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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Catarrh

and have never received the least benefit
from the many so-caled catarrh cures. OF
late have been taking Hoods Sarsaparila
and can honestly say that am certainly
improved. I know Hoods Sarsaparilla to
be a good medicine" H. A. GEORGE,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25

IT is pleasure to be able to say that
our Vermont station (and we may ex-
tend the statement to cover most, if not
all, of the New England stations) is
doing some good practical work. Pro-
fessor Cookies dairy work is highly
creditable; and Professor Minott has,
by his careful studies and experiments
in the potato field, given cheap, and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25

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ADVERTISEMENTS.
Catarrh

Is complaint so common that compare
lively few people are entirely free from it,
so insidous that It gains firm hold al
most before its victims are aware Of its
presence, so dangerous as to seriously
threaten the general health, and liable to
develop into bronchitis or
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Consumption.

local trouble. 1t is unquestionably dis
ease of the blood, and therefore the right
way to cure Catarrh is to remove from the
blood the impurities which cause and feed
it. This is to be done by taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier, which
effectualy expels all traces of poison and
germs of disease.
have been troubled for years with
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25

For years cure for Epilepsy, st. Vitus
Dance, Hysteria and other fits has been
sought 1t is now conceded that the long
needed remedy has been found in DR..
GreeDe's Nervura, which has, by curing
thousands of cases. proved that it is an alb
solute specific for these terrible nervous
complaints. Purely vegetable and harm
less, sold by druggists, S100.
"My son had been troubled with fits for
the past ten years He has had as many as
ten in one day. Before | had used one
bottle of DR.. Greene's Nervura 1 could
see marked improvement in his nervous
system. The fits did not occur so often and
were not so severe, and his general health
seemed better. l continued the Nervura
and it effected permanent cure.
Mrs. w. o. HITCHcoCK,
" s. Maple ST., Jersey City, N. r."
My son has been troubled with epilepsy,
loss of appetite and had no ambition to do
anything. He took DR.. Greene's Ner-
vura. 1t made him new boy. The fits
have left him, his whole system is built up
anew, and he is enjoying perfect health.
II is the best medicine 1 eyer used, and has no
equal. MR.. w. SCHuM,
" 1912 First Ave-, New York City"
My boy was very nervous and had four
or five fits every day. After using DR..
Greene's medicine three weeks he began to
get well, and has had no fits since. Ten doc
tors gave him up as incurable. The doctors
and my neighbors can hardly believe their
eyes ,chen they see my boy all stro.g and
,oeU MRS. EMMA SWEENEY,
Is Ballard St., Fall River, Mass. "
n D EB- DR.. Greene, the successful
IT, w. specialist in curing all forms
of nervous and chronic diseases, "a Temple
Place, Boston, Mass, can be consulted
free, personally or by letter. Call or write
him about your case, or send for symptom
blank to fill out, and letter fully explain
ing your disease, giving advice, etc., will
be returned free
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Stuffed-Up Feeling

For years I have been troubled with
that terrible disagreeable disease, Catarrh.
! took Hoods Sarsaparilla with the very
best results. 1t cured me of that continual
dropping in my throat and stuffed-up feel
ing Mrs S. d. HEATH, Putnam, Conn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
COI IOLENE
TAKES THE LEAD

Among cooking materials, be.
cause pies, biscuits, and pastry
are better Favored, more delicious
and more nutritious than food
prepared with animal fat. We in.
clude also everything FRIED such
as potatoes, eggs, fish, mush,
hominy, ETC., etc.
Everybody knows that vege-
table food is, in the long run, far
more readily assimilated by the
digestion than animal products.
COTTOLENE
Is essentially a vegetable prepa-
ration and is guaranteed to be a
sure preventive of dyspepsia.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Is the best blood purifier, the best nerve
helper, the best strength builder Try it.
HOODS PILLS-For the liver and
bowels, act easily, promptly, efficiently
Price DC.
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
C0TT0lENE
READ! MARK! LEARN!

