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How to Teach Geography.

DR.. L. R. Klemm Of the United States
bureau Of education will. by special ar
ransement. lecture before the public school
teachers at Howard University, tomorrow
at o'clock. on THE Teaching OF Geog-
raphy." This makes a slight change In
the schedule az previously announced.
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MARRIED..

ROBINSON-SHAW. On November 81, 1900 at
the parsonage Of Luther Place Memorial Church,
by Rev. Chas. H. Butler. SARAH +. ROBIN
son and EDGAR NJ SHAW. both of District
of Columbia.
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Our DOLL Department

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china Dolls sque Dolls Negro Dolls Japanese Chinese Dolls
Indian Dolls Clown Dolls Uncle Sam Dolls Rubber Dolls Kid Bo
Dolls, Walking Dolls Talking Dolls,
Prices begin penny China and end at $1,000 for s
perb French Juneau" Doll "
Attention called choice line German Dolls Of the
famous make These strictly grade Dolls being
personally selected by and direct prices
asked for inferior grades They have full bodies leike
faces beautiful curly exposed teeth and closing They
in price from SOC. 500 each. ' "s~
Special attention called to Kesner" Dolls 5oc s1oo
each We made special effort have
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Also complete lines of Dolls Dolls Ou6+;ros
Guiding Long and Short Dresses Hats Caps Shoes Stockings Sacques
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Articles and everything imaginable pertaining to dolls ~
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Mems Gloves.

Mems Gloves.
Mems Full Pinue-sewn Gloves in tan and gray
a glove that is hard to find at the price
S1.OO per Pair.
Gloves for the short-fngered men,
too, in the tan lot.
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Dining room furniture Hoeks's sals-Adv.
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Mems Scarfs.

Mems Scarfs.
new Tie that is selling we'll IL n long narrow
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with the highland rundown collars. As the tie
| is small we can put In better silks at the price
soc. Each.
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Girls Clothing.

We show effects in Girls Apparel styles and
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greatly evidence but there prnlng reds browns
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We mention line OF Very Pretty Conbina ton
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some plaid skirt. and plain blouse trimmed with
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$500 Each.
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BOYLE. On Thursday evening November % 1900
at her residence, Hickey's lane, Bladensburg
road, KATHERINE BOYLE, the beloved wife
Of John Boyle.
Due notice Of funeral hereafter
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Boys Clothing.

81 oWW EaCE1.
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$500 Each.
II you wish a suit for every day. ordinary
we direct attention to a line of Gray mixed
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ting-two pairs of pants with each suit sizes 8
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-26
HOMER Fits, Barre, VI.
1866 North Main Street,

DR.. II. b, Hanson was granted permission
to hang sign over the sidewalk at 81 North
Main street. The report of the water COM
mittee recommending an extension of the
main to the residence Of Joseph e Brown
on fremont street was adopted, and the
petition asking that the main be extended
to the house of William Murray on Mer-
chant street was referred to that committee.
1t was voted to pay Ward & Douglass $500
on account, as part payment for the abut-
ments to the Berlin street bridge. The
committee on lights reported adversely on
the petition for arc lights on Brooklyn,
Park and North Main streets, and the re-
port was adopted. e e. Perry was grant
ed permission to lay water pipes across
East street extension. The committee on
lights reported a new contract with the
Consolidated Lighting company on basis
of seventy five arc lights at $36 per year,
each light to burn 275 nights year, and
until 11;30 each night For 500 incandes-
cent lights the price is to be g per year.
This report was accepted and adopted. The
contract price does not differ materially
from that in force.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-26

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Waits6eId

Postmaster McAllister is sick. George
Ashley of Moretown is in the Office.
The McDufie sisters, graduates of the
national school of elocution of Philadelphia,
will give a recital in the Methodist church
Wednesday evening October 3.
The body of the Rev. Aonzo Hitchcock
was brought to town and inferred in the
Irssvile yard on Saturday, September 10
Mr.. Hitchcock was born in Waitsheld in
1920 and was one OF the Oldest ministers in
the Vermont conference. He gave $50 to-
wards the new Methodist church in Waits
fsld.
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The drouth of the past few weeks has
been very severe here. Parties have been
destitute OF water and many people have
been obliged to draw water from distant
streams for general use. The welcome rain
OF the past few days has helped the streams
but has not reached the bottom OF the wells.
Filling silos has been the order of late
and much difficulty has been experienced
in obtaining machinery to do the cutting
when wanted.
Garland Currier, s. r. Day and Ernest
Hall are some OF those who have built new
silos this season.
Ray b. Carpenter and his mother have
left their farm and gone to Manchester,
N. II.
Calvin Carpenter has been visiting friends
and relatives in his native town after an alb
sence Of more than twenty. five years.
MIR. and Mrs. Ichabod. Rowell of Peacham
| have spent several days here. 1t is reported
| they are soon to move to Worcester.
Arthur H. Sargent has been home for a
short visit. He has had successful summer
| work canvassing In the west part OF this
county. He goes to Burlington this week
to enter the University OF Vermont
| Mrs. Nancy Richardson, who has been i'll
many months, Is reported to be gaining
very slowly.
Died in Barnet, September 20, Hiram
| Robe, q native OF this town. He leaves a
widow. son and daughter, one sister and
three brothers.
Mrs. Trafton and daughter Mary are TAX
ing carriage trip.
Miss Mabel Sargent is table girl in hotel
in Newport, N. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Tenny, Mrs Elizabeth
Robbie and Mrs. O. M. Parker went to Bar
net to attend the funeral OF Hiram Robe.
Mrs. Hattie Hurst has returned after
working at III. b. Johnson's in Bradford
Cheney Gu. rier leaves this week for Cole
brook, N. H., where he has employment.
George Jewell is having his house painted
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
A GREAT NUGGET.
1t IL Found in British Columbia, and
Contains 753 Pounds of
Pure Gold.

