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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
Was Gradually Growing Weaker = Blood
Wine Checked Her Decline in Time.

lowing to the great benefits which l
have derived from the use of your Blood
Wine, | feel it my duty to make a state
ment concerning it, which you are at
liberty to use as you see fit. | have been
sick for about nine years and was gradu-
ally growing weaker when my attention
was called to your remedy Without much
faith in its efficacy made trial of it, as
l had previously done with other remedies.
My trouble was general debility, loss of
strength and wasting of body. About
eighteen months ago purchased my first
bottle of your Blood Wine and took it
steadily thereafter After taking three
bottles l began to improve, and that inn
provement has continued down to the
present day. During this time ! have
gained twenty-five (25) pounds in weight,
and the good health which | formerly en-
joyed has entirely been restored. | have
hesitated somewhat about subscribing my
name to a testimonial which might be
used for advertising purposes, but my
sense of duty to other sufferers placed as
Twas has overcome all scrupes in that
direction, and you have my permission to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
Physicians Failed to Help Him - But Blood
Wine Made Him a Well Man.

Officer II. A. Metcalf, who has been
policeman on the Hamilton, Ohio, police
force for the past ten years, and who is
probably as we'll known as any man in
Hamilton, is one of the earnest advocates
of Blood Wine. He says:
81 first experienced serious loss of APP
petite. Nothing that l ate appeared to
agree with me, and l began losing flesh
rapidly. This was followed by an attack
of stomach trouble which grew worse and
worse until | began to despair of securing
relief. consulted several physicians and
took a number of medicines, none of which
did me particle of good. A friend add
vised me to try Blood Wine, and l fol-
lowed that advice. The first bottle of this
excellent remedy which | took brought
about a marked change for the better in
my condition. / took two more bottles
and felt that / was in reasonably good
health, but in order to make assurance
doubly sure l purchased and took the
fourth bottle. / now believe that am in
better health than | ever was in my life,
and | take the greatest pleasure in recon-
mending Blood Wine to all persons who
are suffering as / was"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE MOUNTAIN RULE.

There are at least one hundred
men in Vermont today who would
wear the gubernatorial toga without
a single sag in the garment--men as
capable as the average Governor of
the past twenty years-and if a hun
bred men were to name in secret the
one best qualified, it's fair guess
that no ten of them would agree.
We're they to thus name the man
without any regard to the mountain
rule, not more than a small majority
would be found to have selected their
candidates from one side Of the State.
That's the situation gentlemen, and
out of it has grown the mountain rule
"a rule of expediency, pure and SIM
pie, not to be observed when there is
good reason for non observance. but
serving the purpose of securing fair
and equable division of the Governor S
term among the many good men avail
able. Randolph Herald and News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE NON-PROMOTION RULE.

AS to the promotion rule, it
does not seem we'll founded. Its ten
dency is to draw small men to the
lieutenant-governorship--a really i'm
poreant office-and to bury them
there. If the State get, strong
man, it is generally at the sacrifice of
his political future. Thus it works
poorly both ways. There is no rea-
son why strong man who has served
we'll as lieutenant governor should
not aspire to the higher seat, but
rather plenty of reasons why he
should. The non promotion rule grew
out of the protest raised against the
promotion rule, the unjustlfiable prac-
tice of showing up lieutenant-gover-
nors, whatever their calibre, simply
bee cause they had managed to squeeze
into line two years before. Randolph
Herald and News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
Cured In Sixteen Days Was Going Into
CONSUMPTION.

Mr.. Frank Wooley, 70 Central Avenue,
Albany, N. Y, writes "About December
Is last severe cold fastened itself on my
lungs, and as my family history from a
physical viewpoint is bad, my mother,
brother and sister having died at a COM
paratively early age from phthisis, be-
came greatly alarmed, more especially as
the pains in my right lung were intense,
mainly at night. On or about December
g a newspaper friend enthusiastically
recommended Blood Wine, and acting
upon his advice procured bottle at VIM.
Sautter's drug store, s North Pearl Street,
Albany The first bottle absolutely
stopped the hacking cough that accom-
panied my cold, and before the second
bottle was consumed my lungs ceased to
pain me, and today, but sixteen (I6) days
from the date that the cold first showed
itself, am entirely free of every feature
of the ailment that at the outset threatened
to throw me into consumption.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE VETERANS AND Mr.. WARE.

