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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11
what Rest for the state.


The Montpelier Watchman returns to
the insurance commissioner discussion
with the claim that if a commissioner is
appointed it will be necessary for the state
to raise the salaries of the state treasurer
and the secretary of state. They receive
Sl700 each as a regular salary now. The
Montpelier contemporary says they pay
500 to $1,000 a year each for clerk
hire, and that if stripped of the compen-
sation they receive from the insurance de-
partment the state must recompense them
by corresponding increase of salary, and
that the saving of $500 which will come
from appointing a commissioner will final
ly be a deficit.
Until within a few years the insurance
interests had little or no supervision in the
state and the secretary of state and state
treasurer did not pocket the fat insurance
perquisites There was no difficulty then
in securing competent men to ill these of
fees at the regular salaries, and there
would be candidates galore without the
insurance fees as special attraction.
Mr.. Bacon, the state treasurer is said to
receive a salary of S2l00 as cashier of
bank at White River junction. His sal
ary as state treasurer is Sl700 As in
surance commissioner he gets over $1,000.
Here is over $4,000 in salaries, and in addi-
ton his bank has the privilege of handling
the state funds. Some cashier of a sound
bank in Vermont could probably be found
to act as state treasurer without salary
in order to get the state deposits. The
secretary of state will continue to carry on
his profitable law business while drawing
over $500 from his official positions.
Vermonters are paying $4,000, 900 in in
surance premiums annually. The state
might derive larger revenue at a lesser
expense by having this business handled
by special commissioner who would de-
vote his whole time to the business. This
plan works satisfactorily in nearly every
state in the Union. The commissioner
should be man who is an authority on all
matters of insurance, who shall look close
" after the matter of taxation of COM
panies, and who shall protect the people
from being defrauded by unreliable COM
panies.
The only question to be considered is
simply what is best for the state treasury
and for the interests of the people of the
state, and not what is best for certain Of
ficias. 1t is to be noted that the men
who have made a study of insurance are
very largely in favor of a change in Yer
monts present plan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

Gen. Kitchener, the conqueror of the
dervishes, was given the freedom of the
city of London Friday, the Lord Mayor
presented him with an elegant sword, and
there was big banquet in his honor at
which Lord Salisbury, Lord Rosebery and
others spoke. Lord Salisbury stated hat
he had been notified by the French govern
ment that its troops would be withdra wn
from Fashoda.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

Senator John NJ. Thurston says the
sweeping Republican victory in the West,
including Nebraska, means unconditional
endorsement of the Presidents admins
tration, his conduct of the war, and his
foreign policy. The result eliminates free
silver as a national issue in 1900.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11
MRS. w. F. NEAL,
Do You Eat Turkey
at Thanksgiving?

you do where? Are you gorg criticize the dressing
or are going to take the chances of letting one
criticize your dressg2 Thanksgiving day is the all
the year when harmony should exist when everything
should be right, nothing to When in the eyes our
friends should look best.
If there's handsome tie in the dresser drawer, put
on-if there isn't, GO TO KNAPPS and get one
Get your SWEETEST shirt, and if it don't suit you or
you've worn it too many times, GO TO KNAPP'S and get
Carefully examine your collars and cuffs, be they
are the proper thing, if not GO TO KNAPPS and get
Now bring out your suit-look it over, if the trous
ers bag at the knees little of style; hold your
coat up and if shines the back it too
to be in a>hon look the whole thing and imagine
your mind just how you'll look Others If there's shadow
of doubt arises GO TO KNAPPS and buy either $40,
SI2 or SIS suit. Then you will be right.
How about your hat? Good dressers never wear hat
all out of stye golf cap and call themselves up
Is your hat right? If not GO TO KNAPPS and get a
Dunlap hat, the best in the world.
Last but not leas-get out your overcoat; if it is
what other good dressers wearing if the length is
right and up date If GO TO KNAPPS and get one
that is. Then go dinner.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

GBe l)ermurrt d9bemiF.
TEN AGES
BRATTLEBoRO:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1898.

