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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15
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BRADFORD.

At the special town meeting held ON
Saturday afternoon to see if the town
would deed the cemetery to the Gene
terry Association, it was voted to dis
miss the article. 1t seems a very
lamentable condition of affairs, that if
a body of people are willing to put
time, drought and money into the
work Of identifying the cemetery that
the voters in town should object to it.
The Chatauqua circle met for the
first time this season at Mrs. Eliza
Barrett's. Only a few We're there and
as none of the magazines had come,
the program for the years work could
not be made out
DR.. Charles Cole left town on Nom
day for Philadelphia where he will
finish his course .in dental science at
the University of Pennsylvania Mrs.
Cole and the twins go to London, On
tario. to visit her parents in about
three weeks.
Mrs. Kilbourn and her aunt Mrs,
Johnson, took advantage of the eXcur-
sion to Montreal last week and We're
gone three days
G.. H.7Woods and wifeIof lebanon,
We're in town last week.
Ernest S. Locke of Waits River,
graduate of Bradford academy 80 Wis
, tied friends in town on Monday
Ten members of the choir union
went from here to North Thetford last
Friday evening and report an exceed
ingly good time, and IA fine rehearsal
and concert. The next meeting with
the choir at Newbury, sometime in
November
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15
WESTIBElRTTN.

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Mrs. Amos Chase is very sick. Z
Peter Ryan is in critical condition,
caused by falling out of his wagon on
his way home from Montpelier
Mrs. Mary Sanders is visiting her
brothers, Amos and George Chase, be-
fore joiningther husband in Color1&o
The Misses tombstone attended4&l he
Sowden and Sanders wedding in Barre
last week.
The Ladies Aid will give a chicken
pie supper Oct. % at the White church
Miss Clara Johnston and the Sunday
school superintendent, George Chase,
were elected as delegates to the Sun
day school convention at Morrisville
next week.
! Lucisn Slack is spending the week
with his brother G.. L. Slack
The young pig found by Mr.. Culver
in G. l.. Slack s orchard was from Mr..
Selina's pig pen 91a miles away
1t is rumored there is petitionsin
circulation for the release of Dave
Bean from prison.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15

Vermont Waterman Company Job
Printers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15

Mrs. Lucy A. Sloan picked rasp-
berry bush in her yard full Of blossoms
and green and ripe berries on Oct. 8. !.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-15
SODOM.

Mrs. Flora McDermid with her two
children, started last Saturday for
Denver, Col, to join the husband.
Mrs. TIL. Wood has been entertain
ing brother and sister from Orange
the past week. ~ .-,.
A branch of the Kellogg Hubbard
library will be opened this week at
Mrs e. o. Bailey's, 1t will be open
Saturday and thereafter Wednesdays.
1t is absolutely free and readers are
solicited. We should be grateful in
deed for such an opportunity for this
improvement as this affords and make
the most of it.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

gowns, which were La Tosca in design or
directoire or empire by turns. She could
write most at her ease when clothed in q
certain pale rose-colored gown with a
Persian sash. India silk peignoirs and
Worth gowns galore were seen in her ward
robe. Her instructions were usually wound
up with the admonition-"make me lcok as
slim as possible" Her gowns were stun
ming, they amazed Newport and wrought
confusion to the fashion writer's, when
Amelie Rives was the sensation Of the hour.
Her clothes are also AFFAIRS Of prime i'm
portance to "ouida-" She always dresses
with elaborate care and usually in rather
fantastic fashion, being able to compose in
more glowing style II attired in draperies
like unto those with which she clothes her
herolnes. Three Spite dogs are her con-
slant companions. even when she is writing.
The presence OF animals is a source Of in
spiration to other writers-Francois Cop
pee among the number, also Gantier, Sea-
eini and Bandelaire. Montaigne also kept
his black cat beside him When writing. and
whenever puzzled for a word would stroke
its fur.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

