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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-13

THE contemporary OF North6eld,
and his confederates are welcome to
their little jibe. If, all and singular
they havelfound joy in serving as camp
followers in any mans train, and feel
pride in that service, that is matter
which chiefly concerns them. A cam
paign of bargain and sale, of scheming,
intrigue and bad faith, like the late
State canvass, is the sort of stuff poll
cal buzzards delight in. The contem-
poraries seem to be accordingly happy,
and their cawing has been obstreper-
Gus. The WATCHMAN is satisfied with
its fight against heavy odds. 1t chose
its ground without weighing the
chances of success. With its men, de-
feat was a more savory morsel than
victory with the other fellows.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-13
Appraisal of Real Estate In
Montpelier.

The listers of Montpelier have completed
the appraisal Of the real estate of the city
and filed their report. The last general
appraisal, previous to the one just COM
pleted, was made four years ago. in 1894,
the law requiring general valuation Of
a list Of the owners of real estate in the
business section OF the city, valued at So. 900
or more, with the appraisal in 1894, and in
1898:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-13

THE transportation bureau OF Kansas
City, Mo-, has appealed TO the United States
district attorney to assist local shippers in
the fight against the express companies in
the matter OF the revenue tax upon receipts
and the district attorney states that he will
begin mandamus proceedings at once TO
comp the express companies to obey the
law as the shippers interpret IL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-13
@attbmam & suurmal,
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.

"BY Telephone from Limbo" on
page three, tells how "Davy jones'
locker" was congested by the recent
arrival there of Cervera's fleet, and
how the potentate of Limbo was dis
commoded by events off the south coast
OF Cuba.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-13
Done by Our Navy,

Beginning with May l, or ten days
after the war began, the American
navy has met the navy of Spain with
the following result to the enemy:
DESTROYED AT MANILA.
Reina Cristina,
Don Antonio Ulloa,
Isle de Luzon,
General Leo, Cruisers and gunboats.
Marques del buero.
Isle de Mindanea, transport
One other ship not named,
DESTROYED AT SANTIAGO
SS3SssSs;2 Colon Armo..a cruisers,
Maria Teresa,
Error, Torpedo boats.
DESTROYED AT HAVANA.
Alphonso XII, Cruiser.
At San Juan the torpedo boat Terror
was disabled by the St. Paul, the cruiser
Reina Mercedes, destined by the Span
iards to be sunk in Santiago channel,
was sunk by the Texas before she
could be brought to the desired spot,
and several small craft have been dis
abled or captured.
Against this the only serious damage
uOhC w Jul chiPo hoo pSSh3 w pOiAS'Oi
the disabling of gun on the Baltimore.
Another side of our experience will
light spark of satisfaction in the
breasts OF those whose sympathies can
not be reused by actual hostilities. We
have fought the element Of mystery
and uncertainty out of our warships.
Those ponderous structures, of endless
ly complicated machinery subject 10
strains of internal power, have come
through the ordeal of practical use un-
scathed. The modern battleship, which
pessimistic peace-worshippers predict.
ed would be its own worst foe, and
would destroy itself by its own unbear-
able energies, is vessel not only of
tremendous effectiveness, but of great
endurance. Even our 13.inch guns,
unmatched for size in modern fleets, are
all in good working order, after many
bombardments.
All this to the world at large is i'm
pressive; to machinists it is inspiring;
TO our navy it is honorable and to
American commerce and prosperity il
will be useful.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-13

Beginning with May l, or ten days
after the war began, the American
navy has met the navy of Spain with
the following result to the enemy:
DESTROYED AT MANILA.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
4 STIR IN CANADA.

Perhaps the people of Canada have
 hibition in Vermont and Maine. Any how, they have come to the point where they are going to vote on the question of prohibiting the liquor traffic. The voting will take place to-day, special election having been ordered by the Dominion parliament. While the ballot will have no legal effect in determining the question, it is expected that the
 vote will be accepted as instructing the peoples representatives in parliament.
 Should the vote be against prohibition,
 no action by parliament would be ex-
 pected. But a large majority in favor of prohibition would be considered as
 an order to pass prohibition law at an
 early date. The question has been dis
 cussed for some time in a temperate
 manner. Within few days some heat has been displayed on account of the determination of the liquor sellers to evade the law prevailing at general elections and keep their places of busi-
 ness open during the balloting. This determination has been defended by some Canadian lawyers because the law providing for the ballot did not refer to
 the matter and explicitly put in force
 all of the rules governing an election.
 The friends of prohibition hold that all l of the rules governing a general cleo
 tion must be in force. Otherwise the
 election will be under improper and il- | legal conditions
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

every morning at o'clock and work full tlme From 15 to 20 per cent, of the men never started work till after the first quarter had been lost Under the forty-elght hours system, the men start-after breakfast-at 7:30, and go on with only one break until o'clock, and they are able to do more work this way than under the old system, and at the same time more work is got out of the machines, the results being an in- creased output and a decreased cost Under the fifty-three hours system the men did not average anything like eight hours a day-indeed, some of them did not average five hours, owing to the time they lost. The men, as has been said, work better and longer under the forty-eight hours system than under the other. The report amounting to a practical demonstra- tion, has attracted great attention among British shipbuilders and other employers of labor, with whom the "eight hour day" has long been a burning question.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
UNDANT,

