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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
BEFORE IND FTER.
Tommy wants pair of skates,

Tommy wants pair of skates,
Tommy wants 'em now.
Mamma wants a Turkish rig,
Papa wants q COW.
Dolly wants a watch and chain,
JohDny dreams of drums
Wait and see what each IL get
When Merry Christmas comes.
Tommy'll get a handkerchief,
Possibly a book;
Msmma'll get calendar,
To tell her what to cook.
Papa'll get box of fudge,
Dolly'li get a pin,
And Tommy'll get a pail ted box
To keep his collars in.
So it happens every year
Always has, as vet
Awful lot of things we want,
Mighty few we get.
Always happens, always will,
Don't know who's to blame.
Wish you all very Merry
Christmas just the same.
-Somerville Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
NJ Il IL RIAGE BILLINGS.

Sum marry because they think
wimmin will be scarce next year, and
live to wonder how the crop holds
out.
Sum marry to get rid Of themselves,
and discover that the game was one
that two could play at, and neither
win
Sum marry for love without cent
instheir pockets, nor a friend in the
world, nor drop OF pedigree, This
looks desperate, but it is the strength
of the game. ES
Sum marry IN haste and then sit
down and think It'll carefully over.ss
Sum think it carefully fust, and
then sit down and marry.
No man kin tell exactly where he
will fetch up when he touches calico.
No man kin tell exactly what calico
has made up her mind to dew. Calico
don't know herself. Dry goods OF all
kinds is the. Child of circumstances.
Marriage is safe way to gamble
if you win, you win a pile, and if
you lose you don't lose anything
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
Revolution Imminent.

A sure sign of approaching revolt
and serious trouble in your system is
nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach
upsets. Electric BitteIs will quickly
dismember the troublesome causes.
1t never fails to tone the stomach,
regulate the kidneys and bowels, slim.
ulate the liver, and clarity the blood.
Run down systems benefit particularly
and all the usual attending aches
vanish under its searching and thor
ough effectiveness Electric Bltters is
only SOC, and that is returned if it
don't give perfect satisfaction. Guar
anteed by @. Blakely, druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
CLIMATE and CONSUMP-
TION.

We are gradually abandoningst the
idea that the cure Of tuberculosis is
dependent on certain Climatic condi-
tions. Experience is proving that
abundant food, fresh air and rest are
the essentials of such a cure, and
that they can be applied in praoti-
cally all climates The Carolinas.
California, Colorado, Arizona and
New Mexico, as any physician in
these States will testify, are filled
with pitifOl wrecks of humanity who
should never have been allowed,
much less encouraged, by their physi-
clans to leave home in the last stages
Of tubercu osis, with no prospect of
being able to obtain proper treatment
after their arrival at their destina.
tion, journal of A. NJ. A.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
PREA CHED OTER TELE-
PHONE.

Science and religion went hand in
hand in the little town of Orient, in
Southold County, Long Island, on a
recent Sunday when, with its inhabi-
tants snow-bound, the Rev. DR.. Gray
preached to his little flock over the
telephone. Following the morning
sermon came the teaching of the
Bible class, and in the evening the
connections were resumed and the
little flock heard services again by
wire.
There was no choir, as the quartet
was scattered over four, square miles !;
nor was there collection. In lieu
of choir singing, R. W. Tuthill, the
church organist, produced a phono-
graph. which had been carefully hid
away for Christmas, and with records
of the Holy City" and Just AS l
AM" he was able to infuse the tele-
phonio gathering with real song SER
vice enthusiasm.
The telephone idea originated with
the pastor himself as he sat in his
library and gazed upon the impossible
roads. He remembered that many of
his flock had installed telephones, and
he called up the central office. The
Central" be it remarked. is one of
the enthusiastic members of the Con.
gregational church The pastor told
her his plan, and in five minutes tele,
phone plugs had done what horses
and carriages could not do. They had
brought the flock together. There
were thirty-six wires for them.
The morning services lasted twenty
minutes, and the Bible GLASS teaching
fifteen minutes, Many of the parish.
toner's had made up their mind;
to attend the service in the ecen.
ing, but the telephone central
had her own idea about things, and
the thirty-six wires brought the flocA
to the PASTORS study again. Ser
vices for next Sunday will be con.
Quoted by wire. weather conditions
prevailing" were the last words OF
Dr. Gray. Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29

