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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

school system than those who iuhame
prejudice against Catholics by sweep
ing assertions, as that the Vatican
is aiming its guns at our public schools
and that all Roman Catholics are hostile
to American institutions. . Oc-
casiOns of offence to Catholics should
be carefully avoided II textbooks
make msstatements respecting the his
tory or usages of the Romish church
they should be replaced by books which
are accurate. Care should be taken
that popular feeling is not made a tool
in the interest of publishing houses
and political parties. Intelligent young
Catholics should not be alienated from
the support of schools by senseless at
tacks on the schemes of the Catholic
church, and by attempts to excite
prejudice against it. The Irish Cath
oics are with us to stay, and we should
use all proper methods TO invite their
cooperation in the support o. measures
which are for the public good. =
We do not doubt that the leaders of the
Roman Catholic church earnestly de-
sire to bring all the children under
their care into day-schools where they
will receive religious instruction ac-
cording to the beliefs of that church.
But the church does not control the
people in all things, and is not the only
interest of their lives. They live in
modern times, in intelligent and enter
prising communities, and in republic.
If these influences are allowed to
produce their legitimate effects, public
schools will continue TO do an i'm
portant work for children of Catholic
parents. Nothing can play more effec-
tually into the hands of ecclesiastical
leaders than courses which have ten
dency to solidify the Catholic popula-
ton. Attempts to array Protestants
against Catholics, to attribute dark de-
signs and underground methods to the
clergy, to accuse the whole church of
hostility to American institutions and
ideas. are more likely TO solidify Catho-
lies in defence of their church than to
ALLEVIATE them from it. = Moth
ing is gained by attributing to the
Church of Rome some mysterious
power which 4 does not possess. The
secrecy and plots which were its mighty
enginery in the Middle Ages, and
which therefore have an historical as
ISOLATION with it, can not control the
movements of the nineteenth CEN
tury.-Andouer Rerje,C.
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he raised. The bonds issued in the
last two years have been at a dis
count OF fCty-fve per cent. If the
new company could do no better. and
it is not likely that it could. round
half billion of capital must be issued
to raise the cash needed. 1t is cX.
tremely doubtful whether the traffic
available could pay interest on $780,
600 600. 1t is certain that il could not
for generation or two make any re-
turn on $3.50 600. 00--four-hflhs the
amount of our national debt-which is
the total Of the issues already made and
those needed to complete the work.
Philddelpbja Press.
NOTHING can be gained by angry
comment on Mr.. BGtterworth's scheme.
and we are willing to leave the ranting
and roaring to our tory contemporaries.
In view of the possibility that the Sher-
man and Butterworth influence may in
duce congress to adopt some such reso-
luton, ii may be worth while specu-
lating on what would follow such adop-
ton. Considering the almost com
pletely independent position of Canada,
ii is highly improbable that Great Brit
am hOuil uDufIldkt W uiSDOSt Ol the
Washington proposition without re-
ferring it to Canada. The considera-
ton of it would be our business.
Canadians would wish to give Brother
Jonathan his answer. There can be
no doubt as to the decision with which
that answer would be given. 1t would
satisfactorily settle the question as to
Canada's disposition to maintain her
separate institutions. The British gov
eminent, should it refuse to refer
the matter to Canada, would interfere
very unwarrantably with our sclf-gov-
erning rights. Not only so, but such
British refusal would lead Americans
to credit the British government with
believing that Canadians wish for po-
litical union with the States. That is
an opinion of which our neighbors
should be completely disabused. if pos
sible. So this one thing can be said
for Mr.. Butterwouh's curious pro-
posal. It's adoption by congress would
probably lead 10 a thorough exposition
and understanding of Canadian opn-
ion as to the project of political union
with the States. We have no doubt
that the judgment of Canadians in the
matter would be such as to cure our
neighbors of a delusion that has long
kept them from trying to make the best
possible OF the political separation of
the two countries.-IoroGto Globe
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
A Reioinder.