The Hon. N, D. Sperry yesterday had an abundant entrance into the honor of a third consecutive nomina- tion to represent the Second congress sional districtin Washington. There has been no real opposition to his renom- ination, and it was made by acclama- nation, and with enthusiasm. It is hardly to be expected that in this of year, he will have such an abundant election as he had two years ago, but there is nothing to indicate that it will not be abundant enough. The new Jeffersonian bimetallism will not have time to permeate this district and get itself understood before election day, and even if 1t had time it wouldn't t be very popular.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
MISSIONARY zEAL.

If that is true story which comes from Brooklyn 'the heathen' will have something to interest them when MT. William K. Price goes among them. and be converted when he tells them that now is the accepted time, for if they don't mind he may hurt some of them. MT. Price is apparently filled with uncommon foreign missionary zeal. He is burning to carry the gospel of peace and goodwill to the squab- bling, malevolent heather in far-off lands. Unfortunately, however, his wife doesn't burn as he does, and, ac- cording to her tale of woe, he has been trying to train her to be a suitable helpmeet for him in his noble work in Boorioboola- Cha. The first thing he met was a fiat refusal to submit to such training, or even to go with him un- trained. She didn't particularly care where the heather went after they left Boorioboola- Cha, and she didn't intend to leave Brooklyn even for the joys of martyrdom. He thought she ought to know better and be better, and so as she says in her petition for divorce, he shook her till she was dizzy, assaulted her with a hammer, threw a large desk at her. bruised her arm, threw her to the floor, overturned the dining table on her, violently squeezed her arm shouted as though demented and other wise made it unsafe and uncomforta- ble for her to live with him."
 Brother Price seems likely to make a very efficient and successful missionary to the heather, if he uses the same ar- guments with them that he has used with Mrs. Price. They haven't worked very we'll with her, but we suppose ii might be claimed that she is a greater and more obstinate sinner than the heather who does not know what is good for him, and sins against less light than that which shines on Sister Price
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
RAISING A SUBMERGED SHIP.

If the sunken ship lies more than fifteen metres under the surface of the water the possibility of rescue appears very doubtful that the sides are pressed in which case the wreck is worthless. If the wreck lies less than fifteen met res under the surface of the water, then the divers first calk the leaks and close all openings as well as possible, except one through which a tube is conducted from the pump up, and then through a second tube as much air is driven into the wreck as is necessary to move IL and force tito the surface of the water.
 When it is possible to make the sub merged wreck air-tight, or in case, 1t has been sunk in river or canal or on very quiet coast, then wire ropes or chains are used for raising it. They are let down into the deep from the prams lying over the wreck, drawn down under the keel of the sunken ship by the divers, and hoisted on the other side, so lie around the windlasses which con- meet with the engine, on the prams. In this way the connections between both the lifting prams are made and the in- terior of the wreck pumped out, so while the ropes and chains are being wound on the windlesses, the wreck is raised inch by inch. It is considered that such chain is nearly twenty-four centimetres in diameter and that in raising a wreck from four to eight must be employed, then it Is easily estimated how great is the weight brought up and also what expense of time and labor the rescue requires.-- The Chautauquan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
THE EIGHT HOUR SYSTEM.

Some remarkable testimony in fa- vor of the eight hour day is given by Short Brothers, a prominent firm of shipbuilders on the Wear in Sunder- land, England They have been trying the eight hour system for the last seven years, and they declare that the result of their experiment has been very sat isfactory. They profess themselves convinced that, under this plan, the really work more hours than they did seven years ago under the old system
 production being less from the appar- ently shorter hours of work, it has, on the contrary, gradually increased since 1891. They took up the system in the belief that they could get the same amount of work out of their men by a better method. Of the men working on time wages 15 or 20 per cent. lost the first quarter of the day, while the piece men scarcely ever started before S:30 under the old method. The men start ed at o'clock, stopped at for half an hour for breakfast, had another inter- val of an hour at noon, and the days work was finished at }. The conditions were such that many workmen were physically incapable of enduring the long hours. It was then quite common for a man, with 24s. a week, to lose, on an average, three quarters per week simply because he was unable to rise
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
FASHION NOTES.
Ingenuity Expended Below the Belt.