An old woman practically frozen to
death right here at home in st. AL
bans and in Christmas week too. Box
up your furlined oyercoats and your
hymnbooks and send them to the
Fijis, st. Adams Messenger.
Yes, look carefully after the poor
starving people of India and Ireland
by sending them donations proper ly
announced in public at the churches
or elsewhere, but let the dirty good
fornothings that live in the small
slums of St. Adams or Montpelier go
hungry and be cold. Never mind
them. They are of no account. The
poor and heather over the seas are
virtuous and deserving. o, mistaken
beings
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
CONTROL OF CORPORATIONS.

The annual report of James r. Gar
field, commissioner of corporations,
which has just been made public, con-
tains much that is we'll worth the
consideration of any person interested
in the grave problems which now con-
front this country in connection with
the control of the business of the great
corporations. The branch of the de-
partment OF commerce and labor, of
which Mr.. Garfield is the head, has
gone deep into the question of corpor-
alton control, and has secured and
compiled for the use of Congress, il
Conrgess sees fit to use it, comprehen-
sive information regarding existing
conditions, existing laws-State and
otherwisa-the various methods that
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
A Costly Mistake.

Blunders are sometimes very expen-
sive. Occasionally life itself is the
price Of mistake, but you'll never be
wrong if you take Dr. Kings New Life
Pills for Dyspepsia, dizziness, Head
ache, Liver or Bowel troubles. They are
gentle yet thorough. 25c, at o. Blake
ly's drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
Fight Will Be Bitter

Those who will persist in closing
their ears against the continual recon-
mendation of DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for Consumption, will have long
and bitter fight with their trouble S,
if not ended earlier by fatal termina-
ton. Read what I. II. Beall of Beall,
Miss. has to say: Last fall my
wife had every symptom of consump-
ton. She took DR.. Kings New Dis
covery after everything else had
failed Improvement came at once
and four bottles entirely cured her. I"
Guaranteed by @. Blakely. druggist
Price SOC, and $l.00. Trial bottles
free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
main post Office handled in this man

main post Office handled in this man.
ner.
This innovation, besides cutting
down the time of mail transportation,
Will be the means of saving much
money now spent by the government
in the maintenance of wagons and
horses. 1t will also place at the dis.
posal of the Chicago postmaster con-
siderable room about the postcfiice
structure which is now given up to
the purpose ofka wagon stand. This
is an item Of some Importance in this
case, as there is scarcity OF room,
and the space thus gained can be put
to good use. - Scientific American.
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LAWSON'S ARTICLE.

Boston. Dec. 28.-In statement
addressed TO Wall street aud the pub
lie yesterday Thomas W. Lawson says
the morning papers showed him that
System" and Frenaied Fiuan.
ciers" yesterday spoke in many ways
and he will answer them later in the
day aud then leave them for period
while he tackles more serious and
terrible phase of his WORK.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
Keep Thinking About 1t.

Cough syrups that are constipating
cav 9 the stomach aid bowels in
dangerous condition. A cough syrup
that is a laxative is sure to give bet
if it fails to cure your cough or cold
we will pay back your money.
W. E. Poole, George Megrath, Fl.
A. Slade, o. Blakely. Rivers Bros.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29

O'Clock on Thursday afternoon in the
case of State VS.. Eugene Sargood
charged with attempting to poison Mr..
and Mrs Sanford Hicks. The case
was given to the jury at 10 30 o'clock
on Friday forenoon. Sargood is now
serving sentence for poisoning colts
and has also been found guilty of per-
jury.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
A Frightened Horse,

