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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

The trade reports for the last quar-
ter are the most favorable of any ever
made Fewer failures and larger
amount Of business transacted are
shown. To be sure, profits are some
what smaller, but the best opinion is
that they will so continue and business
is getting adjusted to the new scale.
Lower interest rates are coming, the
sooner the better.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

Gov. Smiths proposed plan Of max
ing Vermont tax dodgers resort does
not seem to strike the state press
favorably on the whole. 1t is not like.
~ that such law will pass at the pres
ent session. On the other hand, his
recommendation in favor of good
roads are well received and pronounced
feasible. The coming highway law
will differ radically from the present
ONE.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

1t must be confessed that very little
has been brought out thus far before
the war investigating commission that
seriously reflects on the secretary OF
war or the heads of the departments.
When the newspaper charges have
been run down, they have generally
turned out to be groundless or nearly
so. There is yet time, however, for
much to be brought out, if it can be
found.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
reth.

v. Spear and wife returned to Brattle-
boro Friday.
Isaac Linfield was in Waterbury the
first of the week.
Kozsta Spear returned to his work in
Boston Saturday.
Hugh Thresher of Mortified visited in
town the first Of the week.
Mrs. Fred Thresher went Tuesday to
Boston to spend two weeks.
Hon. v. l. Spear is soon to move to
Randolph into the tenement of Mrs.
George Spear for the winter.
Frank Burridge, OF the 9th Massachs-
setts,. from Framingham spent several
days In town with his family last week.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

In his report lately issued, State In.
spector of Finance Hosea Mann recon-
mends that our savings banks be limit
ed to the payment of three and one
half per cent interest on deposits. He
says that with the present scale of pro-
FITS in business that is high enough
and that other states are no longer try
ing to keep up the old rates. The sur
plus should be allowed to accumulate
as protection to depositors. The in
ference is clear that he fears that in
trying to pay four per cent banks are
taking risky investments that in the
end may turn out disastrously. He
also recommends that when SAVINGS
banks loan on real estate in Vermont
at five per cent. they should be ex-
empt from the state tax of seven-tentbs
per cent on deposits so invested. He
thinks this would 90 as far toward
solving the double taxation problem as
we are likely to get.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
Granville.

recently. s' va
Andy Blair and wife Of Ludlow were in
u. D. Hemenway and daughter. Mrs.
chandler, spent last week in Ludlow and
Brandon. anu
Dr. and Mrs. ]. w. McDuffee and three
daughters OF Stanstead, P. O., and Mrs.
y. =. Etc OF Mendon were guests CT E, r.
Briggs and family last week.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

