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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-31
Business Mere Mention.

G. e. SHEPARD. auctioneer, Marshfield, vt
A. G. SPIRo, the well known furrier, has
a new advertisement on this page.
WANTED.-A refined and capable lady as
managing housekeeper Address Box 30,
South Cabot.
HAVE you ever tried the mail order SER
vice of the Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Coz
Read their advertisement on page five.
AIR CUSHION DATERs for cancelling reve-
nue. stamps, with your name or initials.
Fifty cents and 81. Vermont Watchman
Company.
For sale, at a bargain for cash, new
sewing machine, made by one OF the old
and best companies in the country. Ad-
dress, G. A, Ainswortb, Williamstown, vt.
PENSIONS of Sc to $12 month are paid
soldiers, rich or poor, with slight disabil-
tiles, contracted in or out of service, under
act of June 27, 1890. Those now pensioned
under this act can complete any suspended,
delayed or rejected claim under the old law,
and receive the arrears. widows entitled,
without regard to cause of soldiers death
No charge unless successful. Address, T.
j. Deavitt, Montpelier, VI.i
Do you want anything in the line of
drugs and medicines-no matter what? II
80 call on Fred A. Ainsworth, proprietor of
the new Williamstown drugstore, on Depot
str get, one door east of j. X. Lynde's store
H. perCnanCe, ne may nOJ nave eLucttV WnaL
you desire, he will aim to supply it in the
shortest possible time. If good goods and
honest prices and square dealing will do it,
he is bound to secure fair share of public
patronage. Sewing.machne supplies and a
popular line of stationery are specialties.
Give him cali.
THE GREAT BURLINGTON FAfR.-The fair
at Howard Park next week is sure to be the
biggest event this year in the Champlain
valley. The managers are spariDg no pains
to make fair week at the park one Of pleas
ure for all who attend, having provided a
programme which in its variety of enter
tanning features will eclipse anything here
tofore attempted. The free variety enter
tainment each day of the fair is a new fea-
ture at the park and secured at considerable
expense to the association, but the mana
gers are bound to give the people their
moneys worth and a good time. The re-
duction Of the price of admission to twenty
five cents is a liberal concession and will,
without doubt, be the means of doubling
the usual attendance. The famous Sher-
man band will render its finest music,
while the circuit races by the grandest field
of trotters and PAGES ever seen in the state
will be of unusual interest. Entries for pre-
miums already received indicate that all de-
partments will be we well filed. The war
is over and it is fitting that the farmers an
nual festival be made time of general re-
joicing over the glorious victories of our
gallant soldiers and sailors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-31
PlainHeId.

Ralph Spencer was at home on Sunday.
e. Nye of Boston was in town on Thurs
day.
Miss Gladding of Barre visited last week
at E. Skinner's.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Perrin were at A. N.
Greely's last week.
n Nathan Palmer was in Woodstock last
week as was also Nat Cove.
A valuable COW OF Murray Cutler was
killed by the cars on Friday.
Dr. f. P. Gale and family visited at s. b.
Gales on Friday and Saturday.
Mrs James Pollack of Clinton, Mass. is
visiting her father, B, d. Marsh.
Fred Laird of Montpelier spent Sunday
in town with III. s. Laird, his father.
Maynard Kiser and family of Williams
town visited at Will Pitkin's last week
Henry Gilbert of Randolph Center visited
friends in town on Monday of last week.
e. b. Kiser and daughter Jennie, Of Paw.
tucket, r. l., are visiting relatives in town.
Several from here attended the funeral of
Hon. S. g. Shurtleff at Montpelier on Mon
day.
A good number assembled at Odd Fellow 3
Hall to listen to the reading by Miss Jennie
Kiser.
Mr.. Geo. Vincent and Mrs. Alfred Hooke r
visited their father, l.. l.. Lupien, last
week
Mrs. A. e. Foss has returned from Brook
field where she has been stopping the past
ten days.
Mrs. jamie Martin and daughter of Bar
net visited her daughter, Mrs Murray Mar
tyn, last week.
Dea. s. b. Gale and Mrs. e. G. Spencer
spent last week Tuesday with Mrs. Geo.
Dodge in Berlin.
Mrs. Mary Kidder has returned home af.
ter spending the summer with her daughter
in Massachusetts.
Henry Kinney has been nominated as
Republican candidate for representative
ana Geo. ID. Kidder is the Democratic candi.
! date
The relatives, friends and neighbors OF
the Townsend family to the number of 12I
assembled at the residence Of Nathaniel
Townsend on Friday afternoon. Refresh
ments consisting Of chicken pie and other
good things for the inner man were served
while the intellectual part was regarded by
reading by Mrs. Kiser and music by the
| guests.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-31

