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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16
Letter to G. 3. Harwood.

Dear Sir: Let's have a little private
talk by ourselves on business; nobody
else, please, read.
You want to know how to do a cheap
job of painting. and have it look good
Here 1t is: The cheapest thing there is in
the way of good-looking job-say moth
ing about its being goods Devoe; the
regular thing in Devoe
The reason is: Devoe goes further than
anything else. Lead-and-oil is good
looking; don't go so far and costs more
Inc other paints are more or less short
In one way or another; don't go so far
and costs more than Devoe.
Devoe eosts least of all: Won don't
mind its lasting longer. do you? We
can't help 1t; paint that goes further
lasts longer; we can't help it.
Yours truly,
~ f. w, DEVOE & co.
r. s. Robbins x Cowles sell our paint.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16
BRATTlEBORo MARKET REPORT.
Potatoes Marked Up This Week
Eggs Have Advanced Three Cents
SUPPLY of Grapes Diminishing.

Trade is quiet this week, with prices
Strengthening. Potatoes have been mark
ed up 10 cents a bushel. The farmers
have been keeping them in bins partly 10
get better prices and partly because they
are busy with fall work. The advance IS
likely to put larger supply on the mar
ket. Eggs have taken another jump II
takes % cents now to get dozen OF
them. The supply of grapes is diminish
ing rapidlV
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16
WEST MINISTER.

Mrs. II. s, Cady is in Boston for two
weeks.
Helen Killlngbeck is in St. Johnsbury
for few weeks.
G. II. Walker returned the first of the
week from his Boston trip.
H. y. Tenney and Miss Tenney are
spending the week in Boston.
The Fortnightly club will meet with
Miss S. f. Hills, hostess Oct 10.
Miss Mary Williams of Cambridge
Mass. Is the guest of Miss S, Il. Hills.
A large number of our toVnspeople went
to Boston Wednesday on the excursion
Madam Williams is seriously ill., and her
daughter, Mrs. owens. of st. Johnsbury.
is here to help in caring for her
An Italian was killed instantly last
Saturday near CIRCUITS crossing when at
tempting to cross the track in front of
the north-bound express.
A party of ladies met at the home of
Miss Susanna Leach Tuesday from to
o'clock to help make the 6Sth milestone
of lite's journey a pleasant one for Miss
Leach. The gathering was a complete
surprise, being very well managed by her
adopted daughter, Mrs. Myron Blanchard
and not until the arrival of Mrs. Judd.
who had been as assistant teacher with
Miss Leach 81 years ago at NORTHAMPTON
Mass, did 1t dawn upon her that Il sur
prise had been arranged. a schoolmate
of over 40 years ago whom Miss Leach mad
not met during the interval. was present.
At o'clock the ladies We're invited to
the dining room, where Miss Leach pre-
sided in hospitable manner. The large
birthday cake in the centre of the table
was admired as well as appreciated by
all. Remembrances of flowers and small
gifts We're presented to help brighten a
shut-in life Miss Leach having met with
an accident six years ago which confines
her to the house large part of the time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16

The Northheld Slate company is a new
corporation with capital stock of $780,
900. George c. Sanborn of Northfield is
president, James H. Edgerton of North
field vice president, and the other incor-
porators and directors are II. W. Vail of
Randolph, c. d. Slayton George II. Rich
mond, f. NJ. Carpenter and F. w. Dutton
of Mortified and c. w. Scarf of Bur-
linEton.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16

What is your idea of experience?"
asked the very young man. Experience,
replied the sage from Sageville, sis the
result of wanting everything you can't
get and getting everything you don't
want."-[Chicago Daily News.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16

If you are tired of taking the large,
old-fashioned, gripping pills, try Carriers
Little Liver Pills and take some comfort.
man can't stand everything One pill
a dose. Try them.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16

HAS Hairovervich always shown a
talent for music?" Yes; even as a child
he cried every time his hair was cut"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16

