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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20

HAD Cicelys aunt died and left
her the farm In midwinter,
when the mercury stood at
zero and the wind was howl
ing around the street corners, it is
more than probable that the outcome
would have been different
But the news of her Inheritance
reached her early In the spring, when
the buds were swelling on the trees
and the corner groceryman was selling
radishes not as big as the end of your
thumb for 5 cents a bupch-five In a
bunch. 1t was the radishes that final
ly decided Cicely. She had read of
women who had made fabulous sums
out of just such radishes, together
with lettuce and peas and new laid
eggs and young broilers. Cicely was
filed with a strong desire to go and
do likewise
She resigned from the kindergarten
where she taught and she induced her
dearest friend, Madge Carton, who
worked in a downtown office, to do
likewise. Madge had been born on a
farm, so naturally she would be
most desirable partner in the chicken
raising and truck gardening industry.
On the journey Cicely was dreamy
and pensive. Occasionally she wept
little. She had never liked her aunt,
and she had fancied her dislike re-
turned with interest. Now she suf-
fered the pangs Of remorse.
When after two days and nights of
travel they reached the farm she wept
again, tears of good, honest rage.
81 always knew Aunt Harriet dis
liked me-" she walled, "but l didn't
suppose she hated me like this"
The outlook was certainly discourag-
ing. The farm was for the most part
rocks, the kind that go deep down I'M
der the surface and multiply as they
go. The house was no bigger than 1t
should be to shelter two people and no
better than it had to be to keep from
tumbling down over their heads.
Madge undoubtedly would have wept,
too, had she not recognized the neces-
sity for at least one Of them keeping
up a good, stiff front.
When Cicely's angry sobs had sub
sided into pathetic gulps they started
on tour Of investigation. Flowers or
shrubbery there were none and but
one tree, forl6rn and stunted maple
with few sickly green leaves strug-
Cling out on its bare branches. Half
dozen bedraggled fowls were scratch
ing about its roots. and a detected
mule was biting at its lower branches
He was thin and hungry looking, but
in him Madge saw possibilities.
Hes our only hope" she said.
"We'n fatten him up and sell him.
Perhaps he'll bring enough to get US
back home"
Cicely shifted dolefully, and they
went back to the house. At the ba' X
door they found a man waiting 1)r
them. He said his name was Victor
Ellwood and that he lived on the farm
next theirs. He was young fellow,
tall and broad shouldered. His hands
were the hands of one who tolls, and
his face was tanned by sun and wind.
But his eyes were humorous and kind
ly, and his smile warmed you through
and through. His arms were full Of
suggestive brown paper packages.
Some groceries the last people left
here" he explained. 81 took them
home with me for-er-safe keeping.
He was drawing somewhat upon his
imagination, but the two girls, lonely
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20
Ask For Aliens Foot-Ease.

A powder for swollen, tired, hot,
smarting feet. Sample sent FREE.
Also Free Sample of the F0ot-Ease
Sanitary COrn.Pad, new invention.
Address, Allen s. Olmsted. lie Roy,
n. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20
JOHN HURLEY DEAD.
Former Montpelierite Passes
Away-Has Made His Home at
Northfield i'm Recent Years.

News has been received in the city OF
the death on Sunday morning of John
Hurley, formerly resident of this city,
and, in recent years, citizen of North
field. Mr.. Hurley was employed by
Charles A Smith, in the marble business
when he resided here and leaves wife
and daughter, Miss Minnie Hurley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20
r1RS. MARTIN YOUNG.
Raised Away at Home in Wor-
ter-Had Beeu Ill Many Weeks.

Mrs. Martin Young is dead at her
home just out of Worcester. Mr.. and
Young were newcomers to Worcester.
having resided previously in Randolph,
ard had made their home in the town
about a month. Mrs. Young was i'll
when she came to her new home and
grew rapidly worse.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20

DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil is the
best remedy for that often fatal dis
ease-croup. Has been used with
success in our family for eight
years. Mrs. l.. Whiteacre, Buffalo,
N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20

For a mild easy action OF the bow
els, single dose OF Doan's Regulets
is enough. Treatment cures habitual
constipation. rs cents box. Ask
your druggist for them. n ir~
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20
How They
Struck Oil
BY FRANK Ii. SWEET.
Copyright, 1909, by American Press
BY FRANK Ii. SWEET
Copyright, 1909, by American Press
Association.

