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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Favorable Mention.

Enfant Terrible-Mrs. Myles was
praising you to-day, mamma, to Mrs.
Renwick. I was on the other side of
the garden wall, and heard 'em.
Mamma--What did she say?
Enfant Terrible-She said there were
worse old gossips than you in the town.
-Tit-Bits,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Just AZ Good
bowling

Father-What's the baby bowling
about?
Mother-He wanted to pound on
the piano, and wouldn't let him.
Father-I see, and now he's using
his voice as a substitute.-N. Y. Jour-
nal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
No Difference.

What is the difference between q
sharp man and smooth rascal?''
Frequently there is no difference.
The term depends upon whether you
profit or lose by the operations of the
man in question. Chicago Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Common.

"They are making fuss in Alleg-
gheny, Pa, over four-winged chick
en- that somebody in that city owns.'
Huh! That's nothing. We never
have any other kind at our boarding
house.'-Chicago Times-Herald.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
No Wonder 1t Looked Strange.

''Here is the portrait of your wife, sir.
How do you like it?''
"Um-m-m. Pretty good. Hold on.
There's something wrong about the
mouth"
''Why, what is it?'
II dunno. Gimme time. It isn't nat
ural. I never saw her mouth look like
that. Ha! have it. You have painted
it closed!"- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Returned.

"A stolen kiss or a borrowed kiss,
Which is your favorite smack?'
"A borrowed kiss" replied the miss,
For it can be paid back"
Chicago Daily News.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
The. Rafin.

Nine tailors make man, they say,
So put that in your pipes;
But twelve good men and true it takes
To make a suit Of stripes.
IN. Y. World.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
A Good Start.

Gibbs is opening a 1ewe1ry shop"
HAS he been left fortune?"
.'No; he has got back all the gold
and silver things he had given the
girl who Tilted him" Chicago Record.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
An Unfortunate Recollection,

"Whom did you marry, Billy?"
g. Miss Jones, of Philadelphia"
"You always did like the name
JONES' you used to tag round after
little .snub-nosed Jones girl when we
went to school together.''
eyes; she's the girl married."-
Detroit Free Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Mary'S Golf Skirt.

Mary had a little foot,
Her shoes were number two,
And when she walked and when she sat
She kept those shoes in view.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Seasons and Fruits

IT'S like the old-time calendar,
Which useful space encumbers,
THIS corner fruit-stand: for you'll note.
It's dates are all back-numbers.
Harlem Iife
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
A Forerone Conclu.aon

Cholly-Weally, Mabel, I didn't mean
what I said at all. In fact, I spoke
without thinking.
Mabel-Oh,I never doubted that for a
mou1ent.-N. Y. Journal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Very Likely.

She-I understand Miss Gotrox mar.
ried struggling young man.
He-Well, who wouldn't have struR.
gled to get her?-Puck.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19

'Good-by, Alfred, darling. You have
cheered me up. If I get lonely and de-
pressed again I'll just look at your dear
photo-that's sure to make me laugh
and laugh and ]augh!"- Punch.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Too Tame for Her.

"Ah, let me only sit and gaze
Upon your face" he cried:
"A dog could do as much as that"
The pretty maid replied.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
A Fau1f If prorressinn

The young man he blamed seemed quite
unashamed.
He said in his own defense:
Il may not be sage, but in this present age
We have to use horseless sense"
Chicago Record
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Got what He Asked Fo,

'Casey-See here! thot dollar We lint
me yesterday wuz counterfeit.
Cassidy-Well, Casey, didn't ye say
ye wanted it bad?-Judge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Life II q Race.

Life Is race; the goal is round the bend:
Blest he whose legs hold out unto the end.
Chicago Record.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19

''You Kin kiss me, Willie"
"What'll yer glib me?"-N. Y. Jour-
nal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
Not Necessary to Talk Much.

You KNOW" she said, II am not
much of conversationalist.''
This seemed to him the opportunity
Tor Which he had been waiting.
WELL he returned, ''if do the
preliminary talking your CONVERSE
tlonal ability will be sufficient to en-
able you to say Yes won't it?"
After all, in courtship there is moth
ing like getting your answer before
you ask the question.-ChicagoP Post.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-19
On a Street Chr.

