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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
n BOYS CURIOSITY.

A remarkable disaster occurred this
month. A derailment (which by a
miracle caused no immediate fatali-
ties) took place on the Seaboard rail
way in Evergreen, Florida. The
New York and Florida Limited train
was ditched and smashed to kindling
wood by an eight-year- boy named
BERTHE Ryals, who threw the switch
just to see what would happen. I"
Evergreen station is merely a collec-
tion of negro shacks scattered round "a
railroad siding. Postmaster Herring,
who keeps little store at the siding.
has signed an affidavit, the railroad
officials report, in which he says the
boy told him, about half an hour be-
fore the Northbound Limited was due,
that he had opened the switch to the
sidetrack, about one hundred and fifty
feet from the store. Herring, with
brilliant intuition, told him to 90 and
close it, which he says the boy prom
isedlh would do. This remarkable
individual concludes in his affidavit
/ am satisfied now that he did not
close it or the wreck would not have
occurred. collier Weekly.
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me-if l do anything. But 1 don't
have to- can sell the farm and quit
if the Vermonters at home prefer to
die moss grown and weather beaten.
1 can do business here. can sell all
the goats we can get, at big prices.
Bought 53 the other day for S3. 90
apiece aud sold them for SO. 80, with
out seeing them. Was sick that we
hadn't seen them, for we could have
taken $12 piece for them. If the
farmers won't pay for goats down
there as much as they would for
hedgehogs, there is no use taking them
into the country. If rich men won't
put up 800 to save the State, we can
not expect the poor farmers to do it,
"Well, didn't expect to say half |
have when started in-but it's out. -
Tie question again is, What is Ver-
mont going to do about this matter?
Here is project that promises great
advantage to the State. but the men
of Vermont seem to have less interest
in it than their representatives in the
Legislature last fall had in hedgehogs
and they appear to be as unwilling to
take the project up as they would the
fretful animal of quilts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

man in ALL the world. But probably
Mr.. Riis or any one else is utterly
powerle IS to help in the matter. The
present condition of industry is re-
sponsible for the difficulty and until
this is changed the difficulty will re-
main just as it is. For some reason
that can scarcely be explained, farm
life is very unattractive to most peo-
pie and especially so to farmers them
selves. The trouble is not in getting
people on the farm it is in getting
them TO stay there. Enough boys and
girls are born on farms or in farming
communities each year to solve the
problem if they would stay where
they are born, but they won't do it.
1t is mt at all unlikely that this New
Haven farmer has one or more stall
wart sons, but if this surmise be true
it is safe to guess that they are in the
shops or offices Of Rutland or perhaps
some larger city instead of at home
The boys will not stay on the farm
and there are none to take their
places. There was time when Yer
mont farms attracted large number
of emigrants from Canada and lands
across the sea but all thi, is changed
| The emigrants are coming. probably
| in greater numbers than ever before.
but they like the farmer boys are at.
| tracted to the towns instead of the
country and afford little relief to the
farmer. So the captains of Vermont s
greatest industry are handicapped by
a lack of workers and so they will
remain until a better adju ;tment OF
the country's industrial affairs brings
relief. This time is surely coming
but when, and what the farmers will
do in the meantime are still unans-
wered questions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

Smith. Though Gen. Grant believed
that Petersburg might have been taken
at that time, there is no warrant for
believing that he blamed Gen. Smith
for the failure. 1t seems clear that
the fault was somewhere very close
to the commander in-chief of the de-
partment in which the enterprise was
undertaken, and under whose imme-'
diate orders Gen. Smith was acting,
to wit, Gen. B. F. Butler. Gen.
Grant says that he informed Gen.
Butler that Hancock's corps would
cross the river and move to Petersburg
to support Smith. But Hancock did
not get orders from Butler, did not
know that he was to go to Petersburg,
or that anything in particular was
expected of him. after he had crossed
the river, till he got a note from Gen.
Smith asking him to come on. -
Meantime, the tide in the plans of the
commander. which, taken at it's
flood, would have led to victory,
ebbed, and nine months of siege and
titanic battle ensued before Peters
burg was evacuated.
There is much concurrent testimony
to the effect that Butler. here as else
| where in his military career, was not
onto his job, and some of this ev-
idence is coming out in the reviews of
Badly Smith military services.
He was sent on mission Of greatest
/ Importance, and the plans laid to
make his mission effective were not
carried out. the orders given to insure
timely cooperation at the critical
| moment were never given. Hancock, of
all generals of the army, was the one
to render effective assistance. but the
orders sent to his commanding officer
were not communicated to the brave
and chivalrous subordinate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
SCORES TERMONT.