~ AID Cicely's aunt died and left
her the farm in midwinter
when the mercury stood at
nj lA
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13

thing he sees-perhaps on the number
of minutes that win elapse before the
sun goes down; an X that it will be
out of sight within IA minutes.
One day on a steamers deck during
a southern cruise Gates and crony
of his spent an hour and what many
a New York factory operative would
consider q fortune betting how many
flying fish would be seen in the next
school that appeared
Mark Twain Billiard Expeft.
The most widely known American
author our old friend Mark Twain,
finds particularly keen delight in bill
iards. His New York home has an
excellent table and billiard room
has been reckoned one of the main
essentials of the country home he is
building over in Connecticut The ex.
pert playing for which he is famous
does not come all by itself, like his in
imitable flashes of wit. 1t iS the result
of an immense amount of practice.
He puts in hours of time and miles of
travel around the fascinating green
level of his favorite table.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is prouder of
being rear commodore of the New
York Yacht club than OF any other in
his long list of business and social
honors. He has a positive passion for
the water, as if the spirit of his sea
faring ancestor the first Cornelius of
a hundred years ago, still were liv-
ing in his own distinctly modern up-to.
date person.
While he owns various racing boats,
he actually lives for several months
! every year on his steam yacht North
Star. and entertains his friends there
as he might on his country estate
Some years he makes long cruises
| the North Star is good for any ocean
| voyage Sometimes he sticks closer
| to the vicinity of New York and mere
! ~ runs out thirty OF forty miles to
/ spend the night at anchor off some
| Long Island village.
Philosophers may decide at THEN
/ leisure whether these typical Ameri
cans are great because they know how
to play while they play" or whether
( they take their recreation strenuously
[ just because they are great
Harold Mccormick, Tennis Champion
Harold f. Mccormick, sonin-law ot
John D. Rockefeller, and one of the
officials Of the International Harvester
Company. is an enthusiastic tenni.
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for his digestion and his Judgment
J. Pierpont Morgan rests from the
terrific strain of huge undertakings
in finance by studying art and collect.
ing paintings sculptures, rare textiles,
gems wood carvings. master pieces of
craftsmanship In metal work of vari.
Gus kinds. or course, he secures ex-
pert Judgment to help him in making
decisive selections. but he has per.
soually grown into an art critic of no
small ability and they say he takes
quite as keen pride in his own under
standing of artistic principles and
methods as in the bare fact of pos
sessing museum worthy the re-
spectful admiration of Queen Alexan.
dra and the dowager empress of Rus.
sial
Wall Street Magnates Play Cards.
Now and then men are found whose
recreations run along in lines curious
" parallel with their serious work
This is especially true OF some large
operators in Wall street whose leis-
ure is largely spent over card games
where the shrewdest foresight or the
biggest powers of bluff, or both. can
be exercised.
John w. Gates, who made his i'm,
mense fortune mainly by big deals in
IRON, steel and railways, not only is
devoted to games of chance. includ-
ing roulette but has a veritable pas
sion for betting on all conceivable
and some inconceivable situations.
He plays the races and enjoys it,
whatever the result to his pocket.
Out for a stroll he will bet on any.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13

Rockefeller or Carnegie handi.
cap.
James Hobart Moore never is so
happy as when he is with his horses
He owns nne of the finest stables in
the country, and his splendid thor.
oughbreds have taken blue ribbons iD
the east, the west and the south.
w Vernon Booth would rather ride
to the hounds than eat. For years he
has been master of hounds at Onwent-
sia
Montgomery Ward and John Dupee
divide their love between horsehesh
and golf but all OF the Thornes prefer
golf to any other sport.
Arthur Meeker Plays at Dairy Farm
ing.
Arthur Meeker enjoys life most
when he is in his model dairy out in
Lake Forest, Ill. Running the dairy
is play and work at the same time for
Mr., Meeker 1t is his hobby and he
likes nothing better than looking after
his cows
H.. is his playground, and he says he
has more fun playing the role of stock
breeder than his business associates
can possibly find on the golf links
The Forgans go in for golf but John
]. Mitchell and William j. Chalmers
like yachting on Lake Geneva better
than any other sport.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13
Dream superstitions.