Judge Crosscup is a fine specimen of
sturdy upright judge. He is United
States circuit judge with a salary Of
$4,000 The Northern Securities company
wants his as counsel in the suits brought
against it by the government and has
offered him salary said to be $lOO, 900 a
year to become its counsel He refused
to resign his position to accept the offer.
He has made some strong decisions
against corporations but believes In COM
binations OF capital, properly regulated
and supervised He considers the public
service beyond mere matter of money
and will stick to the bence.-[Montpelier
Argus.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-16

Johnny, you may define the
first person" johnny" Adam" Flown
and Country.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
nat GOODW
BADLY HURT
THROWN FROM BALI1Y AUTO AND
HIS HEAD CUT OPEN
The Actor Meets with Serious Acci-
dent While on His Way to Il Brook
lyn Observation-Disclosures Surgeon
Sews Up the Cut and Stops the Flow
of Blood, Tho an Artery Was Sew
cred.

New York, Dec. L. IN. C. Goodwin,
the comedian, narrowly escaped death
in an automobile accident on the
Brooklyn bridge last night. He was
thrown from the machine, struck
against the iron railing aud fell back
into the roadway. An artery in his
temple was severed and only his
presence OF mind in throwing out one
arm saved him from probable death in
the East river.
Mr.. Goodwin was on his way to
Brooklyn theater for the evening per-
formance, in an automobile brougham
which had reached the Brooklyn tower
when he heard something crack. Sud
denly the machine crashed into the
side of the roadway and the actor was
sent flying upward and out of the
open door, His head struck the iron
railing a the side of the bridge, and.
tho almost stunned he saved himself
from going over. The chauffeur was
knocked from his seat and lay still in
the road, while many people jumped
from passing trolley cars and ran to
the scene.
The wounded actor:w was taken to the
Brooklyn end of the bridge, blood
streaming from the wounds in his
head. An ambulance surge on,- hur-
riedly summoned. stanched the flow
and sewed up the cut over the temple.
Mr.. Goodwin was able to proceed to.
the theater and appeared in the sec.
ond act of his play, the first act having
been PLAYED by an understudy. ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
AMERICAN :. ATMOSPHERE
PERVADE,S MIR. CHAMBERLAIN
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FOR
FISCAL REVOLUTION IN ENG
LAND. -.

London, Dec 12.--'Apparently we
cannot have even English elections
any more. The whole atmosphere of
the constituencies is American said
w. T. Stead, editor. Of the Review Of
Reviews. on his return from Lewis
centers of the fiscal struggles pre-
cipitated by Mr.. Chamberlain.
BILL boards plastered with statis-
TICS said Mr.. Stead, arguments,
catch phrases. carieatures and all
manner of devices are used to attract
the people-music, raffies. torchlight
professions, games, refreshments, till
the whirl of the thing makes one dizzy.
Nothing like this has been seen in
England till now, and the man who is
chiefly responsible for these innova-
tions is Cyril Arthur Pearson, pro-
prietor of the Daily Express Mr..
Chamberlain's principal electioneering
lieutenant"
Upheavals are being produced by.
the campaign not only in the constitu-
encies, but also in the heart of Lon
don, and in the prominent centers,
where newspapers and magazines are
changing hands. Some have been
captured by protectionsts and others
by free traders. Many editors are
hunting new jobs, having become
martyrs to their convictions.
Pearson, in order to fight Stead, who
Is using the fSSFleW,. Ol REVIEWS
against Chamberlain is working at
high pressure to get ready and issue a
periodical which will duplicate Stead's
publication in every detail and is in
tended to appear three days sooner.
Consequently Stead has decided to
publish the Review Of Reviews five
days sooner than heretofore. He has
written to Pearson congratulating
him on his originality, but prophesies
that the new literary venture, like the
fiscal campaign, will prove failure.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
MISSTATEMENTS CHARGED
w. j. BRYAN ALLEGED TO HAVE
PUT THE WRONG LIGHT ON
THE BENNETT WILL.