The joint traffic association was formally
dissolved last Saturday, its action being
due to the decision of the Supreme court
to the effect that some Of its terms were in
conflict with the statute known as the
Sherman anti-trus law.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11
Behind In Its Work.
The Legislature VIII Have Grand
Scramble at the FInIsh---Co-OperatIve
Insurance Bill Passed,

The Legislature VIII Have Grand
Scramble at the FInIsh---CO-OperatIve
Insurance Bill Passed.
MONTPELIER, Nov. 10.
Nothing remarkable in the legislative
line has occurred today but the legislature
has kept plugging away at routine work
and has disposed of good bit of it. There
is need, enough, of more energetic work
during the coming 10 days and even then
the session seems bound to end in grand
scramble on the morning before Thanks
giving. The house in particular is behind
in its work and in spite of Speaker Has
kins's efforts is inclined to lag.
The house today has passed the bill
authorizing property owners in any town,
or adjoining towns, to form cooperative in
surance companies to insure their own
property on a mutual basis. The plan is
one followed with great success in New
York state. The house has killed the bill
providing for a complete geological survey
of the state, and also the bill reducing the
amount for which trustee process may be
served from $40 to So.
Mr. Campbell's bill to allow the election
of town representatives by plurality vote
took several hundred dollars worth of val
liable time in the house for discussion this
afternoon and was then laid over and made
a special order for tomorrow at II o'clock.
Mr. Delehanty's license bill, with referen-
dunn attachment, died without a struggle
or word in its favor this morning.
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Notes.
MONTPELIER, Nov. 20.

The Morrisville-Hyde Park boundary
question has been settled amicably by
agreement of the parties. Hyde Park gets
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11
AMBROSE KNAPP.
81 Main Street, Brattleboro VT.

ID p. WHITE, NJ H., Physician and Sur
| i geon, Williamsville Z. Onice hours II
| LM to / p NJ, and to =. Telephone.
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DRs. BOWEN & TUCKER,

TT A. ROBERTS, NJ. d., homeopathic
III. Physician and Surgeon; office in Boyden
block Elliot street. Hours, $50 70 10 A. NJ, to
S:SO and to SPIN Residence, corner Washing
ton and Central streets Telephone connections.
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n n. WILDER,
n. Manufacturer Of Book Cases and Desks,
Picture Frames. Also a fine line of Pictures. Flat
Street. Open evenings, ITO 8.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

TNREM0NT HAMILTON, NJ. ID.
u Ofice and Residence, No "a North Main
Street. Hours until A. NJ; to 2:3O and
,arly evening to 1880: Sundays, TO Pm.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

D. DENTIST,
Whitney's Block, Brattleboro
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

Jennie A Wood.
Miss Wood is a stenographer in Gen.
Peck's insurance office.
State Of Vermont
in account with T. S. Peck, DR..
Expenses to and from Washington, d. c.,
February q, 1897, TO March s, 1897.
Railroad transportation, 500
Hotel expenses, carriages, baggage, ll0 -
kilograms and messengers, Il 6j
sl3s 40
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-11

Sloo. ~
Approved.
Josiah Grout. governor.
March 25, 30.
In the house account submitted in De
cember, '96, General Peck includes these
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Business Garns.
ecuaisarD EVERY FRIDAY AT BnArrLEBoRo. W.. ny

TAM ES COMMAND, Nc D,,
u PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office in Crosby Block opposite Telephone Ex-
,hange Office hours to. AM, TO 3P. N; Res
fence corner Main and Walnut Sts., Brattleooro'
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~ r. WEBSTER, M. D.,
IL ONCE and residence Al Elliot st., Brattle-
6oro. ONCE hours before A. NJ; to ando
1902. n.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-09
BERRY SEEDLINGS.
Some Facts Which Illustrate the
Wonderful Workings of Nature in
Her Relations to Man.

