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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15
NoRTHFIELD, MASS.

Public schools closed this week to re-
open Jan. 1.
Mrs. c. 81. Green is spending a few
weeks with her son and his wife in New
York.
Rev. A. c. White of Pepperell preached
in the Unitarian church last Sunday morn
ing in exchange with the pastor.
Mrs. Andrew Hale has closed her house
and is spending a portion Of the winter
with her brother in Keene.
Paul Streeter of Vernon has opened the
blacksmith shop lately bought in this
place and is having plenty of work.
J. R. Stratton, manager of Stratton's
operate orchestra of Orange, has a large
dancing class every Thursday night in the
town hall.
The Unitarian Sunday school will give
a Christmas concert on Sunday evening,
Dec "a. On Monday evening the Unita-
rian society will have tree with accom-
panying entertainment in the town hall.
A supper will be served in the vestry of
the Unitarian church next Thursday even
ing at 6 O'Clock. The sewing meeting will
be held as usual in the afternoon.
D. L. Moody has not been as well dur
ing the past week, complications of a seri-
Gus nature having arisen. Swelling of the
lower extremities accompanied with albu-
minaria exists, caused in the opinion of
the physicians by the cardiac trouble. DIR.
Frederick W. Shattuck of Boston, pro-
fessor of clinical medicine in Harvard uni
versity, was called in consultation on We'd
nesday. DR.. ShaItuck confirmed the di-
agnosis already made and is hopeful OF ul-
innate recovery.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15
Our First Christmas
In New Quarters

we are gong to make a record breaker in
pOlnC OF sales if new and attractive store. a
large and well selected stock Of staple house
keeping goods and a lot Of novelties bought
especially for the holiday season which will
oe sold at prices based: on a desire to COM
mand trade to come to US, can do so.
without attempting to specify in detail the
many articles with which our store is filled,
any one Of which would make an acceptable
ana useful gift, we will mention the fact that
we have an especially large stock Of Morris
Of Morris chairs, will state
that we are selling good oak chair well fin
lshed fitted with corduroy cushions for $500
as leader. This chair is worth $3.50 at least
but we bought them ata special price to close
out a lot.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15

A severe outbreak of typhoid fever in
the insane asylum at Northampton has
been traced to the celery used in the in
stitution. The sewage taken from some
filter beds was spread on the celery beds,
impregnating the celery with the fever
germs. About 80 people were attacked
with the fever in two weeks, and there was
little abatement in the progress Of the dis
ease for several days. The paying pa
tients, nurses and employees of the asylum
were afflicted with the disease, which did
not break out among the non-paying pa
tients, who received no celery.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15

The Montpelier Argus which at one time
gloated with ghoulish glee over the reduc-
tion of wages in certain industries, and
found in each reduction an object lesson
against the Republican party, is asked to
turn its binoculars toward the New Eng
land cotton mills. Over $1,000 operatives
in these mills began work Monday on an
advanced schedule, the wages of 10000
more employees will be increased next week,
and the increased wage scale will be ex-
tended to practically the entire body of
workers in the cotton industry of New Eng
land, 10000 hands, by January l. An
nouncement has also been made within a
few days of the increase in the wages of
over 10000 workers in wooden mills in the
New England states. These are happy
days for a great majority of the people,
but the calamity bowler finds his occupa-
tion gone.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15

Gov. Poynter of Nebraska has appointed
ex-senator Allen to fill the vacancy caused
by the recent death of Senator Hayward.
Hayward was Republican, elected by a
Republican legislature, and Allen is Pop
ulist, appointed by a Populist governor.
Bryan is said to have insisted on Aliens
appointment, and his action has caused
some feeling amongthe friends of Editor
Hitchcock of the Omaha World Herald,
who was an active candidate. Bryan was
an editorial writer on the World Herald
before he received the Democratic nomin-
alton for the presidency.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15
SOME INTERESTING REMARKS
RELATIVE TO THE COTTON MARKET, PAR
TICULARLY APPRoPos IN VIEW OF
THE DIsCUssIoN AS TO THIS