Boston, March 23.-In his evening
sermon yesterday the Rev. Charles A.
Crane, pastor of the Peoples Temple
(Methodist), created a mild sensation
by discussing political conditions in
Vermont. He said:
Living pictures of triumphant po-
litical infdelity can now be seen in
Vermont and New Hampshire. Off
GERS sworn to enforce the law have so
long nullified it that their persistent
perfidy has persuaded many good men
to think that the only practical way
to handle lawbreakers is to license
them. When there has been an honest
effort to enforce the law it has been
success. But dishonest efforts have
encouraged the lawless and discour-
aged the good citizen, who is busy
with the bread and butter pre- blem,
until now we see dishonesty trium-
plant, and the outlaw in Vermont
for fifty years is invited into the halls
of the legislation where alleged good
men will plan for his protection and
will arrange to get share of his plum
der
sit is matter of greater concern
than all the money in the rum bust
ness that the constitution of State
can be set at naught by falthless Off
Gals and then this political infdelity
be rewarded by laws framed to suit
the lawless. To legalize crime is bad
but to be driven to it by lnfidels to
public trusts is worse by far. s"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
THE COAL COMMISSION REPORT.

A report of eighty seven pages, only
summaries .of which have been pub
lished, and these more or less defective
in fact and accuracy of statement, is
the only basis the public yet possesses
on which to construct Judgment of
the work and conclusions of the coal
commission. Briefly summarized the
awards which appeal most directly to
public interest ale these:
() Increase in wages, amounting
in most instances to 10 per cent. over
and above the rates paid in the month
of April, 1902.
(2) Eight hour shifts for engineers
and fremen and some decrease of time
for other employees.
(3) Permanent joint committee,
to be called "A board of Cancellation, tC
adjust disagreements; umpire, if nee.
essary, to be appointed by a judge OF
the third judicial circuit court.
a. No concerted effort to limit
output unless by agreement.
(5) Fixinga minimum wage and q
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the medicine-may be not so many. To
show what it can do by what it has done
the true and convincing wayne append a
little letter from one who has no interest in
telling anything but plain facts:
In q communication dated August 5th.
1902, Mrs. A. f. Chaffee of Rutland, Vt,
gays:
81 never took any medicine that did me 30 much
good as DR.. David kennedy's new medicine, Cal-cura
Solvent. 1 am poor woman and have to work
hard for my living. Before commenced to use
Ca-cura Solvent, was not able to work at all owing
to severe kidney trouble. Now can work hard all
day long. am fifty-nine years Of age, and feel
essary. know can do more work now than l
could thirty years ago."
What this good woman says is thous-
and times more to the point than any COM
ment we could make on it, so we will make
none. Only this: we hope the women folks
will read it. Get the genuine. Make sure
about the name-Cal-cura Solvent. DR..
David Kennedy's new medicine.
Send to the Cal-cura Company, DIR. Ken
nedy Row, Rondout, N. Y. for free SAM
pie bottle. Large bottles $1.00, all drug
gists. One size only.
Remember. Only one DIR. David Ken
nedy ever lived in Rondout, City of Kings
ston, N. Y, and the name of his new and
latest medicine is Cal-cura Solvent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

An English justice made a novel
argument against cremation in pro.
nouncing sentence ON murderer,
Thursday The case was one in which
saloon keeper, who claimed he was
an American, was convicted of poison
ing young woman who lived with
him as his wife. An autopsy showed
this to be the cause Of her deaqh, and
then the bodies of his first and second
wives were exhumed and were also
found to contain poison. In the course
of his summing up the justice COM
mented on the fact that if cremation
had been the law of the land it would
have been impossible to bring the
charges home to the murderer, as
nothing would have remained of his
victims to show that they had been
poisoned. He hoped that the people
who favored cremation would take
this as a warning,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

Heinrich Peterson, recently pro-
fessor in Baptist theological semin-
airy in Hamburg, Ger, is acting as a
motorman on trolley line in Chester,
Pa. Prof. Peterson, who speaks five
languages auently. came TO this
country few weeks ago, expecting to
receive an appointment in a theo-
logical seminary. He was disappoint-
ed, and Immediately went to work
with the trolley company. This is
the sort of emigrants the United
States wants and the more that come
the better. 1t is hardly to be expected
that Mr.. Peterson will run an electric
car very long, however. Such a spirit
as his will land him in the place he
aspires to before many seasons come
and go.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
BEEF PACKERS UILTY.

Jefferson, City Mo-, Mar. 23. THE
Missouri Supreme Court has found
five large beef packing companies
guilty of maintaining an unlawful
combination to control prices Of meat
in the State Of Mis- souri,, and issued
an order of custer prohibiting them
from doing business in this State and
to pay fine of 50, 600 each and to bear
the costs of the proceed ines, The
companies are given thirty days in
which to pay the fine imposed and if,
during that time, they sh all accept
the Judgment and pay the fine the
custer will be held in allegiance and
the companies will be permitted to
continue their business in Missouri.
The companies affected by the de-
cision are the Armor Packing COM
pany, Cudahy Packing company, Ham
mond Packing company and Swift g.
Co., of Chicago and the Schwarzschild
d Sulzberger 90. of New York. The
decision against the packers is the
ending of proceeding which was in
stituted last May.
New York, Mar. 90. -Ferdinand
Sulzerberger. president of the firm of
Schwartzchild e. Sulzerberger, says
concerning the decision Of the Mis-
souri, supreme court, in the beef trust
cases: 1t will not affect us in the
least. We will pay our fine that is
if our lawyer so advises us and go
right ON with out busine IS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
II STANDS AIODC.

Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription
stands alone, as the one and only rene dy
for leucorrhea, female weakness, pro-
lapsus, or falling of the womb, so abso-
lutely specific and sure in curing these
common ailments of women, as to war
rant its makers in Offering to pay az
they hereby do, the sum of $500 reward
for a case Of the above malades viii CHI
they can not cure. This is a remarkable
offer. No other medicine for the cure
of woman's peculiar ailments is backed
by such remarkable guarantee. No
otbex medicine for woman's ills is pos
sessed of the unparalleled curative pro-
perties that would warrant its makers
in publishing such an offer; no other ren-
edy has such a record of third of a
century of cures on which to base such
a remarkable. offer.
Miss Emma Weller, who is Secretary Of the
Young Peoples Christian Association, at 1878
Madison Avenue, New York City, says uYour
'Favorite Prescription is boon to sick and
tired women, for 1t cures them when other med
icines fail. I know whereof l speak for l have
had experience with II. For fourteen months
had constant headaches seemed too weak to
perform my daily duties, and when the day was
was too tired to sleep well. | suffered
from nervousness and indigestion, and every
thing ate distressed me. Doctored with differ
ent physicians but received relief After
reading one of your books decided to give your
'Favorite Prescription trial. Am very glad
did, for found it was just what wanted
commenced to improve at once and kept getting
better UNTIL after seven weeks, l was entirely
cured. l have remained in perfect health ever
since, and remain firm friend of your Favor
lite Prescription "
The dealer who offers substitute for
cFavorite Prescription is only seeking
to make the little more profit afforded
by a less meritorious medicine. His
profit is your loss. Therefore, turn your
back on him as unworthy of your pat
ronage.
If constipated use DIR. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets. They cure constipation,
biliousness and sick headache They do
not produce the "pill habit"
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL As
ISOLATION, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
A Remarkable Case .

One of the most remarkable cases OF
a cold, deep seated on the lungs, caus.
ing pneumonia, is that of Mrs. Ger
trude E. Fenner, Marion, Ind, who
was entirely cured by the use One
Minute Cough Cure. She says: The
coughing and straining so weakened
me that l run down III weight from
14S to 90 pounds. [ tried number
of remedies to no avail until used
One Minute Cough Cure. -Four bot.
ties of this wonderful remedy cured
me entirely of the cough, strengthened
my lungs and restored me to my nor.
NAL weight, health, and strength. .
Rivers Bros.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
What's in a Manner

Everything is in name when it
comes to Witch Hazel Salve. Il. O.
Dewitt 81 Co., of Chicago, discovered,
some years ago, how to make a salve
from Witch Hazel that is a specific
for Piles For blind, bleeding, itch
ing and protruding Piles, eczema, cuts,
burns bruises and all skin.diseases
DeWitt's Salve has no equal. This
has given rise to numerous worthless
counterfeits. Ask for Dewitt 's-the
genuine. Rivers Bros.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
This Will Interest Mothers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stom-
ach, Teething Disorders, Break up Colds,
move and regulate the Bowels and De-
stroy Worms. They never fail. Over
10000 testimonials AT all Druggists
25c. Sample mailed free. Address
Allen S. Olmstead, Leroy, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
1t Saved His Leg.

p. A. Danforth of LAGRANGE, Ca,
suffered for six months with a fright
full running sore on his leg but writes
that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly.
cured within five days. For Ulcers,
Wounds, Piles, it's the best salve in
the world. Cure guaranteed. Only
% cts. Sold by @. Blakely, Druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
NEW CURE-1LL.

A Turkish7medica savant has dis
covered new remedy for all dieases
He got his idea from the fact that if
a person is very tired, and changes his
clothes, he is refreshed. Following
this up, he has worked out a beauti-
full theory by which you can get rid
of any illness by frequent changes of
clothes of special make adapted for
each illness. Commercial Advertiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

mllllOnalre oilers n for
, tune in cash to any
physician who can cure
him of nervous indi-
gestion and dyspepsia.
If he will use it faith
fully we will guarantee
that DIR. David Kenne-
dy's neto medicine, CAL
cura Solvent, will do
him that great service.
And it will not cost him
a fortune either; just
the price of, perhaps,
half n dozen bottles of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
Relief After Two Doses.

VIM. ]. Schuyler, Utica, N. Y, says
81 had pain in the small of my back
and Kidney trouble for over year, and
Dyspepsia for fully three years. COM
menced to take DR.. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy and experienced re-
lief after the first two doses. 1t has
since cured me completely"
For all diseases OF the Kidneys Liver, Bladder
and Blood Rheumatism and Dyspepsia, no physl-
oian can prescribe a medicine half so effective
as DR.. David kennedy's Favorite Remedy.
All druggists sell II in the NEW 90 GENT SIZE
and the regular 5 90 size bottles,
Sample 60ffis-eHOKgh for trial, free BY mail.
Or. David Kennedy Corporation. Rondout, N. Y.
Dr. David Kenncdy's Cherry Balsam best for
Colds, Coughs, Consumption. 25c. SOC, $1Oo
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
RICH ENOUGH

is the man who has no debts, and he who
has no diseases is young enough. Turn
this over in your mind and see how clear
and comforting a truth it is. A certain
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26
BIDS TO RAISE The MAIN E

Havana, March 20.-The secretary
of the treasury mas received propo-
sal to remove the wreck of the United
States battleship Maine It comes
from an American whose name the
secretary declines to disclose. The
proposition does not call for payment
either way. Pending its acceptance
it has been decided to include the
Maine in the advertisements for bids
for the removal of various wrecks.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

First actress--I was certainly be-
side myself with rage. Second actress
You certainly were. Why, you
quivered even III the places You were
upholstered Life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-26

Fewer gallons; wears longer ;Devoe
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-05-21
Pockets Full Of Explosives.

WaTensbnrg, No. May 15.-Mar-
shal Ryan and 4 constable arrested
James kinman this afternoon in the
Missouri Pacific freight yards after a
running battle between the negro
and officers in which the fugitive was
wounded. Kinman is believed to be
the negro who robbed the postofiice
and store OF ". H. Baird at Centre
view last night. When searched,
burglar tools. dynamite caps and a
bottle Of nitro glycerine were found
in his possession. 1t is thought here
that he il va lted for many burglar.
les in difer Mt parts Of the state.
The negro is from st. Louis.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-05-21

People who have tried change of eli
mate in vain for the cure of weak lungs
have been perfectly and permanently
cured by the use of DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t cures deep-seated
coughs, bronchitis, bleeding lungs, ema-
citation, and other conditions which, If
neglected or unskiifully treated, find a
fatal end in consumption.
uLast spring had a severe attack of pueu-
monia which left me with a very bad cough,
and also LETT my lungs in very bad condition. y
writes John VI. Russell Esq.. OF Brent, Cherokee
Nat, Ind Ty. III haa no appetite and was so
weak could scarcely walk MY breast was all
sore with rnnning sorts. got two bottles of DR.
Pierce's Golden Meeicsl Discovery, which l be-
lieve saved my life. iSsunot express INV graft
tnde to yau. / an. q lie now to do very good
Any substitute c6, red as It Just as goodn
as rGolden Medical Discovery is a
shadow of that medicine. There are
cures behind every claim made for the
uDiscovery," which no ujust as good"
medicine can show.
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, book containing 1908 pages,
is given away. Send al one-cent stamps,
forexpense Of mailing only, for the book
In paper covers, or 81 stamps for the vol
ume bound in cloth. Address DR.. R.V.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-05-21
FRUIT CROP IS NOT KILLED.
N. G. Robertson Says Damage Reports
are Exaggerated.

are Exaggerated.
x. c. Times.
According to N. G. Robertson, a
horticultural and nurssryman Of
Trenton, Mo-, who is at the Savoy
hotel, the reports Of damage by frost
to the Missouri fruit crops have been
greatly exaggerated. Missouri, he
says, will raise one Of the biggest
fruit crops in the history Of the state
this year. The only crop that will
be short, he says, is the pear crop,
and the pear crop Of this state is
never very pretentieus
Missouri will raise between two
thirds and thrce.iourths Of an apple
crop this year" said Mr.. Robertson
last night. Information have re-
ceived from horticulturists In all
parts Of the state indicate that since
May l developments have shown the
reported damage to the apple crop
to have been greatly exaggerated.
Every day now brings more fiatter-
ing reports Of the crop. l look for
Missouri to produce more apples this
year than any other state in the Uu-
ion. At 80 cents a bushel, which is
an average price for good apples, the
apple crop will be one of the most
valuable yields Of Missouri's soil"
Mr.. Robertson says the peach crop
OF tho state is hardly hurt at all.
Here and there damage was done to
peach buds but the effects of thefros
were not general. Strawberries will
he almost as plentiful as usual this
year in Missouri, according to Mr..
Robertson, while Indications show
that the grapes, which were repor ed
killed, will yield about hall a crop.
The vines are throwing out new
bloom stalks since the weather grew
warner. The crop Of cherries, Mr..
Robertson says, will be an average
oneand there will be plenty ofplums.
"The only Missouri fruit crop that
was really killed by the FROST" said
Mr.. Robertson, "was the pear yield.
The embryo pears are very suscepti-
BILE to cold and the frost caused them
to drop from the limbs. The Mis-
souri, fruit crop, generally speaking,
WILDE a bumper this year, l Ithink." I"
Mr.. Robertson is on his way to
Manhattan and Junction City, Kan =,
in the interest Of his nursery bust
ness. With him is W. H. Watkins,
another horticulturist OF Trenton.
They will go west this morning.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-05-21
Her Affections Worth $4,000.

Anderson, Ind, May 15.-Miss
Marriette Hartman, "a years old, re-
Gently Of Kansas City, to-day filed
suit in the circuit urt for breach OF
promise against + nest D. Lane, a
bookkeeper OF this city. Miss Harri.
man alleges that she became engag,
ed to Lane in December, 1900, and
was at that time living in Kansas
City, and that Lane induced her to
come to this city last December, b, t
afterwards refused to marry her.
Miss Hartman demands $4,000
damages. She heisemployed as stenog-
rapher in the office OF a manufacture
ing concern.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-05-21
He Threw Acid on His Wife.

st. Louis May 15.-Mrs. Elsie
Strieb and Mrs. Sophia Wunsch were
seriously burned and probably dis
figured for life to-day by acid thrown
into their faces by Frank Strieb,
husband OF the former woman.
The couple had been living apart
and to day Strieb appeared at the
home of Mrs. Wunsch, where his wife
was living, and said he was going to
throw acid into her face. He had a
bottle OF carbolic acid in bis hand.
The women struggled to secure it.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
bottle was finally taken from Strieb.
both women received part Of the con-
tents in their faces. Strieb escaped.