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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
A Magnificent Opening.

How the ten days hunting seasot
was inaugurated in Eastern Addison
county is thus described by the Lincoln
correspondent of the Bristol Herald
"Bangl bangl baugl Thus begun
the open season for deer long before
daylight Monday and thus it continues
to the benefit of the festive buck with
good ears. AT this writing the honors
of the chase fall to Austin Basalow,
who with Bert and Frank Lathrop,
killed buck weighing about 200 pounds
Monday on the mountains west OF Her
man Grams. Long before midnight
Sunday the sportsmen we're ready for
the fray, in fact "there was sound OF
revelry by night" while Lincoln gath
cred her hunters and her guns. The
shot gun murderers recalled the line:
THE antlered monarch of the waste
sprang from his heather couch in
haste" and presented armsl How the
museum collectors would have smiled
could they have seen all the guns at
once. There were shotguns of prehis-
toric times of all calibres and makes !;
rifles that did service with Aliens boys,
Lii . Olu PiOSOf OOo
iah's old smooth bore that brought
down the panther, muskets, revolvers,
and pitchforks loaded with bird shot,
buck shot, chambered shot, target shot,
horse nail stubs, cd stoves and mon
key wrenches. An occasional city
sportsman attired in urban suit and
anxious to see bear was on hand, and
the festive small boy played man and
anticipated the Fourth by diligent use
of toy pistols. The order, forward"
came at 3 A. NJ. W EN- Frank Farr, car
rying a big lantern, started for the we
mountain. Bert Cove, equipped with
a cornet and followed by the Lincoln
orchestra took to the east mountain
and the Bucktails deployed to the
Notch. Sis, bang, SCOT, yah. yah, yah
boom, yi-hi, "that whiskey is mighty
PALE" bang, sis, bangl Thus the dir
continued"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
Why He FlOpped.

Representative Joseph d. Sbley of
Pennsylvania, who changed his politics
during the last session of Congress and
became Republican, has lately been
explaining on the stump why he flop
ped. Mr.. Sibley four years ago was a
Democrat, silver man and Bryan
man. He was 80 prominent in the
party that he was favorably mentioned
candidate for the presidential
nomination along with Bryan. Today
he is running for Congress in his old
district on the Republican ticket. He
is on the stump in his own behalf, and
the reasons why he Topped are stump
speech in themselves. He says he
saw men earning twice as much now
as in 1896.
He saw everybody employed now,
while in 1896 forty-seven per cent of
the wage earners of the country were
unemployed or working on short hours.
He saw the country manufacturing
for home consumption and for export
now instead of importing, as in 1896.
He saw a pound of wool selling for
| 80 cents instead of IL cents, as in 1896,
and cotton at 10 cents instead OF tour
| cents.
He saw an advance under Mckinley
o. as to 1875 per cent in the price of all
farm products.
He saw $765,0OO 900 more paid to
wage earners in this country in 1899
than in 1896.
He saw IS miles of empty freight
cars sidetracked and idle on the New
York Central railroad for two years
under Cleveland, and now every wheel
turning.
He saw our boys in blue being shot
down by savages and the Bryanites
sympsthizing with the savages.
He saw every month national sur
plus, instead of deficit, as in 1895.
He saw we were lending money to
Europe, instead of borrowing it from
Europe as under Cleveland.
And when he saw these things he
went and chopped. "-Keene Sentinel,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
ma1gnan 4 soutnal
~ EDNEsuAY. OCTOBER 81, 1900.
ARTHUR ROPES. Genera, sd,ror
Thanksgiving.

