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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29

IL must De COnSlueTBu uIdl JuC CSuSuS
reports give not the cost, but the lch0le-
sale rdlue of products. For the expense
of selling these goods there should be
deducted not less than twelve and one
half per cent, or 100000. The
average profit on woolens is estimated
at about six and one-fourth per cent, or
SIC, 900. This also should be de-
Quoted. These two items amount to
$40 800 900. This sum has been added
to the mill cost to make the wholesale
value given in the census. Deduct this
from the census value and we have
S217 SOC, 900, the net cost at the mill of
the wooden products in question. Now
there has been included in the $780,
100000 some S26,000,000 worth of
yarn, which has been used in the
woolens, worsteds, carpets or hosiery.
So these yarns have been reckoned
twice. and their value should be de-
Quoted from the $2l7 ,000, 900, leaving
S191 100000 as the actual cost of the six
products enumerated. In the produc-
ton of this amount of goods at the mill
cost the wages paid was S47 $780, 600, or
about twenty-five per cent. We are
assured by competent authority that
this is a reasonably accurate estimate,
as nearly correct as can possibly be
reached.
But, as we have said, the total cost
includes many things besides wages,
and in nearly all of them the item of
labor forms an important part, if not
the whole, of their value. Among these
is shoddy, the value of which is all la
Dor; cotton warps, which, from plant
ing of the seed to the weaving, is what
but labor? Chemicals and dye-stuffs,
coal and wood, teasels, soap, repairs,
etc., ETC., all mostly labor. The other
"raw Materials" besides the cotton,
are wool for the fabrics which are spun
or woven and hair for the felts. On
the cows back, as an article of COM
merce the hair is worthless. Its value
at the mill is wages, freight and profit;
freight is all labor, and, as capital is
:" crystalized labor" it is entitled, like
the living workman, to its wages
profit. Wool forms nearly one-half
! the whole cost-and the wool-growers
particularly in Vermont, think wool at
present prices is all labor and no profit.
In its prosperous estate the value of
wool at the mill is labor and profit. So
much for wages and materials, raw and
otherwise. Then come the important
items of rent, insurance and wear and
tear to buildings and machinery, not
less than ten per cent of cost of plant,
all of which in their last analysis are
chiefly labor.
Now we have wages constituting
about twenty-five per cent of the six
products we have taken; wool-all
labor, fifty per cent; cotton and hair,
all labor; other materials, chiefly labor
and even the profits of capital nothing
but crystalized labor; or even eXclud-
ing the wages of capital wholly, it is
but small part of the total cost, and
it still remains true that, in one form
or another, the products of wooden
mills are the embodiment, the incar-
nation of essential labor, and that, il
any other element is present in theii
constitution, it is iniinitesimal, and
microscopic research alone will revea
its presence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29
COUNTY TICKET.

FOR SENATORS,
FRED f. SMITH of Montpelier;
WALTER A. JONES of Waitsheld.
FOR STATES ATTORNEY.
f. w. BISBEE of Barre
FOR ASSISTANT JUDGES,
IRA S. DWINELL of Calais;
HORACE w. LYFORD of Warren.
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE,
HIRAM CARLETON of Montpelier.
FOR SHERIFF,
FRANK II. ATHERTON of Waterbury
FOR HIGH BAILIFF,
j. L. MOSELEY of Mortified.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
ALBERT JOHONNOTT of Montpelier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29

IT is now announced that Judge A.
L. Morrison of New York will be one
of the speakers at the mass meeting
Thursday,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29

and that can be traced to the account
of labor well paid under national laws
that protect American industry.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29
Proportion of Labor in Wooden
Manufactures.

