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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-20
4.1OP NJ. ACCOMMODATION,

Connects at Wells liver with Express Train north
over r. NJ. r. r.. for st. JOhnsbury, LyndOnyille,
Barton and Newport, with Accom- modatlon Train
south for all stations between Wells River and
White River junction. Also with Expire So Train
north over White Mountain Division for Lisbon,
Littleton, Bethlehem Street, Profile House, Twin
Mountain, Fabyans, Crav ford, White6eld, Jefferson
and Lancaster.
TRAINS WEST.
Leave Wells River-6 is. 1925 A. NJ. 2.32, $40
T.. NJ.
Arrive Montptlier-1OOO, 1850 A. NJ. 3,46
$40 y. NJ.
SUBURBAN TRAIN SERVICE.
Leave Montpelier-6.3O, 0.4b, 1 1 90 A. NJ, l12.46
$50, 6.46 =. MI
Arrive Barre-6.5O, 1905, AN 1910 1901
400, @. 90 Il. NJ.
Leave Barre-7.3O, 1920, a. NJ. 1890. 3.2B
500, eos =, NJ.
Arrive Montpelier-7,4b, 1875 a. NJ. 1875.
3.4O, 5.25, $40 z. Nj.
W. A. STOWRLL, General Manager
Y. w. STANYAN, Superintendent.
f. w. MORSE Genn Pass. Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-20
Montpelier & Wells River R. R.
effect June rs, 1899. Trains leaving Mont peii sr
AZ fOllows-HOinR easta
500 A. VI. MAIL.

Connects at Wells River with Accommodated
Train North, and with Mail and Express Train South
over Passumpsc Division Boston and Maine X. r.
Throu h Train SerUice from Wells River via Ply
mouth, or w. r. Junction to Boston, and via ellie
Falls and Springfield for New York. Arrives in
Boston $50 P. NJ. New York (Grand Central Depot
an N
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-20
I:1OP. NJ. Fast EXPRESS.

Through service, Burlington to Fabyans Has
Wagner Parlor Car, Burlington TO Fabyans. stops
at all principal stations between Wells River and
Fabyans, arriving at Fabyans 400 M. Connec At
Fabyans with train for Portlai d and Old Orchard
Beach, Also with train for Summit Mt. Washing
ton, arriving Summit $3.50 p. NJ. Connects at Wells
River with the Mail Train orth over Passumpso
Division, and the "Pacinc Coast Express" via Cana
dian Pacific Railway to Montreal, Quebec, CHICAGO
Montreal to Chicago every day ex ept Ssturdsys.
ToPacifc Coast every day except Sundays Also with
Express Train arriving in Boston at si5 p. NJ. Also
with train for Fabyans, Lancaster Whitefeld. JEFF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-20
RUTLAND RAILROAD

Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
An UnfOunded Claim.

~ HAT there is a very great i'm
provement in present business
conditions over those of two or
three years ago is SO manifest as not
to be open to dispute. By this it is
not intended to convey the idea that
the Standard regards the conditions as
being altogether satisfactory, for it is
quite evident that the agricultural
classes. constituting nearly half of our
industrial population, are not getting
their full share of the increased pros
perity.
Neither are we disposed to admit
that the policy of the party in power,
and least of all its monetary policy. has
been the potential cause of whatever
gains have been made. The alterna ting
periods of prosperity and depression
run in cycles, and Mr.. Mckinley land
ed in the presidency just in time to
meet the upward wave set in motion
by causes over which he had no more
control than he had over the tides OF
the sea.
The claim is now being earnestly put
forth by his political friends that the
prosperity has resulted from the gold
standard and protection, a claim that
can only provoke a smile with those
who are familiar with the economic
and industrial conditions that have
prevailed all over Europe and America
for the last twenty-five years.
Without going into the subject at
length it may not be out of place to
suggest that within the last three years
there has been more or less general
Improvement in business both in the
old world and the new, and that dur
ing the long period of depression
Through which we have passed, those
countries that were upon distinctive
ly silver basis enjoyed a prosperity
that was almost phenomenal. And
even now in the midst of the boom
we are said to be enjoying, it is doubt
full if, all things considered our pros
perity is any greater relatively than
that of Mexico with her mongrel pop
ulation and DECEASED" silver money.
A late number of Bradstreets devOtes
a column and a half to the highly "en-
SOuIdSIHS toIdilioIlH ia -iSAISD' IN
normal revenue for the last fiscal year
was estimated at s51, 659, 500 whereas it
exceeded $50, 100000, a clear gain Of
about fourteen per cent. The public
debt has been refunded upon advan-
tageous terms, showing that silver
standard country need have no trouble
in borrowing money. Postal receipts
ali
volume Of business on the federal tel
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
State Press Comment.
Value of Organization.