Veterans of the Civil War, to whom
the country owes much, and has paid
great DEAL made life miserable for
Pension Commissioner II. Clay Evans.
Consequently, Mr.. Evans was not
sorry to quit the pension bureau for
another official position where the
criticism and the work were less and
tn remuneration more. There were
few people, however, who believed
that Mr., Evans was the best COM
missioner of pensions this coun6ry
ever had, but they had not been
privileged-or compelled-to know
him so intimately as his critics. Con-
sequently. their opinion may be dis
missed as of comparatively small ac-
count. Their attitude is here re-
called only because of the announce
ment that the veterans, or some of
them, are con templating an assault
upon Mr.. Evans success sor, Eugene f.
Ware.
The charges against Captain Ware
still lack specifications, but we are
informed that he is accused of par
| TALLY toward the younger employees
Of his department. and that he has
/ not been over anxious to maintain in
positions Of responsibility elderly
folks upon whom responsibilities sat
pretty heavily. Looking at the mat
ter casually, it would seem as if this
was very con ;iderate of Captain Ware,
especially as in most cases reduction
of responsibility was not accompanied
by reduction in salaries. Also, it is
alleged, that Captain Ware has given
some preferment to Democrats, and,
what is far worse, to Southern Demo
Gratis, and that he is hanging up
and even rejecting claims. Until
more is known OF these charges it
were we'll not take them too seriously,
but we may say that Captain Ware
has so far proved an industrious and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

The last Legislature sat down hard
on the proposition to have Vermont
represented by u collection of sticks
and stones at the st. Louis EXPOSE
ton, but Notwithstanding this Gov.
ernor Mccullough is brave enough to
go to the dedication exercises this
week and assist in the formal launch
ing of the enterprise. The manner Of
his going is not altogether in keeping
with the States policy, but as no ap-
propriation has been or will be asked
for to defray the expenses, the Gov
ernor will escape the humiliation of a
legislative investigation of his little
junket The party leaves New York
today by special train made up of a
Pullman, sleeper and a baggage car,
which will afford ample accommodation
for, inasmuch as the Governor and not
the State will foot the bills, that Off
cial has elected to choose his own
company, and manywho are usually on
hand when there is junketing to be
done are in it this time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

If it is true that General Fred, Grant
attempts to impersonate his famous
father, this may account for his not
joining the ranks of his brother Off
GERS who talk enough about govern
ment affairs to acquire the distinction
of a reprimand The general like his
father is 'silent man" but if the
people of Brackettville, Texas, have
their way he will be called down by
the war department in spite of that
fact. The general commands the de-
partment Of Texas, and in recent re-
port he stated that the saloons and low
moral conditions that prevail in Brack-
ettville prove the ruin of his soldiers
who are stationed at Fort Clark, a
nearby post. The people of the town
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
organs of digestion

stomach and other organs OF digestion
and nutrition.
$4,000 FORFERIT will be paid by
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL, Asso-
CITATION, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. ", IL
they cannot show the original signature
of the individual volunteering the testi-
monial below, and also of the writer's Of
every testimonial among the thousands
which they are constantly publishing,
thus proving their genuineness.
"The praise wonld like to give your Golden
Medical Discovery / cannot utter in words or
describe with pen,n writes James D. Ambrose,
Esq, of I2osK Mifiin street, Huntingdon, Pa.
III was taken with what our physicians here
said was indigestion. / doctored with the best
around here and found no relief | wrote to
you and you sent me question blank to fill out,
and did 50, and you then advised me to use
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. l took
three bottles and felt so good that stopped,
being cured. have no symptoms OF gastric
trouble or indigestion now.D
Dr. Pierces Common Sense Medical
Adviser, sent free on receipt of stamps
to cover expense of mailing only.
Twenty-one one-cent stamps for the
book in paper covers, or 81 stamps for
the cloth-bound volume. Address DR..
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE MESSENGERS PECULIAR
POSITION.