New Haven, Conn, Dec. 12.-Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan is charged by
Mrs. Philo s.. Bennett, in her appeal
against the admission of her hus-
bands will to probate, with having
made misstatements in the will and
letters which accompanied it. Her
attorney, Judge Stoddard, in his ap-
plication to have the will set aside,
says: ~
The letter addressed to Mrs. Ben
nett did not state the real and true
arrangement which Mr.. and Mrs
Bryan had induced Mr.. Bennett! to
enter into with them. The fact that
Mrs. Bryan was to get $4,000 of Mr.
Benefits money was not limited at.
The fact that the children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bryan were to- receive $4,000 of
Mr.. Benefits money was not stated,
but, on the contrary, the writing ad-
dressed to Mrs. Bennett stated ex-
plicitly.g that if William j. Bryan for
any reason is unwilling to receive this
sum for himself, that he shall dis
tribute the $4,000 among educational
and charitable institutions while, in
fact and in law, the letter addressed
to William ]. Bryan constituted him
a trustee for his wife and children,
and said the sum of $4,000, if re-
ceived by William j. Bryan, would
belong to his wife and children. all of
which William ]. Bryan and wife we'll
knew - - = 'ls.sl
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

Eagle Grove. Fort Dodge 7:3t
Carroll. Co. Bluffs. OmahaI 7:4l
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN Ri.

Cedar Falls. Waterloo, Mar-l
shailtown, Deg Moines,
st. Joseph. Kansas City. i
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

Milwaukee, U. S. A.
" Through the courtesy Of Commerzienrath (Couns
,lshave received several bottles of your beer.
" have not only partaken of same but have
analysis, the result of which enclose.
a-s The analysis, q matter Of course, can give no
flavor Of the beer.
/ frequently receive samples Of American beers f
say without attering that never drank better Ane
III, The beer tasted full (round) and fresh, and
.pasteurization flavor was discernble. a.as.
r. Once more permit me to express my recognition
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

Kenyon. Dodge Center. Hay:
field. Austin. Lyle. Mason
CITY
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

Red Wing. Rochester. Osaget
Northfie1d. Mankato ....
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
NOT IN THE ABBEY

Westminster Authorities Refuse Place for
Herbert Spencer's Ashes.
London. Dec. 1.-THE Westminster Alb
bey authorities have: declined to permit
the ashes of Herbert Spencer to he sepul-
chered In the British Valhalla. They We're
Informally approached, but expressed re-
greet that it was impossible . I
1t is said no question Of religious belief
could have entered into the matter, be-
cause Darwin lies IN the abbey
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

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kILWaJKEE pE1oy.
Chicago, MIlWaaAee 4
81. Pal RAILWAY.

41chel olAce, go NlSV1iet
sDaily. zEx. Sunday. xEx.Sat.
Chicago, La x, Milwaukee. ].
Milw'kee, La Crosse, Winolia
Chicago, La x, Milwaukee. II
CHICAGO. "PIONEER" LTD
Chicago, La X, Milwaukee. i
Nc.thteld, Faribault, zk. City
Chicago. Faribault, Dubuque. :
Northield, Faribault, Austin.
La Crosse, Dubuque, Rock Is. |
Urtonville, Milhank, Aberdeenl
Ortonville, xFargo, Aberdeen
Pennington. Mankato, Wells.
Farmington, Mankato, Wells.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
Omega Oil Better Than . Porous Plaster
for cold in the chest. A trail bottle costs 1Oc


Homeseekers-One Fare Plus $500.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis has on
sale the first and third Tuesdays of
each month round trip homeseekers
excursion tickets at one fare plus
$500, limit for return three weeks; to
points in south, southwest and south
east Through trains daily to Chi
cago, ST. Louis, Kansas City and
Omaha For particulars call on j. g.
Rickel, city ticket agent, No. Wash
ington avenue S. Is at
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
Very Near a Crime.