Each little strawberry seed contains
the elements to produce plant thu
will bear fruit peculiar to itself, when
it is grown without restrictions. The
artist in preparing his paint for GER
tain color, puts together little of one
shade and a little of some other and
mixes them together, each new addi-
ton changes the color. So in like man.
ner, the Great Artist employs the in
sects to mix together the pollen from
the blossoms of the various qualities
of the strawberry and to deposit it in
the receptacles or seed tubes of other
blossoms. The mixing of each addi-
ton changes the quality of the prod
uct> from that seed.
Watch the busy bee as he flies from
blossom to blossom till he has visited
hundreds of flowers. Some of these
plants produce fruit that is very acid,
some fruit which is very sweet, some
of a medium quality, and so on through
all the various fiavors and from all OF
these he has made a collection and a
deposit to this mixture. The deposit
may not have been intentional on the
part of the bee, but it has been done.
The next bee may visit other varieties,
and some of the same, each adding to
the variety collected, and it is not
strange that each seed should produce
a product peculiar to itself
If we take a staminate variety and re-
move it from all the other varieties and
exclude it from insects so there shall
be no mixture from the other varieties
when in bloom, the product of that seed
should be like its parent. For an ex-
ample, we will take the Sbarpless
plant. The combination, the makeup.
of that seed from which the first Sharp
less plant grew gave it its distinct char
acter; every root and fiber in that plant
Is distinct from all other plants, al
though that may not be visible to the
eye. We know it by its blossom, color,
or shade of its leaf, manner of growth
of plant, the general shape OF its fruit,
color and flavor of same, and its tex
ture. Remove the plant to anv part OF
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-09
A SMART SAILOR BOY.
lie knew There Was Prize Money
Ahead and Spoke Up for His
Share.

This is the story of young sailor
who lived two generations before young
Dan Wallingford, who gave his com
plete fortune CT IS cents to build new
battleship to replace the Maine. His
first name was Bill and his last name is
withheld. The incident occurred dur
ing the eventful year of IL, on board
our frigate United States, when, under
Capt. Decatur's skillful command, she
captured, after long shot" action, the
British frigate, Racedonian, bringing
her prize to New York. Decatur got
a gold medal from congress in recogni-
ton of the capture, and this is what
Vermont newspaper, printed in the
year OF Waterloo, tells of Bits part in
this sea fight:
"On board Decatur's ship was little
boy about nine years old. lie was not
considered one of the regular crew, but
he shared the mess of generous sailor
who had two years before taken him
from his widowed mother. The spirit
OF his father, who had been a seaman,
had long since gone aloft, and left his
wife and little ones on the shoals Of
poverty. When the Macedonian hove
in sight and all hands were clearing
ship for action the little fellow stepped
up 10 Commodore Decatur.
"'And it please you, captain, he said,
I wish my name might be put down on
the roll
land what for, my lad?' inquired
the commander.
$50 that l can draw share Of the
prize money, sir, answered he.
PLEASED with the spirit and conf
dent courage of the little hero, his name
was ordered on the list; but the mo-
ment was too important to say more.
After the prize was taken Decatur
thought of the little sailor boy and
called him up,
"'Well, Bill said he, I'VE have taken
her, and your share of the prize, if we
get her safe in, will be about $500. What
will you do with it?'
"I'll send one-half Of it to my moth
er, sir, and the other half shall send me
to school,
"Delghted with the spirit OF the lad
he took him under his immediate pro
lection, and obtained for him the berth
of midshipman."-N. y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-09
NEW FAD OF RICH FOLKS.
Wives OF Millionnircs Want Their
Features Clipped Out
In Agate.

