sing that in little kind of a tune in
school" with the accent on the word
tune. Well, even better than the mere
gift of song is this mothers gift of
humor and Willingness to laugh heart
lily even over her own comical misad-
ventures.
We have before spoken of the gift
TO the city of Binghamton, N. Y, of
public drinking fountain from the
Natural Humane Alliance of New
York and of which our townsman,
Lewis M. Seaver, is the treasurer and
secretary. This fountain was put in
operation last month and a Bingham
ton paper speaks of the place where it
stands as ian attractive court with
the fountain as a beautiful center
piece. The benefits of his gift will
go on for centuries-may we not say?
The founder of this alliance and a
former partner of our Mr.. Seaver we
have briefly spoken of. 1t is said of
this ''many sided man" that the one
man whose fame he most envied was
Henry Bergh, the founder of the So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
animals, and that if he could leave
behind him the record that this good
man left. it would be the pruudest
monument he could desire.'
Here's one more bit of personal ex-
perience. OF course multitudes-co
we say myriads-are getting the same
in kind, in asking for free gifts in
answer to certain advertisements In
attendance at the recent great meet
ing of Presbyterians in Los Angeles,
| California, was a minister, who was
so delighted with Southern California
that he gave utterance to his warm
| feelings and delight, in a certain re-
! ligious journal that comes to our home
weekly. Among other things he spoke
of the wonderful preserved fruits of
that section, and said his readers had
only to send t.. "a certain address for
! the gratuitons receipt for preserving
fruits so superbly, but, one should, he
added, enclose few extra stamps to
! pay for printing this free gift, and for
| postage All reasonable of course,
and the enthusiastic clergyman in
heart, was doing good service to his
fellows in spreading the news. We
enclosed the stamps and have the re-
ceipt. But the heart and lungs and
viscera of the whole thing is that one
must have certain pIeservative, pat
up there in Southern California, that
you can get a two ounce package of
for $l25. In all honesty, we are COM
PEELED to say that there may not be a
plamable thing i'll this whole matter
but it has lesson.
Who knows but there will be a new
face on the gallery of pictures that
adorn SO many medical advertisements
throughout the land, even that of a
favorite cat in one of our farm houses!
This valuable pet had been badly bit
ten by some animal, and was suffering
greatly from the wounds. But for the
love of it's owners, it must likely have
been killed. In hunting for some rem.
edy, after the failure of others tried,
at the suggestion of Druggist Fred A.
Ainsworth, and as an experiment they
tried the comparatively new remedy
called Zemacol, and the animals APP
probation of 1T is shown in that it al
lows it to remain on its injured parts
undistrubed, as it had not been will
ing to do in some former instances
What feline testimonial the pro-
prietors of this remedy may yet gel
from here.
Some one was recently reading, il
our hearing letter from summer
resort, and PAUSED suddenly, to note
what seemed to be misspelling of the
word mosquito. We have sine,
read that on what seems to be goot
authority, there are twelve allowable