Stockraisers in the great Northwest
especially, are placed at great disad-
vantage when they seek to market
their product. This remark applies par
ticularly to sales of beef ard wool. says
the Stockgrowers' Journal. When
range beeves are finished and ripe for
market they are shipped to Chicago or
Denver or Omaha by the trainload and
the stockman finds out what his beer
sells for when the returns come back
from the city stock yards There are
influences such as demand ana supply
which have a limited sway in all the
markets and which lower or raise prices
somewhat, but whatever may be said
to the contrary, the stockraiser has no
influence. He must take what he can
get. Sheepmen are somewhat better
situated so far as disposing or their
mutton sheep is concerned, for they can
hold their product in feeding pens near
by the great markets and wait for a
favorable turn in prices, but the treat
ment of flockmasters by the wool BUY
ers is often fairly merciless. Wool
growers usually must sell their pro-
duct just as it is clipped and take
what they can get at that time 1T is
true they may consign their clips, out
that usually involves lot of worry or
loss or both worry and loss. According
to the Fergus County Argus there is
movement at Lewistown to organize
the wool growers of that region mot
only for the benefit that would accrue
from the interchange of ideas. but also
with the object of securing nearer the
market price of their wool" This Ia
per believes and distinctly stated in
July last that growers received from
three to five cents less for their WOOL
this year than it was worth. and that
this result is largely due to the present
defective system of wool sales. The
Fergus county idea seems to be to
warehouse the wool output and borrow
money if necessary on the warehouse
receipts, until the buyers and growers
can agree on tariff of prices.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04

marsh land, England holds the forest
country, the proportion Venezuela gets
is one square mile to five for England.
The arbitrators in this case We're all
men of great ability and learning, and
the question has been thoroughly sifted
The libraries of the world have been
ransacked for old manuscripts and doc
uments bearing on the boundary, and
the reports of all the surveys have been
speculations derived from these sources
have been carefully collated and di-
gested by the counsel, who are scarcely
less distinguished for ability and learn
ing than the arbitrator. Great Britain
had one conspicuous advantage over
Venezuela in the makeup of the court
Two of her own jurists We're members,
while Venezuela selected two Ameri-
cans to represent her.
There was a time when a decision
hostile in any measure to Venezuela
would have awakened feeling in the
United States. But we have learned a
good many things about this South
American state since the lingo days
when we were prepared to fight it's bat
ties; we found, during our war with
Spain. that the spirit of friendliness
shown by us was not reciprocated. The
change in American public opinion has
been marked-it is not likely that our
public will take more than passing no.
tce of the Paris tribunals decision. one
way or the other. The decision is bind
ing. 1t may possibly be construed as a
triumph for the process of arbitration
in the settlement of international dis
putes. England will be satisfied; Vene-
zuela will have to be.
The Standards memory is that the
government at Washington is pledged
to an acceptance of the decision by the
Venezuelans. They are engaged in one
of their periodical wars just now and
formal. binding acknowledgement
must be delayed until Venezuela gets
a government that will be recognized
by the powers. But, in any event, the
Paris decision will stand.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04

been constantly made by the admins
tration shouters that the anti-imperial-
istic utterances in this country en-
couraged the Filipinos to fight the
harder. What is likely to be the effect
upon them of such expressions as those
course will be determined solely by the
consideration of how much money we
can make out of the job? Isn't that
in effect declaration that we intend
to exploit them for all that they are
worth, and isn't it right well calculated
to arouse all the fighting instinct that
they possess?
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04