INWARDLY DIGEST.
Life and health depend upon
wholesome digestble food. Food
to be easily digested must be prop.
erly prepared. This means good
cooking, and a good cook must
have healthful fine Favored ma
terials. People are everywhere
awaking to the Importance of
greater care in the selection of
food materials.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
farm amo Garoert.

Address all inquiries communications In relation
to agriculture to DR. I. II. HosKINs, Newport, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
HARPER'S PERIODICALS.

- Postage free to all subscribers in the United
States, Canada and Mexico.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25

A LUDLOW, VT, subscriber writes us
for list of agricultural works suitable
for a rural library, "such books as
would be used by any intelligent young
man or farmer" We could give him a
list of titles, selected from our own IL
brary of upwards of thousand volumes,
related more or less closely to the SUBJ
ject in hand; but it occurs to us that
we might not be 80 good a Judge of
their practical usefulness as some of
our readers. This correspondent wants
the titles of books under the heads of
O General Farming; (2) Fruit; (3)
Gardening, etc. Will not readers who
notice this want jot down the titles of
books on these topics which they have
personally found to be helpful and reli-
able? Many of the best works, and such
as we should wish to have generally
read on our farms, are, we fear, above
the head of the average farmer with
but common-school education. This
is strong reason why our common
schools should be 80 improved as to
give elementary instruction in the natu-
raj sciences, that the terms used in sci.
entific agriculture, and the other useful
arts, may be understanded of the peo-
ple." The number of such words is
not great, but without clear concep-
ton of what they signify, all books and
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04

ST. Louis, Sept 3-Jay Gould and his
two daughters, Helen and Annie, and TWO
younger SONS, DR.. }. p. Mum, 5. H. II.
Clark. general manager Of the Missouri Pa
citic and Union Pacific railways. and his
family, arrived here tonight from Colorado
IL Il special train. Mr. Gould and
his family remained III the private
car, and We're coupled to the Big -Four
train, and will proceed over the Lake
Shore and New York Central 10 New York,
arriving there Saturday morning.
Mr.. GOuld's appearance is much better
than the dispatches from the West have in
Dictated. He said that he had gone West on
the advice of his physician to Sc
cure much needed rest, which he
had obtained during his seven weeks
stay in Idaho and Colorado. He had seen
but very few newspapers, but lie was well
aware Of Wall street reports concerning
Union Pacific, as well as later rumors about
the Missouri Pacific swallowing up the
Denver and Rio Grande, but did not care 10
say anything about business affairs.
He would reach New York by the end
OF the week, AMI would give his attention
10 these matters then.
Gen, al Manager Clark was more talka-
tive regarding the purchase of the Denver
and Rio Grande. He said they were fabri-
cations, pure and simple, and as to the re
iEquishment of the Union Pacific Mir
Clark aycrred that they were entirely IN
founded.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04