He'd dreamy, far-off look in his eyes,
Such wholly unconscious air
While the busy conductor passed along
A poet he was, you'd swear
But no--he was only trying to look
AS If he had paid his fare.
Harlem Life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

in war in which she is one of the bel
ligerents, is challenge to her enemy to
get there if be can.
England's advantages of position in
the Caribbean are not unlike those in
the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
She holds British Honduras, to the
northwest on the main coast; she has a
foothold on the Mosquito coast three
miles from the eastern terminus of the
proposed route; to the northeast is ia
maics, and to the east is St. Lucia, the
strongest British fortress in the waters
of the West Indies. These possessions
and Notifications are all in sufficiently
close proximity for purposes of attack.
And there are others. Key West and
Porto Rico are the points in the United
States of nearest approach to t. e east
ern end of the route, and San Diego,
California, to the western.
1t is clear that England could as safe
ly guarantee the neutrality of the Mic
aragua canal as of the Suez. 1t is
clear, also, that there is for the United
States no analogy whatever in the Suez
situation, and no force whatever TO the
argument derived from England's
guaranty of the neutrality of that can
al. On the contrary, the proposed
American canal must be as completely
under American control, in time of
war, when the United States is one of
the belligerents, as the Suez canal is,
in fact, under British control. And
the Vermont Senators ought to vote to
80 amend the treaty as to place this
canal completely under the control of
the United States government, which
will build and maintain it for the mil
itary defence of widely-separated
sections of the nation, and for the
protection Of its commerce and possess
sions in the Pacific and the Far East.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
Good Cheer.

The sympathy of the State press will
unanimously go out to the Montpelier
newspapers in their serious losses on
account of Wednesdays flood. They
suffered severely, along with the other
business interests of that city. That
the publishers, with their machinery
and motive power half under water,
their paper stock flooded, could issue a
paper is little short of wonderful. But
it takes more than food to daunt the
spirit and drown the energy of such
newspapers as Montpelier has.-Rut-
land Evening News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
And the Other Eighth Ought.

1t is common adage that man is
not responsible for what he says at
post-prandial talks, and it is this only
that will excuse the bad break said to
have been made by Gen. w. W. Henry
at Quebec. He told the Canadians that
the British cause was just; that the
best people in the United States were
with them; and that while Mckinley
was president they had friend behind
them. The Canucks cheered Henry
and the baud played "Yankee Doodle"
There was another Henry once, and he
didn't talk that way. Speaking against
England he said, "Give me liberty or
give me DEATH" That is what actuates
the Boer, and seven-eighths of the peo-
pie of the United States say "Amen."-
Herald and News, Randolph.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
The Most Honorable Leaf in
Our History.

President Stryker of Hamilton Col
lege closed his fervent eulogy of Gen
eral Lawton with these striking refer
ences to the cause to which the brave
general gave his life:
"Let it be said, and let it be said
here, that none of us is of those who
walked backward into the future and
translate the present upside down. A
timid and carping pessimism lives only
in the pluperfect, but good faith lives
in the future perfect. The one is sub
junctive, the other is indicative. Nay,
duty is in the imperative and uncon-
ditional mood.
"When, in the name of mankind and
that peace might be real, we undertook
in 1893 to cleanse the seas, we affirmed
principle and made precedent that
l., for one, hold to have written the
most honorable leaf in all our history.
But all that has been since was corol-
larry to that. No special pleading of
professional malcontents with whom
wisdom will not die, not priori alb.
straction, can unsay what this dead sol
dier's zeal said for America. Rather
does such death enjoln upon our pur.
pose and performance such ends as
shall vindicate US from cowardly indf.
ferentism and evasion in the face Of
whatever duty and however unex
pected or complex-enjoin US to re-
gard and to teach liberty's authority.
'In some good day-not far away
please God - when those islands
foundlings no longer, shall have beer
rendered as majestic deodand to civ
ilization, to regulated freedom, and t.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
Two Funeral OratiOns by Senator
Blackburn.

By the irony of fate and the exigen-
cies of personal ambition it became the
duty of the Hon. Joseph G. S. Black
burn to pronounce the funeral Grafton
at the coffin of William Goebel And
of Goebel, Senator Blackburn said:
Build here over his grave mighty tow
ering granite shaft that shall defy the cor
rodng touch of time. Inscribe upon it an
epitaph that shall be worthy of the man.
He earned this at our hands. In life and
death he was conseorated to the peoples
cause. He lived an honest life, and gave
his life for your deliverance. OF him no
eulogy but truth may say: Earth never
pillowed upon her bosom truer son, nor
Heaven opened wide her portals to receive
a manlier spirit
AT Covington on Sunday, April Ia,
1895, little less than five years ago,
the eulogist of Goebel pronounced an
other funeral Grafton. That time he
stood by the coffin of Col. John L.
Sanford, who like Goebel had been
shot down in the highway. And of
Sanford Senator Black burn said:
John Sanford was to me like a brother.
I loved him. / hope God may spare me,
and l shall make it my life's mission to
avenge him by burying his slayer in the
depths of merited public execration."
The slayer of John Sanford was Will
liam Goebel.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
CONCORD FAILURE
AbbOtt-DOwning Company Makes an
Assignment.