RELATIVE TO THE COTTON MARKET, PAR
TICULARLY APPRoPos IN VIEW OF
THE Discussion AS TO THIS
YEARS PRoDUCTIoN AND THE
GREAT ACTIVITY IN THE
DRY GooDs MARKET.
ave invite the readers of this paper to
years and note that in this period IRON,
COPPER, COTTON, WHEAT and CORN
were selling under the cost of production.
'Iron that sold at S13 90 ton has since
sold at $37 so; copper that in 1896 was
around 6 cents per pound has recently sold
at 20 cents; wheat in Chicago declined TO
4S "a cents per bushel and within two
years from that time sold at $1.S5 per
bushel; Corn sold as low as II cents per
bushel and later at 40 cents; in the New
York Cotton market the future options of
this staple within the past year sold as low
as cents and under, and at thin writing
have sustained an advance of only 9 1-2
cents per pound. IRON nearly tripled in
price; as did Copper, while Wheat increased
in value four times, and Corn doubled"
"It seems extremely logical to expect at
least that Cotton, our greatest staple prod
uct, will sell at its average price for the
past ten years, or about "a cents per
pound; moreover it is likely this price will
be made during the current Cotton year,
especially in view of the established GER
tainty that this seasons yield is very short,
and the equally certain fact that never in
the history of the world has the consump-
tive demand attained within 80 per cent of
what it is at the present time"
at seems reasonable to expect and 10
cent Cotton next July and August, when
the real pinch" of the short crop makes
itself felt; there is more than a possibility
that the above figures will be made Be
FORE the coming Summer in the contract
market in New York, discounting the above
factors"
''The BANKING AND BROKERAGE
FIRM OF KNOTT & CL0SSON OF BUR
LINGTON, this State, was the pioneer
house in advising the purchase of the staple
at its lowest point, the first of the year: In
their published circulars last Spring they
estimated decreased acreage that later
proved accurate, and insisted throughout
the season that, a late Spring, irregular
season, and improper cultivation, meant a
short crop, and as q result of accurate
knowledge from the planter himself THEY
HIT THE NAIL on THE HEAD AS
MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK COT
TON EXCHANGE with direct private
wires, they offer excellent facilities for in
vestment dealings in the future options of
this staple, and solicit the patronage of
! this state"
WRITE OR CALL FOR THEIR LAT
EST CIRCULARS AND DAILY MAR
KET LETTERS.
KNOTT & CLOSSON,
1877 St. Paul St.,
Burlington, Vt.
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The New York Tribune is loyalty Repuo-
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The persistent labor Of The Tribune during
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ss having contributed very materially TO prepare
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candidate for the Presidency.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15

A tribute to the American navy of strik-
ing artistic beauty will appear on the new
$40 silver certificates. The central feature
of the certificates will be steel engraving
of the battleship Maine, blowing the seas
under full steam as she left the United
States for Havana under Capt. Sigsbee near
ly two years ago. The engraving is un-
usually fine in workmanship and spirited
in conception. The other features of the
certificate are medallions of two of the
naval heroes who made the flag respected
early in the century by their victories over
the British and the pirates of the Mediter-
ranean.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15

the rank Of captain. Today he is a major
general and the governor of Cuba. This is
rapid, but deserved, advancement. In the
Santiago campaign no officer in the Amer
lean army had better record than Gen.
Wood. He accomplished wonders in put
ting the pest hole of Santiago in good san
itary condition In a short time, and showed
rare executive ability and tact in Law and
order in Santiago province. No officer in
the American army stands so high in pub
lie esteem, all things considered, as this
quiet but resourceful man, who was born
40 years ago in the nearby town Of Win
chester, n. II.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15
Some of the Wonders OF Ihe Paris Expo
aIIInn.

sitlOn.
Jan Sczcepaink, young Pole, is said to
have solved to perfection the long-dreamed-
of problem of sight-at-a-distance over
wires, just as the telephone transmits
sound. The inventor has entered into a
contract whereby he will receive 5000, 900
francs to withhold from the public the telec.
troscope, as it is called, untilthe opening of
the Paris exposition. In an auditorium
seating 5000 people the views, in full color
and in movement, will be thrown on a
screen, as in the case of an ordinary magic
lantern. Seated in the auditorium on the
exposition grounds the spectators will see
the moving life of the Piccadilly circus in
London, the arrival of a transatlantic
steamer at HSyre, and bird's-eye view of
Paris taken from balloon hundreds of
feet in the air.
The greatest scientific rival of the telec-
trOscope will be the telescope, 230 feet
long and five feet in diameter. As it can
not be pointed at the sky the moon and
stars will be caught by an immense mirror
and thrown into it. The mirror and its
movable surroundings will weigh $4,000
pounds, and will be operated in a pond of
quicksilver. The astronomers expect that
this telescope will bring the moon within
40 miles of the sight seer.
Another wonderful novelty of the expo
sition viii be the panorama in action, rep
resenting a trip by steamer from Mar
seilles through the Mediterranean to Ven.
ice, Naples, Constantinople, Alexandra,
etc. The entire representation viii be ex-
tremely vivid and realistic, and the fare
for single trip on the steamer will be s..
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-15
British Lost sIz az Modd.r River.

The official British report gives the total
number of killed, wounded and missing of
all arms in the engagement of Sunday and
Monday north of ModdeT yer as SIT. Of
been captured. There Sere $50 casualties
among the non-eomm STONED officers and
men Of the Highland Brigade at Magers-
fontein Fla. At Msgersfontein ten Off
GERS were killed and 35 wounded.
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L 4 nNLNAAs
Brattleboro, Vt.