Elsewhere in this issue we have I'M
dertaken to answer an inquiry respect
ing the extent of the element of labor
in wooden manufactures. We had the
curiosity to see what a similar investi-
CATION of an important branch of Yer
mont wood manufactures would de-
velop. In reply to our inquiries, a large
maker of butter-tubs stated that he es-
Inmates that 1000 feet of spruce will
make $50 tubs. On the stump this lum-
Der costs 81 80. The lumber for hoops
costs fifty cents. Here is 81, which rep
resents that part of the cost of $50 tubs
into which the element of labor, it may
be said, does not enter at all. Every
dollar of value that is subsequently
given to that growing timber is the
clear product of labor. These items,
including cost of timber on the stump,
are:
eating timber to mill ...................... 7 90
Making and marketing. 40 OO
Three hundred fifty $40 90
These figures include no addition for
profit, for wear and tear of plant or for
interest on capital. They represent the
naked cost of the tubs at the mill. All
but 50 of this cost is labor. That is,
ninety-six per cent of the cost of this
common article of wood manufactures
is labor.
So it might be shown, beyond doubt
or cavil, that similar percentage of
other products of wood or stone, iron,
steel or clay, cotton, wool or hemp,
juice of the cane or maple, derive their
value almost entirely from labor. Be-
yond certain limitations of skill and the
application of machinery to production,
lower-priced goods mean lower-priced
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29

FOR GOVERNOR,
William ?, Dillingham; of Waterbury
FOR LIEUTENANT-GoVER
Urban A. Woodbury. of Burlington.
FoR TREASURER
William II. Dubois of Randolph.
FOR SECRETARY or STATE,
Charles W. Porter of Montpelier.
FOR AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS.
L. Henry Powell of RichfOrd.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29

FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT of Barton
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-29
Republican Nominations.

STATE AND DISTRICT TICKET.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
Growth of the United States.

The United States has population Of at
least G., ,OO0, 900 at this moment This makes
it second in this particular among the great
civilized nations Of the world. Keeping in
view the ratio Of growth Of the countries
named between recent census periods, there
are to day about SS,0OO,OOO inhabitants in
European Russia, 100000 in Germany,
40, ,Oo0. COO in Austro-Hungary, IS, coo in
France, 81, coo 600 in Great Britain and Ire
land, SO,OoO,O0O in Italy and 100000 in
Spain.
The population Of none OF the other coun-
tries in Europe reach l0,0o0, ,OOO-Turkey's 3
inhabitants outside Of Asia aggregating
scarcely half that figure. Russia alone of the
great powers Of Christendom exceeds the
United States in population Even Russia
must soon be left far in the rear. July l.,
1890, when the next national enumeration
takes place, the United States will have
81, go 600 inhabitants. 1t will have 9G, 600 OO0
in the year 1900 and 12+i, ,000, COO in 1910. This
computation is based on the average growth
Of the country during the century. Employ
ing like basis for Russia, that nation be
fore 1910 will have dropped to second place,
the United States taking the first.
Forty years ago the United States stood
sixth in point of population among the civ
ilized nations OF the globe and twenty years
AGO it stood fifth. Twenty years hence it
will stand frst.-Globe-Dem
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
tn. French President. wife.

President Carnot's wife is clever woman,
lively and well informed, and has made
great effort to restore some Of the social glo-
ries of Paris which were so much obscured
under the Grevy regime She was active in
pushing her husband and in keeping his
name before the public, and never missed at
tending an official reception, so to her he owes
to a certain extent his present honors. While
she was going to all these receptions she was
taking notes of the failures and errors Of the
hostesses, and has thereby managed to avoid
most of them, now that she herself has to
give them She is the daughter Of brilliant
man, Dupont White, the translator of Stuart
Mills works into French She speaks En-
glish with perfect fluency, and is much moro
fond OF English than Of French novels.
George Eliot is her favorite, but Ouida and
Miss Bradcon she also likes because Of their
rapidity, which carries her swiftly along to
the denouement. She has no son, which is q
great grief to her, but for consolation has
four pretty clever little daughters, whom she
trains with great care. She is extremely
fond of American women, and since her ele-
vation TO ths Elysee has been careful to have
the United States well represented by its
female citizens at all her receptions. New
York World
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

