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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

Nebraskans who have been in Wash
ington recently appear to feel certain
that the State will 60 Republican this
year, Notwithstanding Mr.. Bryan's ex-
traordinary efforts to prevent it. One
of them, Mr.. w. r. Sapp, said: "While
opposed on principle to betting, 1
should be strongly inclined to make a
wager that Nebraska will go Republi-
can this year, if the proposition to do
so were made to me. Although a
strong Republican, it is not party bias
which influences my opinion. 1 mix
with the people, and am confident that
the fusionists are not nearly so strong
in the State as they were in 1896.
Neither is Mr.. Bryan regarded at home
with anything like the feeling of hero
worship that is manifested toward him
in certain other sections of the United
States. He can't begin to draw the
crowds in Nebraska that he can at a
Texas fair, for the people that know
him best, while they respect and like
him, do not see in him any extrsordin-
airy qualities of greatness as a states
man."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

The Brooklyn Eagle is naturally and
properly happy over the approval Ad-
miral Dewey has given of the project
to present him house in Washington,
and his acceptance of the proposed
gift About $4,000 has been raj ,ed
which will undoubtedly be largely in
creased now that the plan is known to
be agreeable to the Admiral. The fact
that the money raised for this purpose
comes from very large number of
contributors and places him under OBJ
legation only to large body Of his ad-
miring countrymen, instead of a few
wealthy individuals, was very pleasing
to the proposed recipient of this gift
aud he frankly said so. The idea was
first advanced by Rear Admiral Upshur
in letter to the Eagle ami that paper
has been its leading supporter, though
others have aided and some have
frowned on the proposition. A house
will be purchased at once in a quarter
of the city of Washington agreeable Ia
the Admiral.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

After the experience with courts of
arbitration, in the case of Venezuela,
as a means of determining and settling
international boundary disputes, the
United States is not likely to submit
the Alaska contention to such tri-
buual. What the United States wants
is the "delimitation" of the boundary
line according to the letter and spirit OF
the treaty between Russia and Eng
land They don't want, and will no,
accept, compromise which shall give
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

The only thing that could possibly
cause this government to offer to me-
date between Great Britain and the
Transvaal republic would be for the
former government to join in the re-
quest already indirectly made by the
latter. If there is war, as now seems
probable, this government will main
tain strict neutrality. In notifying
the government of the Transvaal that
the United States could not recognize
Gen. James r. O'Beirne of New York
as its diplomatic representative, the de-
partment of state simply followed rule
as old as our government, not to allow
an American citizen to automatically
represent foreign country at Wash
ington. This rule was emphasized by
the secretary of state as early as when
that portfolio was held by Thomas JEFF
fersop, and later by Secretaries Fish
and Evarts. General O'Beirne is now
in Washington. He has been received
at the department of state, but simply
as any other American citizen would
be received, not as the diplomatic rep
resentative of the Transvaal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

The Republican party of Massachu-
sets in its State convention yesterday,
reaffirms the cardinal articles of the
party faith, and in respect of other
matters which are the fresh subjects Of
party declarations, isis unqualifledly OPP
posed TO trusts and monopoly, and the
capitalization of fictitious and specula.
tive valuations" 1t reiterates lis OPP
position to stockwatering in all forms,
and believes that proper legislation on
the part of the States, in connection
with the Federal trust law a Republic
can Congress has passed, "would put
an end to the danger from the growth
of great combinations aud trusts" In
the matter of the Philippines, Mas
sachusetts, the home of Hoar and At
kinson, the abode of a pestiferous rust
of seditious persons, declares:
We commend the tact, the patience
the skill and the statesmanlike spirit
with which the President has approached
the perplexing problems arising from
the war. Under the treaty with Spain
the law of nations put upon the United
States the responsibility for the peace and
security Of life and property, the well-beinf
and the future government Of the Philip
pine Islands. Accepting this responsibility
it is our profound trust that the present
hostilites can be brought to an early ter
mination, and that Congress, guided by
wise and patriotic administration, will es
tablish and maintain in these islands, hith
erto a home Of tyrants, a government al
free, as liberal and as progressive as ou
own, in accordance with the sacred prnci
Piles of liberty and self-government upor
which the American republic so securely
| rests.
The Republican party of the Old Bay
State exhibits no signs of the malady
that has overtaken some of it's former
guides. There is nothing strident il
these declarations; they are a clear
calm and positive announcement o.
the sober judgment and deliberate pur
pose of the Republican party in every
State of the Union, and, as we'll of thu
great body of the American people
who are 30 unitedly and fervidly &C
claiming Dewey, the greatest of expan
| siOnists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

