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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
Foreign.

LATE advices received at Madrid from
Manila say the cyclone which occurred
October - wiped out Caragara and Burugo,
and an immense wave swept inland, engulf-
ing villages. Several thousand natives
persisted at Taglsban. The extent OF the
catastrophe is unknown.
A spring at Romany, a sub
urb of Baku, Russia, caught fire last week.
TIL fire spread quickly to other springs in
the vicinity until the whole valley was a
sea of flame. The losses are enormou and
the fires are still burning. -Four springs
and twenty-three bore holes have been de-
stroyed as we'll as several magazines and
houses.
In a long editorial on American compete
ton in the iron and steel industries the Pail
Mall Gazette of last Wednesday said: To-
day. we find the United States, not only
challenging our supremacy in neutral mar
kets, but even Obtaining a foothold in Eng
land. The causes which are giving the
United States such a favorable position are
permanent and everything points to the
United States remaining the cheapest steel
producing country in the world"
THE c~oasting steamer I" Triton " from Ha-
vana for the province Of Pinar del Rio, was
wrecked last week on the north coast
Of that province. The purser and one Of
the passengers have arrived at Martial. They
say they have no knowledge regarding the
fate OF the captain, passengers, soldiers and
Gv.ilahe' anu une thlr'y mempers OF une
Triton. The missing passengers include
several well-known merchants. 1t is said
that the Triton had on board more than
200 passengers, soldiers and civilians, and
it is feared that they have all persisted, in
addition to the thirty men composing the
steamers crew.
TWENTY FIVE persons, among them
twelve women and five children, died Of
hunger in Havana in one day last week.
They were rowde into the place called
Los Fosos, where the Spanish police here
huddle the pacificos who nave been driven
by the troop, into the capital from the
neighboring country. Many thousands of
these HOPELESS persons are now starving to
death in Los Fosos, and since October /
about twenty-five Of these have died every
day OF their privations. The Spanish au.
thorities conceal the facts, and under cover
OF darkness the bodies are buried in the
cemetery Of Colon.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
why Spain Has Failed In Cuba.

General Weyler should have subdued the
rebellion within 90 days. No unpreju-
diced military authority who has studied
the two forces and made due allowance
for the advantages possessed by those who
fight upon their native soil will dissent
from this proposition. There are Spanish
generals in Cuba who admit it's truth.
There are others who have returned, dis
gusted, to Spain because their suggestions
Of plans to end the war were not allowed
to be disclosed at the palace. A four
months stay in Cuba, beginning in Janu-
airy and ending with April of this year,
much of which time was passed in observ-
ing the forces in the field, has resulted in
the conviction on my part that it has not
been the purpose of General Weyler to end
the rebellion. Conversations with Span
ish officers, from generals to corporals,
showed that the same motives that were
evidently actuating the commander In al
lowing the war to drag along were prompt
ing a large proportion of the staff and line
In carrying out the policy of their superior.
II. G. Alvord. Jr., in Forum.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

ALL England is stirred over the death in
Cuba last week of w. Hughes, correspond.
emit OF a London newspaper, who is said to
have starved to death in the streets of Ha-
vana after having been maltreated n rob
bed by a party OF Spanish guerrillas. The
Chronicle says: "If the story of his death
Is true, fresh execration Of Spanish action
will arise, and the British government will
have something to say" Hughes was
found dead on the Prado. He had recently
visited Pinar del Rio with a pass from the
military governor. 1t is said that while
there a party OF Spanish guerrillas, in broad
daylight and In the presence Of Spanish Of
fcers, assaulted and robbed him of every
thing he had except his clothes. Hughes,
1t is alleged, appealed to the military com.
mander for help and demanded the ~restitu-
ton OF his property, but was only laughed
at. He was obliged to walk the whole dis.
lance to Havana, and reached the city rag
ged and starving. Having lost his passport
he could not establish his identity or COM
municate with friends in England. He
starved to death in the streets.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
Vermonters In Tennessee.