EdHor Of WatcbmoH Il have little bone
to pick with your correspondent, Anti, "
in the last issue of the WATCHIAN. ! do
not propose AT this time to discuss the rea-
sons for the defeat of the woman suffrage
bill before the late session of the legisla-
ture. Whether it ought or ought not to
have been defeated by the Vermont solons
the fact remains the same-women have
no more power in Vermont politics than
they had before that august body of male
wisdom convened at our capitol in 1888.
agree with " Anti that when Vermont
women, as body, demand the right of
suffrage, it will be granted them; but | am
not nearly so sure as he seems to be that
they never will demand it, The times are
not ripe for it, the women are not educated
up to it, but no great reformatory movement
ever succeeded all at once. 1t is profound
mystery to me how it is possible for an ill.,
telligent woman to live in these times and
not be interested in the political destiny of
our country. 1t is the ground on which
" Anti y attacks the suffrage movement that
| disagree with most decidedly. " No
family is entitled to more than one vote"
-" the family is a political unit" etc, etc
The family is unit, or One, and the man is
the one. The woman, poor simple crea-
ture, must not dare to have a political opin-
ion of her own or differ in opinion from
her male head on any subject, lest it mar
the family unity! Truly, the masculine
egotiSm OF his argument is refreshing in
this nineteenth century of progress. The
bond that uniteS the husband and wife, the
bond of unity, is a bond of love and not of
masculine coercion, Love is not like a
sponge that absorbs all into itself. 1t is
rather like the sun, that gives of his light
and warmth and beauty to others. Selfish
ness absorbs, love diffuses. The idea that
in the unity of marriage woman'S moral,
intellectual and spiritual identity should
be absorbed in that of her husband, is a
relic of barbarsm, and am surprised that
" Anti should use such an argument,
l.. b. b,
Montpelier, December %. 1855.
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Congressional.

TUESDAY, December 1S-In the senate
Mr.. Morrill, introduced resolution provid-
ing for extra sessions and no holiday recess
in order to push through the tariff bill Mr..
Farwell introduced bill to reorganize the
navy. 80 In the house there was a hot
debate ON the Legislative appropriation bill.
The amendment offered by Cummings of
New York to strike out the civil service APP
preparation was voted down and the bill
passed.
WEDNESDAY, In the senate Mr. Ed
munds introduced a resolution declaring
that the government of the United States
will look with concern and disapproval
upon any connection of a European govern
ment with any transsthman ship canal,
and will regard such foreign interference
as an infringement upon their just rights.
The resolution aims to deter France from
completing the Panama canal and is intro
duced in the interest of the Nicaragua COM
pany. The discussion of the tariff bill was
then resumed, Mr.. Voorhees, making a two
hours speech. - In the house the liver
and harbor bill, appropriating S12,O00,0OO,
was discussed without action.
THURspAY-In the senate the tariff debate
continued. Mr.. Vance presented twelve
amendments, all of which were rejected.
A resolution was adopted providing for a
recess from December u to January 2, and
limiting tariff debate to January p. -
In the house the discussion of the river and
harbor bill was resumed.
FRDAYIn the senate the tariff bill was
discussed by Messrs. Vest, Hiscock, Coke
and Blair. Adjourned till January 3.
- In the house the Nicaragua Canal
bill was considered in committee of the
whole. Amendments were adopted as
follows: requiring all bonds to be issued
from New York offices and be paid for only
in cash, providing that the directors be
citizens of the United States and of Mic
aragua, providing that no changes shall be
made in the concessions by Nicaragua and
Costa Rica which in any way affect the
rights of the United States, requiring a
yearly report to the secretary of the interior
giving a detailed statement of the com
pays affairs No vote was taken and
the house adjourned to January2.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