Portraiture has become gentle rage
in the millionaire feminine bosom. Full
length paintings in oils by the most
eminent Partisan artists andminiatures
on ivory are among the methods of
picture-making that the rich women
are beginning tire of, and, asnecessity
is the mother of invention, whole new
series of schemes for Inning attractive
faces has been obediently brought
forth by the prevailing condition.
It was Mrs. Freddy Gerhard, the own
er of one of the most perfect profles
in America, who first tool; the pains to
hunt out n little old genius hidden
away in back street of Richmond, Va,
and request him to cut big and beau
tiful cameo of her face. He made n
very effective likeness in white on 4
background of sapphire blue stone, and
when Mrs. Gebhard had this set about
with a large diamond and wore it as
one would miniature brooch, every
woman who saw it and could afford
the expense went and did likewise.
Not all women can, however, afford
to have their features Clipped out in
agate stone, and a great many of them
are going to photographers to have
cameo photographs taken. This is a
process brought over from Paris, where
they are just now making as well very
exquisite vignette photographs, the fig
urcs in brown or gray thrown on pol
ished white surface.
The cameo process is nothing moro
nor less than face in clear profile,
photographed in strong white lights
against block of prepared and pol
ished black wood. The block of wood
is usually about six or eight inches
square, with circular depression in
the center Into this the picture is
thrown, and shows like n carving OF
pearl against ebony. Every curl and
stray strand of hair, every flimsy bit
Of lace and flower about the shoulders,
is outlined by the camera, and pretty
woman could not find more perfect
medium for a faithful likeness of her
fine features.-Chicago Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-09
JASMINE TIME IN THE SOUTH.
when Generous Nature Makes Her
Most Beautiful Floral
Display.

Tourists down south in March rhap-
sodize over the beauty of the jasmine
that grows wild on every hand and fills
the air with its fragrance. Women come
in from their afternoon drives with
their laps filled with jasmine, invalids
70 into ecstasies over it's delicate beau
ty, it's subtle odor, and men, young and
old, rough and gentle, stop to look at
the tempting cluster or to break off q
sprig too lovely to be left. AS for the
bees-the wild bees that have hard
time all winter-they hold carnival.
Long before any other woods growth
is resurrected for the spring, before
gwen the dogwood and maple blooms
get we'll under way, the jasmine gets in
It's fine work; she is wanton, very will
full, and, as if drunk with herown sweet
ness, for six weeks or more riots in
delirium of beauty up hill and down
dale, in swamp and woods and hedge
row, all over the country.
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns
Its fragrant lamps, and turns
Into royal court with green festoons
The banks of dark lagoons.
In the deep heart of every forest tree
The blood is all aglee,
And there's look about the leafess bowers
AS if they dreamed Of flowers
wrote Zimrod, the Carolina poet who
fills so pathetic niche in literature.
The jasmine climbs about the crackers
home and the tumble-down shanties
that show up over the land, as well as
the thrifty Negroes cabin, where the
mistress has set up an arbor over the
door frame. 1t hangs its bells over the
wabbling rail fences in February and
March and climbs the dignified garden
rail, and ofttimes obtrudes itself where
1t is not wanted and gets cut down and
plowed up ruthlessly in consequence,
but in the cities where its wiles have
been tanned and it has been led to can
opy balconies and porches, the clusters
are fuller, the blossoms are larger, the
perfume even more subtly sweet, if pos
sible, than in the heart of the country.
1t is in March that the wistara vines in
Charleston and Columbia put on their
purple glory. There is scarcely wis
taria vine on stone-pillared porch or
railed-in balcony but has jasmine vine
for company. The purple and golden
clusters together are goodly combina-
tion. Walk down Meeting or Legare
street in Charleston or about the resi-
dence streets of Columbia and Augusta,
and the double feast of beauty and fra
GRANGE is one to be remembered.-At-
lRnta Constitution.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-09
NOVELTY MILLS OF MAINE.
Make Spools, skewers, Toothpicks,
Dice Boxes and Baby SIeighs.