The milk and water quality of Mas.
sachusetts Rapublicanism appears else
where than in the ministerial mildness
and innocence of its party declarations.
Even the Journal, which is so unhappy
over the circumstance that the Massa.
chusetts platform is so equivocal and
colorless that the mphistopheles of
antiimperialism is "queer recruit" to
is doctrines, pats Senator Hoar affec-
tionately on the back, exclaiming effu =
sively that the dear old sinner "may
think what he pleases about the Phil
ippines and We'll admire aud reverence
him just the same" What Mr.. Hoar
"thinks about the Philippines" inspir-
Ell Aguinaldo to rebel and encourages
him TO continue in war that is cost :
ing America enormous sums of money
and splitting some of her best blood.
This the Journal has often declared g,
but still the dear old man may continue
to encourage his yellow Washington TO
resist the United States, slaughter her
people and pile up expenditure, and
the Journal will "admire and reverence
him just the same" This rather out
Herods the Springfield Republican. The
Journal should let up on the Massa-
chusetts convention, or mend its own
political morals.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

Editor Greene of the st. Adams
Messenger, who was present on the &C.
casion as a member of the Governors
staff, pours the light of truth and fact
on the reception Admiral Dewey gave
the Vermonters on the occasion OF
their recent call, on board the Olympia,
to pay their respect and welcome him
home in behalf OF the State. AS every
one knew it must be, their reception
was all that could be desired in point Of
courtesy and the warmest cordially
The perversity of the New York papers
was the work of disgruntled. news
paper man who did not succeed in
smuggling himself into the privacy of
the Admiral, under cover of the Yer
mont party, so he had his revenge.
Editor Greene regards the whole mat
ter, in its only important aspect, from
the point of view taken by the JOUR
NAL-a libelous wrong to the Admiral
in that the report "falsely and mali
ciously represented him as boor."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

Canada port and half the territory
there because, after the discovery of
gold in Alaska, she made haste to put
up an absurd claim and Interpretation
of the treaty which had never before
been conceived. The Venezuela way
can't be worked on the United States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

KOdOl Dyspepsia Cure
"Dlaests what you eat"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
CHAPTER VIII.