THE above clubbing arrangement has
been made to supply, at low price,
WATcHMAN subscribers with daily paper
containing all the national and foreign
news. The Boston Daily Record is an en-.
terprising and we'll conducted paper.
VERMONT WATCHMAN COMPANY,
Montpelier, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-31
MOretOwH.

The village schools are TO commence Sep
tember II. - q. III. Ward has returned
from a two weeks vacation at Old Orchard
beach. 80 Clair Ward and Wilbur Hill
haye returned to the seminary for the fall
term. - The Ladies' Aid meet with
Mrs. Charles Freeman this afternoon. All
are invited.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25
FIRST CHR|STiNAS
OF n QUEEN.
Wilhelmina Starts in This Christmas Day on
Broad Career of Queenly Wilfulness
and Generosity.

give me blue china; the things made IN
Holland. i viii call at your shop to-
morrow
Abashei, yet willing 10 please Her
Majesty, the dealer hurried away with
his goods. end the following morning he
had spread out in his show room = mag
nihcent supply of everything made in
Holland There were Dutch weaves Of
the heaviest cloths made upon ponder
GUS Dutch lOOms-warranted to wear
forever as Heal drapeyies There We're
handsome chairs of elaborate designs
and OF delft such a plentiful collection
as never was seen before.
Wilhelmina looked over them all with
interest, selecting many small articles
such as bookmarks, paper knives, ink
bottles and the small trifes which please
a girl. Then she turned 10 the heavier
stuffs Of which she purchased many
pieces for her grown up friends. good
Dutch matrons who Ike substantial
articles, as Wihelmina knows.
She then turned to the paintings of
Dutch scenes OF which there were many
shelves. AMI picking out a quantity Of
small pictures such as lakes. waterfalls
and dams and mills. she ordered them
sent TO her. Then she went out TO her
carriage and taking the reins in her
own hands, went for a long drive. She
had discharged her duty I'm the matter
OF Christmas shopping.
The young Queen OF Holland will be-
stow her gifts upon her cousins Of Mas
sau and Orange and Waldeck Of whom
she has a very large supply, and upon all
those mysterious German princes who
are linked TO her by marriage. She has
forgotten none Of them; and for three
weeks she has kept her secretary. NJ.
Vandermuller, at work making out the
list. She knows each by name and has
omitted no one She past week has been
spent in doing up the packages and
sending them, for Wilhelmina has adj
dressed with her own hands each one.
The first Christmas of the young
Queen OF Holland will be spent in an
entirely domestic way. for she has GER
tain obligations 10 perform. IN the morn
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25

with anxiety and interest to see how the
young sovereign will govern herself
Up 20 the time of her actual success
sion 20 the throne Wihemina was so
walled I'm by parental control that her
own traits could not more than half
show themselves. but as soon as the
reins were kanied 10 her, she made her
own rules 10 which even her mother is
now subject
Broad as Holland IS I'm its government;
and sedate and conservative as its rui-
ers must fhe. 10 IS sin a monarchy; ana
fits queen has great power,
Six weeks ago. very soon after she got
tho first quarterly payment of the large
income which the HOllanders pay their
queen. Wilheluiua wrote q letter 80 a
bric-a-brac dealer I'm Amsterdam inviting
him 10 call at the palace with samples
OF his wares and inumatcd that she
wished TO purchase extensively for holi-
nay gifts 60 her friends
When the dealer arrived with his chests
Of goods Her Majesty looked them over
Ind pronounced them Entirely too
foreign"
The dealer had. I'm his anxiety to please
Der, drawn upon the resources Of fndia,
Japan. China and France for all sorts
bf rare imported wares
He had drvlperies from the orient lac
fuers from China. and marvellous French
fiass. which be spread out before her.
But Wilhelmina wanted none of them.
bho wanted Dutch ware or none al all.
Looking over the boxes OF goods spread
put before her. she gave disdanful
save OF her hand and said, II like delft;
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25

