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Cañon City record., 1901-05-02
Picture Framing!
8eecheT's,
The nost Accurate Method.

DR.. Pouliot, the Denver oculist, en-
ploys the famous dark room method,
"Retmoscofy,' in fitting glasses. 1t
is the most accurate test known. Not
necessary to tire out patients with
questions, as the most difficult cases
can be fitted without asking ques-
tion. At st. Cloud hotel until May
81. Consultation free. 1874.
An IMPORTANT MATTER--The fur
nishing Of the table when the purse is
small. Cash makes it easy at Kaye
& Davis.
Cañon City record., 1901-05-02
j. X. Brewster,
When You Get a Headache

6l2 Rudd avenue.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

are rising yearly in importance for
water power, and as towns and cities
increase, for domestic supply as well.
But with the streams the forests must
always stand as protectors. The pres
ervation of the forests on the noun
tains and foothills means the perpetu-
alton of the water supply, and the
security of the water supply means in
calculable development and benefit for
all sections of the country. The re-
suits of the investigations of the
United States geological survey, in its
study of the water resources of the
country, have repeatedly demonstrate
the increasing value of the streams.
The forests and the water resources
are so closely allied that they must
always stand side by side in the devel-
opment of the country.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
CONGRESS.

Washington, Dec. 1.-Two speeches
on the Hay Pauncefote treaty were
made i'll the executive session of the
Senate on Wednesday, one by Senator
Bacon in opposition to the treaty,
and the other by Senator Cullom, the
prospective chairman of the commit
tee. on foreign relations in support of
it.
Mr. Bacon replied to the speech
made on Tuesday by Senator Lodge.
He summed up his objections in the
statement that he could not freely ac-
cept any treaty which does not place
the Isthmian canal entirely under
American auspices and American CON
troll. This, he said, the pending treaty
does not do, nor does it do anything
like it, 1t did not by long odds ac-
complish what had been accomplished
by the Senate amendments made to
the Hay -Pauncefote treaty at the last
session of Congress- The Davis
amendment, he said, had abrogated all
the objectional features of that treaty
as negotiated, and it did not matter
what provisions there We're in the
agreement so long as the United
States were authorized as they were
by the principal Davis amendment, to
ScSulc tllt safety tHt maintenance OF
the canal by their own force.
Senator Cullom congratulated the
Senate and the country upon the fact
that there are two things in connec-
ton with the new treaty, upon which,
he said, practically all are agreed.
One of these was the desirability of
the suppression of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty and the other that of the ne
cessity for the construction of an 18th
milan canal.
He contended that the new treaty
radically changes the conditions pre-
scented by the first Hay -Pauncefote
treaty, clearly relieving it from the
necessity of such an amendment as
that made to the old treaty ON the sug-
gestion of Senator Davis, because the
treaty itself would permit the United
States under international law to own,
manage and defend the canal in any
way that it may choose. In other
words, he added, in a war with Great
Britain or with any other power the
treaty would be suspended, under the
law which governs nations, until the
war should be concluded, when it
would be revived and again en-
forced.
Washington, Dec 12.-The Senate
committee on inter oceanic canals met
this morning and ordered favorable
report on Senator Morgan's bill au-
thorizing the president to conclude the
agreements with Costa Rica and Nj
caragua for control of the canal terri
tory and appropriating such money as
may be needed for work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

That the Democratic party in the
nation at large is still in a chaotic
condition is indicated by the proceed
ings at the House caucus, when
esquire" Croker's henchmen from
New York tried to jam through a set
of gold standard, antitrust, and low
tariff resolutions. From the way
things have started out, it seems alto
gether improbable that the Democratic
party can clean itself up and get into
shape to present itself before the peo-
pie with set of living and attractive
issues for the campaign of 1904. The
intense bourbonism of the party is in
Dictated by the fact that while the
Populists, all radical silverites, have
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
SENATOR DILLINGHAM; PROG
RESS.