and employers of Chinese laborers, who
kept white men from getting honorable
employment. And the one great re-
suit of our agitation in 1S7S-79 was the
establishment of the principle that this
country has right to exclude Chinese
laborers or other undesirable aliens.
We did solve the Chinese problem"
What about the story that you are
going East to try your luck in Wall
street"
"Ah, T wish I were rich enough to
jump into the Chicago wheat pit-thats
where I'd go. I'm now loaded up with
enough wheat for ten men to stagger
under, but my advices all tend to a big
advance in a few months. 1 think
wheat is a perfectly safe buy at the
present figures"
DO you ever expect to turn agita-
tor again?'
I'm now devoting myself to making
money
Down on the street it was told that
Hugh Hughes, the grain broker. had
sold Kearney 1000 tons of wheat and
that Kearney had bid on another 1000
tons. Yet this is the very same man
who was given a triumphal parade by
the workingmen of San Francisco when
he returned from Washington after
carrying the crusade against the Chi
nese to the nations capital. At that
time he rode up Market street in the
old dray which he used to drive and
from which he made SO many speeches.
Next thing San Francisco knows he
may be riding up Market street in the
most fashionable of automobiles.
Suppose Denis Kearney, the sand
lotter, should become a leader of San
Francisco's millionaire society.-San
Francisco Examiner.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04

The current is surely in the direction
of universal harmonizing of CONNER
cial interests and the elimination of all
the little lucky cards and relegation
of all things and people in trade to a
sound basis of intrinsic merit
THE subject of cosmopolitan coin
is not a new one," said member of
banking firm I'm some of the aspects
of the case it appears to be very desir-
able. 1t has been suggested that the
various commercial nations agree upon
a gold coin, of uniform weight and fine
ness. to be given name which would
be understood in most of the countries
agreeing to it's coinage. Each country
is to coin it's own pieces and to be re-
sponsible for their accuracy. The coin
is to have on one side the stamp or
legend of the country coming it and on
the other it's universal name. 1t will
readily be seen that with such a coin in
universal use, both in practice and ac-
counts, commercial transactions would
no doubt be greatly facilitated. l do
not look, however for it's early accomp-
lishment. Its desirability is not suffi-
cient to overcome the long established
customs of the various countries SO
as to lead them to relinquish the names
and styles of their various coins. Con-
sentative England, for instance, with
it's cumbrous system, is not likely TO
relinquish it's pounds, shillings and
pence and adopt the decimal system OF
France, Germany. Italy and the United
States And it is not likely that the
latter would give up their quick and
handy decimal system for that of Eng
land. On the whole, the idea is very
good one, but, like many other good
things-like the proposed metrical sys-
ITEM. for instance-impossible OF &C
complishment for various reasons at
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04

egraph lines during the second half of
the year increased more than sixteen
per cent. over the first half, and rail-
road building has progressed at an UNI
usually rapid rate. Exports of min
erals increased nearly S4000,000, and
the exports of merchandise increased
nearly $1,000, OoO-just about fifteen per
cent.
And these increases it must be re-
membered were not a jump from ex-
IRENE depression caused by a sudden
revival--Mexico has had good times for
at least dozen years back. the last
one showing a decided Improvement
over the best of former years. "Taken
altogether says Bradstreet's, "the
condition of Mexico is one at which its
governing authorities have reason to
feel gratified.''
If the champions of the administra-
ton will broaden the range of their
vision, they will find that their eNplan-
alton is one which fails to explain.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
TALK OF A COSMOPOLITAN COIN.
How 1t Would Prove a Boon to Travellers
in All Countries.