Congressman Powers, who has been en-
tirely without newspaper support in his de-
sire for denomination in the First district,
has now been given hearty endorsement
by Vermont's leading newspaper, the Bur
lington Free Press.
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Two years ago Leonard Wood was a
surgeon in the United States army with
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WRITE OR CALL FOR THEIR LAT
EST CIRCULARS AND DAILY MAR
KET LETTERS.
KNOTT & CLOSSON,
1877 St. Paul St.,
Burlington, Vt.
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-09

COLOR OF SUMNER CLOTHING
II must call attention to the most
important factor to be considered in
regard to proper dress for sumner
that is, the necessity for paying more
attention to the color of the clothing
than to its weight during the day, and
vice versa in the evening"" writes Ed
ward B. Warman in the August La
dies Home Journal. "If in addition
to his regular summer clothing, when
exposed to the sun, man should add
thereto a winter overcoat eight in
COLOR, he could outwalk, outwork,
outwheel, outdo a man of equal
strength who, instead of the overcoat,
wore black, unlined, thin alpaca coat.
This is not theory. 1 speak from ex-
perience.
"My conclusions concerning under
wear are that the weight of authority,
as we'll as experience and observation,
all tend to the decision that fair COM
promise between cotton and wool is
the most rational settlement of the
question. / believe that during the
heated season the underwear for the
upper part of the body should consist
of the combination of these two agen-
cies. For wear while taking vigorous
exercise, causing profuse perspiration,
advise light cotton under-garment
and a heavy woolen over.garment.
When one wears q white shirt l would
advise woolen underwrap-very
light; but when one wears flannel
negligee the cotton underwrap is more
desirable"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-09

ing they might want me to carry game.
He had no luggage and would walk to
the station. " Then Spiridon grinned and
scratched his head. 81 may have been
q little drunk when your man came
down." he added; "the gentlemen had
both tipped me generously"
There was no more to be got out of
Spiridon.
Then l went to the station and in
quired of the station master, who said
be knew the count we'll, whether be
had seen my father on the day in ques-
tion.
"Did he travel home by the afternoon
train on Wednesday the -" asked
"wednesday, the" repeated the
man rehectively, consulting his day
book "Ah, thought so-no, he did
not, for that was the afternoon that
the line was blocked. Some rascal had
laid tree across and the engine ran off
the line-the up engine-and plowed
the metals. l remember your father
coming to the station. but he did not
travel.
"What did he do, them" I asked,
flushing with agitation, for here, l
thought, was the beginning of clew.
"Well I can't tell you" he said.
"He left the station, and, now come
to think of it, be did not reappear. The
other gentleman took the train next
day, but not the count.
"Not the COUNT repeated. care
you sure2"
"Quite surel' said the man. "He
came on the Tuesday, but-well, be has
not gone back yet, and that's fact"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-09

STRANGE FEATs OF EYE AND HAND.
An expert who prided himself upon
the smallness of his writing sent the
president of the French academy q
grain of wheat on which he had writ
ten 22l words. A Polish poet wrote\
all of Homer's "Iliad" on a piece of
paper which could be rolled up small
enough to 60 into nutshell.
In the sixteenth century man
named Mark offered to Queen Eliza
beth a gold chain of so links. The
chain was 80 fine it could not be seen
unless it was put on sheet of white
paper. TO prove its lightness Mark
tied it to fly, which flew away with
it. The most curious fact in this mat
ter, which required so extraordinary
facility of touch for making this orna-
ment, was that Mark was black
smith, accustomed to all kinds of
heavy tools all day long.
A Spaniard, Joseph Faba, made a
carriage as large as a grain of wheat.
Under a magnifying glass it was pos
sible to see the interior fitted up with
seats, every detail being carried out to
Observation-Disclosures City Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-09

SOMEBODY'S MoTHER.-A ragged
woman was crossing the corner of a
public park in large city where the
children of the poor are accustomed TO
play, many of them barefooted. A
burly policeman stationed at the cor
ner watched the woman suspiciously.
Half way acrosss she stopped and
picked up something which she hid in
her apron. In an instant the police.
man was by her side. With grut1
voice and threatening manner he de-
manded:
"What are you carrying off in your
apron?
The woman seemed embarrassed and
refused to answer. Thereupon the
officer of the law, thinking that she
had doubtless picked up a pocketbook
which she was trying to make away
with threatened to arrest her unless
she told him at once what she had in
her apron.
At this the woman reluctantly un-
folded her apron and disclosed a hand
full of broken glass.
In stupid wonder the policeman
asked:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-09

lfyr arrived at SC. Petersburg at

tainfyr arrived at SC. Petersburg at
last.
One of our men was at the station to
meet me and carriage waited outside.
| asked after my mother.
1.-The countess is WE'LL" said the
man, "but''- he besitated.
"Well, but what-speak" I said.
"Is my father well alsof" said this
on purpose to watch the fellows face
in order to observe whether fathers
mysterious absence was a matter Of
general knowledge in the establishment
at least
"The count is still absent" said the
man, "a1d the countess, though well
it Is said-in health, will, I believe.
be very glad to see her sonr'
This was oracular quite and revealed
Just about as much as the old Grecian
oracles were wont to predict, which
was just nothing I could not gather
from the fellows face whether he knew
Of our trouble or only guessed it.