President Mckinley enumerates the
blessings of the nation during another
year. The country has been blessed
with abundant harvests. Labor and
the industries of the people have pros
pered beyond all precedent. American
commerce has spread over the world.
The cause of freedom and enlighten-
ment have extended over distant seas
and lands. The lives of Americas
representatives in China have been
marvelously preserved. "We have been
generally exempt from pestilence and
other great calamities; and even the
tragic visitation which overwhelme d
the city of Galveston made evident the
sentiments of sympathy and Christian
charity by virtue of which we are one
united people,"
Therefore, the President appoints
Thursday, Nov. 20, to be observed by
all the people of the United Ststes, at
home or abroad, as ga day of thanks :
giving to Him who holds the nation in
the hollow of His hand" The people
are exhorted to gather in their plac es
of worship end devoutly give thanks
for the prosperity with which they
have been blessed and pray for its con
tinuance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The Bradford Opinion editorially
says:
"That this section was almost unsni-
mously of the opinion that Mr.. Dill
bingham could not win against foe
supposed to be invincible is known to
all, but our faith never wavered in the
ultimate triumph of the man known
all over the State as model of frank
ness, simplicity and genuine worth
He has broad and generous nature,
that combines with signal ability an
entire absence of bigotry and thor
ough respect for other peoples opin-
ions. He is able to look at things from
more than one point of view, and his
genial companionableness has won for
him all through his life great many
devoted friends, who have shown what
rallying power genuine friendship has
a. crucial time. Mr.. Dllingham's
recent campaign record cannot be ex-
celled for its entire freedom from any
suggestion of a pledge or bargain.
Those of the opposing party came to
his support out of admiration for the
man and a the sacrifice of breaking
from their party candidate, believing
it to be Tor the best interests of Yer
mont"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
THE SALOON.
Is 1t a Dangerous Risk!

What is an American saloon? For what
does it existP By what methods does it ac-
complish these ends and what is the duty of
not only a Christian, but good citizen, con-
corning it?
The saloon, as it exists today, is purely an
American institution and is a part of an i'm
mense organized system. This system is
manipulated by the Beer Brewers Associa-
ton and the Whiskey Trust. 1t has its official
organs. its conventions, its literature, its Off
GERS and rules. For solidity and vigilance, we
have not its equal in any corporation in the
country. 1t is powerful factor in politics.
The saloon is the avenue by which this great
organization reaches the public. Its location
in the town, equipment, manageme t and as
socations all arranged with the one pur-
pose, of enticing and ensnaring individuals be
they old or young, rich or poor high or low, as
regarded from social standpoint, the sole
purpose being to get money, giving in return
what? A commodity that benumbs the fac
ulties, curses the individual, units him for
good citizenship and society, ruins the family
and destroys the soul 1t gives not one COM
pensating good, as an Offset, for its long cata-
logue of evils.
So we'll known are these evil results that
churches, school houses and wealthy residents
are carefully guarded ON the near proximity
of the saloon dangerous risk" for morals
and society. Insurance companies. recoguiz-
ing these facts, pronounce the saloon an 'ut-
us that the average life of the total absaner
is nine years longer than that of the moderate
drinker, another unsafe risk"
A ady interested in temperance work Sc
lected thirty of the leading business irms
of a representative city and addressed per-
sonal letters to the head of each firm She
varied these notes according to the line of
business but the substance was practically
the some, viz, is there room in your line of
business for an exceptionally fine and capable
young man, who has every qualification for
business except that out of office hours he
drinks in moderation with his friends?n These
letters were addressed to wholesale and retail
merchants, editors, college presidents, bankers
lumbermen, grain men, heads of public insti-
tutions, and managers of three important rail-
ways. Within a week every man but one
who was absent from houe- had replied for
himself and each without the knowledge of the
other in language that was nearly identcal
1--WE have no use for young man such as you
mention y Each and all they considered him
a dangerous and unsafe risk
A famous editor once resolved never to
touch liquor in any form, for, said he, 1T has
ruined one of the brightest minds ever knew
The individual he referred to was one OF the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
An Unfortunate Publication.