G.. W. Barnhart of the Cotton Belt is on
rustling tour through the South.
c. L. Donovan, travelling auditor of the
Denver, went out on the line yesterday.
C. H Fenton of the accounting rdepart-
ment of the Denver has returned from his
vacation trip,
Miss Effie Jefferson, the petite telegraph
operator at the Santa E'e freight Office at
Dallas. was in the city yesterday en- route
home from her vacation spent in Colorado
and Utah.
J. W. Woodbridge, conductor, formerly on
the Newport News and Mississippi Valley.
and laUterly conductor on the Fort Worth
and Denver City north of Wichita Falls,
has taken passenger run on the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande.
It is said new Southern traffic associa-
ton will soon be organized at Cincinnati, 10
include the Louisville and Nashville, Queen
and Crescent Newport News and other
roads, and that Edgar Hall late general
freight agent of the Big -Four, is slated for
the cOmmiSSionershlp.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago,
the Nlonon, has just turned out new style
of postal car. which greatly increases the
facilities for handling mail matter quickly.
The superintendent of mail service is also
well pleased with the new car. The COM
pany has decided to build two more of the
same design.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy has
applied to the board OF commissioners of
the Western traffic association for authority
TO make the same rates on salt from Chi
cago to Nebraska City as are made from
Hutchinson to Nebraska City. II is proba-
bic that there will be vigorous fight
against the application being granted
General Passenger Agent John Sebastian
of the Rock Island has sent out a circular TO
all connecting lines announcing that the
Rock Island had purchased the Chicago,
Kansas and Nebraska railroad. and re-
questing them to reprint all tickets having
the name OF the Chicago, Kansas and Ne
braska and to put the name of the Rock
Island in its place
The Illinos Central company has issued a
report of the trip TO South America by its
representatives to examine the trade inter
ests there, with view 10 establishing a
line of steamers to New Orleans and open
ing route direct to Chicago Accompany
ing the report is splendid map of the
Americas, showing the steamer lines and
the relative distances, which are much less
by way of New Orleans. The map is one of
the finest of its kind ever issued.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
The Rate Committee at st. Louis.

ST. Louis, Mo, Sept. 3.-The rate COM
mittee of the Southwestern railway and
steamship association resumed It's labors
to-day, and for the time being deferred
further consideration of cotton rates, taking
up other matters which had been docheted
for action. Regarding the rates on salt, 1t
was decided 10 appoint committee of five
to act thereupon. the action Of said commit
tee, if unanimous, to be the same as the
unanimous action of the rate committee.
the question at issue being the adjustment
OF interstate rates on salt from various pro
duCiug points III Kansas, Michigan and
Louisiana, etc. There was disagreement as
regards the adjustment Of rates on grain
from Kansas and Nebraska, and under the
rules the matter was referred 10 the eXecu-
tive committee. Action was taken 10 es-
tablish I tiflh-claSs rate on cotton seed oil
to Colorado common points.
In regard TO the exhibits for the Worlds
fair, it was decided to put in the same rules
as had been adopted Dy other associations,
the general terms OF which are that the
property shall! be transported at full tariff
rates and returned free. provided the
ownership remains unchanged.
\ committee was appointed 10 treat with
a like committee from the Western freight
association for the purpose Of establishing
rates on potatoes from the Northwest Tor
the coming season.
Adjourned till tomorrow
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
The Passenger Rates.

The rates out of Kansas City are still
firm. but the So basing rate is liable to be
applied al any time, and Will consequently
affect all the Southwestern territory. Cen
eral Passenger Agent Loeb wood of the
Memphis is having another test of the mar
ket made. Mr.. Lockwood says he under
stands the brokers have been making ST
St. Louis rate for some months past, and II
is his purpose to make this rate q baSing
rate Us long Us it continues in effect. Mr..
Lockwood thought his discoveries would in
duce him to cut the rate lower than SIX dol
lars
The Missouri Pacific announced that it
had found the market, so far as the brok-
erS We're concerned. in a better condition
than it has been for many months. Brok-
erS bought tickets at tariff rates over its
counter.
y'he Wabash has no complaint to make.
The Alton says it has positive informa-
ton that there is no disturbing factor atioat.
The Santa F'e says there are no tickets in
the hands of brokers but those that have
gone there legltimately.
Mr. Orr OF the Burlington charges the
Alton with stocking the market with split
tickets.
Mr. Lockwood of the Memphis says he
has information of irregularities.
Mr. Nofatt of the Rock Island says the
Alton has issued split tickets that have
never had the St. Louis bridge coupon
taken from them
In reply to this the Alton says Mr. Moi
fatt displays ignorance. St. Louis tickets
can not be split unless this coupon is torn
of
Charges are made that the Wabash has
stocked the market with split tickets, but
Mr.. Chandler, the general passenger agent
of the line, has made u personal statement
that but forty-niue irregular tickets We're
issued by his company aud that these We're
put out by mistake.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
The GUEST ROOM.
How to Make 1t Chamber of Peace"
to the Occasional Visitor.