liz and hest educated OF all the doctors who
ever lived In Barnard and his gentleman
Iv deportment will not soon be forgotten
Having received an excellent oner irom
Cambridge, Mass, he sold ana went "
that city In 1873.
married man to seek his fortune In TINS
good old town. DR.. Mac MILAN came from
Boston, bought out DIR. Turner and com :
uenced good ride. He was young, Win
no experience, but had an ambition to get
upin the world and consequently sue,
ceeded. After year or two ne marrien
Clara A., daughter of N. Woodt Esq,
| prominent citizen OF Barnard. The doc.
tor was successful as physician ana
popular Democrat, but he caught the
Massachusetts fever, sold and went 70
Hanover, Mass, where be is now having
large practice.
DR.. James A. Day, young and unmar-
ried, bought OF DIR. Macmillan the prac-
| tice and residence. DIR. Day came from
| Norwich He soon married Miss Bessie
Turner of tue same town, and started IN
with a good ride over the hills OF BARN
ard. His stay In Barnard was short. Hav-
| ing good offer, he closed the trade, soio
and moved away. He Is now located In
Lexington, Mass, where we understand
he Is doing a good business.
DR.. Amory Jewett OF Boston bought ".
town iu 1890, accompanied by a SON and
daughter. DR.. Jewett sought retired
place, not caring for much business on
accout of i'll health. He soon became
much interested In farming but bis health
failed entirely and be died In 1897.
DIR. Walter e. Lilley came to Barnard
from Mayvilse, N. Y. He was young
man OF some experience and came alone
with no hackers and no one to say good
word for him. Why he came to Barnard
/ never knew. DR.. Liiley, by his own in
dividual merit, built up a good practice
and endearec himself to his patients and
the hosts OF friends the family has made
while residing in town. To say that his loss
will be regretted will be no expression
OF the grief at his departure. His skill IN
the medical profession won the praise OF
prominent physicians 10 surrounding /
towns aud his place will be hard to fiil.An |
offer from California un-
settled him and he sold and will of course
go away.
The next unmarried youth who will ex.
ercise his skill in Barnard is II. V. Hub
bard from the near town OF Rochester. DR..
Hubbard comes from a good family and is
highly recommended By DR.. VIM. Hunt
ington and those who are acquainted with
"Dr. Bill' know that he never gives praise
where there is no merit. Should history /
repeat itself, as we trust it may, DR.. hub
bard will havea wife within q year and
never regret his advent into Barnard. His
re recommendations and personal appear
aDce will give the people OF this commu-
nifty confidence In his skill as a physician.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
NC clean your blood and keep it clean. by
surfing SURFING up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
P Pen;sb from the body; Begin to-day to
and that siekly bilious complexion nv taI;ne,
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. An drng.
glsts' satisfaction guaranteed, loo, Csc. SOC.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

Emperor William of Germany is the
Bryan of Europe-always spectacular.
He is at present on a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem to dedicate the new Protes-
tant church there. He is received with
open arms by his good friend, the sui
tan, and quite likely the pilgrimage
has political significance.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Boston and Kansas City talked with
each other by long distance telephone
last week. a distance of nearly four
teen hundred miles.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

Whether the Chinese emperor that
was-is dead or not is of little impor-
lance except to himself. Heis dead to
all intents and purposes.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

State Superintendent Stone. in his
biennial report just out, still harps on
the subject Of expert supervision. He
seems to favor using as much as s45.-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

President Mckinley, in one of his
recent public addresses in the West,
coined another of the epigrams that he
is famous for when he said that"Trade
follows the flag" 1t is apparent that
the president is not the anti-annexa-
ZIONIST that some have maintained.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

The schoolmaster who once thrcshed
Dewey has just been nominated fol
Congress in New Jersey. His reward
ought to encourage more liberal use
of the rod by teachers of the present
day.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

Howard Gould sacrificed S6,OO0,0OO,
or half his fortune, by wedding Kathe-
rine Clemmons, the actress. He still
has a good bud left, though, to start
housekeeping.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

Illinois has a crank of the first watel
for governor He is nominally Re
publican, but his own party disowni
him and he seems well qualified fol
leadership in the Popocracy. His lat
est exploit is perhaps the most dis
creditable Coal miners at Virden, ILL.,,
struck for an increase of wages. The
mine owners attempted to bring in
negroes from the South to take the
places of the strikers. As there was
fear that trouble would ensue, the gov
ernor was called on to provide protec-
ton for the new hands. Instead, he
warned the mine owners not to bring
in the negroes, refused to send troops
and said in effect that the strikers
would be justified in using force, If
necessary, to keep out the negroes.
The latter came, were attacked, a riot
ensued and several were killed on both
sides. The governor then sent troops,
with orders not to permit any more
''scab' labor to be brought into the
place. Just what law he bases his ac-
ton on it would be difficult to show.
The strikers may be, and perhaps in
this case are, justified in demanding
higher pay, but it is certainly new dis
pensation to hold that other men, will
ing to work for the wages they have
refused, are to be denied this privilege
at the point of the bayonet. 1t looks
like demagogism on the part of Gov.
Tanner. In all cases employers have
the right to engage labor at the low
est prices that they can, just MS en-
ployes have the right to secure labor
at the very highest wages they can
command. 1t would be just as proper
for Gov. Tanner to compel the strik-
ers to work at the wages offered as it
is to coerce the mine owners to pay
the rates demanded. He would proba-
bly, do it just as readily, except for the
voting strength of labor.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