CONCORD, n. H., Feb. 19,-The ABB
bott-Downing Company, manufacture
ers of coaches, carriages, and wagons,
made an assignment today to Gerald
Wyman of Boston and Abbott Tread
we'll of Concord. The liabilities are
100000 and the assets are S600,00O
The company was established in 1928.
The capital is 100000.
The assignees will continue the bnsi-
ness and express their confidence in
being able to satisfy all their creditors.
Neither the assignees nor the stock
holders give any cause for the assign
ment. The company is employing now
about 200 hands and has good run of
orders.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
Legislature Meets To-Day. First
Session Since GOGb0I'S
Assassination.
QUIET AT FRANKFORT.
Questions Discussed. What Shall the
Program Be? Who Shall Preside
in the Senate?

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 19.-Many of
the Democratic Legislators have re-
turned and numerous conferences have
been held relating to the political pro-
gramme, when the Democratic and Re-
publican branches of the Legislature
meet for the first time since the assas-
sination of Goebel. The question of
whether Lieut.-Gov. Marshall (Repub-
lican) or President pro tenn Carter
OemocraD will preside in the Senate
is as wide open as ever.
Governor Taylor went to church yes
terday without military escort and
spent the remainder of the day at the
mansion with his family.
Governor Beckham returned to the
city tonight with the Democratic legis-
lators.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
TOPEKA CAPITA l.

Attention of WATCHMAN readers is called
to the advertisement OF the Topeka Capital
elsewhere In this paper. Reference has
been made to the Rev. Charles M. Shedons
plan for editing and managing the Capital,
in accordance with his ideas OF what a
Christian daily paper should be, applying
to every department OF publication the test
question, ,,"Whst would Jesus do2" The
Topeka Capital will be the most widely
read paper in the world during the week
from March 18th to the 10th. Send the sub
scrlption price, % cents, to the WATERMAN
office and the paper will be sent to you
regularly from the office OF publication.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
port that Cronje is retreating on Bloem-

port that Cronje is retreatng on Bloem-
fontein.
Military opinion here is that Lord
Roberts will not push far after the
Beers Immediately because of trans
port problems and the need of rest for
the troops. He has to feed 10000 per-
sons in his army and the whole Kim
berley population. He must rebuild
the railway from Modder river town to
Kimberley and revictual the latter.
General French lost few men, only
in action, but the forced marches and
heat have propably made many i'll.
Numbers of remounts must be provided,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
OF Foreign Interference as Soon as Ad-
VerSity in Africa Changes Into
Success.
LORD ROSEBERY'S SPEECH
Frightened the Country. The
Speech Based on Information
Received An Hour Before
It's Delivery,

LONDON, Feb. 18.-The news from
the western campaign in the Orang e
Free State continues to improve, yet
England refuses to rejoice. The truth
is that the relief of Kimberley came in
the nick of time to avert scare which
might have become a panic. The re-
cent debate in Parliament might well
have disheartened any country. Men
of both parties expressed views of the
situation and the outlook which were
fairly appalling in their warnings of
national peril, Lord Salisbury could
find nothing more comforting to say in
reply than that things were not worse
than in the darkest days of the war in
the Crimea. Lord Rosebery's solemn
declaration that the crisis was matter
of life or death to the British Empire
couldn't fail to brighten all classes of
Englishmen.
The idea which chiefly alarms the
public, is vague feeling that evil in
some form of foreign malevolence will
befall Great Britain as soon as her ad-
versity in South Africa changes into
success; in other words that England's
military good fortune means her politi-
cal peril. 1t is still impossible to in
dictate any definite basis for these fears.
Lord Rosebery gave vague express
sion to them and the public was ex-
cusable in inferring that he spoke from
actual knowledge.
His extraordinary speech was made
because of information which came to
him within an hour of its delivery.
This point has some significance in
view of the custom of the British gov
eminent to take the leaders of the OPP
position into their confidence regarding
any matter whice gravely involves the
fortune of the empire;
1t is announced that the important
orders for naval mobilization mean
nothing beyond mere service routine
The value of this perfunctory denial
will be seen later. 1t is quite true,
however, that even if the government
has no definite cause for alarm it is
acting wisely in increasing its prepar-
ations and vigilance in regard to other
powers as its military fortunes in the
South African campaign improve.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
1t Is Safe--Sure!