Within a few years much of the ancient
formality of going a-visiting has vanished.
OF old the best room in the house was
adorned with the choicest furniture and
furnished with the rsrest trinkets and
then shut up in gorgeous and solemn state,
TO be opened but half dozen times a year,
when some unfortunate guest was plunged
into its funeresl pomp TO absorb the damp
ness of its unsunued splendor Now the
occasional visitor is given more natural
position in the domestic arrangements or
old be was Il sacred parsonage before whom
the host did homage; now be Is placed on
the same plane as the rest of the house
hold, and existence is thereby sim plifed
for all From n writer in Good House
keeping, who defines in the foregoing the
position of the guest of today. are Cleaned
also the following suggestions for making
the guest room "a chamber of peace"
The uses to which your guest chamber Is
to be put are obviously three; in it your
guest is 10 sleep, to dress, and TO spend
varying quantity Of MS waking and leisure
time. For these three uses you have 70
provide. First, then, FOR the sleeping. \
thoroughly aired spare bed" Is e rarity.
yet 1t Is not so expensive as 10 De beyond
the reach of most housewives. Air and
sunshine are generally available, but the
woman who knows how TO apply these
commodities to her guest chamber is hard
to find Let the bedding and covers be
fresh, dry and clean. spread q sufficient
number of blankets and provide an extra
cover Tor abnormalIy cold blooded people.
If you do not know your guests prefer
ence it Is well TO provide two sets OF pill
lows, one large and one small And if you
are one of that class of deluded women who
turn their beds into show cases for friIls
ana furbelows, at least be implored TO re-
move these e1rresceuces before your guest
retIreS for the uI- ut
Ia these days OF numerous inventions it
is impossible TO know all the improvements
in household arrangements, so if there be
anything peculiar IL the methods of heat
ing, lighting or ventilAting your rooms. be
sure TO explain them. Ore thing more, you
must tell the stranger within your gates,
before ne retires, the hour for breakfast,
and if there Is TO be no rising bell 1t Is well
to ask If he desires TO be called In the morn
ing. 4 tlmepiece of some kind should al
ways De in the room.
As rule, the leisure time that guest
spends in his room is brief; yet there are
nights when sleep eludes the tired brain,
mornings when the hostess is busy and
afternoons when WEAKNESS makes solitude
desirable. For such times provide a few
books and magazines, not heavy and OBJ
truse works, but those that please and
amuse an iudolent mind. If possible, have
q desk i'll the room, and stock it with pens,
pencils, ink, wax, stamps, postal cards,
paper and envelopes to match, and the
other essentials that make letter writing
pleasure.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
FIGHTING OVER FREIGHT.
The Rock Island and Union Pacific May
Again Lock Horns

There is Il prospect that the Rock Island
and Union Pacific viii again cross swords,
this time on question Of freight. says the
Omaha Bee. The Missouri Pacific is also
rapvolved in the controversy which has
arisen.
The latter road has been turning great
deal of freight over to the Rock Island for
shipment East, but under the old arrange
ment this freight was handled by the
Union Pacific and hauled across the bridge
to Council Bluffs and there turned over to
the Rock Island.
The Rock Island notified the Missouri
Pacific last week that freight consigned to
it must be turned over to it On this side of
the river and not turned over to the Union
Pacific to haul across The bridge, as hereto
fore.
& The Missouri Pacific replied that under
It's arrangement with the Union Pacific
the request of the Rock Island could not be
complied with. and it would continue to
turn the freight over to the Union Pacific
for the Rock Island
To this the Rock Island notified the Mis-
souri, Pacific that it would not receive any
freight SO transmitted. Consequently the
agents of the Missouri Pacific have been
notified not to accept freight consigned To
the Rock Island At Omaha.
There is a neat question involved in this
mgssar. If the position taken by the Rock
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04