Speaking of the awful, jaw breaking
terms which the dermatologists or spe-
cialists iu skin diseases affect, The New
York Medical Record says, these gentle
men ''may be little disappointing In
their therapeutics, like the rest OF the pro
fession, but when it come. to giving dis
eases names of real, rasping, polysyllabi.
cal stridulousncss they leave other special
lists. including the author Of volapuk, far
behind. DIR. Hyde has recently reported
three cases in which the patients were af-
fected with symmetrical and recurrent or
persistent tylosis OF the palmar and plan
tar surfaces, accompanied by hyperidro-
sis, alopecia, bromidrosis, and species OF
onychauYe, which the author supposed to
be due to the same process in the skin
which produced the callosities. The
Daily News ventures to explain that, in
ordinary parlance. these patients were
troubled with corns.-Chicago News.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
THE YOUNG psorLs,

"You don't mean to say that you undsr-
stand French, TommyF' "Oh, yes, l dn.
When ma and pa speak French at tea, 1
know I'm to have powder".-New York
Commercial Advertiser
Mamma, why do they call minis
ters doctorss Mother-I can't tell, johnnie.
Johnnie-Perhaps it's because they're the
pillars of the church, mamma,-Yonkers
Statesman
A little child in one of Albany's public
schools wa' rebuked the other day for using
a slang expression and excused herself by re-
plying: "Well, my brother brought that
into the h ,usen The teacher said: ''Your
brother .o1ght to be more careful of his
language "Oh," said the little one apollo
getically, 'you know you can't stop boys
from bringing slang into the house. Can
youF'-Albany Journal
A little pugilistic cousin, who persisted in
running in and out, despite the fact of his
having a heavy cold, was reproved by me. l
said: "The first thing You know you'll be
taken out TO the cemetery 81 don't care" !"
he replied, with the utmost nonchalance; 81
would like ride, and, anyway" he added,
81 could live up in heaven" A little play
mate said, eagerly: "Oh. my two brothers
is up therel' They are, are theyP my
cousin said, fiercely; well, you just wait till
get there, and I'll smash their noser'-
Philadelphia Record.
Philip, years old, is proud Of his stand
ing at school "Weli,n said his uncle, who
had heard tine boy speak rather delightfully."-
about his school triumphs, what is your
relative rank in your classr IL don't
know what you mean, uncle" Why, l
mean where do you stand in your classesr'
"Ohl In the reading class l stand on the
crack just in front of the big desk, and in the
'rithmetic class don't stand at all, COS we
Just sit on the recitation benchl"-Youth's
Companion.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
Degrading Custom of Tip Giving.

There can be no kind Of doubt that the
most offensive s.d degrading custom that
has been imported into this country from
England up till now is the pernicious fee
system. The man who expects and accepts
fee for doing work for which he is already
paid must gradually sink in his own estima-
tion, as he undoubtedly lowers himself in the
opinion of the fee paying patron. What is
the fee paid fort In order to obtain a more
complete servility. For what is it accepted
In order to acknowledge that more complete
servihty has been rendered. In England,
where the fee system is paramount, walters
In restaurants often pay proprietors large
commissions for the privilege of waiting, to
SO great length has the evil been carried !;
but in this country it is different, and no
argument, sentimental or otherwise, can ex-
cuse either the giver or receiver of an un-
necessary and, therefore. dishonest fee.-Nsw
| York Press Every Day TALL"
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
EXERCISE CAGE, BELGIAN PRISON.

Imprisonment must be maddening. Men
surrounded with every comfort and luxury,
but with no necessity for work, trying to
live without occupation, have been known to
commit suicide from very ennui. Fancy,
then, prisoner passing days, months, years
confined alone; the brain preying upon it
self; the organs, the muscles the whole ply
sique, especially constructed for @ struggle,
unused: without an ear to listen, word to
break the perpetual silence, and beyond all
that mysterious sympathy which is necessary
TO q human beings nature.
/ have been looking into this matter Of SOL
itary confinement a little of late. Perhaps
few of your readers know that the most rigid
system of solitary confinement (barring,
perhaps, the Russian) is carried out in Bel
GUM l give you a cut of the exercise
cage, which is located inside the grand court
of the largest prison of that country. 1t is
gloomy enough, but its horrors are only a
hint Of the terrors of the isolation that
is practiced there The convicts rarely see
any one; even at chapel they are SO dis
posed in little cells, open on one side, as
to be unable to see each other, and the chap
lain and the guard are about the only human
beings they see from one years end to an
other. Certain convicts who work in gangs
must be allowed to see each other, but they
are swathed in white garments and their
faces are closely wrapped, the wrappings
being pierced only with eye holes and breath.
ing holes, SO that they never see each others
countenances.
So that, gloomy as is the exercise cage Of
the Belgian prison, there is no doubt that the
time passed therein by the prisoners is, by
reason of their otherwise cramped confine
ment, like those delicious moments of con
| valescence to one who has suffered from G
severe illness. But unlike the convalescent
the pleasure of the prisoner is clouded with
the remembrance that his relief is but for al
hour, and then he must go back to endur,
| the torture Of solitude.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
Appropriate.