CT -NSUT- I
To allow constipation to poison your
body. DIR. Kings NewsLife Pills cures
it and builds up your health, or no
pay. 25c. ", ..s5
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12

Mr. William Slater put a want ad
in The Journal. See his letter in the
want ad pages
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-12
A Man Badly Injured,

Or painfully hurt, burned bruised
or wounded gets quick comfort from
Bucklen's Arnica SaIve. 1t conquers
pain. Csc.
The sun., 1903-12-06

all built around courtyard, in which
are perhaps trees and flowers
There IL absolutely no means OF heating
these great houses, although the climate
s often cold, often wet. and still more often
damp An occasional little oil stove is
the utmost concession to the pampered
in this respect, and this is by no means
common. In cold weather the women go
about the house bundled in shawls,
As to social life the society women OF
La Paz give big charity ball every winter,
which is usually the event Of the social
season. Sometimes the President of Bo-
livia gives a ball, and sometimes the mems
club. The girls are educated In the convent
schools which are conducted by French
nuns.
at doesn't take them very far, says Mrs;
Bandelier but really, il she has good
manners and is agreeable in society it y all
that is asked of woman down there. They
don, expect or desire her to be highly
No Bolivian girl can accept employment
in an office. II a girl OF good family finds
il necessary to earn money, her needle
is the only respect able instrument by which
she can achieve the task.
A few girls are now finding places in the
municipal schools. but q really good family
would rather stint itself in food than allow
daugh hter to DE 40 disgraced. Spanish
rules OF chaperonage prevail absolutely.
kept, In the old families one will find
almost feudal conditions prevailing; SER
wants who have lived in the family all their
lives, like their fathers and Rrandfathers
before them.
In every Indian village can be found
priest If the village is small he will be
the only civilized person in ii and his house
the only decent one. The Bandelers were
often indebted to the priests In their wan
derings.
As for the exploring. Bolivia is covered
with the ruins left by a vanished race They
are scattered everywhere; sometimes in
PROSTATE heaps, again rising in walls and
towers.
They are commonly placed at the top
Of the steepest acclivity in the neighbor-
hood, and thus inconvenient of access
All one can do is to go to them and dig,
in the hope of excavating pottery, fabrics
and bodies. It is because DR.. Bandelier has
been doing this to good effect for years
that the American Museum stands first
in the world in it's Peruvian collection.
The sun., 1903-12-06

death, probably the sirangest of all the
oddities cast up on tina. marine boneyard.
the South Brooklyn shore.
She is low both n floating gaIden.--a
marine bowcr--and floating drug factory
at the same time. Besides this. she has
been the home for forty years of Capt
Ralph r.. Ellis and his wife, who have
raised two sons aboard her
Unlike many of the queer sights around
the big city, the schooner isn't tucked
away in corner If you should ever go
to see her, you'll probably find the smoke
from the stack of big wharf locomotive
curling somewhere around her mainmas,, +,
and not far away a big crowd Of wagons
carrying away ice, coal and other things
that come in from the Hudson and down
In Jersey. It's busy place-the entrance
The sun., 1903-12-06

to Gowanus Canal
She has plenty of neighbors. They are
big square riggers. schooners from the
coast, and canalboats from all round. But
none Of them il covered viii, plants, vines
and flowers.
The Howe Was built way back in 81,
and about ten years later Capn Fills, a
husky young skipper Of Searsport. and
his wife. who'd make good first mate for
any craft. got her from the Boston folks
whose money had built her The schooner
became their home.
When the Howe got pretty old and when
the carrying trade didn't pay as well as
it did once. the question came up; What
are we to do for home?
I'D rather live on water than on land.
rent free. said Cap'n Ellis, Lb~ mAA y j
The sun., 1903-12-06
FLOI n NILLIN THE FAR NORTH.
The Hudson Bay Company Is About to
Build One at Lake Athabasca.

