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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Character in Feet.

Nobody thinks of Trilby without think
ing of Trilby's foot. After having been
sighted for centuries, it was left for the
genius of Du Maurier to draw attention to
this much abused member of the human
body Why hadn't somebody thought of
it before?
"Why do you know, 1" said gentleman
who Is looked up to as one of the leading
intellectual lights, II have friend who is
a chiropodist in the metropolis a gentle
man of unquestioned learning and We
racity, who has made study of the matter
for years, and he tells me that the human
foot is one of the surest indexes to charac-
ter that has ever been discovered People
say they can detect character in the coun-
tenance, but let me examine a mans foot
and will tell you what manner of man
he is says my friend. In every instance
where l have taken the trouble to follow
out his instructions l have found them to
be absolutely accurate
"You can tell fiery tempered man BIZ
the shape Of his foot as easy as you can
tell rhinoceros by his hide. AS there are
all sorts of temperaments, so there are all
varieties of feet. Each temperament leaves
its foot mark, and if the scientists would
spend their time in investigating this mat
ter llsleau Vi weighing inc pldnets we
should have some practical data from
which we could determine in a few mo-
ments whether IA man could be intrusted
to handle large sums of money and thus
do away entirely with the necessity of Civ.
ing bonds If merchant wanted a sales
man, he would not need to ask for recon-
mendations; he would merely request to
see the applicants foot, when he would
know instantly whether or not he was the
man he wanted l tell you, now that Du
Maurier has popularized feet so that scien-
lists will not consider the matter too hum
BILE a one upon which to expend their en-
ergies, you may expect some wonderful
discoveries to result from the study in a
few years. Rochester Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Vermont.

A HANDSOME three story brick public
school building, of modern structure ana
costing upwards of $4,000, was dedicated
at Springfield last Friday.
LAWRENCE BALDWIN of Chester was ar
rested last we, k charged with forging three
checks on PrOctorsville bank. Goods
we're found in Baldwin's possession that he
had bought with the money obtained on the
checks.
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Vermonters: Original widow,
Philena Davis Of Chelsea; increase, Lucius
NJ. Booth of Essex Junction and Hiram A.
Rogers of South Royalton; reissue, Milo b.
Randall OF Middlesex.
The body of Charles Button, who mys-
teriously disappeared from Dandy several
weeks ago, was found last Wednesday in a
clump of bushes by some men who were
rabbit hunting. There were no signs of foul
I play or violence, and the cause of Buffom's
death is unknown
THE committee from the Boston Chamber
of Commerce appointed in the matter of the
proposal to make RichfOrd port OF entry
for cattle for Boston were given hearing
by the secretary of agriculture at Washing
ton last Saturday. Collector b. b. Smalley
accompanied the committee to Washington.
THE St. Johnsbury Electric Railway Com
pany has been organized by the ele )tion OF
II. G. Kennedy of Burlington, president; I.
A. o. Humphrey of Burlington, clerk and
treasurer. Work will be commenced on
the new road as soon as practicable in the
spring.
MRS MARY WETHERBEE of Bennington
was taken to the House OF Correction last
week, to await her trial in June on the
charge OF childmurder. When Governor
Woodbury. was in Bennington, several
weeks ago he pronounced the Jail unsafe,
and it is for this reason that Mrs. Weather..
bee was transferred. She stoutly protested
against the proceeding.
The hearing in the Brand land case was
ended at Burlington last week, but de.
cision has not been rendered. Among
those who testified Tor the government were
Captain Guy Howard, G. w Brownell,
secretary OF state, and the town clerks OF
Essex and Colchester. j. III. Senter, United
States district attorney, represented the
government and Roberts q Roberts APP
peared for Mr.. Brand.
If suffering with piles, it will interest you
to know that De Wits Witch Hazel Salve
will cure them. This medicine is IA specific
for all complaints of this character, and If
instructions (Which are simple are carried
out, a cure will result We have tested this
in numer Ius cases, and always with like
results. It never fails. W. e. Terrill &
Co., Montpelier, Vt.
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Foreign.