10 settlement. and make small farming
profitable where now it is not on ac-
count OF remoteness from market" lie
also declares that Cuban sugar can hold
its own with any I'm the world II proper
transportation facilities are afforded the
planter.
one Of the islands wasted opportuni-
ties that might be fostered by investors
Is that relating 10 the manufacture Of
alcohol. Grapes do not grow well here,
they are all imported from California
or from Spain. AS a consequence there is
no wine-maNng--win come chiefly
from Spain-and the only alcoholic pro-
ductiOn Is aguardiente, a fierce. raw
brandy, made from the molasses that ex-
udes from the sugar There is no rea-
son why good brandy should not be pos
si1le: and every sugar-planter says that
the amount Of molasses which is thrown
away on every plantation because Of lack
Of machinery for treating it. would sup
ply enough alcohol 20 the world 20 bring
the price down considerably.
Many fruits are natural to the island.
but the cultivation of all has been neg
lected $50
Oranges ripen without care or atten-
tion. No frosts mp the profits of
year and the prospects of fortune as
IN Florida and All the oranges need IS a
little tanning in character Alligator
pears. such as are sold I'm New York for
81 a dozen, need no Improvement: they
are better than those OF Jamaica. on
which New York pays duty. aud they
can be grown better here for almost
nothing ut all
Any reference TO the unused opportu-
mites for doing business In Cuba could
not omit mention Of the chance which
machiery-makers have here Immediately
before them. An American machinist
who had been long in the land before the
last Instruction, says that everywhere
on every plantation. the machinery is
wrecked or much out az repair.
There are only two good machine shops
on the island. and These are expecting 10
have fortunes thrust upon them by plant
ers eager 10 resume the cultivation of
their lands The owner Of one Of these
shops saws. there is big money in re-
pairs" II that IS true Cuba is a Klon-
dixie. She needs to be repaired very
badly.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25
A SOUVENIR OF CORONATION AND
OF HER FIRST CHRISTMAS
on THE THRONE.

flowers Her mother, the young Queen
Emma. wanted 10 please the old KING
and she ordered the baby girl 90 be set
before him on Christmas morning, COW
cred with roses When the kiug laid
down the papers. which he persisted in
reading at The breakfast table like any
commoner, up popped WilEelmina with
a Merry Christmas.
The little children OF Holland are all
setting out their wooden shoes for the
advent Of ST. Nick who comes very reg
ularly every year, but Wihelmina will
discard the wooden shoes this year. for
she realizes that she must be n grown
up person. OF womans size and wom-
ans estate shc has become very fem
mime and is taking the greatest pride
I'm a BEAUTIFUL robe which has been made
for her 10 wear Christmas evening.
The prince OF WED will get very
charming wife. when lie Weds Wuhel-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25
ENGLISH MONEY IN CUBA.
English Capitalists, Headed by Sir Thomas Upton, will
Invest in Sugar Raising, Alcohol Production, To-
bacco, Railroads, Machinery and Machine Shops

It vas only the other day that Joseph
Chamberlain left our shores to return 20
England and by that time 1t was an UNI
happy certainty for The Louisiana sugar
planters that this years sugar crop
would be almost total failure. II seems
something more than a coincidence,
therefore that shortly after the Honar-
able Joe arrived home that the London
Daily Mail should make the following an
uounccmcnt:
1--WE are able 10 state that on the in
vitniion OF the Secretary Of State Tor the
Colonies Joseph Chamberlain, some Eng
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25

that the islands future is bound up with
railways. The native idea Of 1t Ia inter.
esting. After stating that railways here
never have been profitable they reason
that they can never be- because there are
only one million and a quarter people on
the whole island. and this is not enough
to give custom to railways adequately
covering the island. a leading Spanish
sugar merchant. who lived fifteen years
in the United states. IS responsible for the
opinion that there is absolutely no ques-
ton that proper railways are what Cuba
needs. "They wifi open the wilderness
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25

ing her ministers who form the cabinet
or as they are called in Holland. tho
States general, viii visit her and wish
her merry Christmas. She must so
to the little church where she was
crowned a few months ago. and after
church will come the opening of gifts
For up TO this time the young Queen
has been obliged 10 restrain her Christ
mas curiosity as best she could.
The afternoon SIS spent receiving tele-
grams of corgratulation Tor it IS royal
etiquette to wire the Christmas message
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25
A SHADOW PANTOMINE,
by Elizabeth Pulling.