THE FINDING OF THE SANTA CATARINA.
AS soon as he saw the great eel DR.
Tring turned out the lights with a snap
and passed down an order to empty the
tanks as fast as the water could be
driven out Of them. All hands worked
with will, and very soon the Eureka
was leaping surfaceward again in rapid
bounds.
Of what was occurring on her decks
those in the hold did not hear till after
the ballast tanks had been freed Of wa.
ter and the iron matches had been
opened once more to the sea breeze
But then they crowded mp. and the
doctor told the tale
There is little in it" he said obi
rectly turned the light off the beast
gave mp nuzzling the glass and started
driving its sharp nose against the panes
with all the force it could muster
There was nothing for it but to make
for the surface as fast as possible. If
the glass had gone, the pressure of wa
ter from without would have been go
intense that nothing we could have
done would have prevented the thrush
And then-by the way, has anybody
got matches? want a cigarette.
Bnt, though the doctor thus made lit
tie of the encounter, the danger had
been really great, and more than one of
the Eureka's crew began to wonder
whether they were destined ever to find
the gold which was to be the reward of
their daring. For, do what they would
no glimpse of the Santa Catarina came
to reward their patient search. They
had diligently quartered five square
miles Of the sea floor, and, unless they
bad overlooked her, she was not there
That evening, therefore, there was a
council held on deck while the ketch
rode stationary at her sea anchor
1T is rather disappointing, the doc
tor owned. "but l don't consider the
case by any means hopeless as yet. You
see, that old galleon was a wooden ship,
and so when she left the top Of the sea
she would not Of necessity go straight
to the bottom. She would sink a good
many fathoms and then would get to a
layer of water Of sufficient denseness 10
prevent her going any farther for
awhile. But, though she would not re-
main suspended for long, for her tim
bers and cargo would soon get thor
oughly sodden, she might very we'll get
into some undercurrent which would
take her along goodness knows how
far.
But" objected Captain Colepepper,
4 "if there had been any such cusIenl
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"Eh, but Th0rs this, though -
ing with her. These old galleons were
all, as you We told me yourself, fiat bot
toned and shallow draft vessels, and
they get her so much down by the
stern that forward she d be about clear
of the water and consequently wouldn't
look at it unless they'd got the wind
dead in over the taffrail Then, don t
you see being in sea way they would
not care to break bulk with the general
cargo, because if they started sticking
any out. they mightn't be able to get
it back again. But this bullion was like
the weight at the end of stealvard.
For its bulk it was the heaviest p-rt Of
the freight and the lubbers had damned
it slap up against the sternpost, just
where its weight would be most tell
ing,
"Put there for safety" suggested DR..
Tring
AYE. I expect that was about it, " as
sented the captain. But The galleon
did not intend to make landfall after
leaving her port till she ran into her
river in Spain; so. if any of the treasure
was stolen in transit it couldn't be car
ried away. and they could always find
it by searching the hands. So old Don
What shis-name just gives an order,
and the whole lot is carted along the
decks and slowed in the lazaret for
ward, and as result the galleon gets
into as good trim again as such hulk.
ing old floating haystack ever could.
IAN ingenious explanation, Colepep-
FER, and probably the rigr one. But
we'll talk it ont more asterward For
the present. tets get this filth CIVILIZED
away and the valuables slowed under
matches, and then, after a spell of rest.
get ourselves under over again and go
down after more. 1t is always we'll 10
get on with your naymaking while the
sun shines y
With eager hopes. the others sprang
TO do the Doctors bidding, but. as 1t
happened the f5, 600 worth of treas
ure which lay about the deck was
all that they got from the ruins of the
foundered galleon for many long day
For that night, the Eureka was driven
from her station above the Santa Ca
tarina, and the chance of the second dip
into the hoard Of gold. which, after so
much patient toll, the adventures had
found at last, was taken from them for
the present. When the next morning
broke, it was not for wealth, but for
life itself, that they had to struggle, and
when at last the struggle was over, and
they had leisure to plan once more.
there was none Of them so bold as TO
propose to return Just then for the rest
of the sunken million.
Neptune had been kind to them SO
far, but. now that they had found the
door of his treasure chamber. he grew
petulant. and in his anger he came
very near to adding eight more corpses
to the unmonumented graveyard of the
ocean.
L
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

a pool OF water.
"a button, suggested Guthrie.
We've got the pickings of some poor
fellows dunnage sack again.
with due respect, MOI replied Tom.
"It's coin, sir. Look, when rub the
cankering away See them two pillars ?
It's a dollar The Spaniards have their
goldpieces stamped just the same to-
day.
Here's another, interposed Henri.
eta, land anotherl"
''Himmel Here wass Elm vistvul
Unit loogl Zee vat Gain hat pigged OPT
Gould. said Cain stolidly. I've
seed boss shoe made from smaller
bar. Zusan Pierce, I'll buy 'ee Wa
terbury watch when get whoam
. "Heh What's this'" squeaked Hem
rietta. who was stopping about among
the mud scratching away the rubbish
with rapid, eager fingers "A pig Of
lead2 It's heavy enough and about the
color. Lend me your knife Tom Ali
Look See that CLEAN Silver An in
got of it, Tom, and weighing pretty
nearly hundredweight, warrant"
Were getting into the right lati-
tude at last doctor, I'm thinking. -"
opined the captain, swilling bucket
ful Of water over the heap and laying
bare couple more heavy ingots.
"You'v We hit upon the dons strong box
at last
The doctor had mounted his eyeglass
amid even deeper ridge and furrow of
Fuckers than usual. He was scrubbing
his hands together delightedly.
ITO tell the truth, he said. II had
almost given up hope of getting sin
gle thing after we found the stern
empty. Those old archives I took the
trouble to hunt mp at Madrid expressly
mentioned that the treasure room was
under the great cabin floor. How it go,
shifted | cant imagine.
Simple enough, said the captain.
GAS figure it ont, it was something
like this; The lubberly stevedores whc
slowed her holds sent her to sea in such
bad trim that her people could do moth
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(TO BE CONTINUED)