The Brattleboro PhgniD OF this week
contains nearly a column letter from
Judge Ross on the result OF the sen.
atorial contest. In commenting edi-
toYially on the letter the PhoeniT says
that it was a private communication,
and was allowed to be made public at
the editors solicitating. The DAILY
JOURNAL, after careful review of the
letter, is compelled to express the opin-
ion that both Judge Ross and the
PhoniT have erred in judgment in per-
hitting and soliciting the publication
of the letter. 1t is distinctly not a
friendly act on the part of the PhHniT
toward the ex-senator, and it is unfor-
tunate for the latter that he yielded to
the importantly of the editor. The
letter discloses feeling which is un-
worthy of Judge Ross, in its tone of
peevish discomfort generally. and in its
reflections on the methods of the other
candidates specifically.
The aspiration to seat in the Sem
ate of the United States is a most wor-
by one, and candidate has right to
make every proper effort and to use ev-
cry honorable means for the realization
of that ambition. The DAILY JOUR.
NAL has been given to understand from
excellent local sources of information,
that a popular and unobjectonable cit
izen of st. Johnsbury, favorable to
Judge Ross candidacy, might have re-
ceived the nomination for town Rep
resentative without opposition, and that
such was the understanding at the time
of the Republican county convention.
On the contrary, the Judge appears to
have favored the candidacy of person
ally unpopular man with the result that
his candidate was repudiated by the
people.
In assuming vastly superior political
morality and in posing as martyr to
clean and honorable political methods,
Oeo COuuuCb 10 w
lose for him whatever sympathy of the
people has been given him. In appro.
priating to himself all the political mo-
rality of Vermont the ex-senator makes
a grievous mistake, There are other
honorable men in the State, even
though they "stoop'' to the use of de-
cent and legitimate effort to attain sue
cess in public life. The "holier than
thou pose as an incarnation of all the
virtues of the political life of the State
is distinctly discreditable to the ex.
Senator, and the forcing of the public a.
ton of such assumptions and refec'
tions and wailings is very unfortu.
nate and regrettable "break" on the
part of the Brattleboro contemporary.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
VermOnt's Confidence

The Vermont correspondent of the
Springfield Sunday Republican cannot
understand the political apathy in this
State during great national campaign.
1t is not apathy, dear Child, it is con-
fidence and content. Vermonters have
a dinner pail packed with good things
solid to the tin coffee cup on top, they
have perfect confidence from every in
dication and the signs of the times that
it is going to remain full, and in that
knowledge they are content. They
have contributed to this grand result
by vote in September which was
heard around the world and which
"bulled" the money market of London
as soon as it was flashed across the
water, and they are going to do their
further part in riveting and clinching
the result next week Tuesday. They
burn comparatively little red fire, but
are heard from whenever a word en-
couraging to political truth, honor and
righteousness is demanded.
The dinner pail is loaded to reple-
ton, graineries are PACKED to the roof
with the yellow emblems of prosper
GUS harvest, the cellars are stored with
the wherewithal for infinite boiled din
ners, goodly flocks and herds are COM
ing up the lane at night and the mas
sive turkey parades the farmyard in
solemn majesty. No, Vermont is not
apathetic. 1t is content with bountiful
harvests, plenty of well-paid employ
ment for all, good prices for its pro-
ducts, peace and mental and physical
health within its borders and the calm
and blessed assurance that right is pre-.
dominent and will remain 30. There
fore it turns smiling and confident
face toward the future, and gives no
room to doubt or fear. In the quiet
satisfaction of duty we'll done, Vermont
has every reason for being content.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
ANOTHER MASTERLY TRIUMPH.
Enosburgh Falls, Vt.
A wandering item SAWS:

A wandering item says:
"Pressed milk" is the latest. One OF the
Agricultural Experimental stations has
found that by subjecting milk for an hour
to pressure of 800 900 pounds it will keep
for four d ,ys "
| have been expecting something of this
nature for long weeks. When the expert
ment stations are silent for any length OF
time, they are invariably incubating vast
and overw helming scientific fact which ia
des ined to shake the very foundations Of
empire In the old DAYS l was habiiually
shocked and thrilled by the profound ut
terauces of the station bulletins on The sub
jact of garget in spring chickens, pip in
pigs, weevil in Muscovey ducks, fOotrot in
fresh water cells, tuberculosis in western
mess pork, trchina-howeve II is spelled
in dairy butter, blight and rust in cross
bred Jerseys and other fearful and wonder
full things on which the Experiment station
has cOpyrght. Since my earliest DAYS |
have had the profoundest admiration and
respect for any oracular utterance in a bull
letin, and even dreamed al night of floating
on a summer sea of Bordeaux mixture for
potato bugs,
And nov comes an experiment station
edict on how TO preserve milk for four days
by tue simple ACT Of sabjscting it 10 a pres
sure of 220 90 lbs The means are Of
course within the reach OF every dairyman;
even child can work il. II you DOME be-
lieye the statement 70 be t,4s, j1st try 10
and be convinced Dou't ask how, bnt sail
in aud try it. Only 100000 pounds pressure
applied by slight twist n the wrist, and
3 he milk il preserved for four daysl Ire
mendous are the trim phs of SCIENCE for
tact Give MS some more!
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
HOW's This 7

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by HALLS Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY ~ CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, o..
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and fnan-
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN Il MARVIN,
Wholesa Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure IS taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, seventy-fye cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
HALLS Family Pills are The best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The announcement was made Satur-
day that Charles M. Hays, general man
ager of the Grand Trunk system, has
resigned to become president of the
Southern Pacific. Mr., Hays, who was
general manager of the Wabash before
coming to the Grand Trunk, is easily
one of the dozen, more or less, great
railroad men of this country, ranking
with Cassett of the Pennsylvania and
ingalls, of the Big -Four, Ia no other
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

cut in two the representation of those
States in the national House, and the
country has right and considerable
reason to expect that this will be done
at the coming short session Of Con-
gress. No representation must be per-
mitted which is based on population
which is disfranchised. Down with
these violators of every law OF God and
mani
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The announcement by the admins
tration that before the first of July
next the army will be reduced to 27 800
men has knocked the breath out of the
misty phantom OF militarism or imperi-
alism, and as there never was anything
to the ism but breath-the wind of po-
litical dcceit-there is not even an OPP
portunity for lying left.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The Brooklyn lady who brought an
action against her seventy year old fam
lily physician for kissing her twice and
placed the damage at $25, 200 kiss,
didn't recover cent. If she had esti-
mated the kisses at ten dollars each,
she might have recovered her costs, at
least
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

If every citizen could vote and have
his vote counted and declared as cast,
every State east Of the Mississippi
would be carried by Mckinley next
Tuesday. The loss Of half the votes in
the southern States should in all justice
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

MY HEART was Thlmpirg Ny Life out,n
is the way Mrs. X. II w right OF Brock
vile, Ont, describes her suifsrnes from
3motherne, tuueriug and nalpitaton Al
ter trying many romedieR Withou. benefit,
six BOTTLES OF Dr. AeuEw's Cure for the
Heart restored her 70 Berfect health The
FIRST dose gave almost ~ slant ) eliei, and in
"a day suffering ceased altogliher.-26 @.
Blateiy and " e. ~ hll Is o..
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The young Queen of Holland has
issued an imperial proclamation an
nounciug the prospective fact that she
is about to marry Duke Henry OF Neck
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The indications now are that William
E. Chandler will succeed in getting
himself returned to the United States
senate by the New Hampshire Legis-
lature. Senator Chandler is small as
compared with the representatives. of
many other States in the senate, meas
ured by any rule of constructive and
broad gauge craftsmanship, but he is
large as compared with the other sena-
torial aspirants in his state. All of
which is distinctly unfortunate for New
Hampshire.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

Wanamaker is yet devoting his time,
energy and some dry goods profits to
an apparently fairly successful effort to
render political life an impossibility to
Mr.. Quay. The industry of Mr.. Wanna
maker in this matter, from the general
standpoint of application and persever-
ance, is certainly to be commended as
a great object lesson to youth.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

profession open 10 young men are such
vast possibilities of attaining inhu.
ence and power as in he general pro-
fession OF railroading, Electrical en-
cheering will in time surpass it as a
career, but at present the business of
rairoading is easily first in grand pos
sibiites of eminence and fortune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31
Zinc and Grinding Make
The Value OF Devoted Friends.