For many years commercial men of
all nationalities have spoken and writ
ten on the subject of the introduction
of a system Of coinage which should
have a universal standard The propo-
sition has failed to meet with success
on account of the difficulty in persuad-
ing the people of different countries to
abandon their own systems of coinage,
which appear to them part and parcel
of themselves as much as their IAN
guage itself.
1.-THE time seems approaching, SAID
a financier, when it will be possible
and perhaps advisable for the great
nations Of the earth to meet IN coiiHei
ton and adopt q coin when shall ps
cosmopolitan, the weight and fnehess
of which might be determined ps tne
convention and the minting OF Wnlti,
might be intrusted to a body Oh experts
made up of representatives from All the
nations who care to enter lhto tle Ply
iect. 1t may be some tune before tnis
comes about yet it would greatly IA
cilitate international business espes.a a
t;ons have come to be quite common.
Snch a coin would probably never sup
nlant the coin local to the various couh-
fries in which also the Cosmopolitan
coin became current, yet with euucatlofl
taking such strides as 1t seems TO pe
doing everywhere 1t ought nor 70 oe
d;firn,t to instruct the children IN
snhools in the table of the proposed coin
and give them practical Illustrations in
;ts use. Such a coin would not be VEL
coined enthusiastically by small traders
in different countries who are wont to
nrof;t by the unfamiliarity of travellers
with the coin of the realm and their
natural bewilderment in attempting to
fix in their minds the comparative val
ne of articles considered in relation to
the money they have always handled,
but it would be boon to the great
travelling worlds public, to our globe
trotting commercial travellers. to opu-
lent tourists and to INDECENT emigrants.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
Clark's Examination.

Senator w. A. Clark has been exam
ined under oath in the Whiteside libel
suit proceedings with very meager re-
suits, says the Great Falls Tribune.
He says that he did not seek the office
of United States senator, that he had
no political manager, but had some
friends working for him, that he knows
nothing about a conspiracy to prevent
his election and declines to say whether
he spent any money or not in being
elected senator or whether he mad any
conference with various persons mem
toned. In fact, his reply to four-hfths
of the questions asked him was a re-
fusal to answer. MI. Clark has repeat
edly said that he courted full inVest1-
cation of the late senatorial election.
His refusal to answer questions that
went to the very root of the charges
made will not strike the public favor
ably. However, a time is certainly
coming when he will be obliged to an
swer some of the questions asked MN
before a New York notary public. and
silence will not go. The people of Mon
tana are determined to know whose
money it is that now lies in the state
treasury - thirty one-thousand-dolar
blls-speaking in convincing language
of crime perpetrated in Helena by some
one. They will learn in the end the
guilty party or parties and punishment
will follow The fair name of the state
will be suirched till this is done, and
there is a quiet. but firm determina-
ton on the part of all GOOD citizens
that this stain on our good name must
he wiDSd out.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
The KessIer Boom.

Colonel Kessler of the returned regi-
ment of Montana volunteers has been
nominated by the Butte Inter Mountain
as the republican candidate for COVER
nor, says the Red Lodge Picket. AS
the Inter Mountain is owned by Senator
Lee Mantle, the action of that paper
in presenting the name of Colonel Kess-
Ter takes all the wind out of the sails OF
those papers that have been talking of
Mr.. Mantle for gubernatorial honors
The nomination is certainly an excel
lent one. There is magic in the colo
nel's name and state wide pride in his
military record and patriotism.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1899.
TWELVE PAGES.
1t Doesn't Count.

u S the result of yesterdays excit-
ing doings off Sandy Hook, the
fellows who operate the excur-
sion boats are the chief gamers. They
made money, and those who patronized
them are just so much out of pocket,
as the race counts for nothing.
The sum and substance of it is that
neither of the contesting yachts was
able to cross the line within the time
limit. The total product of yesterdays
run appears to be in the shape of
demonstration that, in any event, the
contest is close fit: withal the Sham
rock is swifter than some of the hackers
of the American craft had reckoned
her to be. and it is a good-enough guess
that. had the wind been brisk enough
yesterday to have permitted a finish
within the time limit, the first race
in the series would have been the Sham
rocks.
Prior to yesterdays trial interest in
this yachting contest was not lacking,
vet the failure to score for either side
serves to give added zest to the rivalry,
so closely are the two yachts matched.
Manifestly, the Columbia is the fav-
! orite, yet it was revealed in yesterday S
bulletin board side-talk that if the
Shamrock proves to be the better craft
the American public will accept that
result in good spirit and live in antici-
patton of future races that must be
run and won in order to bring the chal-
lenge cup back to it's old-time lodg
ingS.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
A Conclusion Reached.
~ HIS mornings news regarding
the Venezuela boundary comes
mono like a reminder IF ancient