A very amusing little scene is described
by Miss Ellen Terry in connection with
her inability 10 speak German; You can
not imagine how sorry l am cannot talk
German fluently, and never have regret
ted 1t more than the evening Able Liszt
came to us 70 supper. | sat next to the
dear old gentleman without being able to
talk to him. Yes, but l remember did
talk German that eyening-just five little
words, which, however, seemed to please
the able greatly. He had been present at
the representation of Faust, and teased
me about being Margaret who could not
speak German. ! thought of how might
meet his raillery and said after awhile,
'Lieber List, ich liebe dich' (dear Liszt,
love thee),"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

Hold your din, you great foolw
seen. and the observers in the coming
tower had come to believe that the
dreary solitudes of the ocean floor were
utterly untenanted.
But one day Dolly, who was on the
lookout gave call, and the doctor,
who was working with the others at
the crank, babe Guthrie go up to the
coming tower and see what was amiss
Look there. Alan. cried Dolly,
fright down the lantern rays. What is
it? l saw it move up ont Of the coze
just now. See, it's keeping pace with
usl''
at seems like a big eel q"
ITS body is as big round as Cain'sl'
Turn the lantern, Dolly. Yes, like
that. Whew It's twice as long as the
ketch.
"What an awful ANIMAL I'm going
to bear away from it little. 4"
She put over the wheel couple of
spokes, and for moment the great eel
was dropped by the lantern rays and
passed out of sight. But the next in
slant it had worked itself into the glare
again, and then, keeping the light
sqnarely on to it, Guthrie saw to his
horror that it was undulating slowly
through the water in the direction of
the coming tower.
Call the doctor, Alan" cried Dolly
in alarm.
Guthrie went TO the ladder and shout
ed, and the doctors long legs came
tumbling up the steps three at a time.
But before he arrived the beast had
gained the ketch' S decks, and its great
snakelike head was nuzzling agains,
the glass windowed ports of the coming
tower.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

has been built this century. The galleon
we are after has very different lines
and, moreover, could not possibly he in
anything like such coed preservation.
I'm very sorry for you, Dolly
Don't say any more about 1t. doc
tor I'm sorry for having hoaxed you
all. So if you II forgive me for that
please don't say anything more"
And DR.. Tring and the rest went be-
low again, and Dolly resumed her soli-
tary watch
However though Captain Colepepper
could not resist the temptation now
and again of abiding slyly to the won
derful things which his daughters eyes
did contrive to pick out, it was to the
smartness of those same brown eyes
that the success with which the toilers'
patient efforts were in the end tardily
crowned was due. And it came just in
the nick of time So utterly wearied
was every one with the work and sick
ened with the endless turning of that
awful crank that even the two promo
tiers of the enterprise had almost brought
themselves to admit that IL must be
abandoned Dolly saved it; mt the
eleventh hour, it is true, but still in
time. DR.. Tring admitted afterward
that he doubted whether he could have
held out a single day longer. Once more
ON the surface and the feeling of loath-
ing might have proved too strong to he
'"sisted Canvas would have been bent
and the Eurekas bowsprit pointed away
from the hateful spot.
But about midway through the
"watch below" las they were wont
with grim irony to term their period Of
toll in the bowels of the sea y, after they
had been down about three hours, there
came quiet hail of "Doctorl" from
the coming tower and the doctor.
jumping from his seat, sprang nimbly
mp the ladder. Presently the order was
passed to stop the crank, and then there
was short Kissing as the water entered
the ballast tanks and faint jolt as the
ketch grounded on the ooze.
No word had reached the hold yet of
what had occurred, but the single great
hope which was in each worker mind
made him sanguine. Unable to stand
the suspense, Guthrie clambered swiftly
up the ladder.
The doctor was standing by Dolly,
looking ont from one of the ports He
turned and saw the young man coming
through the hatch
"Ah, Guthrie, my lad, shake hands
Plensed to see you. Miss Colepepper has
made up her mind that it's to be a
schooner, big schooner, with steam
launch in davits so that she can be
towed if it falls calm. 3"
Dolly laughed,
al hadn't quite got so far as that,
doctor, she said But, she added,
turning to the undergraduate, 81 think
it's possible that | may decide to have
the yacht after all. There lies the mon.
ey to buy it with, anyway.
Come and have look at her. The
Santa Catarna at last - said the doctor
gleefuly. "She isn't in very good
state of preservation as far as her wood
work goes but l don't suppose the
specie will be much the worse for the
ducking Where is she? Why, there
straight in front of you, in the middle
of the circle of light. Miss Colepeppel
must have had remarkably good eyes tc
q, spot such ruin. Don't you think SO
now2 p
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