FIVE public questions of prime i'm
portance have already been mentioned
as sure to be settled easily and natu-
rally by the annexation of Canada to
the United States. These are the fish
cries, the fortification of the northern
border, the complication arising from
the interstate commerce law applying
to one country and not to the other, the
navigation of the Canadian waterways
and the customs duties between the
two countries. Through the disappear
ance of each of those questions in con-
sequence of annexation, Canada would
in the end receive greater proportionate
benefit than the United States. Another
blessing would come though, from such
union, or at least it would be greatly
fastened and assured, which would re-
dound to the advantage of this country
wholly. That would be the final and
complete numerical overwhelming of
the solid South, in the sense in which
that term is understood, and the nor
NAL, healthy and rational development
of the South's local disagreements in
politics. That is promised now as an
event of the constantly nearer future
as the result of the expected admission
of other states in the West. When the
maintenance of sectional solidity ceases
to be politically decisive, the wall which
northerners and southerners have both
helped to build will fall of its own use
lessness, and then the southern men
will cross its line without sacrifice of
pride on their part or northern preju-
dice at their coming. 1t can not be
supposed, either, that the South would
not welcome even this method of its
own complete and final reabsorption
into the Union. Democracy, its key
note and keystone, would find itself re-
lieved from a peculiar and sometimes
crushing difficulty. 1t would not be
long before it would expand and flour
ish with greater power than ever.-Ne,c
York SIN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

HAVE you read Robert -?" stop,
In mercy spare me, Just mis- time.
Ask ii I've committed any crime
Since last we met--if all are well
At homc-speak of the rainy spell,
Election frauds, Lord Saclvlle's woe
" Progressive schemes" perhaps, but. o.
Pray hesitate ere you begin
The same old query that my lSith and kin
Have uttered fifty times this year,
" Have you read Robert Elsmere"
Have ! read Robert --? Yes,
Thank heaven the deed is done.
At last I've read it, though it weighed a ton.
Now when a friend chance to meet
In church. theater, or upon the street,
| shall not rush into a store,
Or turn aside, as oft before,
Lest ! should hear that everlasting same
Have you read Robert-what's his Nance
But bow and say, with eager zest,
1--WE read your Robert and he needs a rest. "
boston Transcript.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

MIR. CHAUNCEy RICHARDSON, the oldest
person in Woodstock, died December %.
lie was born in Woodstock February 20,
1898, and was the son of Jason Richardson.
His occupation was chiefly that of farmer,
but in his earlier years he occupied his time
in the winter season in the manufacture of
spinning-wheels. He was one of the lead
ing projectors in the establishing of the
South Woodstock social library, and was
its chief manager for nearly forty years,
For many years Mr.. Richardson was en-
gagged in writing up the local history of his
town, a subject in which he took great in
tereSt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

MADAME LAFARRAR of Swanton died last
week at the age of l0I years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

THE meeting of the Board of Agriculture
for Windsor county will be held at Norwich
January and 9.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

THE Congregational church at Burlington
was rededcated last week Thursday.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

ORTHODOX, by Dorothea Gerood, author
of Roata," an interesting tale of the eX-
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FROM FLAG TO FLAG, by Eliza McHatton-
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the civil war; when the nation was under
Grande, Bound in attractive cloth covers.
How SHE DID Ir, or Comfort on $3.50 a
Year, by Mary Cruger. This story does not
merely eXpound a theory of economical
living, but is founded on fact, being an ac-
tual portrayal of the wonderful success of
the author in carrying ont cherished
scheme of comfortable living. Bound in
glazed paper covers.
MEMORY, WHAT IT Is AND How To M
PROVE lT, by David Kay, F.R.G.S., author
of Education and Educators" This is
the eighth volume in the international edu-
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the Concord School of Philosophy. The
title of the present volume is sufficient to
indicate that it is not only of interest to
students of mental philosophy, but to
practical men as we'll. The book treats in
thorough and comprehensive manner of
the most important topic in educational
psychologist problem of memory and its
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The above books are published by ID. APP
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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-16