AN explosion in coal mine at Wrangle,
Prussian Silesia, last Wednesday, caused
the death of twenty -one miners. Twelve
others were fatally injured.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt
last week AZ Ciccano, Italy. A number of
houses were demolished, several persons
were killed and many injured
THE war office at Madrid has re ceived an
official announcement of the complete de-
feat of the rebels under Gomez and Maceo
at Calimete. The insurgent leaders have
fed to the Sierra De Siguanea Mountains.
The rebel forces are said to be now so
broken that they will be unable TO join
again without risking pitched battle.
A TELEGRAM from Pretoria, capital of the
Transvaal, states that an armed force OF the
British South Africa Company, mum boring
800 men, has entered the Transvaal Pres
ident Kruger has ordered that its advance
be forcibly prevented, and has issued a
proclamation appealing to the burghers TO
defend their country. The dispatch adds
that fighting seems inevitable.
In accordance with the usual custom of
comforting honors on New Years day,
Queen Victoria last Wednesday appointed
Alfred Austin poet laureate, to succeed
Lord Tennyson. This Office has been va
cant since Tennyson's death, in 1892. The
London Times and Standard commend the
appointment of Mr.. Austin while the Daily
Neos and the Chronicle condemn and rid.
icule it.
Dr.. JUAN ARTIGAs, a professor in the
University of Havana and chief physician
of the leprosy hospital of that city, who is
now in New York, gives frightful account
of the state of affairs on the island so far as
the Spanish tr oops are concerned. He says
that he has visited many of the Spanish
military hospitals in Cuba, and that they are
in deplorable state. Spain, he says, is un
able to get competent surgeons and physi
clans to go IT, Cuba, and she had to send
young students from the universities to take
charge of the hospitals and treat the
wounded. These students, he says, are not
only incompetent but corrupt. Instead OF
using quinine, for instance, in cases of fever
they use some cheap nostrums and POCKET
the appropriation for medicines. The
woun ded in the hospitals are completely al
the mercy of these students and are conse
quently in deplorable state. Few OF then
ever come out alive. Amputatious almost
invariably terminate fatally, because i'm
properly made and treated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Literary Notes.

No one ever thought of introducing so
expensive a feature as photographic color
work in the days when the leading maya
zines sold for "a 90 a year and thirty five
cents copy. But times change, and The
magazines change with them. Ii has re-
manned for the Cosmopolitan, sold at one
dollar year, to put in an extensive litho.
graphic plant capable of printing 100000
pages per day Zone color). The January
issue presents ~ a frontispiece water-color
drawing by Eric Pape, illustrating the last
story by X bert Louis Stevenson, which has
probably never been excelled even in the
pages of the finest dollar French period
ica4 The cover of the Cosmopolitan is also
changed, drawing of page length by the
famous Paris artist Rossi, in photographic
colors on white paper, takes the place OF the
manila back wit its red stripe. Hereafter
the cover is to be fresh surprise each
month.
In the elections of 1894 and 1896, no news
paper in large city in this country did
more trenchant work in furtherance OF
republican hopes than the NeD York Irlb
une; and, if the misery which millions of
Americans have endured for TWO years, on
account OF the fatal folly of electing Pres
ident Cleveland in 1892, shall be cured by
the final rush of the republicans over the
breastworks in 1896, the Tribune could estab-
fish as good a claim as any to the right to be
first to plant the flag on the ramparts. That
the Tribune has helped greatly in the cleo
tons OF 1894 and 1895, thousands of republi-
can leaders have voluntarily testified 1t Is
an able. dignified and convincing exponent
of republican doctrine; and may its tribe
increase, and its shadow never grow less,
and the spears rally under its banner thickly
as the frs which border Puget Sound. The
Tribune, however, is not given up wholly
to politics. II is full of news. pictures, en-
tertaining stories and features, mechanics
and inventions, farming topics and fashions
and an all.round useful paper. The Tribune
Almanac for 1896, twenty-five cents copy
will be Indispensable to politicians of all
parties the coming year
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Up to Date,

Mr.. Slimpurse-'' see the kitchen
clock is not going. Didn't you get a
key today" Mrs. Slimpurse-" No"
Mr. Slimpurse-" l left you as you were
going into jewelers." Mrs. Slim
purse" Yes; but Mrs. Stuckupp hap
pened to be there, looking at some
pearls. You don't suppose I'd ask for
6ve.cent kitchen clock-key under
those circumstances, do your" Mr..
Slimpurse-" What did you do?" Mrs.
Slimpurse-"I asked how long it would
take them to clean diamond necklace,
and came out."-New York Weekly.
ITSAvEs LIVES EVERY DAY.-Thou-
sands of cases of consumption, asthma,
coughs, colds and Group are cured every
day by Shiloh's Cure. For sale by w.
E. Terril & Co., Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Did the Dog Reason?

~ am sure, " says a correspondent, lyon
will enjoy this story of a dogs intelli-
gence, which has the merit of being abso
lutely true. Schneider was large full
blooded, handsome setter. He was very
fond of being with the boys, and one day
they took him when they were going bath
ing. They bathed in a pond which was
crossed by railroad bridge carrying one
track While the boys bathed Schneider
sat on the track and watched them. Sud
denly, to the horror of the boys, train
appeared. There was no time for the dog
to get off the bridge and it was too high
for him to jump. The boys turned away
to avoid the sight of the dogs death, and
after the train had passed looked about
with shudder at what they expected to
behold. To their amazement, the dog
trotted off the bridge entirely unhurt
The engineer OF the train explained after
ward how the dog had escaped. AS the
train approached Schneider evidently saw
that his situation was desperate and quick
ly thought out his only way Of safety. He
stepped over the rail to the projecting ends
of the sleepers, laid himself down as fiat
as he possibly could and let the train pass
over him. Tho engineer saw it all, and as
the train passed he looked back and saw
that the lowest step just grazed the dogs
back Gould human being have 4'asoned
more correctly and acted more vquickly
than the dog?"--Boston Transcript.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

White, and j G. Chambers, express mes.
senger, were injured. The wreck was caused
by the Wabash train slowing up at a curve
in the tunnel. The Illinois Central train
was close behind, going at rapid rate, and
just as it entered the curve it dashed into
the rear of the Wabash train
THE investing OF Monsignor Francis Sa-
TOLL with the houors of cardinal at Balu-
more, last Sunday, was one of the most
splendid ceremonies ever Witnessed within
the walls Of he famous old cathedral at
Baltimore. He il The second prelate rece'v.
ing there the insignia of a prince of .he
Catholic Church, the present primate of the
American ch arch, Cardinal Gibbons, being
the first. AT least forty of he hierarchy Of
America, archbishops and bishops attended,
together with hundreds of priests, many of
whom came from other states.
THE Atlanta Exposition closed last week
Tuesday night. The chairman of the
finance committee is authority for the state.
ment that the exposition, when all the
debts are paid, will have cost Atlanta about
$500, 900, or less than ten per cent of the
money expended on the fai,. This includes
the original stock subscription and the ap.
preparation by the city This result is re-
garded as very satisfactory. It ia estimated
that the immediate benefit to Atlanta in
money expended here by exposition visitors
amounts to about S5000,000 and the ulti.
mate benefits to the city aud cotton states
are immeasurably beyond this.
A SERIES of terrific explosions laid waste
the vicinity at the corner of Second and
Vine streets, St. Louis last Friday after
noon. A boiler in George f. Merritts
prin ing offic3, in the basement of 80 North
Third street, across the alley from the
storage and commission house of HI. p.
Grubb exploded. In the rear of the Grubb
establishment large quantity of fireworks
was stored, and a second explosion &C.
Cured, followed Immediately by a third,
that lifted the Grub bull ling and dropped
it in mass of wreckage. The explosion
caused general CONSERVATION, and every
window for three blocks was broken A
large plate-glass window in the Merchants
Exchange, four blocks away, was shattered.
Six bodies have been recovered from the
wreckage. Four persons are missing, az far
as reported to the police, aud the list of in-
jured numbers nineteen.
COUGHING irritates the delicate organs
and aggravates the disease. Instead OF
waiting, try One Minute Cough Cure. Ii
helps at once, making expectoration easy,
reduces the soreness and Inflammation.
Every one likes it. w. E. Terrill & Co..
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Domestic Economy,

What's this! " exclaimed the young
husband, referring to the memoran-
dun she had given him. zone dozen
eggs, pound of raisins, a bottle of
lemon extract, can of condensed milk,
dimes worth of ground cinnamon, and
half dollars worth of sugar. What
do you want of all these things, Be-
linda?' 1--WE got dry loaf of bakers
Bread" replied the young wife, "thst
Pm going to save by working up into a
bread pudding. never let anything
go to waste, Henry. "-Chicago Tribune.
A NATURAL BEAUTIFIER. - Karl's
Clover Root Tea purities the blood and
gives clear and beautiful complexion,
For sale by W. E. Terrill & Co., Mont
pelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

DID you ever try Electric Bitters as a
remedy for your trou lies? If not, get
a bottle now and get relief. This medi-
cine has been found to be particularly
adapted to the relief and cure of all
female complains, exerting wonder
Jul direct influence in giving strength
and tone to the organs. III you have
los Of appetite, constipation, headache,
fainting spells, or are oervou', sleep
less, exc,able, melancholy or troubled
with dizzy spells, Electric Bit'ers Is the
medicine you need. Health and
strength are guaranteed by its use.
Only fifty cents a. G. BlGkely's drug
store, Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
She Could Cook,

"Oh, by the way, can you cook?"
said young Mr.. Spudds to Miss Gar
soye. "May inquire if your
query is prompted by matrimonial
inclination?" asked The young lady.
Why-er-er-well, yes" stammered
the young man. "That being the case
l will answer you fully. Yes, can
cook terrapin, canvas back duck, brook
trout and venison, besides tenderloin
steak and other 6elicacies. Can you
provide them in their raw state?"-
Harper's BazAr.
KARL's CLOVER Roof TEA is sure
cure for headache and nervous dis.
eases. Nothing relieves so quickly.
For sale by w. E. Terrill & Co., Mont
peier, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
MISCELLANY
The Little Red SchOOl.H
TUNE, "OM Oakca Backet,"l

lfUe, ~ va OdhcN DucGeft
How well remember the little red school house.
Where shouting boys gathered from sport and from
pays
Where girls from the meadow would come with
their flowers.
Where, mingled in sunshine, all nature was gay;
The walks in the wood and where chartered the
squirrel
These pictures Of memory bring tears to my eye
CHORUS.
Wen stand by the schoo-house, the little red
schoolhouse;
Wen stand by the school-house, wen save It or
die.
The little red schoolhouse is tied to our heart
strings,
And some of the scholars who started out with
Have gone to the school the bright go den shore.
And soon will enter the high school Of Heaven,
For Time, like an angel wing brushes us by.
CHORUS.
The little red schoolhous how can we forget it.
The teacher, the Bible, the desk and the Howers7
The things that dearest and now the
nearest
Are those that we loved in earliest hours.
Be palsed the hand that would mar the red school,
house.
Be palsed the tongue that against 1t would cry.
ADDITIONAL CHORUS.
Wen stand by our banner the star spangled banner;
Wen stand by Old Glory, wen save 1t or del
%. K. N.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Pebbles.

YES, girls, this is leap year; but, for
heavens sake, don't all ask at once.
FoGG is anxious to know whether or
not the new woman will insist upon
having the last word, the same as the
old variety.
THE Gordian knot vas not tied by
woman. When woman ties knot,
she ties it in such way that it can be
united without recourse TO sword.
A FACT WORTH KNowING.-Con.
sumption, la grippe, pneumonia, and
all throat and lung diseases are cured
by Shiloh's Cure. For sale by w, E.
Terrill & Co., Montpelier, VT.
You find the button, and III do the
rest" said Fogg when his dressing was
interrupted by the customary freak of
the wayward collar-fastener.
WAYsIDE CRITIC: Aren't you going
to have any gate in that fence you're
building?" Carpenter: "Oh, 1t will
get gait on when it runs around the
building"
THE ILLS OF WoMEN.-Constipa-
ton causes more than half the ills of
women. Karl's Glover Root Tea is a
sale by W. E. Terrill & Co., Mont
pelier, Vt.
THE metric system is well enough for
such as have any clear idea as to the
value of meters and kilometres,
grammes and killogrammes, and all
that sort of thing; but it will probably
be many years before the women folk
give up their I" nine fingers and little
over" which has distinct and we'll
defined meaning to them.
SOMETHING novel in the way of a
secret society has been evolved in
Maine. Instead of going back to me-
dieval times for inspiration the found
ers took the conditions lying next their
hands, and in place of loading the Of
ficers with graz dose and grotesque
titles the understandable commonplace
is drawn on. The society is called the
Annabessacook Haylott, No." and
the officers are: Chief haymaker, as.
sistant haymaker, overseer, past chief
hay maker, boss driver, hornblower,
guard OF barndoor, guard of hayloft
and grand keeper of bundles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
Or, DAVID KENNEDYS
EAY0RlTE REMEDY

1 took it but short while when I began to
mend, and was able to eat and sleep. Such
a relief from the misery and state L was in,
that cannot express my gratitude and joy
over my full recovery to my good health"
Favorite Remedy restores the liver to a
healthy condition, and cures the worst
cases of constipation. It is a certain cure
for all diseases peculiar to females, and
affords great protection from attacks that
originate in change Of life. 1t cures scrof-
MIA, salt rheum, rheumatism, dyspepsia, all
kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases,
gravel. diabetes and Bright's disease.
In this last disease it has cured where all
else failed Any druggist, 81 bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

BUoKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-Tbe
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever soree,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, eorns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. It il
guaranteed 10 give pen feet satisfaction
or money refunded. Price twenty-iivf
cent per box. For sale nv C..BaEelv
Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

In Ireland, as far back as the middle
of the seventeenth century, printed
news sheet was sold, called The VAR
ranted TidingS From ireland, but the
first regularly established journal in
that country was about the year 100,
when Pue's Occurrences appeared in
the irish capital and existed for more
than half century.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

IS strong and perfect in a sexual way, as
we'll as in every other. That she is capable
OF performing perfectly the duties. of ma:
ternity. Some are born with what is called
constitutional weakness" Those who do
not enjoy perfect health, need only take
the proper precautions and the proper rem
edy to become perfectly well and strong.
DIR. Pierce's Favorte Prescription will cure
any arrangement of the distinctly femi-
nine organism. Sold by druggists.
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Why is one woman

Why is one woman
attractive and an
other OF? The
most admirable and
attractive thing
about an attractive
woman is her wo-
manliness. Every
body a d m Tres a
womanly W o Ill n.
She III Il st h We
health, of course,
because without it
she would lose the
brig Illness of her
eyes, the fullness of
her cheeks and her
vivaci ty. X e al
health must mean
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
WHAT ALLIED HIS WATCH.

A gentleman calls on the jeweler aud wants his
watch repaired. The jeweler adjusts his egeRless,
looking very wise and informs him that the mira.
molecular yibra ions of the isochrOna arc detected
from the supplementary curves of his Horologium
and It would cost him IS to repair II. The gentleman
left In disgust and came to me; upon examination
found he had in attempting to move the regulator,
let the Ratchet slip chat was what he usedl aud
bent the balance pivot. which Strengthened, and
charged 25c,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08
IL is Known
by It's Cures

II IS not what we say, but what
Hoods Sarsaparilla does. that tells the
story OF its merit.
The thousands OF people whom 1t has
raised from disease and despair to happi-
ness and health, are the strongest and
best advertisements Hoods Sarsaparilla
has. No other preparation in existence
has such record Of wonderful cures.
This is why Hoods Sarssparilla has the
largest sale, and requires for its produce
tion the largest laboratory in the world.
Now if you need good medicine, why
not try that which has done others SO
much good. Remember
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

GooDBY is an abbreviation of an old
English form of parting, "God be with
you until We meet"
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HER LIFE TRULY SAVED.
DR.. Miles Heart Cure Does II.

Mrs. Chas. La Point, wcl-known resident
Her testimony should convince all as to the
worth OF the New Heart Cure and Restora-
tive NerYinc. Her letter dated Sept 18th,
1894 reads as follows:
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FACT AND FANCY.
Natures Oil.

Natures Utl.
Deep In the suffers of tn airth,
Way down beneath tn soil,
Tn, Lord, 18th Ren'rous providence,
Laid up great stores o. oil.
Some hogs ware rootin' round one day,
An found them suffers fust;
An'-after thankln' OF the Lord
They put 'em In trust"
i. Bradshaw.