A Kansas City paper has discovered that
the ticket brokers have formed 4 cOmbina-
ton for the maintenance of cut rates. ;"
The whole matter in nutshell is that at 4
meeting of the National association of
American ticket brokers held about three
years ago recommendation that members
of the association in the large cities form
local organizations to maintain rates at a
regular standard for the protection of bo'h
themselves and the railroads was adopted.
This recommended was acted upon and
as a consequence there is local association
among the ticket scalpers in every large
city in the country. These organizations
have proven very satisfactory and rates
under them are preserved probably little
better than they are by the larger passenger
organizations.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
Crocodile Tears.

The expression crocodile tears" is used
to describe hypocritical sorrow, u pretense
of grief that is not felt. The Inter Ocean
explains That it refers to the old story that
the crocodile, in order to draw human be
ings within its reach, moUrus and weeps,
and having tins induced its victim to come
near to it, falls upon him and devours him.
1t is fact that crocodileS do make loud
and melancholy cries, much like the howl
ing of dog Creduious travellers natu-
rally associated tears with these cries, and
the story of the weeping, when once started,
was naturally repeated, and came to be
generally believed. In a Book of Proverbs"
printed in 1898, the expression Is referred to
and explained. That the belief is a very
old one is shown by the fact that the phrase
occurs both in the old Latin and the Greek
writers, and the references to 1t in itera-
ture are numerous
In the account Of the voyages OF Sir John
Vaudeville, issued in 1856, it is said that
Sin a certain couDtree" long serpents called
crocodiles slew men and ate them weep
ing. The same story is given IN the &C
count of the voyages of Sir John Hawkins
during the Sixteenth century. Spenser,
in the first book of "Faerie Queene,"
speaks Of
The cruel, cratic crocodile,
Which in false grief hyding his harmful guile,
Doth weep full sore and sheddeth tender tears.
And Shakespeare, in the second part Of
King Henry ", act ii. scene l, says:
Gloster's show
Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile
With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
\ Remarkable Accident.

The engineer of the Pennsylvania fast
express between New York and Philadel-
phia had his skull fractured on Tuesday
last while looking out of the cab window
The train was going at Il rapid rate. and it
is supposed that the accident was caused by
bolt being thrown up from the track
When the train reached Monmouth juno
ton, instead Of slowing up as usual, ii sped
by the platform At a furious rate. Its speed
was finally checked by the fireman, who
saw at glance that the engineer was badly
injured. The upper half Of his body was
hanging out of the window, with a stream
of blood squirting from the wound in his
head
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-04
THE SEPARATE COACH LAW.
1t Causes Trouble on the Southern Pacific.
How They View 1t.
Special to the Gazette,

Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. Sept. 3.-Through
the action of the separate coach law the
state of Texas is III trouble with the federal
authorities. Recently 4 negro boarded the
west-bound Southern Pacific train in Louis
lana, purchasing first-cass ticket. He
was seated in the sleeper wheu the train
crossed the Texas line, and despite his pro-
tests, he was elected and forced to take a
seat i'll the negro car
He appealed to the interstate commerce
commission, and so did the road. The COM
mission said the negro was right. The
Southern Pacific to-day issued an order to
all of its conductors in this state, saying:
''Colored people making interstate
trips have right to accommodation
in all sleeping and chair cars if they
can secure tirSt-claSS tickets of
the agents, but where colored people are
making local state trips they are not enti-
tied to sleeping or chair cars under any con-
sideration unless the car is placed in the
train and held exclusively for colored pas
sengers. -
The Southern Pacific officials say it is
evident the interstate commerce commits
sion proposes to pay no attention whatever
to the state law, and in order to have as
little trouble as possible they Will obey the
mandate OF the Federal authorities.