Running like mad down the street,
dumping the occupants, or hundred
other accidents, are every day occur
rences Il behooyes everybody to
have q reliable salve handy. land there S
none az good as Buoklens Arnica
Salve. B6rns, cuts. sores, eczema
and piles, disappear quickly under its
soothing effect 25c, at O. Blakely's
drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29

produces better results in two minutes2
Everything in the package. Simply add hot
water and set TO cool. Iesperfection. A sur
prise to the housewife No trouble, less ex-
pense. Try it to-day. Flavors Lemon,
Orange, Strawberry, Raspberry, Chocolate
and Cherry. At grooers. 10c.
When you make Ice Cream use Jell-O ICE
CREAM Powder. All ingredients in the
package. At all grocers. 2pkgs. for 25c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29
WILLIE'S REFO RMATION.
Little Willie looked upon

Little Willie looked upon
The calendar. one day;
Jimmunny !" he said, said he,
Christmas only seems to be
Bout a month away"
Whites mother called for him.
Did he lingerf Nay!
Willie's mother was made sick
BY the shock he was so quick
Going &c obey.
IS. E. Kiser.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29

Itching hemorrhoids were tie
plague OF my life. Was almost wild.
Doan's Ointment cured me quickly
and permanently, after doctors had
failed. q. +. Cornwell, Valley
Street. Saugerties. N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-29

Sold throughout the world Cuticura Soap. Csc, Oiu,-
mcn dOc, hesoveni, soc. Gin form Of Chocolate Coated
Pills, .5o per vial u COZ Depots London, ~ Charter
house So Paris Rue de Ia Paix Boston, ~ Columbus
Ave. Potter Drug Chem Corp, sole proprieiors.
W. Send for How to Preserve, Purity, and Beauty
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-31

In the New Zealand Medical Journal appears this story: Walking to the scaffold in solemn procession. a crimi- nal called to the governor of the prison: Just oblige me, guv'nor, by telling me the day O the week" Monday" an swered the surprised governor. Mon day." exclaimed the prisoner in dis gusted tones; well, this 'ere's a fine way of beginning a. week. ain't it?" And he marched on with dissatisfaction imprinted on every line of his face. On another occasion an officious hangman whispered as he placed the white cap on his victims head. ''If there's any thing you'd like to ask me I'll be pleas ed to answer" The victim craned his neck forward and said in an equally low but very much more anxious voice, You might tell me. isis this scaffold safe?,'
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NOT KIND TO US.

If we love for money we can't afford
 to love Russia just now. It is pointed
 out by a Treasury department official that the Russian occupation of Man churia has already cost the American cotton manufacturers millions and mill lions of dollars in the loss of trade in that province. Russia has systemati- cally excluded American products from Manchuria. The loss in the cotton trade with China in the last two years is alarmingly heavy. In the eight months of the current fiscal year we sold to that country s2, 762,07s worth of cotton cloth. During the corresponding eight months Of the fiscal year 1902 we sold to China S10,094, S36 worth of cotton goods. Here is a decline of al- most $S,O0O,0OO, or about 50 per cent. of
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pRorER.

Hadley-He asked me to give him a little advice. Beling-And you gave it to him? Hadley-Oh, yes; didn't care much for his friendship, you know Boston Transcript.
 Drug Clerk-Will you take this tonic? Jones-No: show me something cheap CT. My wife wouldn't save my life or hers with anything at SHE'S bottle.- Cincinnati Tribune.
 New Boarder-"W did that fellow mean in the dining room when he told me he knelt before ten women this af- Iternoon? Did he propose to them?' Cravat Clerk-'No: he's a shoe clerk D Cleveland Leader.
 Do you believe" she asked. that a genius can possibly be a good hus- band?" Well" he modestly replied, T would prefer not to answer that question. But my wife ought to be able to tell you. n-Chicago Record Herald.
 Hogan-'I suppose we've heard me lad Terry? He do be takin lessons on tn elary-o-nit.' Ryan He might better be takin' lessons on the sthame- dhrill. It 'ud be more useful t him an a dom sight more soothin t the neigh bors. Puck.
 Your majesty said the Prime Min ister, leading the culprit forward. this is the page who has been so loose in his habits ~ "Ahap' exclaimed the king, he must be brought to book. 'Teheei" giggled the page; "a royal jest. I'll be bound. '-Catholic Standard and Times.
 'I sent three poems to Blanks nlaga- zine last month and this morning l learned that 1t had suspended pubica- tion.' Say, that's what I call tough luck rejoined his friend. But even If the publishers should bring suit against you for damages. they won't be able to recover anything. .''-Chicago Daily News.
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Stories are told concerning a certain Irish town where -'watchmen" are still employed to parade the streets by night and "call the hours" their usual formula being something like this: Two o'clock. all's well, all's well.''
 One night, as a visitor happened to be lying awake. he heard the following somewhat paradoxical cry:
 Two o'clock; all's we'll; Smiths mills on fire; one man killed. AIS well!"-- Tit-Bits.
 How sweet the blissfuI, happy hour
 That soft beguiles With wondrous tenderness and power The watchers in yon rose-hued bower
 When baby smiles! How sad the night and dreary the dawn
 No one denies
 When witehing looks and smiles are
 gone And papa stops his walk to yawn
 While baby cries! Judge
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SOME sMoorH ITALIANS.

There are some smooth people in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. One of the Socialist members, Signor Cabrini, introduced bill making the observ- ance of Sunday as holiday compul- sorry throughout Italy. For more than week the Chamber discussed this measure with great feryor, earnestness and gravity. It approved each provis- ion in turn, often by large majorities, in spite of the opposition of the more earnest politicians and the angry warm ings and criticisms of the Italian press, which seemed likely to be the chief suf- ferer. Finally, when the whole bill, as amended, was put to the vote by secret ballot, the Chamber promptly rejected It by 153 votes to ST. The bill is, there fore, relegated to oblivion, and it is quite plain that it never had any real chance of becoming law. But, as a cor respondent observes: All parties are satisfied-the deputies who spoke in it's favor and secretly voted against it, their constituents who read their speeches and cannot see the black balls, and the newspapers, which really began to fear that they would be actually de- prived of one-seventh of their activity and their profits. Even the honest mi nority, the Extreme Left, may have found satisfaction and consolation in having violently denounced the rest of their colleagues as buffoons, towards and hypocrites.
 Great is humbug, and many are the prophets thereof.
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society; even are jokes of the yourI people made upon themselves beirS taken serious in the world outside; \ when they asked at the dinner tabl9 "Is the butter within the sphere of yo{ intinence?" or proposed that a pl should be cut from the center to tF periphery" There being more yourH men then young women, at first, an ui
 usual share Of household duties, mort over, fell upon the stronger sex. The helped in the laundry, brought watt from the pump prepared vegetables the barn. The graceful George Willias Curtis trimmed 1amps' and the man Charles Dana organized a band "griddle cake servjtors," composed -four of the most elegant youths of tl
 community. y."-Atlantic.
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see-the normal boise we hear so much about and make such efforts to gain.
FIN AT BROOK FARM.

For the unbelieving world outside, it must be remembered, the Transcen- dental movement at least contributed sunshine through the very sarcasnls it excited: as when Mrs. Russell, Father Taylor's brilliant daughter. did not finch from defining the Transcendental- ists as "a race who drove into the in finite. scared into the illimitable and never paid cash" or when Carlyle de- scribed Ripley, who had called on him in England, as "a Socinian minister who had left the pulpit to reform the world by cultivating onions." Emerson com pared Brook farm to "a French rev. olution in small'' and certaiif meeting of the Transcendental clug to going to Heaven in swing"
 All the peculiarities of Brooks farm, we may be sure, were reported without diminution in the gossip of Boston
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the entire trade in cotton goods with the Chinese Empire. It is now almost impossible for Americans to get any manufactures into Manchuria. and this condition has obtained for more than a year. Russia is following the same methods in Manchuria that were so successfully employed by France in Madagascar. The Chinese have great fondness for American brands of col ored and plain cotton cloths. They still buy great quantities of what they think are American made goods, but in reality they are the product of Russian factories. The Russians are successful fly initiating our goods and business methods. The Trans-Siberian railroad brings their manufactures direct into Manchuria. while the volunteer fleet, heavily subsidized by the Russian gov North China at very low rates. Until the beginning of the present war these goods were entered at Dalny and Port Arthur without paying the usual GUS toms duties. This is an advantage that the American manufacturer cannot withstand, and the result is the gradual loss of trade of that part of China.
 If the Russians persist in hurting our trade they will hit us right where we live. We are benevolent and beneficent, but we have to make money in order to be able to do good.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar Year.
AnvERrIsING RATES.