Ingenuity Expended Below the Belt.
 The demand for skirts bit different from that womans is great, and the very wide. If only bodices would take a decided step toward plainness, it would seem as if we might before long reverse a former ruling and prepare fancy skirts to go with any bodice. Probably no such thing will ever hap pen, but just at present the essential feature of newness in costume is more often in the skirt than anywhere else. One much favored device for relieving
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

ma'am." "Yes, sir, and maybe you know better than do whether l am eX-
 pecting to travel on that train myself or whether I am inquiring for relative that's visiting at my house and wanted me to call here and ask about it and save her the trouble because she's pack
 ing up her things and expects to take that train herself and not me and she Il have to do the waiting and not me and
 maybe you think it's your business to stand behind there and try to instruct people about things they know as well as you do if not better but my idea is
 that you're put there because they couldn't use you in the switching de- partment and perhaps you'll learn some day to give people civil answers when they ask you civil questions young man my opinion is you won't!" (With a gasp) Yes, ma'am. "-Chicago Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
CONTIGUOUS.

In love there are no immunes. You can catch it every year.-Hardware.
 q asked her if she thought she could learn to love me-"
 "She said she couldn't, because she was already studying Spanish and learning to swim ''-Detroit Free Press.
 q see you've still got your old office boy"
 "Yes"
 Improves with age, does he?"
 "Well, he seems to get fresher every day."-Philadelphia Record.
 My impression is,'' oracularly began the tall boarder, that Spain is going to cede''-
 Tt would be more correct" inter- rupted the solemn boarder, ito say she has gone to d."-Judge.
 Well, Ethel" said the religious call CT, would you like to go to. heaven?' NO, indeed replied the little one, Mamma says that's where sister Ag- nes went, and she never came back. Philadelphia North American.
 They say, Uncle Josh. that your son Jim promises to be a great orator and political leader" "Too highferlutin' Too highferlutin' entirely! I been tell in that boy fur the last year that De- mosthenes, Cicero and all them ole time fellers never spoke nothin' but the plainest English. ."-Detroit Free Press.
 Mrs Dix-Don't you think your hus- band is rather headstrong for an in- valid?
 Mrs. Hix-Yes, and the doctors to blame for it. too.
 Mrs Dix-Indeed! And why, pray?
 Mrs. Hix-He refuses to allow him to take any nourishment but goats milk. Chicago News.
 At the Ticket When does the next train that stops at McAllis- tersvills leave here?" You'll have to wait four hours.' " think not" Well maybe you know better than l do,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

as much good as a trip to Europe, and didn't cost any more, Besides 1t gave employment to large number of peo- pie who needed the money"
 l relate this story of an unusual in dulsence with the hope that other rich men may see its moral and do like wise. never heard before of any man who bought mountain to look at and beautified it because he loved it, but it is habit that ought to be cultivated" W. c. Curtis in the Chicago Record.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

Ia skirt from plainness is the Spanish f1ounce, and this has already passed it's trim and circular state. These founces are still stamped 70. K.," but are much more desirable if varied a bit from the form in which they were first seen.
 This illustration presents one of the more simple of the variations. It per- mitted the front breadth to extend un- broken to the hem in panel form, the f1ounce appearing only at sides and black. It was headed by narrow dark gray braid and stitching. the dress stuff being dark gray cashmere. On the waist, vest and collar were embroidered white taffeta, the deep yoke was fin- ished with three pieated white silk null ruffles, and several ruffles appeared be- low the oblong epaulettes. This shoul- der finish is the limit of size that fash ion now allows. Indeed, 1t seems as if designers were striving their utmost to have women's shoulders unrelieved. Women, however, won't endorse this al- together, and some shoulder ornamen- tation is usual though in most cases the change of outline is but the slight est
 Milliners have followed the lead of dressmakers, and the latter's white cloth trimming is echoed by, an abund- ance of white felt hats. A stunning ex- ample had low rounded crown, and tiny side and back brm. The front brm was a great scallop turned straight back and hiding, at front view, all the rest of the hat. A sprangly bow of deep green velvet set against the hair right in front was the only trimming except the end of the bow which passed through a slit in the front scallop and so around the low crown to go through buckle at the back. White felts are invariably conspicuous and only young faces look well under them.
 FLORE1TE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
ADVERTISING RATES.

advertisements, One Cent a Worw each in- sertion. Five Gents Word for a full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one in sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 40 cents; one. week, S3,20; one month. $10; one year, $40
 Obituary Notices in prose or verse, 15 cents per line Notices of Births Mar riages, Deaths anl Funerals. 50 cents each. Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be include Wants, To Let For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

The Atlanta (Georgia) public schools opened the other day with the United States flag floating over every school house, and in every school-house there was singing of America" and the s'Star Spangled Banner.,' and patriotic little speeches from the older scholars.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

The Pail Mall Gazette has discovered that in the recent election the Republi- cans of Maine lost two hundred per cent. of their usual vote.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