Undoubtedly Cagliostro was the most
able and successful stoundrel who ever
lived Thomas Carlyle. after carefully
inspecting ms portrait, describes his face
rs follows: "Eittest Of visages were
they to be worn 10y the quack Of quacks
A most portentous face of scoundrelismi
a fat. snub. abom.nable face; flat nosed,
greasy. full Of grcpdiness, sensuality, aN
Ike obstinacy; forehead impudent, re-
fusing 10 be ashamed; and then two eyes
turned up seraphically languishing. as If
in divine contemplation and alterations
q touch Of quiz, too; on the whole, per-
haps tine most perfect quack face pro-
duced in the eighteenth century. DE
trOit Free Press
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incidentally it may he well to contrast
this with the very limited area for corn
(maze). In all Europe the area suitable
for maize scarcely equals that Of The
smallest western state -- Indiana. In
America the area Of corn growing, with
amy good result. is certainly less than
half that Of wheat. In India corn can be
grown, but only under favorable circum-
stances OF Australia and the Argentine
Republic the same may be said Wheat
is grown with ease and in enormous guam
titles without irrigation, in such regions
as California. where not "A drop of rain
falls from MAY tin October; but corn,
never In short, it may with confidence
be affirmed that the possible corn lands Of
the world are not ono fifth probably not
One-teth) the possible wheat lands, and
that the great central belt Of American
states. from the line Of southern Tonnes
sec TO that OF northern Indiana have in
this an advantage not threatened as are'
the wheat growers 10 the north or the
cotton growers to the south of them. The
export Of cotton from India has already
reached 600 600 bales.
In the hurry burly of American politics,
from ne Itl4lt tl 1910 ~ AiAi N'RlA Va
1881, ard the heated discussions Of
"soft none" and hard money, no one
observed the tremendous forces working
in Europe 10 help ont the Americans;
vet it is fact that ia those years the Old
World was literally compelled TO return
much of the gold exported during the
civil war, and moiety Of the bonds cx
ported after the war, in payment for food
supplies II was fact, conclusiyely proved
before a parliamentary commission that
the five years Of 1S13-79, inclusive, were
the worst five years ever known III the
history Of British agriculture and that
England and France together had 10 i'm
port in that period over $l5OO,0OO,Oo
worth of grainl Sir James Grid sunmer-
lies the testimony taken by the commits
sion very carefully, and demonstrates
that the British farmers lost 500
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LES MlSERABLES.

Tor what are We thankfulf o sagcs. declare,
From your high carven pulpits. 70 suffering men
Welst 10 your sermon. your cuther. your pray er
Your soft benetifctiou. No answer . there
To the question We ask YOU; the GILL autumn all
Blows the words TO our faces egain.
You've talked Of the merchant ships sailing the
seas,
And told q the treasures the harvest would Weld
OF the fruit hanging low on the oerburdened
trees:
or the odorous breath Of the vire on the breeze
But whcnce comes the mandate, tie Law that de
c-ees
That We starve In the brown stubbleleid?
We bst.led at noonday with dust and with heat
We sang and Te jested 20 tighten our toll;
We hoped the drear winter with plenty 10 greet
All, the mirage 70 near fainting hearts was SC
sweet
Bot empty our hands, hare anI bleeding our fee,
The labor was ours rot the spoil
The haryests are garuered. the myriad sheaves
That pilel the vide fields like gold from the mine
FIJI! up the great barns from the foorto the caves
The grapes that grew ripe amidst whispering
Stain red. laughing lips while starving one
grieves
Outside for the dregs OF the wine.
For what are we thankful For prisons and pain
For olr babes murd ring sleep with their famish-
ing cries;
For the snow and the sleet. the wind and the rain
Beating out the dull ufe from the heart and the
BRAIN:
Torihe grave We cs las. in potter's field gain;
For toe stone with is deeply cut lies.
Margaret Holres 20 New York World
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100000 by excessive and untimely
rains. So complete was the dis
couraeement that the wheat acre
age of the United Kingdom decreased
from $50, 761 acres in 1874 TO 1861, O59
in 1Ssl-moro than 80 per cent. IN many
instances farm laborers harvested wheat
in rubber boots and spread the harvest
on hummocks and scaffoldmg 20 dry be-
tween shoyers. The results 10 the
United States are most elOquently told in
these figures:
From 1880 to 1880 the United States
exported 0jS, $50, 092 bushels Of wheat,
aud of this total, GG7 400, sOl bushels,
moro than two-thirds. were exported In
the ten years ending 1880, and two-thirds
Of that, nearly half of tho whole, 443,-
4lO.495 bushels, were sent in the last ive
wears In short, the exports in those i've
years were more than 80 per cent greater
than In tho forty years from 1850 TO 1871.
Though British crops improved, the area
of wheat growing had been so reduced by
the discouraged farmers that the I'M
mense American export continued some
years longer. -
II may interest American farmers 10
learn also that they have not attained TO
anything like tho possible yield per acre;
for even in the notably bad years the
British averaged fraction over eighteen
bushels per acre. as in ordinary wears
they average thirty. Some OF the states
of Germany average thirty-two, one year
with another or enough to bread six per.
sons, assuming al ordinary supply OF
vegetables. '. H. bLAoLE.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-16