A New York merchant, who does an ex-
tensive business in Cuba, had been entertain
ing a wealthy citizen of Havana for several
days. On recent Sunday the Cuban and
his wife were to sail for home. At the last
moment, the merchant thought it would be
the proper thing to send some flowers to his
departing friends on board the ship. So he
hastily dispatched an Office boy to a florists
to purchase some flowers. "Get about SIS
worth, and will leave the selection to you,n -
were his instructions to the boy, after telling
why he wanted the flowers. He then accom-
panied his friend to the steamer, and just as
'all ashore" was cried, the office boy rushed
up the gangplank carrying two broken col
umns-one bore the inscription: "Wemourn
your loss" and the other. 'Gcne to another
Shore. The Argonaut
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

The precursor of their disease and de-
struction, the kidneys and bladder health
fully stimulated and toned with Hostetttr's
Stomach Bitters. actively resume their
functions. Thus Bright's disease, diabetes,
eatarrh of the bladder and eneuresis are
prevented. For irritating diuretics, and
those unmedicated and fiery stimulaDts
which, used even in moderation, excite
both the renal and vesical organs, this Is
the best possible substitute. 1t Is OF bot
anic composition. and so congenial TO the
stomach. the digestive processes of which
it helps in no ordinary degree, that 1t Is
promptly assimilated by the system, and
its tonic effects are speedily felt Not only
does it remedy inactivity Of the kidneys,
but renews regular habit of body. pro.
notes due secretion and healthy fi)w OF
bile into the proper channels. and expels
from the circulation acrid principles pro-
ductive of rheumatism and gout. 1t is
also the leading specific for malarial COM
plants.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

A colored woman entered prominent dry
goods store few days since, and wanted to
look at some work baskets. The clerk, q
young man, showed her several, and she Sc
lected small one, which she thought was
worth about n quarter.
"Wrap this up for me,n said she.
''Oh, that's all right said the clerk, 'you
just imagine that it is wrapped up"
"All right" she answered, as she picked up
the basket and started from the store.
"Bnt you forgot to pay me, sad the clerk.
''Oh, that's all right" she answered, Just
imagine I've paid YOU"
The laughter Of the proprietor and several
clerks who had overheard the conversation
so embarrassed the young man that he per-
mitted the woman to walk OFF without pay
ing for the basket-W Washington Star.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
SOME STARTLING FACTS!
The Discovery of the Cause of Most Un-
timely Deaths tn az Come upon
the Comm unity.

The official returns of the City of New York
show that nearly hree-tourths of all deaths
are from consumption. When We stop TO
calmly think over this fact. it is really awful.
Aud yet every case without exception started
from small beginnings. 4 cough in the morn
Ing; tickling in the thrbat thick phlegmy
discharge; chilliness at nighti difficult
breathing; tightness across the chest;
these anu many more symptoms indicate tho
presence of that terrible edisease which uniesa
checked, means certain death with long and
painful suffering.
In view Of such serious and ever present
facts the suggestions and advice Of the most
eminent physicians are of the greatest value.
DR.. John Gardner, on e Of the most eminent
physicians in London. says: Science. COM
mon sense, Holy Scriptures ana all exp perience
testify to the benefits deriven from the use Of
pure whisky"
Or. ID. ii. Barker says II have used and ex-
smined Duffy's Pure HALT Whisky, and ind
it the best ! ever tried -
"Dr. VI. Buckwaltdr says: "Duffy's Pure
Malt Whiskey is, without doubt, the invalid's
drink when stimulanus are indicated. and I
and all chronic cases require stimulaLts. and
large per mt of the acute ones also.
These truths, from the lips of the leading
scfsnti &c men of the lay. and confirmed By
the exp rience of men and w0me well known
in the community. should serve as a guide for
all who feel the approach Of consumption, no
natter By what path it may come. We do not
hesitate TO assert that any man or woman who
will use Dufy's Pure Matt Whisky according
TO directions can defy consumption aud pro-
hong life with all its blessings.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