New York. Oct 26.-The biggest mug
get of gold ever received at the assay
office in Wall street, according to su-
perintendent Mason, arrived Thursday
from a mining company in British Co.
lumbia. It was consigned to the New
York agents of the Bank of Montreal.
The nugget contained fraction over
753 pounds of the solid yellow metal,
and is valued at $154,000. 1t came in
solid cone and stood about two feet
high. This cone was wrapped in cam
vass and fitted with an oblong box
made of two-inch planks and heavily
bound with iron. The gold was held
firmly in the box by two wooden
wedges driven in from the top. Two
heavy iron rings were set in the sides
of the rough box, and through these
were fitted wooden bass, by which the
box was lifted. 1t required four men
to remove it from the truck in the assay
office to the scales.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
A WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happ enings Of a
Week Briefly Told.
NALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News Of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the ]
- West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.


John Sherman, former representa-
tative in the house, for a long term q
member of the senate, and twice hold
ing cabinet positions, died at his resi-
dence in Washington in the seventy
eighth year of his age. e..
Leonard Wood, governor general Of
Cuba, says that wonderful progress has
been made in the reconstruction of the
island during the last year, and that
the Cuban government is now self-sup-
porting, with balance of ST ,5O0,0 900 in
the treasury.
The secretary af the navy has given
his consent to the removal of the bat
tleship Maine from Havana harbor.
All official circles paid tribute to
the memory of John Sherman at serv-
ices held in Washington before the
funeral train started for Mansfield, o.
A census office bulletin gives popu-z
lation of the 159 cities in the United
States having q, 900 each, the combined
population being 19,694,625, the in
crease over 1890 being 4,s39, 1856.
In the explosion at Indian Head prov
ing grounds, rs miles from Washing
ton, the government lost $50, 600 worth
of powder.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
CENSUS FIGURES.
some Interesting Statistics Regard
ing 159 Largest Cities of the
United States.

Washington, Oct. &c. The census
bureau, in bulletin issued Thursday,
summarizes the returns of popula-
tion of cities having $4,000 inhabitants
or more in 1900. There are 159 of
these, and the bulletin shows that the
percentage of increase in population
from 1890 to 1900 was 32.5, as against
49.5 for the same cities in the pre-
vious decade. The absolute increase in
the population from 1890 to 1900 was
1893, ,136, Or S2,426 less than the abso-
lutte increase from 1880 to 1890, when
it was 1921 1862. The 159 cities COM
bined have a population in 1900 of
19,694,625, against 14,s55,4se in 1890,
and 9,s33,927 in 1880. OF these 15s cit
les, divided into four classes, 10 had
100000 and over, 10 had 1OO, 900 and un-
der 10000, 40 had $4,000 and under
100000, and 81 had $4,000 and under
$4,000. In 1880 there were only 20
cities which contained more than
100, 900 Inhabitants, but in 1890 this
number had increased to 90, and in
1900 tO 38
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
THE EAST.

A dispatch says the National Civil
Service Reform league declined to ac-
cept Carl Schurz' resignation as presi-
dent.
The death of Henry Miller, the in
ventor of the steam and air brake on
railways, occurred at Chappaqua, N. Y,
in his eightieth year.
At Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia
the Russian battleship Retvizan was
launched. It cost $3,0o0,o0o.
At Paterson. N. j., four prominent
men are in Jail, accused of numbering
mill girl.
Coal operators made further conces-
sions and it is stated the big strike is
likely to end in day or two.
In New York city C. L. Alvord, Jr.,
teller of the First national bank, was
discovered to be a defaulter to the
amount of 100000. His whereabouts
were unknown.
The funeral of Charles Dudley
Warner took place at Hartford, Conn.
The Methodist women's 100000
twentieth century thank Offering"
has all been raised.
An announcement by President
Mitchell that he will soon make
definite statement is taken to mean
that the anthracite strike will be
formally declared off.
The anthracite coal strike at all COL
lieries that have posted notices of the
ten per cent. advance has been officially
declared off by President Mitchell.
At Cambridge, Mass, the worlds s BIZ
cycle record for an even hour, behind
pace, was placed at 40 miles $50 yards
by Will C. Stinson. ,t
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
LATER NEWS.