Winnie was an imaginative young
woman. She could see more different and
curious things in the clouds, and in bub-
DleS on her tea, aud in the fire than any
other gfri of her age The things she
had seen IN Jumps OF lead dropped. moi
ten, into buckets of water on half-a-
dozen successive Hallow Eens would
MI nice little volume OF romantic WIS.,
tons.
But this was no Hallow L en-, nor was
II summer evening when she could
watch clouds shapes in the west as the
sun set. This was the last day i'm the
year ana Il was very nearly over. ana
the New Year was just comlng-just
round the corner. as II were II was
after 10 o'clock and Winnie should have
been asleep IN her little whte-draped
bed that stood over there, 50 sweet ana
snug. in the corner Instead OF being in
the snug. sweet. little bed. she was
amusing herself with fantasies, staring
at the curtains that hung at her window.
There were white Indian muslin curtains
next the glass Of the window, and in
side there were pretty green chintz cur
tains with pattern in dim outlines in
a deeper shade OF green. The fire In the
CRATE hickered-a bright fire, II was
and the lamp was turned low, and all
sorts OF shades played In the folds OF
the curtains.
Winnie had sat down TO see the New
Year ina vigil undertaken all OF her
own accord, and without the knowledge
OF her mother or any OF the family.
Then she took 1t into her head that the
shadows were dancing strange sort OF
shadow pantomime of the past year
chief happenings
She could see, first, very plainly, the
accident on the fee last January, when
Rob Curtis had picked her up, her an
kIe too badly sprained TO let her walk.
and had carried her of bodily In his
arms. skating something like hundred
yards to the bank. while half-a-dozen
other boys and some girls skated by
them, and everybody thought Rob must
be . wonderful athlete 70 perform such
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25
e.: s--,;, .s,:eE7 49,. Z T:l..xss

IN 49, = I.iess-ll<x
10 zoos upon, and though Wiful, she
has such a fund Of Dutch common sense
no can think his Christmas lucky one
as well as very merry one
Tho Prince lives AT Amsterdam, for
he has noble blood in him. and has al
ways spent part Of The year At the
Hague and al Amsterdam For years
bis quiet wooing has been going on I'M
suspected in Europe and, since his boy
hood. Queen Emma has been anxiously
watching him. 10 see If his traits we're
such as 20 make her girl Queen happy.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25

| with Agatha Morrison under a chestnut
! tree And 1t was an SO evidently pre-
tense
She could see the rcd head among tho
| shadows half turn TO look II she was
| looking. She could sec herself trying
) hard not TO look as IL she We're looking
at the red head.
ono thing. that was about tho drear-
! lest Fourth Of July picnic and dance
( she had ever heard tell Of or imagined.
| The shadows reproduced IL all with
/ faithful dreariness even 20 the down
pour Of rain that endel the whole dreary
| affair.
TAat was the third and last principal
! event of the year that the shadow drama
showed. and +, ieft her with her mind
almost made NO 10 write "a really nice
J New Years note and send IL 20 Rob Cur
/ It's in the morning.
| The only question was. how 10 write
! il. Dear Sir" Dear Mr.. Curtis. or
| Dear ROBE"
SO Winnie pulled herself together, got
out her blotter and. M tho beginning N
| the last quarter-of-an-hour OF the year
! began making experiments to sec which
| OF the three styles would look best on
FIRST she tried. "My dear Mt Curtis.
| At the beginning OF the New Year |
must write 20 say. AM" U,'e
! stopped because ihe "oidlhs 7eelieh
] too distant and formal
! So she put aside That sheet oi paper
| and began afresh. Dear Sir-As $50 born
| OF us have much io forgive ODD me p'rN
year. And that looked downright formi-
| dable
Then she began again. ON % third sh'et
OF paper. Dear Rob-Dont you tninA
we might" Ana there She stopped short
| and pondercd MS 20 whether all things
! considered Dear Rob was not 100
much cordaltv an ar once.
While she pondered, knocking fne end
Of her pcnhoider against two very WHO
front teeth, She Thought She ho9ri a'm''
thing go punk IN the direction ~ tho
window. whore the shadow drama hid
been goin on
Being imaginative She was % little ner-
vous at that time Of a New Years Eve.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25