In conclusion the statement says:
"The committee will continue, and as
promptly as possible complete its investiga-
ton into the promotion. organization and
operation Of these companies, and will re-
port fully to the certificate holders the re-
suit Of this work. as also its recommended
tion concerning a plan of reorganization,
which the committee is advised is now in
process Of formulation"
THE discrepancy between the figures now
made public and those first given out as the
earnings for 1900" says the Ledger. sis so
wide as to occasion much surprise that the
first figures should ever have been made
public. and also conjecture as to how they
could be arrived at. 1t was stated yester-
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

on the slightest provocation. while writing.
or even when dining out in compay, he
usually fell asleep at the dinner table: this
occurrence indeed was so common with him
that the guests usually only noticed Il with
a smile. After q nap Of some ten minutes.
he would open his eyes and take part In
the conversation. apparently unconscious Of
having been asleep.
Women Writers at Work.
George Eliot always dressed with great
care before sitting down at her desk. Han
nah Moore was fond OF sea green silk and
most of her tales were written with the
authoress CARRIED in a gown OF this hue.
George Sand, when writing wore pretty
yellow slippers, smart stockings and red
pantaloons."
What Francis Hodgson Burnett Town
send illustrates In her heroines as to
clothes and surroundings she practices on
herself. Few writer's perhaps have spent
more on their gowns and few are more SEN
sitive to their environments; 1t is impos-
sible for her to write at ease. whether at
home or on shipboard. unless surrounded
by an atmosphere Of refined luxury. A story
Is told that Mr.. Edmund Russell. OF Del
sarte memory, was once consulted by the
author OF That Lass O. Lowries" regarding
a certain gown. The material chosen was
OF large figured broeade, which on her short
person did not promise results that were
aliuring. Which is the right side OF this
fabricF" asked Mr.. Russell. This" said
the novelist. indicating Il TO him. you
are mistaken madam" rejoined Mr.. Rus
sell. That side is prose. the other Il
poetry" His hint or suggestion. however.
was not needed and the dress was made up
with its right side turned outward TO the
world.
Amelie Rives. in the first days OF her
fame. studied her glass carefully and spent
much thought, time and money on her
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

So we are grateful to the pope IL he has
asked our aid in the warfare against all
vice and wrong. His purpose to bring
peace to the world, to reduce ornaments
and war, is ours also. We would have
Catholics and Protestants brought into
closer relations. 1t is a delight to us to
see their crowded churches which are doing
Gods work, II not quite in our way. The
only influence we can see that is opposed
to the invitation Of the pope for fellowship
Of kindly service is that which seeks to
have the church NEEDLE with the state in
the public schools. He is a foe to the Cath
ollie church, a foe to its peaceful and mighty
growth, who. seeks to have the church
teach its religion in the public schools.
The Catholic church is now doing well un-
der a system which 1t approves and to
attempt to change it would be like kicking
a hornets nest.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

1T is stated on excellent authority that
an investigation into the overcapitaliza-
ton is already being made by the receiv-
ers. The fact that the committee feels it
incumbent upon itself to go to the bottom
OF the matter and that the receivers also
will doubtless make a thorough investiga-
ton, renders 1t almost a certainty that the
facts regarding the inception and formation
Of the companies will be laid bare. The
members of the committee feel that the
report as to the result OF the operations
OF the companies must be very disappoint-
ing to the security holders.
"A plan Of reorganization Is now pretty
we'll determined upon. The matter has
beeen under discussion for som time, and
while, in a general way, 1t has been out
lined, the members have held tina moth
ing definite could be done until the earn
ing power OF the properties should be
known. Now that that knowledge is in the
hands Of the committee, the question OF
reorganization will be discussed in a def
mite way"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
The POpe'S