The biennial discussion of the non
destinies of the governorship of Yer
ont for the past few years is on again,
and the State press is giving the mat
ter thorough rehashing The posi-
ton taken by the st. Adams Messen-
ger is a little difficult to understand
when considered in the light of ex-
perience. The Messenger says:
"The non promotion rule is a mis-
take and has done more to belittle the
really important office of lieutenant
governor than all the peanut politi-
clans who have been elected to it.
We have had men for lieutenant-gov-
ernors who were rank incompetents
and who had been thrust into Office
merely as reward for political SER
vices Polit put them in there
to pay their personal debts at the ex-
pense of the public service, feeling
reasonably certain that the transac-
ton would not entail too much public
humiliation because the chances were
a thousand to one they would never
be called to the goveInorship by a
vacancy above them. The honorable
office of acknowledgement has been
steadily losing in prestige because the
last men to put in it are the men who
are fit for something better"
The Journal is at a loss to select
from the list of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
elected since promotion went out Of
date, those who may be classed as
"peanut politicians or who were put
in Office merely as reward for po-
litical services" In looking over the
list of Acknowledgements since
$780, none of whom have been pro-
NOTED to the Governors chair, these
names occur: Henry A. Fletcher
1890-92, +. Stewart Stranahan 1892
"a, Zophar NJ Mansur 1894-96. Nelson
W. Fisk 1868, Henry @. Bates 1898
90, Martin f. Allen 10000, Zed S.
Stanton 1902.
The Journal would be pleased to
know how many and which of these
gentlemen fill the above mentioned
specifications
Then it is interesting to place in
COlupdTlsOu tll6 udluSS VI IllOsO VIII
have filed the higher office d6ring the
same time. These are: Carroll S.
Page .890-92, Levi X. Fuller 1924,
Urban A. Woodbury. 1S9496, Josiah
Grout 1S96-9S, Edward Q. Smith 1898
90, William w. Stickney 10000, John
G. Mccullough 1902. The Journal
does not wish to compare these two
lists either singly or collectively, po-
litical division by political division or
even town by town, but 1t would be
pleased to have the Messenger do SO
by way of explanation of the state
ment that "the honorable office of
lieutenant governor has been steadily
losing in prestige because the last
men to put in are the men who are
fit for something better. ;"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE WORM TURNS.

The st. Johnsbury press has been
long. suffering in dealing with the
Rutland Herald which is continually
pointing the finger of ridicule at the
scale town because Of is position on
the license question. The endurance
point has evidently been reached,
however, and the Caledonian salutes
it's Rutland contemporary with the
following:
The Rutland Herald is greatly
worried over the situation in st.
Johnsbury and wonders where we get
our liquor supply now. One week it
referred to the thirsty throng that
had been hanging around the drug
stores since the town voted no license,
and now it asks in all seriousness how
the people get along who used to con-
sumo one hundred gallons of diluted
alcohol every week. The Herald's
persistent attempt to smirch the re-
putation of our fair town reminds us
of legend which has been told by
IdUner To SOL IOr many generations
among the Moki Indians of New Mex
leo.
Once the coyote was out for a walk
when he CHANGED to meet praying
bug. Now this bug, you must know,
has this regularity in her gait, that
she puts her head to the ground every
time she advances a step. The coyote
watched her walk with much curiosity
until at last he following conversation
took place:
"Amoya, what makes you duck
your head like that when you walk?''
'''I am listening to the gods, Co.
vote"
"What is it the gods just said to
you, Amoya?"
"The last thing the gods said to me,
Coyote, was How strange it is that
Coyotes can't mind their own bust
ness.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE GOVERNORSHIP