Governor Taylor of Tennessee well
coined the Vermont delegation to the
exposition in the following graceful
and eloquent words: about a third of
o century ago we gave Vermont a very
warm reception to Dixie We threw
her boquets from the lannon's mouths
and she acknowledged The compliment
with a tongue of fire which was not
only eloquent but intensely persuasive.
But, thank God, the greetings of civil
strife are forever behind us and we are
about 10 step over the threshold of a
new century a resuscitated people with
the North and South clasping hands
and pledging to each other eternal
friendship and brotherhood. Tennes-
see greets Vermont to-day, not with
bombshells and bayonets but with bless
ings and benedictions, not with bugle
blast of battle, but with the melodies
of peace. Not with smoke and fire,
but with sugar and fire and hot water,
not with cold steel, but with hot bis
cults and Southern hospitality. Our
distinguished guests may not find them
selves surrounded with all the comforts
end elegance which the great wealth of
New England provides for them at
home, but they will find warm hearts
and cordial welcomes everywhere and
good will and fraternal feeling among
our people.
- pledge them further that they
shall see a revolution here. They shall
be the witnesses of our triumphs in
peace as they were of our valor in war.
They shall see how the South has
arisen from her ashes by the courage
and energy of her citizenship. We
will show them within the gates of this
white city the epitome of our history
and the promise of our future wealth
and glory. If l could, / would escort
the splendid governor of Vermont and
his delightful party all over the South
that they might see the victories we
are winning along the line of industry
and the harvests we are reaping in
every field of labor, so that they might
sit around their New England firesides
when winter locks them in and think
of our sunny Southern skies and our
snowy cotton fields stretching away to
the horizon, alive with toiling negroes,
gathering the f1eecy crop and singing
the old time plantation songs as they
used to sing them long ago. That they
might think of our increasing wealth
and population, of our wonderful prog
ress in education, and of III universal
loyalty to the Christian religion. That
they might remember us as a law-abid-
ing liberty-loving people, loyal to the
| government and in the Union to stay
and then they might, perhaps, deter
mine to bid adieu to the ~icicles, and
bicycles and spectacles and billiards.
and Boston baked beans of New Eng
land, and cast their lot in the beautiful
land of majors and colonies, where the
magnolias bloom and the hooking birds
sing and where sunshine and salvation
are free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
Gold and Grease.

Some years ago the mint authorities
of a certain city noticed that a small
amount of gold was missing every day
after the coming operations were over.
They watched and set traps of every
description, but no thief was detected,
and after the loss bad continued with
regularity for some months they set it
down to an extra amount of unavoida.
BILE waste and thought nc more about
it.
Two or three years afterward two
brothers, who were working there, left
and set up a public house together on
money which they said had been left
them by an uncle. AS they had both
good characters, it was not until n OF
them told a mint foreman, on the un.
Outstanding that no action should be
iaken, that anything was known OF the
following trick:
Dvvu ,uv vIv,u-I- u90u 70 pTrease
their hands before working at the ma
chimes, and whenever they noticed some
gold dust sticking 10 the grease it was
wiped off in their hair. Care was used
that enough was not taken to show,
though when they washed their hair at
home each night the few grains meant
several extra shillings, which ultimate
ly enabled them to retire and live COM
fortably.-Strand Magazine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

THE historic and beautiful town of Wind.
sor, N. g., was nearly wiped out by fire last
week. The area covered by the flames is
more buildings occupying this section,
barely half a dozen scorched structures re-
main. All is a waste of ruins. The build
ing that escaped include the Windsor cotton
factory, Kings College, the Anglican church,
Edge Hill school for girls and Dufierin no.
tel. The latter is the only holel left stand
ing. No Nova Scotia town has ever been
visited by a conflagration of such dimen-
sions. or the $500 people inbabiting the
place there are very few having homes re-
naming. Over 5000 ave been taken in by
the residents Of the outskirts of the sur
rounding country and neighboring towns,
while the remainder OF the sufferers have
gone TO Halifax, or are sheltered in army
tents in the vacant plots.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
Domestic.