A stubborn cough or tickling In the
throat yields TO One Minute Cough Cure.
Harmless in effect, touches the right spot,
reliable and just what Is wanted. 1t acts
at once. Drew q Leonard, Randolph;
Leavitt q Reed, Bethel; NJ. J. Sargent &
Son, SO. Royalton; A. Il. Hood & Son,
Chaiaaa
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

SPANS backing and filling in tn,
peace negotiations will amount to
nothing beyond perhaps causing delay
and evaporation. She can get moth
ing that we are not ready to give her
When one of the parties in mix-up
has the other down and is sitting on
his neck the under one is not exactly
in position to dictate to the one roost-
ing on him. 1t is barely possible that
it will take few more cuffs and
punches to make Spain cry Enough"
and stick to it when she is let up.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

900 wear to pay the salaries of super
visors. each of whom would have I'M
der his control the schools of five or
six towns. Some of our educators
have queer ideas, but of all thus far
broached this is the most unreasonable
and impractical 1t will first require
more evidence than has yet been sub
mitted, to prove that such an arrange
ment would not be next to complete
waste of money. The school of four
or five pupils, paying teacher the
munificent salary of three to six dollars
a week, is bound to be failure, how
ever well supervised by high salaried
corps of professional educators. Our
school system is primarily for the
benefit of the scholars, not the instruc-
tors. To remove still further from the
pupils the state aid IN the hope that in
some way the benefit will filter down
to them through successive strata of
paid supervisors is chimerical. II our
teachers are so incompetent as to re-
quireIconstant coaching" by travel
ing supervisors, the establishment Of
such corps would certainly not supply
the want. The practical result would
be that the money thus taken to pay
for supervision would come in the end
from the teachers meagre salaries and
we should be worse off than at present.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

From the mass of doubtful and con
flicting reports, we gather one fact
and that is that the Rutland railroad
has passed into new hands. 1t is prob
able, too, that Col. W. Seward Webb
is one of the new owners and that the
Delaware & Hudson Co., otherwise
known as the Vanderbilt interest. has
a strong hold on the road as at pres
ent controlled. 1t is not impossible
that the Grand Trunk is using these
magnates to pull its chcstnuts out of
the fire and that the proposed reoroan-
ization of the Central Vermontt road,
which seems to be imminent. will
mean consolidation of both the Rut-
land and Central divisions with the
Grand Trunk in practical control, with
Vermont officials at the managing end.
This latter very important feature
must not be overlooked. No alien
run by aliens, for Vermont
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

SIT is almost a miracle. Burdock Blood
Bitters cured me of a terrible breaking
| ont all over the body. / am very CRATE
fu':" Miss Julia Filbridge, West Com
well, Conn. I'm
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
D0an'S Kidney Pills

Step in and change the program by re-
moving the cause Of the trouble-making
the kidneys strong and well.
Mr.. E. D. Bailey, born and reared in
HaverhiIl. Mass. and resident for over
halt century of the house numbered 60 on
Kent street, says: 'Doan's Kidney Pills
| are wonderful medicine. For two years
J almost continuously severe backache,
despite all my efforts to check it, chung
right to me. Excruciating agony is not
too strong a term to describe my suffering
when the attacks were most virulent, and
they were particularly noticeable when
getting out of bed, rising from a sitting
posture or performing some act calling
into play the muscles Of the back. Any
medicine which brought permanent relief
10 a sufferer like |, deserves his unqualifi-
ed endorsation. Doan's Kidney Pills
cured me. emphatically say their claims
are up to representation"
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all deal
ers-price. 90 cents. Mailed by Foster
Milbum Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents
for the u. s. Remember the name, Doan's
and take no substitute.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

No-To- Bac for FIFTY Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. makes weak
men strong. blood pure SOC. 81. All druggists
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20

cure Liver Ills; easy to
take, easy to operate. CSC.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
Stomach Trouble
Could Not Retain Food and Medl-
cine Did No Lasting Good y ys-
pepsia Cured by hood's.