1t is no wonder that at his age and with
his weakness Pope Leo should believe that
this his Easter encyclical Is his last ami
that he should make It his testament to the
Catholic church.
Nor is Il strange that he should feel the
burden Of the mistortunes that Cypress his
church. He regards them as prosecutions.
II will take more than one or two papal
reigns to teach the lesson that the tenn
poral rule OF Rome must belong to the
Italian nation and not to the Roman
church. After another pope or two there
will be peace between the %qulrinal and the
vatican and that by the submission Of the
vatican to the loss Of its temporal power.
but II Is too soon now. France is not yet
reconciled to the loss Of Alsace and Lor-
raine. but It Is getting reconciled and the
vatican will. in time, get reconciled; and
will feel the better and work the better
and be in a more logical position, not to
say more Christian.
The pope may we'll lament the evils that
afhict the church. 1t would seem as II
every Catholic government on the earth
was hostile and every Protestant govern
ment was friendly. That is because in
Protestant countries the Catholic church
is not established; 1t is free. But in Cath
Ollie countries there is constant friction be-
tween church and state. II is so in Italy,
in France, in Spain, in Portugal and in the
Latin American states. Socialism is grow
ing and socialism is opposed to establish
ments and so to the Catholic church as a
part Of the machinery of the state. So the
pope finds socialism a great danger, lead
ing to anarchism.
In view Of this great evil which he sees
and doubtless exaggerates, the growth Of
socialism, developing, he thinks, into an
archy and atheism, the pope utters the
most remarkable portion Of his testament.
1t Is an utterance to which we would give
full attention and all possible respect.
He invokes the union Of Christian bodies
as the leading remedy to save society
from the violent attacks Of anarchism and
atheism. We regret that we have not
yet the full text of this portion Of his
encyclical, but II the cable dispatches fairly
express its language, holds out a help
ing hand, and asks a helping hand from
those Christian bodies which are not in
communion with the Roman church, with
those who are often called courteously,
''our separated brethren"
For brethren, in a sense, the Roman
church holds the rest Of us Christians to
be. We have been baptized, and there
fore Christians. Yet 1t is a remarkable
thing that there should be this recognition
OF Protestant and Greek Christians-for we
suppose this is what his language Allows
as allies, not foes. 1t is no bad service that
the general enemy, the atheists, have done,
II they force the mutual kindly recognition
Of Christian bodies so widely separated, and
which have refused, and still refuse too
often, to acknowledge each other as
churches, however, they may admit hat
those outside their pale are, or may be
perhaps, Christians.
1t Is not five years ago that the pope
solemnly pronounced that the orders of
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
SnFAH TI1ST w vSMpMmRe

The report of the Audit company of New
York on the condition and earnings OF the
hsnhalt company of America, which col
lapsed a few weeks ago, was presented to
the investigating committee appointed by
the holders or the gold certificates Of the
company in Philadelphia last week. 1t
was decidedly unfavorable, and came as
q bombshell to the certificate holders.
Some features of the report, culled from the
Philadelphia Ledger, will interest people
In the west.
With authorized capitalization aggregat-
ing 35s, 900, 900. with fixed charges of ST.
$50, 900 a year, the actual net earnings Of
the companies for the last two years have
been less than 100000, or an average Of
$3.50. 900 a year. The condition is in part
explained by the statement that extraordi-
nary expenses have been met in Venezuela
and that one of the underlying companies.
the National Contracting company, has
maed heavy losses. but even with the ex-
PLANTATION the report shows a condition Of
affairs that was unexpected except by very
few persons.
In a statement accompanying the audit
report the investigating committee says:
THE committee has this day received
a report from the Audit company Of New
York of the result OF an examination OF
the account Of the American Asphalt COM
pany and OF the National Asphalt company
for the years 1900 and 1901.
This report is very voluminous. cover
ing the operations OF some sixty out
standing companies, which constitutes the
basis for the consolidation of the entire
asphalt business, under which all the
present securities and stocks were issued.
Some of these companies made large
profits, others made large losses.
During this period the asphalt COM
pany was obliged to spend an unusual sum
Of money in defending its property in
Venezuela, and 1t also suffered extraordi-
nary losses in the operation of certain
subsidiary companies engaged in engineer
ing. contracting and other work not con-
nected In any essential way with the busI-
ness OF selling asphalt or OF laying asphalt
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

day that in making up the figures for the
first Of the two years, the asphalt officials
failed to allow for a guarantee fund and for
the extraordinary expenses named.
1T was stated that the Audit company is
Of the opinion that while the extraordinary
expenditures in Venezuela, from the point
of view of the earning capacity of the COM
panies, were not properly c~hargeable to the
year 1901, in which they were incurred, still
q certain proportion Of these expenses
should be deducted from the profits Of that
year and of each year.
THE Audit company held that for this
unusual expense $50, 900 should be allowed
out Of the profits for each year.
ut is thought probable that the affairs
Of the National Contracting company.
whose losses in three years on sewer and
other work in New Orleans and elsewhere
amounted to about $500, 900, will be wound
up. Some of the members of the COM
mlttee hold the opinion that the companies,
when organized, should con1ne themselves
to asphalt and not carry on a business so
widely different as that Of the National
Contracting company.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
The Wee Boss.