1t is notable that for a number of
years past in nearly every list of men
on the east side of Vermont, who have
been mentioned as qualified for gov
ernor, the name of Hon. William e.
Johnson has appeared. 1t is also
gratifying to his townsmen to realize
that, while such mention of Mr..
johnson is easily warrantable on the
score of ample qualification and mer-
it, it has never been inspired by the
personal attitude of the gentleman
mentioned. Mr.. Johnson has plenty
of friends throughout the State who
would be glad to see him enter the
field, but he is not politician in the
ter-day sense of the term, and has
never failed to discourage any adj
vances in his direction. Should he
ever become Governor of his State it
would be a notable example in Yer
mont politics, of the office seeking
the man. These observations seem to
be warranted at this time, inasmuch
as Mr.. Johnson is again mentioned,
as usual, in this connection, this time
by leading west-side papers. Wood
stock Standard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

John Burns, the labor leader of the
British House of Commons, has found
a new Characterization of industrial
America. He says it is "hell with
the lid off" and expresses the hope that
England will never follow its example.
Other Englishmen have arrived at the
same conclusion but from different
view point. On the other hand the
British consul at Chicago, w. Wind
ham, IN his annual report on Chicago
and the whole consular district, gives
a glowing account of the great and
increasing prosperity and pays high
tribute to American methods. He ex-
presses the opinion that the progress
of the country is largely due to the
opportunity both in business and in
the employment in this large, young
country, the encouragement given to
workmen, the rewarding of merit, the
intimate acquaintance of the heads of
firms with the work of their subordi-
nate, the keen enthusiasm shown by
the workmen in the interests of their
employers and to the absolute fearless
ness on the part of the business men in
venturing on experiments either in
machinery or system that may be
brought before him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

capable official, who believes that
the pension office Is bureau of re-
lief and reward and not magazine
of plumber and loot, We are sure that
h 4, would hold up no deserving claim
ant one moment after the right of that
claimant to pension had been clear
ly established. Veterans who think
otherwise should think again. They
cannot afford to make mistakes and
to keep on pushing pension commits
sioners out in order to push others in.
Wa honor them for what they did
generation ago. They should not
make us blush for what they. do no W.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

Says the Youths Companion: The
clerk of Montgomery, Vermont, re-
Gently paid $l2 bounty on a panther
shot by veteran of that region who
is seventy -four years old, and claims
to have killed seventy four bears. In
his way this gentleman has asiduously
promoted civilization. Yet one reads
with clearer approval in the same To-
cal paper the paragraph following the
record of his achievements for there
in it is stated that granite company
located almost due south of Montgom-
cry, and not many miles away, has
secured the largest granite contract
ever placed in Vermont. 1t calls for
"a, 600, 900 worth of stone for the Penn
sylvania State Capitol and there years
or more will be required to fill it.
"Peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war. Figuratively
speaking. the Vemont quarrymen also
kill a good many bears.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

The trouble with TIE old promotion
rule was that it had degenerated into
a cast-iron understanding that no man
could be Governor of Vermont until
he had first been lieutenant governor,
with the result that the people were
practically shut off from taking of
their own choice a man of the best
calibre and putting him in the Cover
nor's chair whenever they had a
chance to do so.-Vermont Phoenix.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

resented this accusation and appealed
to Secretary Root to have Grant repri-
manded for the libel, as they are
pleased to term it. This only made
matters worse, for the son of his father
reiterated what he said concerning the
town and does not intend to apologize
for his statements. The Brackettville
people are madden than ever and now
bring counter charges to the effect
that the town suffers from the depre-
dations of the soldiers instead of the
reverse as stated by General Grant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
THE FINAL ANALYSIS.