Guthrie went with the others. They
strained and strained at the break Of
the force pump. heaving II up and down
against a pressure upon which their
combined might made no impression
But at last something gave way. There
was rush of water. They stopped
their efforts and listened. Then
"Hoch ' cried Spiedernichel, who was
lying with his ear clapped mp against
the iron plating. "Hoch 1t wass ge-
gushing out of her
They turned to the pumps again. Re-
lieved Of the obstruction. these worked
freely once mere, and in very few
moments the Eureka was at the sur
face.
What exactly had gone wrong was
never found out for certain, but DR..
Tring conjectured that fish or some
other sea animal had got pinned in one
of the valves and so prevented its work
ing, Be that as ii may, the danger was
a fearful one, and. when the Eureka did
come to the surface, she lay there for
two days before Dr. Tring and the cap
tain could bring themselves to order
another descent
And once, too, they encountered an
other submarine peril that none of them
had counted upon. Fish there were in
plenty in the upper stratum where the
daylight penetrated, and, as has already
been said, they were by no means shy,
but came swimming and shooting
around the ketch, evidently full of Gu
riosity to see what the strange thing
might be which had come into their
domain. But in the heavy depths be-
low, where the soft CLEAN which filled
the upper regions gave place TO coaly
blackness, no life whatever was to be
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
In the Bank of En- x In n d.

One of the ouriosities of the Bank Of
England is to be seen In the printing room.
A man sits at a desk, and every three Sec
onds machine delivers TO him two COM
plete fb notes. II he sits there six hours.
he receives over $3.50, 900 and in 500 days
over 800, 900, 900.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

Thomas Rhoads, Centerield. O., writes:
81 suffered from piles seven or eight years.
No remedy gave me relief until De Wits
Witch Hazel Salve, less than a box OF
which pei manently cured me. Soothing,
healing. perfectly harmless. Beware Of
counterfeits,
j. w O'SullivAn, w p, Hall. T, n. Par
ler L, Gosselin and L. Il, Crandall,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
A SHET-IN MAN.

The superintendent of a city sunday
school was making an appeal for a collec-
ton for Shut-in- Society, and he said:
Can any boy or girl tell me OF any shut
in person mentioned in the Bible? All.
see several hands raised. That is good.
! his little boy right in front of me may
tell me. Speak up good and loud, so that
all will hear you, Johnnie"
"Jonah! shrieked ohnne.--Harpera
Razar
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
A Girl of To-day.

Fsther-But, my dear. thought you
had promised TO marry that young gentle-
man.
DsuRhter-Oh. no, papa. only said
he could be engaged to me II he wanted to.
philadelphia Inquirer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06
MIN ED.

Nurse 10 young husbandl-A beautiful
ten-pound baby. sir
Young husband getting things mixed ir
the eNcitemenD-Gloriou Am l a fathe
or mother?-Life.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-07-06

"Ah, Guthrie, mDlnd, shake hands"
might have happened to any of us
Wrecks are not plentiful down here on
the sea floor, and it is natural to steer
for the first that one sees. but that is
not the one we want"
But are you sure, doctor' Hadn't
we better go round to the other side of
her and make certain before we go
awayf"
The doctor shook his head. "Unfor-
tunately am quite sure of what say,
he went on, THAT unlucky craft be-
fore us has not been down 90 Years. She