The Beers have captured Jacobsdal,
southwest of Kimberly, after stub.
born resistance by the garrison, which
consisted of detachment of Cape
Town Highlanders. The latter suf.
fered severely, losing thirty-four out
of fifty-two men.
The war department received dis
patch from General Macarthur giving
an account of a fight in which small
detachment of the American troops
attcked a much superior force of Fill
pinos. Lieutenant Fiberger and four
others were killed.
At Chillicothe, O., Harry Gudgen, 1s
years old, shot and killed Miss Matte
Nichols, aged 46, and then committed
suicide. Jealousy is supposed to be
the cause.
Mayor Rodriguez has issued an Or
der to the police, directing them to
take into custody children under IL
years of age found in the streets of
Havana, unaccompanied, during school
hours. It is the intention of the au-
thorities to enforce the school law
strictly.
The gold in the United States treas
ury the 9th amour: led to $451, At, 404,
the highest point ever reached since
the foundation of the government.
This is said to be the largest gold fund
in the world.
Should the negotiations in Peklng
fail to produce satisfactory results
within reasonable time, the United
States will urge the reference of the
matters in the dispute to the inter-
national court of arbitration at The
Hague.
Thv Scotch steel makers, owing to
the importation of American steel
plates, have reduced their, prices S
shillings. making Is shillings reduc-
tions, it is thought, will fully meet the
American competition.
Robert aud Lutte Dannenberg were
acquitted of the charge of murder at
Tahlequah, /. T. They killed Jerry
Russell, barber, while attempting to
arrest hum.
The Transvaal was the 9th pro-
claimed part of the British empire,
the proclamation being attended with
impressive ceremonies.
The United States transport Lawton
arrived at Seattle with 500 stranded
miners from Nome.
A grip car in Chicago was wrecked
by jumping the track, and nine per-
sons were hurt
Edward Henry. colored, died in Pitts
burg, Pa. aged l1G years.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

The London Daily Express says that
. syndicate of New York and Philadel-
phia capitalists, including Russell Sage
and Hetty Green, have decided to erect
q great hotel in London for the benefit
Of bachelor girls. The building will be
as high as the law allows, will be light
ed by electricity and heated by steam,
will be thoroughly modern in all it's
equipment, and will furnish model
home for 200 or 300 young women. But
why should Americans go to England to
build such hotels, when there is not a
large city in the United States but what
needs such a place? 49, .s
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
WEST AND SOUTH.

Charlotte A. Sanderson died at her
home in Sanford, Fla, aged 100 years
and months.
AtEldorado, ILL.,, Thomas Simpson and
Mrs. Mary E. Mooneyhan, aged 81 and
81 respectively, were married.
At Nashville, Tenn, the twenty-ffth
anniversary of Vanderbilt university
was celebrated.
DR.. J. N. Craig, of Atlanta, Ca,
dropped dead in the pulpit while ad-
dressing the Presbyterian synod at
Newport News, Va.
The 1900 census gives California
population of 1,4s5,053, an increase
since 1890 of 276,923, or 22.e per cent.
The legislature of Georgia convened
in Atlanta.
William A. Paulsen was sentenced
in Chicago to an indeterminate term
in the penitentiary for receiving de-
posits after his bank was insolvent.
James Galloway and James Guer
(colored), charged with firing into a
farmers house, were hanged by mob
at Liberty Hill, Ga.
The selection has been made of c.
NJ. Cotterman, of San Francisco, as
ippine islands.
Fire wiped out the entire business
part of .Minneiska, Mimi, including
the post office.
Flames swept away the entire busi-
ness portion of Dunavant, Kan.
Carrie Caldwell, insane from grief
over the death of her parents, killed
her three children and herself. at
Hnutersville, n. c. %s~.- -.
While drunk Charles Vargo killed
his wife and himself at Aurora, Ill. /
The Klondike mining camp is now
prosperous commercial center, says
Consul McCook at Dawson. r.
Robert Earwood, G. G. Graham and
Richard Russell, employees on Van
Asheville, N. C.
The steamer Port Stephens sailed
from San Francisco for Manila, carry
ing 400 horses and several hundred tons
of supplies. Z s. .@s=.t s4 s .
The death Of A. w. Merrill, editor Of
the Prairie du Chen Courier, occurred
at the age Of IS years. He was the old
est printer in Wisconsin. zs.=s..s =.
John sherman's funeral took place
at Mansfield, O., President Mckinley
being among those present.
In many streams in upper East Ten
nessee high water was doing great
damage. u. 1s
In Helena, Mont, Deputy United
States Marshal Sam jackson was
killed by fall. For years he was fa-
nous government scout. =.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
Engineer Drops Dead.