Amos r. Wells in Good Housekeeping
Just a little bit Of baby,
twenty pounds and nothing more:
Bee him floor his giant daddy.
Weight two hundred, six feet four.
Just a little bit of baby;
And beauty? Not a trace:
See him stealing all the roses
From his lovely mothers face.
Just a little bit of baby;
Ignorant as he can be:
See him puzzle all the sages
OF his learned family.
Just a little bit of baby;
Walking? No, nor crawling avian.
See him lead a dozen ~
TO the very gate Of heayenl
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

And we have seen very little of the SUI
perstitions, the utter fetishism, which we
know has elsewhere been allowed in the
ignorant classes, and lone Of immortality
we have heard OF. On the other hand,
we have seemed to see a rivalry with
our churches to surpass them in churchly
service, and apparent desire to empha-
size those things that belong to the es-
sentials Of Christianity. so that we have
seen our best and most active Catholics,
those OF greatest influence and highest
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS

Willie. do you know what happens to the
bad little boys2"
Sure"
WHAT"
They have more fun than the good little
boys"
Deaeon-Refused to fight him, did your
that's a noble boy! Now. Tommie, tell
the little boy why you refused.
Tommie-Cause he kin lick me.
Mother-oh! Tommy. what have you been
doing?
Tommy (who has just returned from the
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

oval of the
waste of the body.
When it is sluggish
in its action the
whole body must
suffer by reason OF
clogging accumu-
1ations.
The e~xcretoiY or
gans In general
promptly respond
to the action OF DR..
Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery.
1t restores the liver
to healthy activity,
|, puri6es the blood,
and cures diseases
Of the organs of d.
gestion and nutn-
ton.
Mr., Edward Jacobs,
of Marengo, Crawford
Co, Indiana, writes ;
SAter three yeau Of
suffering with liver
trouble aud malaria I
gave up all hopes Of
ever getting stout
again, and the last
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

The explanation is most creditable to
the Catholic church. Apart from the very
favorable conditions-we mean the utter
separation Of church and state-the chief
force which has led to the kindlier at
titude OF Professionals toward Catholics has
been the close views of their good Chris
tian character. The Catholics have been
right in our families. maids. and men. They
have been faithful to their church while
faithful to their work. 1t was easy to see
that the influence Of their church upon
them was wholly good. Their priests have
been faithful and useful in their place,
using more authority than we had been used
to, but using 1t generally for good ends,
for morality and religion. Their priests
have had the respect Of their neighbors,
ministers Of Protestant churches. They
have been loyal citizens, and friends of
temperance and all good order. And the
second generation have made good Ameri-
can citizens.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

hrst day OF a preliminary course at the
village schooD-Fighting with Billy Brown.
Mother-That horrid boy at the farm?
Don't you ever quarrel with him again!
TOMMY amt likely to.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
A Sick Liver

Can work havoc with human happiness.
It can change the cheerful philanthropist
into a morose misanthrope and the opti-
mist into a pronounced pessimist. The
liver has a great deal to do with the
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

had tried all the home doctors
but little relief. After taking three
lPeroe's Golden Medical Discovery
his Pleasant Pellets I am stout
$ due entirely to your wonderful
Ptve for substitution is to
Ter to make the little more
be sale Of less meritohous
gains: you lose. There
substitute for UGolden
Ery."
easant Pellets assist the
Discovery" They are
zee with the weakest
do not beget the pill
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

The figures for the two years, as given in
the committees statement, are:
Net earnings for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1900, from sales Of asphalt and
asphalt paving, only 1886, 340.35
Net earnings for the year 1901, $685.
626.92.
From which should be deducted $500, 900,
representing the extraordinary expenses in
Venezuela and also certain further large
losses In the operation of the contracting
companies in engineering work above re-
ferred to, leaving the actual net results for
the year 1900 1926, 74S.S and for 1901 $751;
427.26."
The statement continues:
1T should be noted that in arriving at
this result a very ample allowance has been
made for a maintenance fund, and also for
depreciation charges. which the Audit COM
pany reports were not duly considered In
the public statements by the company for
the year 1900"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