Marvellous tidings come from Holland
Of the mixed wiifIlness aud generosity
of the young Queen, who to-day cele-
brateS her first Christmas as u Queen.
The world sees only twice a century
tho spectFcle Of a young uueen on The
shrone in her own right. and it watches
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-25
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-11
ORIGIN OF A FAMILIAR SONG.

Clifton NJ. Nichols. the fe-long friend
of the poet Coates Kinney. tells how the
we'll known song-poem Rain on the
Roof came to be written.
Whoever has known the luxury
OF being lulled to sleep by the drowsy
rhythm of raindrops peltins upon a cot
tage or attic roof has wished that he
could translate into words the rains
dream song. Such a longing for ex-
preston of these thought-fancies came
to Coates Kinney. young lawyer in
Ohio, As years ago, after pleasant
June rain had cast a spell over him.
Acting upon the inspiration of the pass
ing shower he wrote the little song
poem Rain on the Roof which has
passed permanently into literature as
one Of our choicest classics of lyric
verse. Printed in country newspaper
and subsequently in the school readers,
il at once sprang into universal favor
principally with school children, who
loved 10 recite it and soon knew it by
heart.
"Afterward. when set to music. like
DR.. Smiths immortal hymn, America,
IL literally sang itself into the hearts
of all classes. being especially appre-
ciated by those reared in village and
farm homes, where all know the sooth-
ing music of the patter of the rain on
the roof."-Womans Home Companion
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-11

The countries which offered formal
protests during the pendency OF the
legislation of 1897 were: United King
dom, Germany, France, Austro-Hun-
gary, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy,
Greece, Switzerland. China, Japan. and
Argentina. Yet our sales to them in
creased over Is per cent. I'm the nine
months In question, while our total
sales were increasing but IS per cent.
In the countries and articles regarding
which the greatest anxiety was felt by
reason of the facts noted above, a
marked gain I'm our exports is shown.
Exports of bacon to Germany. for in
stance, increased from 1887 2s7 pounds
I'm nine months OF 1897, to 33 500, 5S3
pounds i'm the corresponding months of
1898; hams, from 2.77S, PAL pounds to TO-
500, 441 pounds, and lard from 14211S,14l
pounds To l62, 500, ,052; while fruits, which
were seriously threatened, increased
from 1891 PIP to 656,s2o i'm value. To
France our exports OF fruits increased
from slS5.694 to 1852. .42o; bacon. from
l,117,Ss5 To 3,270,654 pounds. and lard,
from $685., ,s2e in value to sss7,5Os.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-11
BEES FROn THE PHILIPPINES.


There is one race inhabiting the Phil
ippines which viii be a welcome addi-
ton 10 American citizenship, and Will
be afforded every facility and induce
ment TO immigrate to the United states
and engage in the skilled labor in which
he has no peer. This is the giant East
lndian honey bee, and Investigation OF
It's work and immense capacity for
making honey and wax has interested
the department of agriculture IN the
consideration of an early effort TO In
boduce il into the United states. Sec
retary Wilson said i'm connection with
the proposed Importation of these bees
To the United States. that a special ap-
preparation would be asked in his COM
ing report To congress for the investiga-
ton of the bees of the world. and a
swarm of the big Philippine hOneyma-
kers would be brought TO America as
soon as the question OF their value and
the possibility OF their acclimatization
have been fully determined There will
also be an appropriation requested for
the study of the agricultural and kim
dred products of the newly acquired
territory of the United States, and even
under this head the great honey bees
OF the East could be introduced by the
department to this country. Chicago
Tribune.