Springfield, ILL.,, Oct. 26.-John Nc
Mahon, an engineer of the special train
bearing Richard Yates. republican can
didate for governor of Illinois, from
Vermont, Ill.,, to White Hall. stepped
down from the engine as the train
pulled into the station at Beardstown
Thursday and fell over dead. McMa-
hon was resident of this place, and is
survived by his wife. The coroner's
jury returned a verdict of heart
trouble.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

It will be interesting to note what
the result of this cane fad for women
will be. On the theory probably that
'Satan finds some mischief for idle
hands to do' woman always has en-
deavored to keep hers pretty well oc-
cupied. With one she takes a half
hitch on her gown and with the other
she hangs on to her purse, her hand
kerchief and various other things that
man carries in his pocket. So how
about the cane? Will she carry it in
her teeth? If not, to the load of
which hand will she add it?
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

From the outbreak of the contest
with the Beers up to the end of Sep
tember the actual war expenditures
of the British government were $780,
100000, and the official estimate of
payments still to be made-based on
the declaration that the war is over
is $S0,00O,00O more, making a total
of $500, 100000. This is nearly equal to
the gross output of the South Af-
rican gold mines from their discovery
to the beginning of the war, a period
of 15A years.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

California stands fifth among the
states as an oil-producer.
British Navy league declared Eng
land no longer rules the sea.
Rapid growth of American trade in
China is shown by official reports.
Mormonism IS getting a strong hold
among the Maoris in New Zealand.
w. P. Rend says European countries
must look to America for supplies OF
coal.
All the street mail boxes in Ere.
mont, O., were broken open and the
contents rifled.
The 33 largest towns of England
and Wales have a total population OF
nearly 12,ooo,0oo.
The total number of deserters from
the French army since January !
amounts to nearly 1900. <.v.
The Pennsylvania railroads system
of pensions for employees may be ex-
tended to its western lines. I.
Ramon Reyes, a Filipino, asked the
privilege of registering at Omaha with
the view of voting for president. +
senor silvela, the, premier, has made
the emphatical declaration that Spain
must have powerful navy again. n
Rev. Sam Jones, the evangelist, is
broken in health. His physician has
ordered him to take an absolute rest
for several months. :4sf ss.f !. ss5%
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

Nearly 80 years ago Jonas Silver
man, a farmer living near Spring
field, O., was swindled out of $1,000
by sharpers while on a train near
Valparaiso, Ind. The criminals es-
capped and ere long one of the three
died. The other two drifted to the
Klondike year or two ago, became
rich and have just returned to the
states. They hunted up Mr.. Silverman,
paid him the $500 and gave him
ST 600 more by way of interest on the
forced loan
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
The police officials of Kansas tow1

The police officials of Kansas town
were made the victims of senseless
hoax when stranger called at head
quarters and related a circumstantial
story of how he had been robbed of
$40 bill. Every policeman in town was
furnished with description of the
alleged thief and a whole day was
spent in looking for him before it
dawned upon any of the sleuths that
there is no such thing as a $40 bill.
By that time the joker had disap-
peared.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
AGED Printer Dead.

Prairie du Chen, Wis, Oct. ga.
w. Merrill, editor of the Courier, died
here Thursday night. aged IS. He was
the oldest printer in Wisconsin, having
established the Milwaukee Sentinel in
1882. He came here. from Milwaukee
in 1856, and began editing the Courier,
which he continued up to the time Of
his death. - ~ &'% 81 g. = g. .' '.-
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

The most remarka BILE feature in con-
nection with the recent discoveries in
Babylonia of records .antedating all
Others by thousands of years is the fact
that men were much as they are now,
and lived then somewhat as they live
to-day. On one tablet ajeweier gave a
guarantee that an emerald set ring
would not fall out for 90 years; on an
other q couple Of farmers agree to refer
the question of their bound larry line to a
third party for arbitration. A third
bears record Of the adjust Of a
claim for wages, and so on, the life
then being similar to the present.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

American machinery will hereafter
handle the coal and iron received and
shipped in the harbOr of Alexandria,
Egypt, with a reduction in the cost per
ton from $3.50 to so cents or less. An
expert was sent to this country to
study the problem, and the result is the
construction of an elevated tramway
on the American plan.
Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31

According to late authorities it is
a mistake to suppose that the In
dian population of the United States
is decreasing. It is declared to be
slowly growing now that tribal wars,
are at an end and the red man has
learned not to get into trouble with
Uncle Sam. Poor Lo is becoming a
self-supporting agriculturist.