Prebendary Wadsworth has been col lecting a large number of facts as to the medieval customs and ceremonies of Lincoln Cathedral. Among other of his finds is most curious inventory of the fifteenth century of the sacred rel ics of Lincoln. They include St. Hugh's head, the beard and chasuble of St. Peter, part of tooth of St. Paul and teeth of St. Cecily and St. Christopher, a bone of St. Lawrence, a finger of St. Katherine, hairs of the Virgin Mary, the collar-bone and part of the breast plate of St. George, some links of the chain wherewith St. Katherine bound the fiend, a portion of the Holy Sepul- chre and of the table from the upper room at Jerusalem and part of St. Andrews cross.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

The Atchison Globe feels moved to remark that when man who has sav- ed his country gets bowling drunk he is as big bore as anybody. More truth than poety in that saying.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

A young woman committed suicide in New York the other day because she had formed an ideal of what husband should be and was unable to find the right man to fill the requirements" by committing suicide before she found her ideal man and married him.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

aAE PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

Last year just one student signified his desire to study the Spanish lan- guage at Brown University, and as it dertaking to employ a teacher of Span ish for single student, he was pre- lieu thereof. This year the class in Spanish starts with a room full of stu Hents
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

THE WEAKLY JOURNAL. Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

The Chicago city council passed an ordinance to take effect last December requiring street cars to be equipped with lenders. No attention was paid 10 it by the companies, and now new ordinance has been enacted to the same effect. Since December 619 persons have been struck by street cars and sixty-two of these were killed, children being the most numerous among the victims. As the companies still insist that no fender has yet been invented which is worth anything the new ordi- nance promises to be about as effective as the old.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

At the recent general election in Syd- ney, New South Wales, flour was the favorite missile of the Sydney crowds, and MT. Reid, the premier, was the fa- vorite target. He deftly turned this popular preference into political ar- gument for his side of the campaign. on various parts of his body at a huge open-air meeting he exclaimed: "See how plentiful flour is under my regime Amy one can afford to throw it about. This is quite new departure in poli- tics here Hitherto flour could not be spared for this particular purpose
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

Michigan pays bounty for the heads of dead English sparrows. It has re- gently paid out over $2,0OO to an Indiana crowd of sharpers who have killed the birds by strewing poisoned wheat about the streets of Indiana cities. The bod ies were shipped to southern Michigan towns, and the bounties collected as on birds killed in Michigan.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

DEL1vERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, IL CFNTs WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, s8Fos SIx MONTHS, SC A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAT.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE E. LOUNsRURY,o ofRidgefield FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LYMAN A. MILLS, of MiddIefield.
 FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, HUBER CLARK, of Windham.
 FOR TREASURER, CHARLES s. MERsICK, of New Haven.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, THOMPSON s. GRANT, of Enfield.
 FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CHARLES PHELPS, of Vernon.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

HE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
 LISHED IN CONNECTICUT.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-29

FOR CONGRESSMAN, Second District-N. ID. SHERRY, of New Haven.
The Portland daily press., 1898-08-22
HONOLULU ANNEXED.
The Proceedings AS Outlined the Day
Before the Ceremony.

Honolulu, August 11.-via san fran-
cisco, August 20.-Tomorrow VIII Do an
eventful day in the history OF HAWAII.
At Is minutes before noon, the lor'hai
ratification between the governments OF
the United States and Hawaii, by WHICH
the Newlands annexation resolutlon
will be made operative, will take place.
With the exchange of notifications anu
the hosting of the flag, the sovereignty
of the United States over these islands
commences. The delay in raising the
flag caused much dissatisfaction in this
community and it is now doubtful II the
hosting of Old Glory will be the enthu-
President Dole and bis cabinet are
blamed tor throwing cold water on the
ardor of the citizens, but they place the
responsibility on United States Minis
ter Sewall. At first it WIS decided that
the ceremony of the flag raising would
entirely be an official nature and
that there would be no additions
to the programme allowed in the
shape of literary exercises, singing,
etc., but afterwards it was decided to alter
the formal ceremony to allow some con-
gratulatory exercises including the sing
Ing of patriotic songs. Ministers Thurston
and Sewall and Mr.. Hatch will deliver
addresses
President Dole will probably remain at
the head of affairs as chief executive until
Congress provides for his successor.
Minister Sewall will remain in Homo
lulu as an attache of the state department.
as the Hawaiian government has given up
the legation at Washington.
The government has given notice that
all employees must appear tomorrow after
noon and take the oath of allegiance to
the United States.
The Hawaiian political societies, claim
ing to represent large body of native
Hawaiians, filed protest against annex
alton, without first obtaining the consent
of the people of the Hawaiian islands.
The transport st. Paul arrived from san
Francisco on the sixth. After remaining
in the port four days she sailed for
Manila