GEORGE M. PULLMAN, the parlor car mag
nate, died suddenly of heart disease at Chi
cago last week Tuesday.
WHILE a museum was exhibiting in Hol-
gate, Ohio, last Thursday night, a huge
glass case containing over 400 snakes was
crushed by the crowd and the reptiles wrig-
gled in every direction. Among the collec-
ton were a large number of black diamond
r~attlers, measuring five to eleven feet.
Several persons were bitten during the wild
stampede. All the doctors in town were
summoned to treat the bites.
BENJAMIN f. HUNT Of Bridgeport, Conn,
and Mrs. Julia A. Sherman of Watertown,
n: Y, were married at Watertown last
Wednesday. The groom is eighty-seven
years old Il the bride has just past her
ninetieth birthday. Mrs. Sherman was the
wife of the late John A. Sherman, once a
wealthy resident of Watertown, who prac-
tically laid the foundation for the cheese
making industry of that county. Mr.. Hunt
was ia native of Rodman, and has been
married twice before. He has three mar
ried sons.
JUSTICE STEPHEN j. FIELD Of California,
a member of the supreme court of the
United States has notified President Nc
Kinley OF his intention to retire as a men,
Der Of the court. He also informed his col
leagues after adjournment. The members
Of the court will call to pay their respects to
the retiring justice in a body. 1t is ex-
pected his successor will be nominated by
President Mckinley Immediately after the
reassembling of Congress in December and
that Acknowledgement McKenna will be
named.
In a musty cellar on North Sangamon
street, Chicago, the police, last Thursday,
unearthed what they declare to be one OF
the biggest liquor label counterfeiting
schemes ever reported In this country.
Liquor dealers the world over have been
trying to locate the plant for over a year.
The officers found % 1000 labels, represent
ing all the leading brands of liquor, and
bottles and cash were also found. The loss
to liquor dealers has been half a million. In
the basement a wonderful array of passages
was found, leading in all directions, each
separated by a brick wall, arranged in a
puzzling manner. Wagon loads Of con-
hscated goods were removed.
THE United States treasury at Washing.
ton has been robbed Of a lot Of silver dol
lars. just how much money has been TAX
en- has not yet been ascertained, but it may
reach into the thousands. The trouble Is
that the thefts, each small in amount, have
been going on for years. The probable Be-
robustness OF the robbery may be imagined
from the fact that a force Of fifty clerks is
engaged In counting, piece by piece, the en-
tire contents OF a vault In which 1907 00, 900
silver dollars were stored, for the purpose
OF finding out how many Of them have been
stolen. This work was begun a week ago,
and the force has averaged a count of 700,-
600 coins a day. AT this rate the job will
last about six months, and will cost at least
$25 900.
The dome Of Robinson's opera house in
Cincinnati fell recently during a theatrical
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
Commissions.

In commissions the first thing to do Is to
loosen the clothing, so that free respiration
may be had. Cold water should be applied
to the head with a sponge and the face
gently s%prinkled with it. The hot bath,
which should be from 81 degrees to 90 de-
grees, In connection with cold applications
to the head, is of great service. The child
should not be kept in the hot bath more
than ten minutes, and while there should
be we'll rubbed with the hand and then
dried and rubbed with a warm towel, rolled
In a hot blanket and put to bed. When
commissions are caused by the approach of
an eruptive fever, such as scarlet fever,
measles, ETC., the hot mustard bath for the
feet or entire body is excellent. II the
child can be induced to drink hot drinks,
1t will greatly assist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
No Horse, No Review.

Soon after the queens accession a
big review was contemplated in Hyde
Park. Her majesty intended appear
ing on horseback and every precaution
was taken to insure her safety by prop
erly training the royal charger on which
she was to be mounted. Lord Mel
bourne, the prime minister, took excep-
ton to the arrangement and urged that
it would not be proper for her majesty
to appear except 10 one of the royal
carriages. "Very WE'LL" said the
queen, mo horse, no review" And
there was none that summer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