The st. Johnsbury Republican allows
that Dillingham; believes in osteopathy e,
but asks how he stands on expansion
and other national issues. Isn't it safe
to conclude that inasmuch as he doesn't
take much stock in medicine for physi-
cal ills, he likewise thinks the country
is doing pretty well without radical
dosing and that the Mckinley method
of letting nature take care of the pa
tient is well enough, especially as the
patient appears to be doing first CLASP
Randolph Herald and News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

the God of these, there, in fair Luzon,
right where he fell, front to his duty,
let the valiant frame of this true liberia
tor rise in immutable bronze, while, IN
derstanding us at last, our brown
brothers, gazing upon thet statue,
stature, statute, all in one, shall say
'He was Americas, but he is ours, too
-Lawton. He was slain by us ignor-
antly in unbelief; but he has forgiv-
en-"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21
WHY NOT THE WELLAND?

While the Hon. John Hay was get
ting from Great Britain all that he ask
ed, why did he not procure the neu-
tralization in time of war, as in time OF
peace, of the important little waterway
known as the Welland Canal?
Why did he not persuade Great Brit.
ain to join with us in guaranteeing that
the Welland Canal shall be open to the
warships of England's enemy in time
of war to which England is party2
1t is true that the Welland Canal is in
one sense a part of Great Britain'e
coast line. So will the American 18th
milan canal be part of ours.-New York
Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

Gen. John r. Lewis, one of the best
known men in Grand Army circles in Chi.
cago, died suddenly in that city Thursday
night. AT the outbreak of the civil war
Gen. Lewis mustered company of men
for the Fifth Vermont Volunteers. He
was commissioned captain. Sent south,
he rose to the rank Of -brigsdier gen.
eral, He took part in the battle of the Will
dernsss, where he lost one arm. Gen.
Lewis gave large sum OF money to Nor
witch University, which for time was
called Lewis College,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

Ut brlnge backthe snap and vlgoF
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nerve-worn man or woman the
desires Of life, and so Invlgor-
ates the blood and nerves that
life again plays a glad, merry
song.
And this La a anIannn fanA
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-02-21

fSaCnOus DUNG mon
and young women,
haggard, ueeIes SIS,
miserable, dro p by
the wayslde, burdenS
to Themselves and to
their friends.
Rise upl Be strongl
There is a way Or.
Creene's NeFVuPa
blood and nerve REM
edy Will AXE you
new again LITER
ALLY NJ EW. II Is
Natures own nerve
and blood medicine
lnVlgoratlng streng-
fhnntno --NrI4
The Republican journal., 1900-02-22
Notice of Foreclosure.

WHEREAS Alvah H. Cornforth of Pttstield,
w in the County of Somerset and State of
Maine by his mortgage deed dated the twentieth
day of September, A. D. 1890, and recorded in
Waldo Registry of Deeds. Book 1922 Page 443,
conveyed to the Trustees of Maine Central lnsti-
tute, corporation duly existing by law and hay
ing its established place of business at Pittstield,
in office, certain lot parcel of land situate in
the town of Burnham. in the County OF w aldo
and State of Maine, and being lot numbered three
according to survey and plan made by Daniel
Stewart, Jr., of the plymouth Gore" so called,
lying the south side and on the Sebasticook
river and containing one hundred and thirty
acres more or less and being the same premises,
lot numbered three, named in a deed from Going
HathOrn to Samuel Dexter, Jr., dated October ~.
1861, and the same conveyed to said Alvah IL.
COrnforth by deed of Isaac Dunton dated October
a, 1879, and recorded in Waldo Registry of
Deeds, Book 1870, Page 3OS.
Also one other parcel of land situate in said
half of lot numbered four in the town of Burn
ham, according to survey and plan made by
Daniel Stewart, Jr. of the plymouth Core
called, lying the south side of the Sebasticook
river and containing one hundred and twenty five
acres more less; intending thereby to divide
river in southerly direction SO as to divide said
lot in the center thereof. Said premises being the
same conveyed to said Alvah fl. Cornforth by deed
of Isaac H Lancey. dated October 20, 1877, re
corded in Waldo Registry of Deeds, Book 176,
Page 81;
And whereas the condition of said mortgage
has been broken, therefore, by reason of the
breach of the condition thereof, we claim a fore
closure of said mostgage.
February 18th, A. ID. 1900. The Trustees of
Maine Central Institute
3wS BY w. 7. SEEKINs, Their Attorney.