Make Spools, Skewers, Toothpiclss,
Dice Boxes and BABY sIeighs.
The spool factories of Maine turn out
annually about $50 100000 spools, which
will hold 100000 yards of thread
200 yards to the spool. There are II Of
these factories in the state, employ
ing $50 hands, at average wages Of
$3.50 a day each, or S247, 5OOa year total.
In the making of the spools, $4,000
cords of white birch timber, or 1880
200 feet are used This timber is worth
Jour dollars cord. A large part of the
spool timber cut in Maine is not man
ufactured here, but shipped from
Bangor to great factories in England
and Scotland This year Bangor export
ed G,97S,G6S feet of spool bars TO the
United Kingdom, the value being $144,-
900, and more will be shipped next year.
There is practically no limit to the sup
ply of white birch available.
The so-called novelty mills" Of
Maine are numerous all through the
hard wood districts. In these mills are
turned. out all kinds of little wooden
boxes, many of which are used by
druggists; checker boxes, checkers,
dice boxes, wooden shoppers, handles
of thousand kinds and shapes, TOOTH
picks by the million, ladders, swings,
school desks and chairs, toy carts and
wheelbarrows, tables, desks, cycle
stands, baby sleighs, and other things
too numerous to mention. The largest
novelty" factory in the world is at
South Paris, Oxford county, where
about 200 hands are employed.
A Dixield factory has just completed
an order for 100000 checkers and
100000 dice boxes, and at another fac
tory in the same town they have made
This year 525,0OO,OO0 toothpicks. One
firm has made 100000 skewers, such
as are used by butchers. Wooden hi
cycle rims are also an important article
of manufacture. The product of these
factories goes to all parts of the world.
The timber used was once considered
practically worthless.-N. Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1898-06-09
OUR NEED OF. CHANGE,
Recreation Is an Imperative Neces.
Eity to Woodworking Housewives.

"What queer people the most of us
are and what queer lives we lead!" eX,
claimed lady to friend.
"How easily we are depressed in spir-
it, cast down by such little things. And
yet the little things rise up like noun
tains of great waves, and fairly over
shadow or engulf u.s."
All! thought 1, how true that is OF
all of us at times. 1t is the little, uneX-
pected, seemingly needless things,
caused perhaps by our own want of
thought or plan, or that of some one
else, and we fret and scold and feel all
the evil rising up in our natures, and
for the time being we cannot see be-
yond our little present.
Such a limited horizon as we make
for ourselves. And yet, all around us
and back of us-in the days gone by and
in the days to come-are the great and
beautiful things of our lives. Blessings
we call them, all oyershadowed by the
fret and worry of the little insignificant
trifes that must needs mar so much of
our lives.
Yet these things ought not to be.
We feel the wrong and know the evil
that results from them, and long to
escape-to overcome; but how? 1t is
a perpleXing question, and particularly
so to those people who are forced to live
somewhat narrow lives. Shut in, per-
haps, by family cares, or, it may be, liv-
ing in thinly settled localities, and thus
debarred, in measure, the society Of
others. But whatever the circum-
stances, however situated, we need va
..iety in our lives. 1t is as bad to have
too much of the country quiet as to have
200 much of the noise of the busy city.
1t is not we'll to become so deeply en-
crossed in the petty cares of house
keeping that we allow our lives to mar
row into certain grooves, nor to bind
ourselves with chains of habit that in
time we find it so hard to break.
Well would it be for every woman
whose life is tending toward narrow
ness to plan for some change of thought
and scene at least once a week, if not
oftener
We need society, change of air and
place. No woman can expect to keep
continually calm, serene and pleasant
amid the cares and worries of daily life
who steadily ignores the needs of her
nature, for change of work, scene, fresh
air, and the society of other minds out
side the home circle.
Recreation in some form at occasion
al intervals is as imperative need of
our lives, if we would keep our minds,
nerves and tempers in a healthy condi-
ton, as food and drink are imperative
needs of our bodies. 1t will prevent our
minds from becoming shut in upon our
selves, and we shall thereby be better
able to put in practice DR.. Hale's grand
motto, which, though written especial
ly for young people, is applicable for
all: