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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
PRESS APPROVAL.

President Roosevelt is being sup
ported by the press of this country to
q marked degree in his action with
regard to the Panama canal and the
recognition Of the new republic and
the opening of negotiations with it.
The recognition of republic two
days old and governed only by junts
was somewhat novel to the rules of
diplomacy, but such was the exigency
that the move has been endorsed all
over the United States, not only by
newspapers which owe allegiance
to the Republican party but also by
many of the Democratic organs and
by the Independents Even many of
the papers which are strongly anti
imperialist' support the President in
the Panama matter while they fight
the Philippine policy, The New
York Herald, which has been an
earnest advocate of the Nicaragua
canal and has attacked the admins
tration for not adopting that route,
has swung into line in support of the
President and the Panama route, Civ
ing as it's reason for it's about face, the
The New Orleans Times Democrat,
which would rather see Mr.. Roosevelt
President of Liberia than of this
country, supports his action in this
matter. The great majority of the
press rake the stand that Colon bia' S
disi egard of Panama in the canal
treaty negotiations gave the people of
the Isthmus ample reason for revolu
ton, and that the loss of the province
serves Colombia right. Nobody is
hurt, these papers say, except the
Bogota authorities, who are referred
to as "gratters, and who get little
sympathy.
OF course some of the people de
not agree. But the chief of the op-
position papers are of the class that
kick ut everything that is done just
for the sake of kicking. IF the New
York Post. New York Journal, and
Springfield Republican, and others
like them had failed to characterize
the Panama program as a policy of
piracy and spolistion" it would have
been great surprise to their readers.
No opportunity for kick ar the ad-
ministration or howl of 'spoliation
aud dishonor" is ever lost by those
papers, and il no opportunity is forth
coming one is made for the occasion
Decrying their betters is almost their
sole political capital When the
Ledger says that I'VE have thrown
over the Ten Commandments and en-.
rolled ourselves among the national
free booters," no one worries, for it is
but a customary croak with that
organ. 1t /, part of the policy of
the paper to be on the off side of
every movement which looks likely to
advance the United States, If 1t has
its origin in Republican sdministra.
tion. The ultra partisan Democratic
organs are searching anxiously for
material with which to check the
Republican march to victory at the
polls next fall and the eagerness with
which they have criticised the Presi
dent in this instance 10 but one man.
Hesitation OF their need.
II should be noted that most of the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
CLUBBING LIST.

The following offers are for the
benefit only of subscribers to the
Waterman weekly or the Journal
daily who pay all arrearages and
years subscription in advance. One
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the club rate, must invariably accom-.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
Store, Dwelling House,

and premises recently occupied by B. c.
Sterling, in Warren, situated opposite H.
w. Lyfords Hotel and next door to the
Postoffice this is decidedly the best To-
Gated store in town, and offers an espec-
tally good opportunity for some one to
engage in business. This sale is positive
and without any reservation, as the prop
erty must be sold to close the estate of E.
A. Eldredge.
Terms made known at time of sale.
o. M. EATON, Administrator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
Barnard,
6
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Our First Installment
of Superior Values
Christmas HandkGTChiGfS.
Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention.
Handkerchief Surprises.

Marvellously little prices on fine
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80 dozen Ladies' Lace Trimmed Hand
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Choice % loo
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Value 25c, for I7c
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Value tic I2I-2c each
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
Thursday, Dec. 18th, 1903,

at one o'clock p M, the Home Place of
the late E. A. Eldredge, of Warren, &C.
cupied by him for more than thirty years.
This place is one of the very pleasant
est locations in the village, with good
comfortable dwelling house, good barns,
sheds, corncrib, ETC., and about % acres
of excellent land, in high state Of cult
walton, good supply of choice apples,
and some small fruit, and with good,
never-failing stream of the best of spring
water at house and barn. Also the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Al dru ggists refund the money II u fails
70 cure. Il. w. Groves signature 10 on
each box, 25c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-03
Worcester
MASS
s: :25 eif
ADMINISTRATORS SALE
Of
REAL ESTATE

| will sell at Public Auction, on the prem
Uses in Warren Village, VT, on
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-11-20
WEDDIIS s. ii r
S:'HIIN TON


EhS laaEriAg AZ an glgsts Sa11 ana
Miss Abl'ie 1ihraneF look 1llks1 s. 8
S'esoeis sss6i1s Il he home
q thes bride's 1athey. NJ. b: Hatmsr
Il shinnsto Ion. II Sss.s ! ll.iit i,,st pretty
home wedding, only p,egshers q HE Eanl-
~ and close tfasnds lSeln9 pre- sent. The
ceremony WIS performed IL Ref. b u.
shaadlcls az Mound syilliis, fess1eE pss-
tor 70 the Methodist Episcopka church
al Shinnston. After congratnlat lions had
been extended, i sumrtnous wedding sup
per was served.
Afr. and Mrs. carder went rs house,
keeping at once n the home air. Carder
had furnished: They are popular young
couple and have = host q friends. who
extend their very best wishes.
Those a4tepding the wedding from this
city were Mr.. and airs. Harvey w Har-
mer, Miss Alice Fleming, Miss Kate
Shinn and Mrs Eliza Delhridge
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-11-20

HnSh II. Martin Tia Sl;innston lawyer
i hsss today q professional basins.s'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26

the Magic Queen, and all I had to
do was to make myself fresh with
the chorus-at twenty-five per and
expenses. The whole plot centers
about a magic ring the queen
gives to the hero, which gratifes
every wish the wearer may suggest.
Hero shows it to me, who puts it
on just as a dainty maid enters
with a silver pitcher of beer.
"Wish I had some beer" says I,
and she Immediately hands it over.
Grabbing the pitcher in both
hands I shake it in circular mo-
ton exclaiming: "Shakesbeerr'
"Take walk around the block, -
says the queen and I exit center
reappearing in left wing with a
small block of wood, which I
place on the floor and start to do
a sprinting stunt. "What r do
ing?" comes in falsetto voice,
and my answer a la planing-saw:
Taking a walk around the block. "
When we played at Hot Springs,
Two Bits and Casey sat in the
front row, and acted as if they were
hired to laugh and applaud, and
when I took the pitcher of beer
from my mouth, saying, "Ich babe
sufficient" they started the house
into fits.
In wishing "Auf wiedersehen''
to Two Bits, or as he is now better
known, Mr.. Heinrich Hassenphef-
fer. (still, tho, the same CHEEKY
host as of old( I think twill be a
good idea to cut "Abracadabra"
down to the equivalent of "one-
bit" in Hindustan, thus, in truth,
salaaming quality with quantity
in. ABA DAB.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26

a hard place to get into. Even
now it is not easy. But once in
side, it is a beautiful bay, the
north end forming crescent two
miles in length, to the east of
which stands the city, and the
other end disappearing in the
jungle. All along the city front
are concrete quays where vessels
under 1000 tons can lie and dis
charge their cargoes.
We lay at one of these quays
and the natives discharged the
cargo, carrying the coal on their
heads in small baskets. Two gang
planks reached from the quay to
the barque's deck, and from morn
ing to night the niggers swarmed
across them, men and women, boys
and girls. They carried out 600
tons of coal and piled it on the
quay in twenty hours and from 10
in the morning till 4 in the after
noon the, thermometer registered
l2Q in the shade, with an occas-
SIGNAL rain squall that made it
hotter and more humid.
We were to load with peanuts
gourd or monkey nuts, the English
call them-but had first to take in
some ballast, for the peanuts are
light and the ship could not get
grip enough on the water without
extra ballast. Lighters loaded
with ballast came along side and
the crew was ordered To shovel it
aboard through a port in the ses-
sells side. The captain told the
men that any time they gained in
taking in the ballast would be given
them ashore. We went at it at 4
a. m. to get it in before the heat of
the day. There were six men in
the crew, and we took lighter and
lighter about that is three would
shovel from the lighter while three
trimmed in the hold as there
were three lighters, and as 1
shoveled from the first, I was
pretty soon stretched out with
sunstroke.
They took me ashore to tho
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26
A Resurrection.

[ shipped in Swansea. Wales, in
a barque with a cargo of coal for
Decator on the west coast of Africa.
Decator is II degrees north of the
Equator. It is a French posses
sion, and before the entrance to
the harbor was dredged and the
sides built up with concrete it was
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26

chow or such Odds and
Ends one may pick up
gratis most any place,
but circumstances combined with
popularity made him present OF
it. And it must have paid, judg-
ing from the late retirement of
Mr.. Heinrich Hassenpheffer, mil
lionaire, from active business. 1t,
when he first arrived in this coun-
try from the neighborhood of
Heidelberg, with little money, but
cheerful and modest, he hadn't
wanted three things, and if-but |
am getting ahead of my story,
which is fault with some nervous
people burdened with temper and
a small allowance of brains.
To be sure; great part of this
tale has nothing to do with the
above mentioned Two Bits, neither
am I one of those bullheaded
oracles that have to guide their
orbits in the same old worn out
path, and bore every one, more or
less.
Twas in the early sos I was
coming up from Panama, Rio
Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, and,
tho being rolling stone, still had
I some moss clinging to me in a
burning, uncomfortable, get-rid-
of-quick sort of fashion. [ had
handled the transit and lev'ler"
four hours a day on the Panama,
quit and drawn my money just
before the famous bubble busted,
gambled in Rio, and started the
roller skating craze in B. A., opened
rink and made the coin, and then
got on steamer with my hearty
adios ringing down the curtain.
Furthermore, I was by this time
pretty we'll nicotined, absinthed,
and tired out taking Mardi Gras
in New Orleans-and all / needed
was to be boiled out; SO l jour-
neyed to Hot Springs, Ark, in.
easy stages, takingi in San Antonio,
Fl. Worth, Dallas, Waco and
Temple, Texas. In San Antonio,
you can see on one side the beauti-
full Alamo, with it's landmark of
curiosities, pretty little parks in
the business district, up-to-date
hotels, opera and business houses;
then cross the bridge you find the
Plaza, full. of bareheaded olive
hred women, hot tamales, chilli
con-carne and grease-not tospeak
of greasers lounging lazily around
tables and doorways with the ever
present cigarette. Santa Maria!
how the girls flirt in that town.
IT'S enough to set the cool blood
of northern man boiling.
On the way to Fl. Worth my new
thirty-fve dollar sombrero went
sailing chaosward, caught by a
rainstorm as [ left the smoker.
Served me right, too, when I think
of how many jiggers of Mellin's
Food that thirty-6ve would have
bought! But really, I'll never get
to my twice twelve and a half if I
don't hurry. Can't help mention
ing Temple. On the publicsquare
is the courthouse, in which build
ing is also the only opera house,
oyster house, barber shop, butcher
shop, dog pond, Jail, public scale,
boot black stand, millinery booth,
dentist Office and Chinese laundry
there is in the town.
In Hot Springs [ was nicely
quartered at the Arlington (for
this was before the Eastman was
erected and the days when you
have to pay seven plunks day on
the fifth foor) and took my baths
at Maurice's. an old acquaintance.
At supper we had some delicious
schmearkase, and I overheard some
one at the table remark: "I'll
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26

down the one business street J,
where everything is wide open,
everybody wide awake and every
place minus door key. Being
dry I went into Hanks Place
for lemonade and on the, buffet
found some of that same persuading
schmearkase. | spoke to ''Hank'
about it, mentioning what | heard
at the supper table and protested
my ignorance as stranger.
"That's easy" said Hank, "but
speaking of the devil, ETC., for
there comes your man now and
Til introduce you" Turning, [
saw a man about 40 years old
coming towards us, his eyes
twinkling with good nature, and a
smile playing on his lips. After
shaking hands I prevailed on our
genial lnixologist to shake the
shaker for triplets, and after sever
al more sticks" Two-Bits and I
got quite chummy. [ spoke about
his acquisition of such an odd
name, and he said:
"Vell, I dell you, aber Bitten
und Swibach, led us sid down
once. I ged tired schtanding up
NIT so many schticks running
roust nit i'm on de inside. Ven
I frsd come to dis coundry I
landed NIT Castle Garden, und
heard aloud German who keep
hotel gubble of blocks away. 1
goes find dat fellow, who WAS by
name Conrad und [ ask him we're
be good blaze to 60. He say:
What you do?' 1 dold him I make
de best schmearkase what he never
eat yet und he say: Dis is good
town, schtay here But I wanted
to come way NIT de west, und he
say: You go to Hot Springs,
Arkansaw. Dere's lots of boobies
going dere all de vile, lots hotels,
lots O money; you go dere und
get rich Veil, we talk some more
und I ask him to dake some dings.
We go to his bar, have gubble of
gesuntheits und I ask .barkeeper,
how much? He say two-bits.
Conrad explained it was % cents
und den I go get hair cut. Same
dings. Two-bits! I go back by
Conrads for my dinner und pay
two-bits! By golly! Dat two
bits dickles me some yet, und I
make up mine mind to charge two
bits for my sohmearkase und
schnitlock, by the can, sure. Veil,
1 come he Q, like dis town, make
my schmearkase fine und boobies
like him too. but say Hassenpheffer
is to hard und long und jaw break
or, SO dey just calls me Two-Bits.
[ don't care, i make good money,
send pack to de old coundry for my
frau und fiddle girl quick some,
sure, uDd den [ buy broberdy
sheap und pud up fiddle houses on
my lots purdy ofden. Pyshimini!
id is close in dis blaze, led us dake
a walk to der house und I show
you mine works, big now, mine
COWS und horses und dogs und
everydings."
We went up to his place and I
found different atmosphere, clear
and healthy, everything neat and
clean in a spick and span shape,
quite large stone dairy and all
kinds of domestic animals around.
I met his wife and daughter, the
latter a coJnely girl, not a bit back
ward in helping her daddy enter
tain a visitor both in the factory
and the parlor. At his request
she sang and played Ga new
Knabe) and I was really delighted
to meet such a charming, but at
the same time, industrious young
lady-but with such a dad she
conldn't helm tn ha "iust the card -
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26

jolller than when 1 turned the
tables on him. He had the happy
faculty Of approaching a quip,
even at his own expense, and HE
hearty laugh was enough to drive
the blues away from an indigo
planter.
One day I had him, all wrapped
up"-like a mummy A friend at
the hotel, just back from a trip to
the Baltic, gave me some sea grass,
Ca kind Of reed called in Swedish
"Wass,'') that he'd brought along
to finish sketch, but had changed
his mind about painting. I took
them with me that evening to
Two Bits, laid them carefully on
the table so as to attract his at
tention, and pretty soon, after
looking at them intently a few
moments, he said: "Was is das ?"
I said: "Das is Wassw and he
didn't tumble worth cent. Again
he queried: "Was is das?' receiv-
ing the same answer, and then he
goodnaturedly laughed, gave it up
and said twas one on him. After
I explained I had to give him half
of my "Wass," and he carried them
around as if they were glass and
sprung the pun on everybody he
knew. It made such hit with
him, [ verify believe he would
have taken me in partnership
which is not so unreasonable, see
ing that [ had been accepted as
his future son-in-law.
One of his patrons was Casey
who lived on top of big hill, and
every Sunday morning Two-Bits
footed up that hill with a can of
his product (his horse being
sacred on the Sabbath). This
particular Sunday morning I am
telling about, Casey was sitting
outside smoking his little short
dudeen, when Two Bits reached
the top, bathed in perspiration
and his habitual cheerful smile.
can [ don't want no schmear-
kase this morning." says Casey,
still smoking as if looking for an
inspiration.
"Dat's all rigid" says the other,
starting down the hill again.
When he got nearly to the bottom,
Casey commenced to holler: 'Hey!i
Two-Bits! Hey! Come back up
here" his arms finging around
like a windmill. Two-Bits hest
tated at first, but again started on
his ten minute climb. When he
once more landed in front of his
friend, putting and blowing like a
peanut heater, Casey remarked:
can [ don't want no schmear-
kase next Sunday morningneither.'
Two-Bits looked at him a full
minute and then poured out the
goods. First a torrent of abuse
in German, hurting anathemas
and malediotions on Casey's head
and then: ''You pig Irish potatoe,
you fannel-eared, sawed-off,
schmokeschtack, you schneaking
uld-like-to:be cop, you turnip-
faced head of cabbage of fenian
clan-nagel-expulsion,- ken lick
your
"Arrah! .g'wan now. Phwhat's
thatY Take off yer coat, says Casey.
While taking it off Two-Bits pro-
posed that whoever got whipped
first should boiler sufficient"
Cali right" says Casey and the
fun started. First Casey knocked
Two-Bits down, who got up and
landed one on Casey who landed
on the ground seeing stars, and SO
the battle continued, vice-versa,
for about twenty minutes, when
Two Bits yelled: "Ich habe suff-
cientW
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1903-03-26

F. COURSE that wasn't
his real name, any more
than Six-Bits or Chow
chow or such Odds and
Ends one may pick up
GRATIS mOst anV place.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-09-10
HEROES OF THE
ENGINE ROOM

sHONE of the real heroes Of the sea,
said the manager of transat-
lantic line, as he nodded at the retreat
ing figure Of his visitor Zone OF our
engineers, and he and his kind save
many a ship many time at great per-
sonal risk, and are not even thanked for
their efforts by the passengers.
But that's because the latter don't
know when or where or how the en-
gineers preserve their lives, for their
deeds are unheralded outside the en-
gineers mess and the captains ROOM
Yes, sir, it's true that
They've words for every one but me-
shake hands with half the crew,
Except the dour Scots engineer, the men
they never knew"
The manger apondered moment
"I'll prove to you that these men are
the real heroes of the ocean," he said,
and these are the stories that he offered
in proof:
A certain steamship in the Pacihc
trade had been sent out from her nome
port with the majority OF her boilers
out of commission. In midocean one
of the few boilers capable of being flred
got leaky tubes, and it became neces-
sary. in order to keep the ship under
Roadway in a hurricane-swept sea, 10
repair the boiler Immediately.
The fire was pulled out from under IT,
the manhole lid was unscrewed ana re-
moved, and the first engineer, wrapped
from head to foot in thick coating OF
asbestos, crawled into the hot Doller'
and with chisel and hammer began tear
ing out the defective tubes.
For two minutes he worked, ana as ne
worked held his breath, for single gasp
Of the fiery air in his lungs would have
killed him. Then he crawled to the
manhole and was pulled out by stok-
ers.
Five minutes later he again went INTO
the boiler. This time, after nearly TWO
minutes work, he succeeded IN cutung
away two tubes. On the third entry ne
removed three, and after that he spent
another five minutes resting.
Then came the task Of roaming IN new
tubes. and to do this he was compelled
TO enter the boiler five times. In each
case he stayed inside nearly two min
utes, and as he crawled out the last time
he barely had breath and strength
enough to say to his chief before ne
tainted dead away:
"Its done, sir"
AS a result Of his experience in that
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-09-10
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JUST ONE WISH.

All our lives are some Of longin'
Some are longin for their youth,
Some for eyes that looked In their eyes,
Eyes alight with love and truth;
Some are longin for the hilltops
That the sun of youth did gild;
But I'm fongin' for shortcake
Like Aunt Esther used to build!
For a great big, thick, old shortcake,
Like what she knew how to do;
With the top crust brown an flaky
An the berries peekin' through
Tween the upper crust and under
Let them long for youth. I'll take
For myself another shortcake
Like Aunt Esther used to make!
1t must be just inspiration
That helps people cook Ike that!
Helps them mix the dough and knead IT,
An to slide it with pat
In the oven in the kitchen,
An to know how long twill take
Swear, I'm longin' for some shortcake
Like Aunt Esther used to make.
II a fairyd sometime whisper:
Here's three wishes, bud, fer you;
Wish fer three things you want hardest
An they'll eyry one come true
I'd say: you keep two, your own self;
One is all care to take;
Just one wish; give me some shortcake
Like Aunt Esther used to maker
j. NJ. Lewis, in Houston Post.