Much is being said and volumes are
being written on the negro problem
but it has remained for humble col
ored editor in Norfolk, Virginia, to
put the whole matter in an exceeding
ly small nutshell. Being negro he
is of course interested in the matter,
but, unlike the majority of his race, he
seems to poss ess an extraordinary
amount of good hard common sense.
This negro EDITORS name is John
Dickerson, and although he may never
be another Booker L. Washington, to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

~ The license commits ;ioners of Mil
ton have granted second class license
to the Glenwood House and a third
class license to the Elm Tree House.
Rev. j. T. Baxendale, pastor Of the
Methodist church, objected to license
being granted to the Glenwood House
because the church shed was so located
that it would be convenient place
to empty the bottles purchased at the
hotel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

While the United States is strug-
Cling with the question of immigra-
ton her sister nations across the sea
are in trouble with the reverse prob
lem. In Austria tine social and eco
nomic committee of the Reichsrath has
submitted report to the government
on emigration which is regarded as a
matter of great urgency, owing to the
persistent draining of the population.
After pointing out that the annual
emigration from that country has in
creased from 1000 in 1870 to AZ, 600 in
1902, the report suggests that the gov
eminent acquire by treaty territories
to which the tide of emigration may be
turned, thereby maintaining connec-
ton between the emigrants and the
fatherland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
CARNEGIE no TUSKEGE

Nav York, April %. AS direct
result of the Tuskegee mass meeting
held on April IA. at Madison Square
Concert hall, Andrew Carnegie has
given 5000, 600 toward the endowment
of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute in Alabama, and for life
income for its president, Booker T.
Washington, and his wife. Mr.. Car
negie, it has also become known, has
been giving $40, 900 to the institute
for the four years past, and has shown
his keen interest in the work in var
ious ways. In letter to Trustee
William H. Baldwin, Jr., announc-
ing the gift, Mr.. Carnegie says;
L give this without reservation
except that require that suitable
provision be made from the gift for
the wants of Booker Washington and
his family during his own or his
wife's life. l wish that great and
good man to be entirely free from pc
cuniary care; that he may be free to
devote himself to his great mission.
To me he seems one of the greatest of
living men, because his work i;
unique, the modern Moses, who leads
his race and lifts it through education
to even better and higher things than
a land overfowing with milk and
honey. History is to tell of two
Washingtons, one white the other
black-both fathers of their people. -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30

The position of many half hearted
and some full-fedged advocates of
high license for Vermont, now that it
is reality instead of theory, may
be illustrated by the story of certain
parson of the old school, who had
preached a sermon of the finest old
fashioned flavor, after deploring the
new tangled doctrines of some of
his younger brethren-especially the
ideas Of the heaven and other historic
places which they inculcated in their
discourses-wound up his own dis
course by saying, "As for me, breth-
rem, the hell of our fathers is good
enough for me-"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-30
Miraculous Cure OF Prominent Business Man Ky
Blood Wine, Americas Great Medicine.

Zone of the strongest and most convincing testimonials
the efficacy of Blood Wine furnished by Gilbert
Harris of Essex Junction, W.T. we-known business
ofundoubted integrity Hearing that Mr. Harris tell
ing his friends about the wonderful good Blood Wine had
done him. reporter for the Daily News of Burlington
visited his fine home in Essex Junction for an interview
"Mr Harris upon being told the object of his visit at
grew enthusiastic in praise of Blood Wine. why,
it saved my fe he remarked. i have doubt of it,
and you would not, had you me year ago. But
let tell you my experience; that will be the most
convincing argument know Of
will years old March, began Mr. Harris and three
years ago remarkably healthy being seldom sick About
attack congestion of the liver which left
very little and gradually wasted away
shadow former self My normal weight before i'll
1870 b and lost flesh that barely tipped the scales to lbs
that could walk the poofce short distance with
being greatly exhausted WE'LL tried physician and physician and also
medicine them making and of them
advertisement
slowly down the drug
bottle stomach fearful
could nothing without the distressing and life
of Blood Wine
have been continuing improve
weigh 18 b heartily and mouhu of and
work like a horse"