pepsia Cured by Hoods.
My stomach was in very bad con-
oition and could not retain food. Nv
husband paid out a great deal OF money
for medicine that did not do me any last
ing good. About year ago commenced
TO try Hoods Sarsaparilla, and it has
cured me. ! am now able to eat ANYTHING
wish" Mrs. LorTrE E. YOUNG, STRAIT
ford, New Hampshire.
y was troubled with dyspepsia and did
not obtain relief from the prescriptions
tried. A friend advised me to take
hood's Ssrsaparilla. / procured bottle
ana found 1t to be just the medicine I
needed. It did my stomach more good
than any other medicine ever took and
tnink 1t is truly wonderful" MRS. JAMES
6oRMAN, Riverton, N. H.
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
oolo oy all druggists. 81; six for IS.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-20
Hoods SarsapariIIa

= Inc Dest-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
oold oy all druggists. 81; six for IS.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03
Shortened Lives.
Almost all persons die of disappoiu

Almost all persons die of diSappOtnt- ment, personal, mental or bodily toll or accident The passions kill men sometimes even suddenly. The com mon expression "choked with rage" has little exaggeration in it, for even though not always suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten life.
 Strong-bodied men often die young, and weak men usually live longer than the strong, for the strong use their strength and the weak have hardly any to use-the latter take care of them selves, the former do not.
 AS it is with the body, so it is with the mind and the temper-the strong are apt to break, or, like the candle, run; the weak burn out.
 Man, of all animals, is one that sell dom comes up to the average. He ought to live 100 years according to the phys illogical law, but instead of that he times the growing period. The reason Is obvious-man is not only the most irregular and most incorporate, but the most laborious and hardworking of all animals.
 He is always the most irritable, and there is reason to believe, though we cannot tell what an animal secretly feels, that, more than any other animal, man cherishes wrath to keep 1t warm, and consumes himself with the fire of his own fections.-Pearson's Weekly.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03

only to be upset by subsequent expert ments or practical experience. In Ger many the subject has again been ap- preached, and the results of a series of thorough experiments are not only most interesting, but quite at variance with the ideas on this subject previous ly held. A squad of ten men was se- lected for the tests, and two men were clad in dark gray, two in scarlet, two in blue, two in light gray, and two in green. AS they marched across the country their movements were care fully watched, and it was found that the first to disappear from sight were those wearing the light gray, and then successively those in scarlet, dark, gray, blue, and finally the men in green. The next test made at the rifie-range, to find which color afforded the worst mark for the rifiemen, and twenty sol diers, all expert shots, were employed at the experiments. Here it was found that the scarlet was by far the most difficult color to hit, and there were recorded three misses for the scarlet target for one of any other color. These experiments are quoted In the British army by those in favor of retaining the historic red coat, as good and scientific evidence in favor of the scarlet uni form.-New York Evening Post.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03
Dangerous.

Fashion is the idol of the Russian woman. Art is a stranger to her. She loves admiration and filtration, but her heart remains cold, though she may be burning other hearts with the fire of her eyes. Nowhere is woman more dangerous than in Russian society. To begin, Russian girl seeks a husband only for the position he gives her. Matrimony Is only question of fash ion, and if Russian girl cannot find a husband within a reasonable time, she can i'll no place in good society, and she is ridiculed by all her acquaint- ances; thus, she watches with agony the approach of the end of her youth. Every effort is thus made to win the grand prize of matrimony. Her friends are as anxious as she is, and as fear some lest she may be an old maid. Then, when all efforts have failed, when no more hope remains, she takes advantage of the sole remedy left to her maiden widowhood." She travels. She goes to Paris and Nice. She stays away three years, maybe, then returns to Russian society, no longer an old maid, nor even a wife, but widow. Nobody asks whom she married, nor how she became a widow. She is a widow: that suffices. And as widow she Is received everywhere, and is somebody
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03
River of Death.