But Of more Importance to us is our
right attitude toward such an outstretched
hand. How far can we make the Roman
Catholic church our ally in the warfare
against evil and unbelief?
The general Protestant attitude has. un-
til late years. been one OF positive hos
tility. Thu bloody prosecutions by one
side or the other. in the days OF Queen
Mary and Queen Elizabeth, have not been
allowed to pass into oblivion. II is only
fifty years since a great political party
whose platform was i-Romanism swept
half our states. The American Protective
association has only within ten years ceased
to be a power. But now there is hardly
a remnant Of this bitterness in Protestant
circles in the country; nothing like the Bit
terness that exists. for example, In France
or Italy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Mother-There were two apples in the
cupboard, Tommy, and now there is only
one. How's that?
Tommy who sees no way OF escaped
Well, ma, 1t was so dark in there l didn't
see the other.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

tnaL tue pope OF Rome is
And Protestants have no right to deny
that the Church Of Rome is a true church.
1t worships the same one God as the rest
OF us and it holds to the same Savior. 1t
declares hat it's worship Of the virgin and
the saints is OF a different kind from its
worship Of the Triune God. We see the
danger Of such worship, but we see that
they make less of saints than they used
to and that they make more Of the dis
t~inction. To our view it is very foolish to ask
a saint to intercede with God when we can
go directly to Him, and there is danger Of
i~dolatry, but 1t is not unchristian any more
than 1t is for a Protestant inquirer to ask
his living friends to pray for him. The doc
trine Of purgatory seems to us unscrip-
tural, but it is certainly not unchristian.
Even we are beginning to think that we
have taught more about the future world
than we know. The practice Of confession
seems to us to be required when 1t should
be only permitted, but 1t cannot be un-
christian, and 1t has it's good side. The
supremacy OF the pope seems to us a dan
gerous doctrine, but one can certainly be
a good Christian and be a pope or a be-
lever in popes. Our chief complaint Of
the Catholic church is that 1t makes so
much Of rites and machinery that it is liza
BILE to forget that God is a spirit and that
spiritual worship is what He wants. But
somehow there Is enough essential religion
taught to bear up all the froth Of form,
and it is our duty to expect that what we
call the excrescences of faith will be less
and less emphasized, that the useless or
hurtful accretions will gradually fall off
by the process Of desuetude. We must look
always for the good and not what we think
the bad, and be more ready to praise than
to blame.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

the Anglican church are not valid. and
that It is therefore no true church. II
was a decision sharply resented by those
whom it unchurched and consigned TO
schism. We do not suppose there is the
slightest hope that this decision will be
reversed, or that any action or utterance
will offer to rehabilltate Anglican Prot
estants, Greeks or Armenians, on the &c
clesiastical side; that is not the way that
harmonious relations begin. 1t is as
Christians, not as organized churches; that
recognition must first be asked: and we
may assume that in his encyclical the
pope has summoned Christians and Chris
tian organizations to united defense, with
out committing himself to the recognition
Of any churches. as such. outside OF the
Roman communion.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

pavements. The results of the earnings
Of the combined companies for the two
years, as will be shown by the figures given.
are 80 entirely unsatisfactory and are so
meager in comparison with the basis Of
capitalization of the American and Ma
tional companies, that the committee will
continue to press it's Investigations, which
is meant to be thorough in all respects. as
to the causes and reasons for such appar-
emit overcapitaliZation."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
Reviewed by the
New York Independent,

character, charged by their foreign breth-
rem with "Americanism." as IL they we're
becoming semi-Protestantized. Indeed,
while we have been growing kindlier to-
ward Catholics, and have been making
more OF the festivals OF the Catholic
church, II seems as II Catholics were be-
coming more like us in preaching and
practice. OF course. then, the Presbyterian
church is compelled to repeal the article
Of its confession OF faith which declares
that the pope of Rome is init Christ.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

1t is not FIVE years ago that the pope
solemnly pronounced that the orders Of