performance. Three people we're killed and
scores were injured. After the accident an
investigation showed that the trusses and
timbers holding the dome we're rotten.
They had been in use so long that they had
warped and parted. This caused the bolts
and nails to loosen. The entire construc-
ton was thrown out Of gear and the weight
OF the dome brought 1t down and with IL
came mortar, bricks and %rafters. The huge
rafters composing the truss that fell in we're
as dry as punk and the pieces Of joist that
connected them were worm eaten and rot
ten. The nails and bolts were rusty and
everything went to show that the entire
part OF the building was in such a danger.
Gus condition that IL Is strange 1t had not
been discovered long ago.
MRS. CLARA II. NYE, widow Of Bill Nye,
is in danger Of being in actual want at
Asheville, N. @. Once in comparative COM
fort and ease, Mrs. Nye's present income
does not exceed $500 a year. Every dollar
OF ready money she had in the world,
amounting to $1,000, was lost in the First
National Bank OF Asheville, which closed
its doors on July 81 last. Mrs. Nye and her
family OF I've children were in Europe when
the blow fell, and but for the kindness of
Chicago relatives, who learned OF her con-
dition and sent her means, Mrs. Nye told q
reporter recently that she has no idea
how she would have gotten home. "Buck
Shoals" her home, is for sale to-day with
dollars of Bill Nye's hard earned money is
there. Mrs. Nye said that her heaviest loss
was that of $50, 700 in property in New
York, bought as an investment by Mr.. Nye
five years before his death. 1t was worth
$45 900, but the mortgage of 1927, 900 was
upon it. 1t was held by the Lorillards of
New York. In January she was notified
that payments must be promptly made or
foreclosures would follow. She could not
pay and it was sacrificed and every dollar
in it lost. Mrs. Nye will next year publish
a book of memoirs OF Mr.. Nye.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
FEASTS FOR FISHES.
BanQuets That Are Spread When q Wind
Bound Fleet Gets Its Anchors Up.

"Besides the things that live IN the wa
teg," said a collector, There are numerous
things that live in the mud and sand un-
OR 1t, many of which furnish food for
hsbes, which seize them when opportunity
offers, or which perhaps dig them out.
The sturgeon, for instance, with Its sharp,
pointed nose, plows a furrow In the mud
on the bottom II then goes back along it
and picks up and eats whatever may nave
dropped into it, rs worms dislodged by
blowing drop into a furrow in a field.
Some curious or interesting specimens
are found attached to timbers or other
wood or materials imbedded in the mud.
/ came across once a plank half buried in
the mud in shallow water. l worked my
anchor under this plank and turned it
over, but it was heavier than one man
could lift. There had been a lot of small
soft clans in the mud along the edge of
the plank, little bits of fellows, half an
Inch long or SO, and when l turned the
plank over quite a number of them tum-
bled into the space where it had been. Two
or three minutes later u little blackfish,
maybe 6 or s inches long, came out from
some eel grass near by n made for the
place where the plank had been and began
eating the little CLANS. 1t would pick one
up and chew it up and spit out the shells
and go for another. 1t was a feast for the
little blaokfish, probably the greatest 1t had
ever struck. those dainty little CLAIMS, and
plenty Of them, and nothing to do but eat
them.
with a strong ~easterly gale blowing up
the sound, many vessels bound east along
the SOUND seek shelter in some Of the har-
bors along the Connecticut shore. Some
times in some of these places you will find
40 or 30 vessels, many Of them, most Of
them perhaps smaller, of 90 to 80 tons, but
all with anchors overheard. In some Of
these places you will find vessels SO thick
sometimes that there is only room enough
for them to swing. The wind comes out
in the night from the north or the north
west, and they all get under way together.
They all get their anchors at once, prao-
tioally tearing up the whole bottom and
dislodging thousands and thousands Of
animals hat live in the mud. This Is an
occasion of f~easting for all the bottom feed.
ing fishes thereabout. New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
At AN ILLINOIS HOTEL.
Experience of a Preacher Who Happened
There Overnight.