Situations. Wants, Rents and other small advertisements, One Cent a Word each ln- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch, one in, sertion, S12O; each subsequent insertion, 4o cents, one week, $3.20: one month, slO; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse. b ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 90 cents each. Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to De unobjectionable), and their contracts do not include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
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cnAR1Ks H1RV1Y 4oWSsHEND.


 Charles Hervey ToWnshend, whose death was announced yesterday, was one of New Haven's most valuable and valued citizens. He was a man of un- common mental and physical vigor, and his natural force was not noticeably abated until near the end of his long and active life. He was a captain on the sea and a leader on the land. He was prolific in ideas and persistent and sldllful in putting them into action. He was especially and deeply interested in all that concerned New Haven, and he did much to incite and aid progress here. He was a hearty, friendly man, not afraid to say what he thought, and he enjoyed free and even blunt ex- pression of opinion from others. He de- sDised humbug and was quick to dis cern it. His life was useful and sue cesstul, and his record will make a worthy chapter in the annals of the mo- table New Haven family of which he was member.
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ri,tc,sn.

It is easy to sit in the sunshine And talk to the man in the shade; It IS easy to float in a well-trimmed boat And point out the places to wade. It is easy to sit in your carriage And counsel the man on foot; But get down and walk and you'll change your talk
 As you feel the peg in your foot. It is easy to tell the toiler
 How best he can carry his pack; But no one can rate a buraen's weight Until it has been on his back. The up-curled mouth of pleasure Can preach of sorrows worth; But give 1t q slip, and a wryer lip Was never made on earth.
 La Porte City, Ia., Press.
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THE BfG TREES AGAIN.

The big trees of California are not yet safe. In response to a great peti- ton President Roosevelt, who has shown the deepest interest in the ques- ton, sent special message to congress recommending the passage of the bill introduced for the purpose of making the trees United States property. The prospects then seemed exceedingly fav- orable. But the owner of the trees, a Mir Whiteside, man of large means and considerable influence, began to oppose the bill with such force as to make it's success very doubtful His claim is that the bill does not deal fairly with hin-that he paid s1OOO0O for the prop erty five years ago, and that the vari- ous expenses incurred by him, including interest on his investment, would amount to total of more than $200,000. Some of the friends of the project re- gard the owners position as quite rea- sonable. but others claim that the com pensation specified in the bill is alto gether too great, and that the owner is simply holding up the government. It is now proposed to amend the bill by eliminating the fixed appropriation and providing for acquiring the trees by right of eminent domain.
 While MT. Whiteside ought to have what his trees are worth he shouldn't be allowed to stand in the way of their aeauirement by the government.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-31

Still vigorous at the age of seventy five years, Count Leo Tolstoi nearly every day either takes a ride on his fa- vorite horse, goes for walk under the linden trees with his daughter. Alexan- dra, or in company with his great wolf hound, tramps over the broad acres of the famous estate of Ysnaya Polyana. Tolstoi has long been an ardent out-of- doors man-in early life hurdle rider of no mean accomplishment, hunter and an athlete; in later years pedes- trian to whom twelve miles day was an average walk and to whom a day in the saddle was as nothing.
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A novel scheme of whisky peddling has just been discovered in the Chicka- saw nation. The culprits have just been arrested. These peddlers travelled over the country in an old wagon, drawn by poor span of Indian ponies, and were ostensibly buying eggs and poultry, but on the sly they would sell small bottles of whisky to farmers and Indians throughout the neighborhood, at one dollar per pint. The officers discovered that both axles of the wagon were of iron and very. large. Upon further in vestigation, it was discovered that these axles were hollow, and would hold about four gallons each. The peddlers would remove a small bolt and insert small pump and draw the desired amount of whisky out of these axles.