The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-16

der OF the Watchman Publishing Co. Their
stamps are as good as the best city produc-
tions, and price much lower.
MEssRs. CAGE & SHERMAN, of Alexander,
Texas, write us regarding a remarkable
cure of rheumatism there as followsS 1.-THE
wife Of Mr.. William Pruitt, the postmaster
here, had been bed-ridden with rheu-
matism for several years. She could get
nothing to do her any good. We sold her
bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and
she was completely cured by its use. We
refer any one to her to verify this state
ment" Fifty-cent bottles for sale by g.
Blakely, druggist, Montpelier
THE American Protective Tariff League
has just issued new textbook for 1892.
1t is entitled american Tariffs from
Plymouth Rock to Mckinley" This little
book of one hundred pages is perhaps the
most complete brief presentation OF the
benefits Of protection and reciprocity yet
printed and will be sent to any address for
ten cents. In ordering please say" Send
me No 52.'' This rs the catalogue number
OF the document. Address, Wilbur f.
wakeman, general secretary, No. 135 West
Twenty-third street, New York.
ORDERS for" Shepp's Photographs Of the
World may be left with the Watchman
Publishing Co., where a sample copy of the
book can be seen. 1t is work Of art GEN.
sistiug of over 400 full-psge pictures, size
six by eight inches, collected from every
part of the world, handsomely bound in
one royal oblong volume, size nine by
eleven inchss. This magnificent publca-
ton of photographs, the reault Of an enor-
nous amount of money expended by Messrs.
Shepp, covering all this interesting sights Of
the world ss they exist to-day, is a acrown-
ing success of the book publishing business.
PROTECTION OR FRRR-TRADE WHICH?
Do you want to keep thoroughly posted on
the effects of ths new tariff law, as shown
from week to week? Do you want to know
all about the policy of protection and have
an answer to every false statement Of the
free traders? Yes? Then subscribe for your
| home paper and the american 'Economist,
published weekly by the American Protec-
tive Tariff League, New York. Sample
copy free) The Economist is an acknowl-
edged authority on protection and should be
widely read. The yearly subscription OF
the Economist is 49, 90 but we have made a
special arrangement with the publishers by
which we can send you the Economist and
the VERMONT WATCHMAN for $500.
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS The spring
public examinations of teachers for Wash
ington county will be held as follows
Waterbury, graded school building Friday
and Saturday, March 1S and re; Northield,
Wednesday and Thursday, March 20 and "a
Barre, grand jury room, Friday and Satur
day, March % and 26; Montpelier, Friday
and Saturday, april l and 9; Cabot, village
'school-house, "Wednesday and Thursday
April and Z; Marshfield, village school
house, Friday and Saturday, April and 9
Painfield, village school.house, Friday and
Saturday, April15 and 16; Worcester, vii
lage school house, Friday and Saturday
April % and %; Waitsfeld, village school
house, Friday and Saturday, April 90 and 30
i. p. Booth, County Commissioner.
A GOLDEN NUeGET.-A striking novelty il
this golden table corn, with its beautiful
rich cream color. 1t is claimed by those
who know it that it is very sweet, early and
Johucl, anu a bhpcilol Coths VIC hObiCt
Wick recommends it very highly. The
Floral Guide which comes to us bringing
bouquet of carnations on the front cover
with a splendid bunch of brilliant poppies
on the back, gives full description of this
new corn, which is only fifteen cents q
packet. Vick'S Floral Guide is worthy q
place in the home of anyone who expects tc
make garden the coming spring. By al
means send ten cents to James Vick's Sons
Rochester, n. Y, for the Guide, and you
can deduct this amount from your frs
order 1t will pay yeu well.
ROMANCE, made up entirely of shor
stories, original and selected from all liter
atures, is capital resource for tired oil
busy men and women, as well as for thos,
whose re ding runs mainly in the line o
fiction. RomaRce is under intelligent ant
competent editorial supervision. Its pur
pose is TO supply a thoroughly well-seiectet
collection of short stories each month fo
the recreation and refreshment not only o
"the general reader" but of men ant
women of taste and culture who like stories
for the sake of story AS it draws upor
all languages, as well as upon original con
tributions it has abundant material and al
inexhaustible field. Romance is published
monthly from Clinton Hall, Astor Place
New York, at So, so a year; single numbers
twenty-five cents. 1t will be furnished
with the WArCHMAN for one dollar less.
FIRE INSURANCE IN VERMONT There
were tfty-one companies doing fire in
surance business in the state of Vermont
in 1891. These companies wrote Ss5 ,4S6, ,1s1
in risks, receiving in premiums S681 904
and paid out in losses S67S 607, leaving
balance of S3,297 for expense account
whereas the ratio of expenses to premiums
in stock companies averaged thirty three
per cent, which would show a deficiency
for the last year of over 500, 900 in Vermont
alone. The above showing is one of ths
worst that has ever been known in the state
The record of fire losses in the United
States for the week ending Friday, March
A, covering fires of $4,000 or over, was
$3,620 900. Fires under $4,000. S203.0