Most Frenchwomen attach great i'm
portance to their dreams. and If, after
diligent study of the 'Clef des
Songes,' they are still III doubt as to
the Interpretation of theiI visions,
they go to a professional astrologer
and get an explanation Dreams, how.
ever, which only involve everyday sub.
jects are of easy solution. In France,
if you dream of eggs, or see a vision
Of dirty water, that means trouble
But If you see fire in you- sleep,
YOU may he happy-that signifies good
luck. To dream Of blood means vic.
tory, and if you see the dead. that
means that you will hear from the liv.
ing To dream Of babies is bad and
If you see cats in your dreams. be
sure you have an enemy If, on the
other hand your slumbers are dis
turbed by the coming Of "A horse. you
may turn over on the other side with
The pleasing assurance toat you have
a good friend
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strolls about his beautiful estate in
New Jersey are leisuta y affairs. When
asked about his far jrite amusement
he confesses it 10 h. monkeying in
the laboratory" and he only game he
cares for is the mild lavice for domes-
tic entertainment known as parchesi
But he is an auton obilist, and with.
out losing his head over the sport. as
so many men of sma' caliber seem to
do, he gets out of spin over the Jer-
sey roads just the lefreshment of
mind and body that se needs in order
to add few more 10 the 500 or 900
important patents already recorded to
Americas credit unG'r his own name.
Newlands Plays with Grandchildren.
Senator Newlands Gf Nevada, whose
executive genius fo; construction has
shown itself strong enough to bal.
ance destructive forces Of earthquake
another kind of hobby in the way of
recreation. He farms It" at fine
old country seat ju,t outside of Wash
iugton, raises hora e8, trains his dogs
and, best of all, alhys in the i,lliest
fashion with brood of charming
grandchildren,
To any one w.o ever had the priv.
ilege of surprislE him hi the utter
abandon Of game of romps with
those little folks i, is "a revelation OF
the secret OF y1uth. lIc does not
merely look ON and beam bnulgnly
while the young ers frolio-he goes
into the roIic himself I'm a whole
soulod way which is not always GOOD
for his clothes, bur is mgsJ excellent
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13
THEIR METHODS
OF RECREA TION
Manner in Which the Worlds
Great Workers Relieve the
Strain of Their Lives
by Play

"Oh. well. the husband Ia said to have
explained, 1T amuses her and it
doesn't hurt me-" Indeed he took
calm pleasure in agreeing to a certain
extent with the critics.
The charge that he was willing TO
associate with any loafer who was the
owner of a dog and gun, he genially
declared too nearly true 10 be de-
MED" but that was only lis way OF
proving the critics all wrong His loaf
ing had system and purpose in it, as
the fish in Buzzard's bur and the
ducks at South island learned TO their
cost.
Cleveland with Rod and Gun.
Few sportsmen in the wlole coun-
try could boast such letord as he
has made over and over L9iin. As to
the ''loafers" whose con,panionship
gave our ex-president greatest delight,
they were fellow guests at the hospila-
bic bungalow of his OLD friend, Gen
Alexander, at South isanC, down on
the South Carolina coast. when Cen,
Alexander got Grover Gle leland, Ad-
mira Bob Evans, Commodore Bene-
dict and Rear Admiral Ls'lberton all
together, these fine giants If executive
ability were boys again ir the utter
freedom from official conventions.
Naval officers. of all men CD earth tor
water), are the greatest rtcklers for
formality, but out there IN the Caro-
lima salt marshes Admiral Evans, with
hip boots and an old cai, can drink
champagne with relish fE0m an old
tomato can and sigh no atghs for any
banquet hall.
Thomas A. Edison tbs man whose
creative brain has practically made
modern civilization leap century or
two ahead, is not one OF those who EN-.
joy active physical sSertion. His
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13