"The ~livelicst time | ever had in getting
hotel recommendations was right here in
Illinois" said II clerical looking man, who
sat in the smoking compartment Of the
sleeper while the porter was making up
his berth.
81 was going to preach at Dixon, Ills,
and / started in good time, If | had not
happened to strike u holiday, when trains
were running Widths was go years ago
and schedules were not systematized as
they are now On Saturday at midnight
/ stopped on the last train at a small town
nearly 10 miles from the place where l
was expected to I'll u popular pulpit.
Everybody had gone to bed when l
walked into the one hotel of tho place, but
by dint of loud knocking l reused a sleepy
clerk, who gave me a kerosene lamp, with
q piece Of red flannel, which served as n
wick, and pointed to "a room at the top of
q flight of stairs.
"This room had a bed in it, but there
was no sign of n lock to the door. A large
front window was open and would not
close. 1t had no curtain. So, before dis
robing, | blew out the lamp. l saw that
1t would be easy for any one on the outside
to scale the window, so / arranged all
the toilet crockcry on it's sill. Then l went
W ~ wv w SlINPs
"WAUn | awakened, it was Sunday
morning and IA bright sun was shining
into ny room. | sat up and saw u curious
CioWd regarding my window and the
lrct,iwork Of crockery which l had used
"a Il defense. | learned afterward that
they thought it was u new china store that
Lad Just Leen opened.
"Nhen | went down stairs, l found the
hotcI doors had not been unfastened since
the night before. l opened up the house,
bat the only guests to enter were a cat and
four kittens. The help appeared later,
apologizing by saying that they had not
worked the day before, but had let things
take care of themselves. The landlord
looked as if he never had worked and new
er intended to. | was not able to get even
a cup of coffee for my breakfast before the
train came which bore me away from the
slackest town and the worst hotel service
j had ever in my life encountered. No, l
won't call names, for from what l have
heard it is run-both hotel and town-on
the SD me lines today. Good night. Chi
cage Times-Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
The Range Of Sounds.

The whistle of a locomotive is heard
$500 yards through the air; the noise
of a railway train, $500 yards; the re-
port of a musket and the bark of a dog,
l 300 yards; an orchestra or the roll of
a drum, 1000 yards; the human voice
reaches to a distance of 1000 yards
the croaking of frogs, 900 yards; the
chipping of crickets, 800 yards. Dis
tinct speaking is heard in the air from
below to a distance of 900 yards; from
above it lie understood to have a range
of only 100 yards downward.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

THE British steamer Bonanista arrived at
st. Johns, N. f., last Wednesday from
Montreal after the worst passage in her re-
cord. When off st. Pierre she encountered
a terrible hurricane. Her chains broke and
the ship was left in the trough of the sea.
Heavy waves swept the deck, killing four
board. Fou hours later the chains broke
again and once more her decks were swept
by mountainous waves. Finally the cap
tain resorted to oil bags. The gale was UNI
doubtedly the worst known along the coast
in several years. Six vessels nave been
sunk off Labrador and five lives lost.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27
u Duxbury,

George Mckinney, son Of Mrs. Albert
Phillips, has returned TO his home in AL
bany, N. Y Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w.
Kellogg have come back to their old home
to spend the winter with their son. =
Mrs. Erwin Joslin Of Waitsfield is visiting
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. William Ward.
- Rev. O. 8. Hubert exchanged with
Rev. George NJ. Burdick OF Middlesex last
Sunday. - Frank Atkins and family
are going to Waterville to live.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

The Little Critic. Why, papa, said
Frances, who was looking at the family
album, surely this isn't a picture of youp
Yes, replied papa, that is a picture of
me, taken when l was quite young.
Well, commented the little girl, it
doesn't look as much like you as you
look now.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

Is CATARRH Your LIFE's CLoUD?-Emi-
nent nose and throat specialists in daily
practice highly recommend DR.. Agnew's'
Catarrhal Powder, as safe, sure, permanent,
painless and harmless, in all cases of cold
In the head, tonsilitis, hoarseness and Ca
tarrh. 1t gives relief in ten minutes, and
banishes the disease like magic.-6. Sold
by w. e. Terrill q Co. and Collins Blakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

Little Knut-Mamms, didn't the
missionary say that the people in
Tamba Tamba don't wear any clothes2
Mother-Yes, that's what he said.
Knut-Then why did papa drop a but
ton in the plate?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

l guess l amt 80 coarse, said the
patient animal. Oh, / don't know, re-
torted BALKAN. You could not make a
man of yourself if you talked for a de-
cade, and l can make an ass of myself
in five minutes discourse.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

Jabsley-These ~novelists make me
tired. The idea of a whitening
glance" As if any one could be with
cred by q mere look. Wickwire-You
are young yet, Jabsley. You never
stepped on your wife's train at a ball.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-27

Mrs. Bjones-Mrs. Brown lie a very
persistent m Mrs. Bsmith-How
80? Mrs. Bjones-For years she has
been asking her dealer if his eggs are
fresh, in the fond delusion that some
day he will say no.