Build One NJ Lake Athabasca.
Instructions have been given from the
office of the Hudson Bay Company at VIM
nipeg for the building Of -four mill near
the mouth Of the Peace River, where its
waters unite with those Of Lake Atha-
basca. Hudson Bay Com pany postsyhave
been raising little wheat for some years
not only In this region but also fur ther
north at Fort Resolution, on the shores Of
Great Slave Lake.
1t is not unusual nowadays to hear of
wheat raising in the far north, especially
In Siberia. A few weeks ago n. l.. s kalo-
subof, addressing an agricultural conv en-
tion at St Petersburg, cited many facts
to disprove the popular idea that wheat
will not ripen north of 90 degrees mort h lati-
tude.
A clergyman at Wugansk, for example. in
81 degrees north latitude. is buildinga mill
propelled by wind power to turn his spring
wheat into -four, At Nassau, on the Pelym
River, in the same latitude. a farmer has
extended his area under tillage and nov
has surplus of wheat to sell The speaker
mentioned many other examples
The fact that wheat is now grown suc
cessfully in the Peace River region. in the
cent raj part of this continent betw 60 and
81 degrees north latitude, ia chiefly due to
the Chinook winds. the warm. dry winds
which blow northward to the east of the
Canadian Rockies. They temper the oil
| mate OF the Peace River country in n re-
markable manner, so that the spring opens
a. early on the upper Peace River in lati-
tude SO degrees as at Montreal, and the
seeding time IL actually earlier.
The Influence of these remarkable winds
Is felt as far east as Regina in Assiniboia.
and extends far to the northwest, east
OF the mountains, through Is degrees OF
latitude.
Many thousands Of square miles along
the Peace River valley in Athabasca are very
fertil growing luxurious grass and eX-
cellent wheat. But no settlers as vet are
found in that far northern region: and the
only purpose of the Hudson Fay Company
is to turn the local wheat into -four for lts
agents scattered through that region and
thus save the high cost of importing -four.
Even if that country should I've developed
its wheat is more likely to go to feed the min
ing camps in the mount aims than to join the
stream of Canadian wheat flowing to Great
Britain Alberta, further south, is raising
much wheat. but not bushel of it is CROSS
ing the Atlantic, because wheat, being
cheap and heavy, cannot pay high freight
rates. Alberta wheat cannot now be moved
To the East at a profit. 1t all goes to feed
the local population and the neighboring
mining camps on the west.
The sun., 1903-12-06

will find whole line devoted to the craft
whose number is 1875, the two-masted
schooner A. F. Howe, built in 1851, at Sears
port, Me; home port, New York, n. Y.
The home port of the A. F. Howe, now
so years old is New York. n. Y" in more
than the sense implied by the official
record. For seven years now she has been
moored fast. through winter and summer.
through storm and fair weather at the en-
trance of Gowanus Canal in South Brooklyn.
And there. unless some strange chance
shifts her tough old frame, she will rot to
The sun., 1903-12-06

His wife agreed with him. Then they
tied up at the foot of Twenty-fourth street
in South Brooklyn A year or two ago
they moved to Twenty-fifth street. and
there they are now.
During all of these seven years that the
Howe has been tied up she has been money
maker. Mrs. Ellis knew the recipe for
liniment guaranteed to cure most things.
She makes it, and every morning the skipper
starts out to sell it or place orders for more.
First Mate Mrs. Ellis then takes command.
Decorating the craft with flowers was
the wifes idea, too over the land end Of
the gangplank they put up floral arch
which is wonder in summer. Aboard
there is perfect profusion Of green things
ferns, palms, banana, orange and lemon
trees--with real fruit on them. and all sort.
The sun., 1903-12-06
VIVA, Postmas,ers.General Chien, IN. i

From ne Worlds Work
The other day ] called Oh Postmaster-
General Payne His desk was strewn With
heaps of papers,
DO you see those" said he, disgustedy.
Nearly haf-yes. q full half-of my works
ing time ] am Obliged by law to devote to
such trivial details as signing those. II tls
post office spends $4,000 or - cents | must
sign the warrant must sign everything.
Time to read the papers, No If they bear
the proper initials they are signed without
question Is that the work for - Postmaster-
lieneral?"
With the natural increase in postal husi-
ness. unless "A change Is made III" only uua-
lcutiOu for PostmHster-Gencral Will bs
brevity of Datronync. and his only duty
will be to writ" his autograph ten hours
a day The shorter the name the better ior
him.