player Years ago he and his hrother
ment, and won the doubles champion
ship without trouble. He played
strong, steady game, and his driver
had more speed in them than had
been seen on a western court until
the Mccormick brawn swung the
racket He played not only fret
game, but what is known in the tennis
world as a "heady" game.
Mr. Mccormick placed the ball with
remarkable accuracy, and managed to
hit the side lines whenever he ne~ded
to capture point.
When tho Mccormick brothers EN-.
tered the tournament everybody was
amused, but when they easily took the
championship mug into camp the old
tennis cracks awoke to a realization
that the McCormicks had made Id
careful a study of the game as they
since have made of the harvester
business.
Harold Mccormick never has lost
interest in the game. and he spends
a part of every afternoon on the beau.
tiful courts of the Onwentsia club, at
Lake Forest, and last year he again
entered the western tournament and
made a hard fight to win.
John G. Shedd Loves Golf.
John G.. Shedd, president of Mar.
shall Field g. Co.. likes no sport so
we'll as golf, and during the golfing
the links. He plays good game, too,
and those who have watched him
drive putt say he could easily give
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-13

Sfhtl al NlhbhOuoOr NO 6uNoNo hip
no reason TO sigh for the larger crowd
Carnegie and His Golfine Friends.
President Pritchett of Carnegie in
stitute, and Horace White. the great
authority on finance and banking, are
two of his goling friends who are
often seen on the links. Each man of
the trio plays a good game, but 1t is
the veteran ironmaster who goes into
it with the greatest vim. Rainy
weather rather delights than discour-
ages him-the harder the conditions
the more fun getting the better of
Them
In winter he plays on the snow.
using red balls. He takes hazard
with precisely the same clear-headed
foresight that he would give TO an
epoch.makng move in steel, and he
makes a drive with precisely that grim
determination which sent his personal
income from $l20 per week to consd-
erably more than $l20 per minute.
Grover Cleveland i'm his time proba-
bly, has been more roundly abused than
almost any other American citizen for
following his natural bent in the mat
ter of recreation, During his two
terms in the White House there were
no terms too strong for his critics to
use with reference to his custom OF
spending vacations with a fishing rod
or a gun in his hands
He calmly let the critics have their
say like the philosophic siX-footer in
the old story who was asked why ne
ct his shrewish little wife beat him
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~w vw ~ ~ HEAR muCD OF lne
w +: s: !: :: s.: !: ::: +:
about their play 1t
has been said many times that Ameri-
cans do not know how to play, That
depends on just what you mean by
amusement, recreation, sport or what
ever you call 1t. Some men do not
know how to use any attractive form
of amusement in such way as to
keep their vitality at its best. They go
to pieces and the hole they leave is
promptly filed But most of our really
great Americans have some ways of
enjoying themselves that are every bit
as characteristic as their ways of work
ing, writes Il. s. Merriam in the Chi
cago Tribune.
Moreover, most of their favorite
recreations are followed as strenuous
ly as their work. Perhaps that is a
virtue. Perhaps 1t is failing. In
either event 1t Is fact and facts
about the men who are doing the con
spicuous work of this present day are
worth knowing.
Andrew Carnegie, with all his Scotch
shrewdness, has deal of Scotch sen
timent also packed away somewhere
in his frame. One outlet for it has
been giving to other people the books
his own poverty stricken boyhood was
hungry for. Another outlet is giving
himself chance to play golf, the
time-honored Scottish game of which
the lad of so years ago could hardly
dream on three dollars week. He has
built himself a 100000 lodge of his
own at the ST. Andrews golf links, be-
cause, as he explained, he never could
get chance at the fireplace in the
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08
NEGLECT THE RIVER ROUTES
Writer in Everybody's Magazine Calls
Attention to What He Con-
siders Mistake.

There lies ST. Paul, within q ten
mile freight haul of the Minneapolis
flour mills, which send 100000 bar
rels of -four to Europe every year
and not barrel of it goes down the
grand old avenue to New Orleans and
away by the gulf, says a writer In
Everybody's. And there is Minneapo
lis herself-with yearly larger store
OF wheat to draw upon, and English
milling competition growing keeneI
every year-Only ten miles away from
an unbrOken river channel But never q
cent is spent to bridge that ten miles
and Increase the city's prosperity by
putting its flour more cheaply into the
rich cotton fields of Georgia and South
Carolina, running from this land of
bolls and factories to the greatest of
our cotton ports and carrying scarcely
bale OF goods or bale of cotton
down to export. And there is the
Ohio. Dragging of its wonderful coal
fleets, which might be run for halt
their cost and with greater safety
the Ohio. bearing a few creaking. dir.
ty packets so old that in Maine they
would be called odd he ones" messing
along the bank. picking up freight out
OF the mud of the shore and dumping
more into 1t. days off schedule. unfit
and absolute unfittable for anything
Ike modern traffic.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08
AP. r. Collier Epiaram.