According to a New York correspond
ent. the western man is looming up on
the horizon Of the New York woman in
most astonishing way. He is just be-
ginning. he writes, ito take his place
here in social life, and he takes an aw-
fully big place. He takes away the
breath Of the eastern girl by his self
confident methods, and by the time she
RECEIVERS 1t she very often finds that it is
IN reality her heart that is gone. Chi
cago Herald.
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WHEAT COUNTRIES or THE WORLD.
Tho wheat Districts are indicated 10y w
in 1851 the range was 81 - TO $l0j. and
n 1853 81 20to 81 30, and the decline was
curouslv c0incident with the declining
Weld per acre In 1864 there was a crop
exceeding all previous experience, yet
prices rose: and i'm 1865 and 1866 fairly
good crops sold at the highest prices ever
realized Even on gold basis prices
were phcnomcnally high The largest
crop. proportional TO population, ever
produced I'm the United States was in 1919;
yet prices ranged 20 per cent. higher than
the preceding year, and higher than IN
any subsequent year with one exception.
The repeal Of the British corn laws
in 1916. of course gave an impulse TO
American exports. and by 1850 the foreign
market became somewhat important; yet
the total Of all agricultural exports was
bet 1929 S9j. sos. The growth thereafter
was remarkably regular-the Crimean war
making no such difference as Is generally
supposed and the American civil war
making very littlo-till 1878, then the
wheat export from the United States be
pan 90 increase with a rapidlty that set
am former calculations at naught, rising
till it's volume exceeded $500. OOO,OOO per
year. rising till in nine years the total ex
ceedel tAat of all previous years since the
republic was established, and the flavor
able balance of trade thus created went
near 10 81. OOO. 0O0, 000 In 1889. i'll
clu ivc. one-fourth Of the total exports
from the United States were Of wheat
aud -four and the grand aggregate may
be set I'M round numbers at J 200, OOO,O0J
bushels. Ii was tho farmers wheat that
made specie resumption easy and created
the "nush times of 1e19-S3. And then
began that extraordinary development in
other countries which must now be care
fully studied
India. for the purposes Of this inquiry,
means British India; and in that depend
eucy The British have constructed some
10000 miles OF railway and many canals
both for navigation aud irrigation. II IS
a surprise. indeed 10 learn that there are
IN one tract about $1,000 square miles OF
land capable Of producing wheat that can
be made productive by canals now in pro-
cess Of construction, and that at tho very
time there was famine on one side OF
India wheat and rice on the other side
went 10 waste for mere want Of transpor-
tation 1t is clearly demonstrated that
the land already under the pillow in India
eau furnish abundant food for the total
population and wheat for export TO the
value Of 500, 900, 900, and that the British
are fast supplying tho means Of transpor'
tation, which was all that was lacking
Add 70 this the fact that 1890 square
miles Of good land in that country are stu
undeveloped. and the possibilities of its
wheat export will be plain.
Other sta.isticians estimate that when
the proposed canals are completed, India
can easily export over 200, 600, 600 bushels
Of wheat-all that produced on fertile
soil BY men who work for eight cents per
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Questions of Vital Interest to Insurers.

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