United States Senator Dillingham;
has only fairly begun his service in
the upper branch of Congress, yet he
is already recognized as one of the
most promising of the younger men,
bers of the Senate. His work on the
committee of the District of Columbia
at the last session won for him the
esteem of the residents of the capital
city, and he is president of the Wash
ington society of Vermonters. That
he is likely to gain marked prestige
during the session now begun is indi-
Gated by the following extract from the
Washington correspondence of the
Boston Transcript, which cannot be
regarded as prejudiced one way or the
other.
Senators Beveridge and Dillingham;
have come rapidly to the front in the
committee on territories. George L.
Shoup of Idaho, was chairman last
year, but he was not reelected.
William j. Sewell of New Jersey, who
comes next in order, is very i'll and
is not expected to do any work in this
session. Then came on the old lists
Carter and Thurston, who have both
fallen by the wayside, and are serving
Uncle Sam on the Louisiana purchase
fair commission then followed Kyle
of South Dakota, who died last sum
mer.
"This leaves Beveridge and Dilling-
ham as the only surviving Republican
members of the old committee, and
Beveridge would naturally be its new
chairman. With three or four terri
tories clamoring for admission to state
hood, this committee will be an inn
portant one this winter"
The most friendly relations exist be-
tween Senator Redtield Proctor and
Senator Dillingham;, and they give
Vermont representation in the Unit
ed States Senate which will certainly
continue to achieve results as well as
reflect credit upon the Green Noun
tain state. Burlington Free Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
WOOD AND WATER SUPPLY.

Wood and water, or in other words
the forests and streams are today
among the most important of the
country's possessions. In the west
they are indispensable, the forests for
lumber and for the protection of the
water supply, and the streams for the
reclamation of thousands of acres of
barren and almost useless land through
irrigation. 1t has been estimated
that there are 70, 600, 600 acres of So
called arid lands west of the Missouri
river which with the water now
available, can be made richly produc-
tive and the seat of large populations.
Thus in the west, the streams, even
more than the forest. must be consid-
cred of prime Importance as home
makers. In the east and west alike,
and over all the country, the streams
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
ABSENTEES AND FIGHTERS.

The POSTS exposure of the figures
i'll the prize money awards growing
out of the war with Spain naturally
caused widespread and by no means
temperate comment among public
men, and no wonder. 1t was an as
founding publication i'll more than one
way. In the first place, the country
had never before realized that the law
and incentive to piracy in essence
could be said to cover such monstrous
injustices to its proposed beneficiaries
In the next place, not even the laws
most uncompromising critic had inn
agined that under any conceivable con-
structon thereof two absentees could
be awarded twice as much as the thir-
teen commanding officers who with
their respective vessels, participated
in the fight; not only that, but actual
ly collect their 500, 800, while the $15,
600 assigned to those who were in the
engagement remains in the air
OF course, one heard all day Satur-
day the wiseacres explaining that cit
is the law, you know" and it was
touching to observe the effect of this
argument i'll certain quarters inno-
cent and childlike. But the hardened
majority refused to believe that any
UnlnP Ill Ulle law PROVIDED IOr Ulle pay
ment of the absentees while the real
combatants were compelled to wait
1t may be true, as stated, that Chad
wick and Sampson were illegally"
entitled to the 500, 800 they received,
while Schley, Evans, Clark, Cook,
Taylor, Philip, Wainwright, Watson,
Eaton, Schroeder, Sharp and Han
mum, got full justice in the award of
the $l5, 600 or $50, 900 which some day
in the sweet by and by they may di-
vide among themselves. The courts
have said so, thereby furnishing us
with "a new and brilliant definition of
the difference between law and JUS
tice-so we may dismiss the point as
settled. But we venture to assert
that there is nothing in the law
though it might easily have been
framed by Barabbas himself-to war
rant the payment of the two absentees
while the twelve gallant gentlemen
who did the fighting and won the
victory are pushed aside and told to
wait Among the blots upon the adj
ministration of the navy department
during the past four years-and they
are many and dark-it seems to us
that this is the most odious and ugly
of them all. Washington Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
CANNABALISM.

Manila, Dec. ~. -Cannibalism has
appeared in the varied lists of crimes
charged against the Filipinos by the
American military courts. According
to the record of courtmartial conven-
ed in the department of Viscayas, p.
l., which has been received at the war
department, Raymondo Fonto, ma
tive, found his working companion,
LiberatO Benliro, sleeping in his
(Fonte's) boat. Fonte became enrag-
ed, killed the slumbering man with a
blow with the oar, cut off his nose
and ears, and according to his own
confession cooked and ate a part of
the body He was sentenced to be
hung at Capiz, Panay, on the 30th.
military commission headed by
Major Henry S. Turrill, surgeon, SEN
fenced Juan Olivar, a Filipino, to
be hanged Olivar was the leader of
a band of ladrones which made an at
tack upon the house of Teodoro Labra-
dor, presidente of Nina, Panay, and
captured him, his brother, wife, grand
mother, godmother, small daughter
and a policeman. The grandmother,
godmother, and daughter were shot to
death i'll the vicinity of the capture {;
Labrador, his wife and the policeman
were taken to an isolated spot and
killed with bolos. The brother made
his escape Incidentally Olivar and
his band robbed Labrador of money
and other articles.
Gen. Chaffee criticised the proceed
ings on the ground that the accused
was charged solely with the murder of
Labrador, assault upon him with in
tent to kill, and robbery, while the
murders of three women, one small
girl and the policeman, were not in
cluded in the charges.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

The Methodist hymnal revision COM
mittee, which is in session in Cincin-
natl for the purpose of revising the
hymn book, has decided to eliminate
that old favorite, "Sweet Hour of
Prayer" objection to the last line of
the hymn having been found: "And
shout while passing through the air,
Farewell, Farewell, sweet hour of
prayer. " He leadeth me, Oh blessed
thought, is another favorite taken
out. Burlington News
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
The Christmas Dinner.

In spite of the fact that the word dys-
pepsa means literally bad cook. it will
not be fair for many to lay the blame on
the cook if they beg II the Christmas din
ner with little appetite an end it with
distress or nausea. 1t may not be fair for
any to do that-let us hope so for the sake
of the cook! The disease dyspepsia indi.
Gates bad stomach, that is weak stom-
ach, rather than IL bad co k, and for n
weak stomach there is nothing else equal
to Hoods Sarsaparilla, II gives the stom-
ach vigor and tone. cures dyspepsia,
creates appetite and makes eating the
pleasure il should be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.
A POLITICAL TALK.

The Journal desires q little quiet
political talk with the average Mont
pelierite. 1t is quite a season, is it
not, colleagues, since we delegated
certain of our number to attend to
the details of our city government and
leave us free for the pursuit of bust
ness? And quite a season is yet to
pass before they will throw the work
back upon us. In the meantime the
Journal wants to ask why wouldn' t
it be good plan for the plain voters
to find out a few things i'll detail
about the way their business has been
conducted in order to know what
kind of men they wish to have repre-
sent them another term?
Citizens, are you pleased with the
council as whole? Do you think it
has been harmonious enough to see
the city's needs beyond its own bick
erings? Do you think it has been
broadminded and far seeing enough
to manage best the business of a city
the size of yours? Has there appeared
that unity in diversity which war
rants the council not to be the tool of
one or two of it's members, but a set
of independent thinkers who can sac
rifce or adhere to their ideas as the
city's welfare demands?
What about the man from your
ward? Is he one of those little fell
lows who would give more thought to
a two penny ditch than to a substan-
tial sewer system? Has he been
clustering extremist who can see only
one side of a question at time, and
that the knock down and drag-out
side? Has he truly represented your
whole ward in its best thought its
best feeling, its best economy, or has
he represented the few partisans who
planned to put through his election?
Now in these lines we are not find
ing fault, nor offering criticism, but
the Journal wants the average voter
to get his eyes open to facts in time
to be deeply interested when he has
to delegate his ruling power for an
other term.
Who do you think is the best man
to represent your ward? Who is that
unprejudiced, broadminded, and wise
ly economical man whom the whole
ward respects, and who would be
willing to take hand at managing
things for term? Have you singled
him out? Have you talked to
your neighbors about him, and have
you planned to be down to the caucus
to place him i'll nomination, having
planned few things for carrying
your motion? Or are you going to
grunt and complain about the way
things are conducted and then go next
voting day to cast ballot for somebody
else's man and one who doesn't rep
resent you at all?
1t seems to the Journal that the road
to satisfaction as a citizen is by eX-
ercising the privileges Of a citizen
and it is citizens privilege to know
how things have been conducted; to
know where, if any, the faults are to
know where the man is in his ward
who WILL if in Office, remedy the faults
and to have part in an attempt to
elect that man.
You have heard about the early bird.
Well, the Journal asks the average
citizen to inform himself, to have
ideas about the city's business and
chances, to get man in mind worthy
to represent him, to get out to the
pect, to be pleased with the council he
has helped elect
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

1t is customary for Prince of Wales
to hold various honorary commissions,
especially in the army; in fact, the
Kings eldest son, who died several
years ago, was major in a hussar
regiment and had enjoyed some real
military training. But the present
Prince, it is stated, is the first to hold
an actual commission in the navy.
Indeed, he has shown himself to be
very good sailor, and he is doubtless
quite competent to serve as Captain,
that being the rank he has reached.
In view of the Importance of its
navy to Great Britain, it is we'll that
the future King should be so well
prepared to consider naval problems.
James III. was the last monarch of
whom this could be said. He was
really a skilful seaman and good adj
ministrator of naval affairs, as he had
a chance to show while he was still
Duke of York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
HEALTH AND BEAUTY.

A poor complexion is usually the
result of a torpid liver or irregular
action of the bowels. Unless nature $
refuse is carried off it will surely
cause impure blood. Pimples, boils
and other eruptions follow. This is
natures method of throwing off the
poisons which the bowels failed to re-
move. DeWitt's Little Early Risers
are world famous for remedying this
condition. They stimulate the liver
and promote regular and healthy ac-
ton of the bowels but never cause
gripping, cram"s or distress. Safe
pills. w. Il. Terrill & Co., @. Blake
ly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
DR.. En1nons'

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The most difficult cases successfully treated
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

been cleared out of Congress, or have
admitted the deafness of the silver
issue and gone back to the old parties,
the Democrats of the House are as yet
unwilling frankly to say that they
give up free silver. 1t would be easy
enough to do it, for they can take
the position that the demand for coin
age of more silver is not nearly as
pressing as it was six years ago, be-
cause of the increase of gold produc-
ton. Yet they refuse to take note of
the change, or to admit the clear
fact that whatever the original need
for silver coinage, there is absolutely
no call for it at present. And still
there are humorists who call the De-
mocracy the progressive party.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
Paid Dear for His Leg.

B. ID. Blanton Of Thackerville, Tex, in
wo years paid over $500 90 to doctors to
cure a Running Sore on his leg Then
they wanted to cut ii off, but he cured it
" .th one box of Bucklens Arnica Salve.
cure for Piles % cents IA box.
Sold by c. Blakely, druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

theirs, or he can let the net record of
his personal or official life stand for
reply to any structures upon either. -
New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
HUMPHREY VS.
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THE PILE OINTMENT.
One Application Gives Relief,

1t cures Piles or Observation-Disclosures
or Internal, Blind or Bleeding, Itching or
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mediate-cure certain.
at cures Burns and Scalds. The relief
instant.
1t cures Inhamed or Caked Breasts and
Sore Nipples. Invaluable.
1t cures Salt Rheum, letters, Scurfy
Eruptions, Chapped Hands, Fever Blisters,
Sore Lips or Nostrls. Corns, Bunionss
Sore and Chaied Feet, Stings OF insects,
Mosquito Bites and Sunburns.
Three Sizes, 25c., SOC. and Sl.oo
sold by Druggists, Or eut prepaid on receipt Of p'ca
HUMPHREYS MED. CO..
}or William ~ John sts., NEW Nohh
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

An Oklahoma admission bill was
one of the first measures introduced at
the opening of Congress. This is one
of the evidences, of which there are
many, that the admission movement
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
"REMINISCENCES

petroleum V. Nasby",
Josh Billings,
"Mark Twain,
John G.. SAKE,
MRS. Parfington",
"Miles O'Reilly",
Hans Breitmann",
"Artemus Ward",
"Orpheus { Kerr,
"Bill Nye",
Frank K. Stockton,
Donald G, Mitchell,
H. G. Bunner,
"Sam Slick,
Eugene Field,
Richard Grant White,
Capt. George II. Derby
WJohn Phoenix"),
Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Mortimer Thompson
go. K. Philander
Doesticks, P. By,
Bret Harte.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

There is true eloquence in the trib-
ute paid to Mr.. Croker by one of his
friends of the "old guard -" The re-
Cirement of the great man cuts this
devoted follower to the quick. "Crok-
God ever put on the earth, he says.
"There's nobody like him, and there
can't be anybody like him. " Those
who find it hard to share this enthu-
siasm may still agree to the second
statement Croker is original. And,
as his friend further remarks, he must
wait until he is dead before people
understand him. That has been the
fate of most great men.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
THE CENTURY
MAGAZINE
will make OF 1902 year of
n u wi @ r
CONTRIBUTORS

to the Year Of Humor
"Mark Twain,
F. p. Dunno
("Mr. Dooley",
Joel Chandler Harris
("Uncle Remus"),
Edward ". Townsend
"Chimmie Fadden"),
George AIDE
Ruth McEnery Stuart,
James Whitcomb Riley,
Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Gelett Burgess,
Frank r. Stockton,
Tudor jerks.
Ellis Parker Butler,
CAROLYN Wells,
Harry S. Edwards,
Chester Bailey Fernald,
Charles Battell LOOMS,
Oliver Herford,
Elliott Flower,
Albert Bigelow Paine,
Beatrice Herford.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
Eaale'S
Honey OF
HovehOund
and 7 ar

and it causes no indigestion, ESQ,
500, $500 per bottle; the largest size
cheapest. At all druggists. BE sure
to get Hale's.
Pixies TooihaChe Drops Cure In One Minute.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

Have kse@Ro restored to health
by Eyc5f.9 10 S7sosSSsaSSp's Vege-
table GOSsgSycSGsesS5s Their Lett
fers arc ON fife and prove fs,is
statement 10 be a fact, mot a
mere boast When a nfedi-
cine has been successful i'm
curing SO many women YOU
cannot we'll say without try
ing if" = do NOT believe IL
will help s,,e-D
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

Although we have heavy deficien-
cy as to our inland or domestic postal
service, we have a surplus of $042, 136
on our foreign or sea borne mails,
or over -, 800 per day. England, on
the contrary, has a decided surplus
from the carriage of it's domestic
mails, but meets with equanimity a
deficiency of about 1000 pounds day
on its foreign or sea borne mails.
Virtually all Of this goes in postal
contracts to British steamer lines.
England does about fifty per cent of
the worlds shipping business, and we
do about ten per cent of our own. If
she did not pay such enormous sub
sides in the shape of mail contracts
to her steamer lines, does any one
think our great publicists would fail
to call attention to the above figures?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18

Don't Replace a Bad Cold With
a Bad Digestion.
Colds are cured quickly and certain
ly by
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-18
Rearing-doWn Feeling

Womb troubles, causing pain, weight, and
backache, instantly relieved and perma-
nently cured by its use. Under all circum-
stances it acts in harmony with the laws
that govern the female system, and is as
harmless as water.
IEg1HuHzz.., Backache left me after taking
WI - the second bottle. Your medicine
CIV cured me when doctors failed.
| Mrs. SARAH HoLsTEIN,
Davis Block, Gorham St., Lowell, Mass