The late p. F. Collier. the noted pub
Usher and horseman. once discussed
at q publishers convention the odd
case of Ambrose Bierce. who in Eng
land is regarded as an author Of geniu.
whose ''Chickamauga" is said to be
the finest story ever written in Eng
lsh-while here at home Mr.. Bierce
IL not half as renowned as. say, Win
ston Churchill.
Mr.. Collier ended with an epigraH
at once true and sad.
"Mr. Bierce is fortunate. for 1t fire.
quently happens" he said, that the
prophet who is without honor in hi
own country can't afford to 60 abroad.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08

~ Can Keep On Forever.
he nA1 Who limits himself to hop
lAG for the best has IN everlasting
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08
olmplieity.

Lo0glelloW: The supreme excsl.
loaeo = simplicity.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08


duced by Supervisor Pollard:
whereas. Tue interest q the general
public In our public highways and
present conditions Of same require .
better supervision than can be posi-.
ments. thesefore. be It
Resolved. That Monroe township b
and hereby 10 subdivided into four road
districts ~ follows:
Road district No. - to include Sec
tions 1. :. 3. 10. IL. AZ. -. II and IS In
town ~. range west:
Road district Ne II to include sec.
tions 4. g. 6. Z. .. >. ls. II and IL in
town ls.; range ; west:
Road. district No. IS to include Sec
lions e. %. -. Is. &c. q. -. IS and 50.
ttvn 10. range west.
Road district No. IS to include Sec
lions 20. 81. 20. -. 81. - and the east
half Of sections -. 80 and 81. town 10.
range 3 west.
4: o. motion sane, Was adopted.
Upon reeommendatien Of the COM
mittes ON judiciary road overssess were
appointed a. follows:
Arnold Ny6eller. road district No. -,
SO8UIoVOO SVWu SubPs
John Nostek. road district No. q.
Burrows township.
Joseph Oaver. road district No. ~.
Durrows township.
Ftzmiu Dobbins. road district No. 20.
Burrows township.
0afrit- Schultz. road district No. -.
Shell Greek township.
C. c., Doody. road district No. g, Lost
Greek township.
Berney Wemhon. road district No. q.
Grand Prairie township.
Vincent Weiser. road district No. e.
Grand Prairie township.
John DFudney. road district No. Is.
Grand Prairie township.
Chsa.- A. johnson. road district No. 81.
walker township. g
The following vas presented:
To the Honorable Chairman Of the
Beard Of Supervisors Of Platte
County. Nebraska. and to the County
Clssa Of said County:
Your petitioners respectfully repre-
seat 70 teur honorable body that In &C.
oordanei With . joint contract duly en-
tered ilto between the county Of Poll.
Nebras1a. and the county Of Platte.
Nebraska, Tor the erection OF Q bfidgo
across the north channel Of the Platte
river near the town Of Duncan. Ne
braska. that the county commissioners
Of Polk county. Nebraska. have ad-
verified for bids for the erection Of
saiA bridge. and that said bids will
be eQeas1 by the said county commits
sloners q Polk county 1t O'Clock ,.
n Of September II, 1893. and the cen.
tract AWARDED for the constructionl Of
saiA beia0e to the lowest bidder there
for. Therefore. ws. the citizens Of But
Ter tewnship. Platte county. Nebraaka.
being vitality Interested In having said
bsSdgs erected without any unnsces-
safy Delay IN order that same may b
opened - public travel - soon -
DessIbls. hereby petition your ho0or-
oAle body ct next meeting 70 adjourn
g some asts sfeef September 1Ath.
The Columbus journal., 1909-09-08
Alumnae Associations.

The Wesleyan alumnae is the oldes,
organization of the kind in the world
and recently Mrs. Emma Kunz wa:
made the president of it. The alum
nae organizations take most active in
terest in the colleges and school:
from which they have been gradu
ated. At the Smith commencement
the alumnae march almost outranket
the ivy procession in importance