To GO through congress is like going
through university course. Within the
halls of the Capitol there are freshmen,
sophomores, juniors and seniors in the
school of statecraft, and it often takes
some several terms past the senior one be-
fore they become statesmen and adopts in
diplomacy. Then they become valuable
counselors to the executive and Judiciary
departments.
With the fund Of legislative perspicacity
gained by long training, as the scholar
learns his Greek roots, they become val
uable servants, shining lights and repre-
sentatives of American institutions, fit 10
stand forth before the world in their adj
vocacy of the theory OF American republi-
canism. m.-Birmingham Age.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
Mr. nraa,er MARTIN, Estate.

The Scotch estate of Mr.. Bradley Martin
covers &, COO acres of land, and is about if
teen miles from Inverness. 1t has a water
front on Loeb Ness Of nineteen miles. The
deer forest includes 2S,0O0 acres, and by the
terms Of his lease Mr.. Martin is allowed to
kill seventy-five stays a season. They are
killed by stalking, not driving, as the former
is regarded as the more skillful way. Tho
big house on the estate will hold fifty guests,
and the list for the season ir already made
out Mr. Martin has loaned small house
near his own to Lady Alfred Paget, who will
fill it with guests largely recruited from
America a-Harper's Bazaar.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14
Cared With n Iunat,c.

First Baker-Just opening see. suppose
you will join the bakers trust.
Second Baker-I have no use for trust,
sir
"Ah, hal 1 thought So You intend to
cncc-,s in prices. Wen Just show you, sir,
that
~ have no intention of cutting under in
prices. shall charge the full market rates,
whatever they are"
"Ehs"
Il expect, sir, to gain custom by the supe-
rior excellence of my bread"
First Baker springing for the door and
dashins into the street)-Heaven preserve US.
What an escape! He's mad, mad as March
hare!-Omaha World
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

It Is rather amusing to notice that in
ali hotels ia this country the first ques-
non propounded by the waiter, as he
places your chair at the breakfast table,
is, IN what manner will you have your
eggs prepared? That a person can eat his
breakfast without eggs seems to be
monstrous impossibility. Not having had
the pleasure of breaking bread or tie
shell of his matutinal egg in the house OF
any native, the traveller cannot truthfully
state whether this is an actual necessity
or not-C r. Crespi in San Francisco
Chronicle.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

A big bone. which local physicians OF
Carson, New, say is a portion of leg OF
man below the knee, was recently found
rear Genoa. New. 1t was two feet long,
and at the point where it Joined the knee
was eight inches across, or five times the
usual size IL the man who owned the
bone was built In proportion he must have
been about twenty-five feet high. An ae-
tive search is being made for the rest OF the
skeletOn
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

A Georgia negro, having hurt his leg,
treated the wound with mud from the Ocaia
swamp, and found when he removed the
bandage that the wound was healed and
that the leg had turned almost white. The
result is that the negroes Of the vicinity are
fiocking to the swamp and covering them,
selves with the mud, hoping that II Will
turn them white.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

GIVE ELY's Cream Balm trial. This
Justly celebrated remedy for the cure OF
catarrh, hay fever, cold in the head, &c,
can be obtained of any reputable druggist,
and may be relied upon as safe and
pleasant remedy for the above complaints
and will give immediate relief. 1t Is not a
LIQUID, snuff or powder. has no offensive
odor. and can be used at any time with
good results, as thousands can testify,
among them some of the attaches OF this
office.-Spirit of the Times.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-14

There are only about four hundred peo-
pie in fashionable New York society. Ii
you 20 outside that number, you strike
people who are either not at ease In ball
room or else make other people not at ease.
or course there are any number OF the
most cultured and highly-respected, even
distinguished. people outside OF fashion
able society.