The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-24
uarantee as being "the best that can be


rings-all nice for Christmas gifts--at Phil
lips & Lucas Montpelier, VT
BARNARD, SUMNER & Co. this week refer
all inqurers to Idle Hour for particulars
respecting their unrivaled stock of goods.
If you have not a copy of the publication
write the firm for one. Sent free to any ad-
dress.
HALF-RATE tickets will be sold from
Montpelier and intermediate stations to
the Stanley lecture in Burlington on Janu-
ary 14th. Tickets for the lecture will be
placed on sale next Saturday at Longs
bookstore. Secure seats early.
A SPLENDID chance to buy very desirable
goods at way-down prices is offered by l..
p. Gleason & Co., the Montpelier dry goods
dealers. No similar chance has ever been
offered in this region. 1t will last but
few days. Improve it, " First come, first
served"
THE Vermont Savings Investment Com
pany is issuing the second series of savings
bonds amounting to 100000. Five per
cent is allowed on funds six months or
longer. Six per cent on five-year bonds.
Trustees, A. Johonnott, f. L. Eaton and
| Fred Blanchard, No bank can give better
security than the bonds.
WE PUBLISH WITH PLEASURE Dear
Sir III | ever have occasion to use paint
again l certainly shall give o. w. Ingersoll
my order, as | consider his paint by far the
best among the many paints L have used.
Fraternally yours, A. II. Cobb, Fulton
county Ohio" See advertisement of
Patrons Paint Works.-Editor.
WIEN YOU CAN GET policies in the
old AgTNA, NORTH AMERICA, HOME,
HARTFORD and PHGNIX Of HART
FORD, the fve LARGEST american com
pdnieS 1oithoM exception, and ALL in my
agency and all Of which wU oorite your d,oeH-
ing house at Sc per 1000 for .fov gears
,Ohat better9 HARLAN W. KEMP.
THERE are many veterans who have
claims for pensions pending that would do
well to consult James E. Curran, Mont
pelier, Vt, who has had over six years ex-
perience as a special examiner and is thor
oughly familiar with all the laws and rulings
of the department. He makes increase and
rejected claims speciality. Advice free.
| CHAMBERLAIN y IL AND OklN OlNIhENI.
A certain cure for chronic sore eyes. tet-
ter, salt-rheum, scald head. old chronic
| sores, fever sores, eczema, itch, prairie
scratches, sore nipples and piles. 1t is cool
ing and soothing. Hundreds of cases have
been cured by it after all other treatment
had failed. 1t is put up in twenty-five and
fifty cent boxes. For sale by G. Blakely.
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veteran of the Fourth Vermont Volunteers,
who has been successful for the last two or
three years in obtaining pensions for the
old soldiers, would say to his old comrades
that he is always ready with advice and in
formation free. No charge until pension is
procured. The making OF afidavits and
papers in claim and pension cases pending
before any of the departments at Washing
ton is a specially.
THE prospectus of the New York Herald
has appeared in the advertising columns
of the WATCHMAN, and the Herald (weekly)
is in our clubbing list. The Herald as a
collector and purveyor of news is unques-
tionably at the head of not only the Ameri-
can press, but the press of the entire world.
Its editorial writing is characterized by
vigor, piquancy and brilliancy, by fidelity
to facts and fairness in discussion. To be
well and fully informed, one needs to read
the Herald.
The Connecticut General Life Insurance
Company had made 3,095 western loans,
amounting to So, ,14S 800, up to May /, 1890.
or this number 1893 have been paid, amount
ing to 1853, Alb. The total number of fore
! closures have been seventeen, on which they
have realized profit by subsequent sale of
$2,973 so, a showing which it is extremely
doubtful if can be truthfully made of an
equal amount of business in New England.
The Pierre Savings Bank keeps carefully
selected guarantee assortment on sale at
GO Main street, Montpelier, by its vice
president, A. o. Cummins.
THE atlantic Monthly makes some changes
in its January number from the customary
arrangement. The department known as
Books of the Month" " is replaced by a
more extended Comment on New Books 4"
"The Contributors Club" is also enlarged
in range and extent, and forms new de-
partment at the end of the magazine.
These changes are doubtless due to the
presence of the new editor in the At
ldntic sanctum Harvard University is
well represented inc the number, ar
tices being given by three writers con-
nected with the college. DIR. Josiah Royce
writes on Hegel," Professor Shaler on
Individualsm in Education" and Pro-
fessor Adolphe Cohn has paper on Bou-
langism and the Republic all valuable
papers, by men specially equipped to write
them.
THE laws of health are taught in the
schools; but not in a way to be of much
practical benefit, and are never illustrated
by living examples, which in many cases
might easily be done. II some scholar who
had just contracted cold was brought be-
fore the school, 80 that all could hear the
dry, loud cough aud know its significance;
see the thin, white coating on the tongue,
and later as the cold developed, see the
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