The Yellow River, which has been named the Sorrow of China," is prob ably the most destructive stream on the face of the earth. In less than 100 years it has changed its channel four times, and the point where it empties into the sea has from time to time been moved up and down the coast a dis tance of 300 miles. It runs through a vast alluvial plain, and is fed by streams from great system of noun tains in the north When the snow melting on this range comes at q time of heavy rains, the result is sure to be 8 terrific flood. It has been estimated that in The past three centuries over 1O,OOO000 human beings have perished Ill tue 1iOOds Of the Yellow River. For destructiveness, both of life and prop erty, this stream is unparalleled, and the sobdiquet bestowed upon 1t is am- ply justified by it's history.-Boston GlOhn
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03
Health Before Beauty.

Two Irishmen who had not met for years ran across each other in Derby, and after period of handshaking ad- journed for some moist congratulations
 "Long time since we met, Pat, ism 4 it? Great lot of things have happened since then"
 "Yes, indeed. Look at mesilf. Sure, it's married 1 am, ," replied Pat
 "You don't tell me
 Faith, and Dive got fine, healthy bhoy, and the neighbors say he is the very picture of me- '"
 O'Grady looked at Pat, who wasn' | built on the lines of prize beauty.
 "Och, we'll, what's the harrum SC long as the child's healthyP'-New York World.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03
The Hawaiian AlphaDer.

There arc but 12 letters in the Ha- waiian alphabet. These, with their pro- nunciations, are: A (ah), (a), O Co as in ho), (ool h (hay), k (kay), l (la), m (moo), (noo). p (pay), and W (vay). The missionaries added thirteenth, t, but the natives won't have it, and con. tinue to pronounce, for instance, the name of the root from which poi ii made "kara," although the mission. aries havo it tiara. Every vowel in a word is distinctly sounded, except that the vowels "ai" are sounded "i," as in English. Waikiki, the beach in Homo. lulu, is properly pronounced "Vi- keekee. 1" There is great difference in the speech of the high and low caste natives. The first call their island group "Ha-va -ee-ee, and the latter be- gin it all right with "Ha, but con- clude with a guttural grunt, and the word heard most, Aloha, sounds soft and beautiful on the lips of the first, but is lazy, good natured grunt as the latter speak it
 Aloha is in their limited vocabulary at once greeting and farewell, form al expression of regard and of deep love. In the latter case it is increased in warmth aud depth of meaning by modifying adjectives annexed instead of prefxed, as "Aloha hui, Aloha hui loa, " or even Aloha hui loa keaI'' and then it is time 10 speak to papa
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-03
AUDIBlLITY OF THUNDER.
How Wind Currents and Cold Air Af-


 While lightning may be seen and it's illumination of clouds and mist may be recognized when ll Is even 200 miles distant, thunder Is rarely audible more than ten miles. The thunder from very distant storms, therefore. seldom reaches the ear. The reason for the great uncertainty in the audibility of thunder is not difficult to understand. It depends not merely on the initial in- tensity of the crash, but quite as much on the surroundings of the observer, even as in the quiet country one will observe feeble sounds that escape the ear in noisy city.
 One of the most curious and import ant conditions of audibility is that the thunder wave of sound shall not be re- fracted or reflected by the layers of warm and cold air between the observ- CT and the lightning or by the layers of wind, swift above and slow below, so as to entirely pass over or around the observer
 Sound, in it's wave-like progress ob- liquely through layers of air of differ ent densities, is subject to refraction, and this refraction may occur at any time and place. Thus, observers at the topmast of ship frequently hear fog whistles that are inaudible at sea level; those on hilltops hear thunder that can- not be heard in the valley; those in front of an obstacle hear sounds that are inaudible to those behind it. The rolling of thunder, like that of distant cannOnade, may be largely due to spe- cial reflections and refractions of sound. Again, the greater velocity of the air at considerable altitude above the ground distorts the sound wave and shOrtens the limit of audibility to the leeward, while increasing it to the ndward.-Industries and Iron.