Devoe Lead and Zinc Paint wear twice as
long as lead and oil mixed by hand.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The Cambridge Transcript of yester-
day contains the valedictory of Editor
Bourne, who has for several years sue
cessfully conducted the paper. He re-
signs in favor of the Reuben Brush es-
tate, which indicates that the paper is
hereafter to be edited by the admins
traitor, as a part of his official duties.
Mr.. Bourne is a most companionable
man, and the profession will hope that
its loss is not permanent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

vermont isn't exactly pivotal or
doubtful State. And yet a bill has
been introduced in the Legislature now
in session up there which provides that
members, officials and employees of the
Legislature, judges of the Supreme
court and lawyers attending court may
vote in Montpelier at the coming ma.
tional election in order to save them
the trouble of going to their respective
homes to cast heir ballots. "-Boston
Herald.
Possibly one reason for this is that
the State does not care to donate to the
members two or three days in which
to 90 home and vote and return. From
financial point of view, the bill is a
great Investment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

Chairman Mcfarland of the Wash
ington city board of commissioners and
who is also Washington correspondent
of the Boston Herald expresses the
opinion in communication to his pa
per that 1--WE will not withdraw from
Cuba for some years to come" This
is owing to internal conditions
which forbid this government, without
being unfaithful to it's trust, to leave
the people to their own devices. If
they were left alone civil war would
break out within month, and prob
ably devastate the island for years.
This is exactly what the DAILY JOUR-
NAL has believed and stated to be the
situation there.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

An exchange says that when Lieut.
Gov. Woodruff of New York visited
Dannemora State prison the other day
he asked the deputy warden to put him
into dark cell, which is the only mode
of punishment in that prison, it is
said. Within minute he asked to be
let out, saying that he had had expert
ence enough for life time. There
can be no question but that solitary i'm
prisonment in dark cell is the most
awful punishment that can be inflicted
on a prisoner. Madness usually en-
sues at the end of few days, at the
furthest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-10-31

The more the facts come to light,
the more it appears that the late la
mented Knott & Closson failure was
quite little financial episode - for
Vermont. 1t appears that during the
year previous to their failure the firm
took from customers $487 900, and
paid to customers only about $40, 900.
This leaves the comfortable sum OF
$347 COO to promote continual won
der and anxiety on the part of the
large army of gentlemen and ladies
who are suffering pecuniary distress
because of the eclipse. 1t seems as if
some part at least OF that $347 900
ought to be brought to light.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-09
OfInterest to Advertisers.

Messrs. Nelson Chesman & Co.. adver-
Using agents, St. Louis. Mo-, Chicago IL,
and Pittsburg. Pa, have Just issued their
Newspaper Rate Book for the current
year. 1t contains complete list Of the
newspapers and periodicals throughout
the United States and Canada with cir
culation Of 5000 copies and over. 1t gives
detailed advertising rates OF each, char
acter Of the publication, length and width
of advertising columns. and IN fact every
feature pertaining TO the publicatlo IN
which IS likely to prove Of interest TO an
advertiser.
1t represents very heavy expenditure
on the part Of the publishers. who have
had for months a corps of trained experts
collecting this information and compiling
1t in a manner to make IT thoroughly in
telligible TO all advertisers. It is brought
cut at a timely season, as very many ad-
vertisers select the fall Of the year as the
most suitable time for making their an
nual advertising appropriations. The
work will unquestionably prove a desira-
bic addition to the library OF any adver-
tser-large or small-who IS not already
thoroughly conversant with the value Of
different publications, and all such should
avail themselves of the opportunity to Sc
cure copy.