~HIS mornings news regarding
the Venezuela boundary comes
more like reminder of ancient
a living question. Time was, not SO
very long ago, when this country was
deeply stirred because, as was said in
those days, England proposed to grab a
valuable stretch of territory which We
seemed prepared to assert off hand
England was not entitled to. We talked
flippantly about war in those days. We
proposed to whip England if she laid
finger on an inch CT Venezuelan soil.
We felt ourselves commissioned to take
up the cause Of our South American
neighbors; We exploited the Monroe
doctrine; we made a prime favorite out
of Secretary Olney when he served
saucy notice on London to keep hands
off.
The reader remembers what hap
pened. The question of boundaries for
the territory TO which England asserted
claim was referred to a commission
which, during tedious sessions at Paris,
has befii oouiIu!ilS IliS uCplHS Ol lHt
controversy. Our war with Spain and
President Mckinley's subsequent en-
tanglement with the Philippines caused
US quite TO forget that we ever per
mitted ourselves to get excited over
Venezuela. But, meanwhile, the COM
mission plodded along. 1t has finally
reached a conclusion, as announced in
this mornings news; apparently Eng
land gets about five-siXths the best of
it. In effect, Venezuela gets some
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
NEW WOMAN NoeLY PLANNED.
Keep the Shoulders Straight and the
Chest Inflated.


To be physically we'll and perfectly pro-
portioned the modern woman must be
ever on the alert.
A common form of neglect is the shoul-
ders, which are allowed in childhood to
grow loo-sided, and take on an ungrace-
full stoop. Often they are crowded SO by
i'll fitting corsets that they seriously dis
place the collar bone. Instead of such
malformation they should be level, large,
erect insensibly descending and well
poised, making the waist appear round
and small. Massage and oils will do
much to tone up the neglected shoulders,
and the skin can be whitened and made
beautifully firm by this paste, which is
of Spanish origin: Beat the whites OF
four eggs in rosewater, adding a few
grains of alum. Beat until the paste is
thick. spread the composition on a layer
of old linen and apply to the neck and
shoulders at night. French ladies are so
expressive with their shoulders that they
give them every advantage, as their
''shrug' is a part of French convefsa-
ton. An authority on this subject says:
"A difficult habit to break is that easy,
lazy manner of sagging down when sit
ting, which, in addition to sleeping on
high pillows. makes so many round
shoulders and sunken chests. People
should always watch themselves. and
when they discover the fault straighten
up; but it is so easy to settle down in
this way after years of indulgence in
the habit that many get discouraged and
prefer to grow crooked. Let me warn
you, ladies, to be eternally vigilant in
acquiring a good sitting posture. The
joints you possess We're given to you to
bend with, and it is almost a crime to
sag down as if you had no lungs or other
vital organs. Hold in the backbone,
throw the chest out. bend from the hips
only, and so contribute to the perfection
of your figure, your beauty and your
health"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
Wants RECOGNITION.

AT the next democratic state conVen-
ton Fergus county will insist upon be-
ing represented upon the state ticket,
says the Lewistown Democrat. This is
recognition which has never yet been
given us, but it is something that we
are certainly entitled to. We have
many democrats in our party that are
thoroughly and splendidly qualified to
discharge the duties of any state office
in the most creditable manner and COM
mon fairness demands that one of them
at least should be honored with a noml-
nation for state Office next year.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
So Saw We. All of Us,

1t will be grand day for the honor
of Montana when the case of John B.
Welcome is finally settled and the op-
probrium heaped upon the state through
the action of a few people in the last
legislature removed once and for all,
says the Pony Sentinel. If Welcome
is guilty Clark was illegally elected
and should not be seated. If Welcome
is innocent the cloud should be removed
from Clarks title to seat in the
Uuited States senate and Whiteside
punished to the fullest extent of the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
Taken With Salt Water.

1t is unquestionable that our soldiers
have endured many hardships. but the
statement that when they went on
board the transports at Manila they
were emaciated, enfeebled individuals,
while on their arrival at San Francisco
they We're a hardy. healthy looking lot,
will not be taken without several grains
of salt, says the Big Timber Pioneer.
A large body of men, unaccustomed to
seafaring and in poor health to COM
mence with, are not likely to improve
much while cooped up in transport.