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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
mature intelligence and may be the
ruin of the youth.
Is Gordon Alive.

There is a rumor that James Gordon
Bennett of the New York Herald has
gone to Khartoum to ransom General
Gordon for a million francs. The story
is doubtless canard, for the killing of
Gordon by the Mahdi's forces when
they captured the town is seemingly
perfectly authenticated. There are
some persons, however, who still be-
lieve that the general is still alive. The
idea has a strange analogy to the belief
entertained in the sixteenth century
respecting the young Portuguese King
Sebastian. He took sides in quarrel
between two Moorish kings in Africa
and was slain at the battle of Alcazan-
culver. His throne became vacant, as
he was unmarried, and his aged uncle,
the Cardinal Henry, was released from
his priestly VOWS to become his sue
cessor. Henry soon died, and Philip II.
of Spain seized upon the Portuguese do.
minlons.
A good many Portuguese insisted
that Sebastian was not dead, and sew.
eral persons appeared who claimed TO
be the lost prince. One of these told
very specious story of his long inn
prisonment among the Moors, and is
said personally to have borne striking
resemblance to the missing king. He
had quite number of partisans in the
Italian cities where he first appeared
but the Spanish authorities speedily
had him arrested, and he was impris
oued for the remainder of his life
There is little justifiable doubt thai
Sebastian was killed in battle and still
less that Gordon was cut down by tht
Mahdi's officers. Yet we suppose tina
the belief in his captivity will continue
to be cherished by a certain class o
romantic and credulous people.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
Canadian Competition.

A great deal of valuable testimony
was presented before the senate COM
mittee on interstate commerce during
its sessions in this city last week. The
question of Canadian competition was
uppermost, the railroad managers
agreeing that the Canadian roads must
be compelled to submit to the require
ments of the American law if per-
mitted to engage in American business
The substantial justice of this demand
has already been recognized by the
interstate Commission, and is, indeed
quite as obvious as is the absurdity of
many of the arguments upon which the
demand was based. Great stress was
laid, for instance, upon the enormous
subsidy which had been granted to the
Canadian Pacific railroad, as if that
rendered our own roads powerless to
compete with it. In this argument two
very important facts are overlooked.
In the first place, our own Pacific rail
roads were themselves subsidized al
most to the extent of their entire cost
of construction; and in the second
place, the fact that a road has been
subsidized, or even presented to its
owners, never makes them charge a
cent the less for the transportation of
freight. 1t is an evil, though perhaps
necessary one, that investigating COM
mittees always hear so much from the
representatives of the corporations and
so little from the representatives of the
public. In the hearing last week, how.
ever, the public was not entirely un.
represented. Ex-Railroad Commits.
sioner Herman not only opposed the
demand of railroad managers that pools
be legalized, but, with reference to Ca
madam competition, pointed out that
the local business of the American
trunk roads was so great in volume as tC
enable them easily to compete on through
traffic with the Canadian roads, which
run through sparsely settled districts
Mr.. Herman favored the application OF
the long d.short-haul clause to the
freight rates on goods intended for eX
port. He said that it was unfair tC
charge an export rate of ten cents or
wheat from Chicago to New York anG
forty cents for that intended for home
consumption. He quoted Trunk Line
Commissioner Fink as saying that he
had never known the time when the
full rate was not sufficiently low tC
hold the foreign markets.-ChriStia
Union, NetC York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
Young Outlaws.

The increase of juvenile lawlessness
and actual crime is one of the most
marked and saddest features of our day.
A criticism has been preferred against
Sunday-schools to the effect that they
are made by many parents to become
substitutes for home instruction. There
may be shade of truth in some quar-
tiers in regard TO this allegation, but the
evil is deeper seated. AS all must have
observed, in reacting from the auto
cratic extreme reached by many fathers
and mothers of earlier generations, not
few parents of to-day either let their
children choose their own companions
or select their own books without ex-
ercising any supervision. In some in
stances, where the child's will is OPP
posed to that of the parent the latter
always yields. In this way danger
GUS precocity and overweening conceit
are encouraged. 1t is not often that
three tragedies like those recorded
within single week occur, but there is
tendency in existing discipline, or
rather lack of discipline, in this di-
rection. In Monroe county, Penn,
two boys, one eleven and the other
ten, quarreled, and finally the elder
snatched the loaded gun that stood near
and shot the other dead. In Ohio a
child of seven wounded another of five
years, while at Chicago, on the 10th,
a sixteen-year-old youth, who had been
half-crazed with Wild West" liter
ature, ran into the street and shot down
two offending boys. King Solomon
was not so far from the right as mod
ern sentimentaists affirm in his declar-
atoms that vigorous treatment is a
specific for youthful follies. 1t may
not be necessary to insist upon his
literal processes, but no thoughtful per-
son can doubt that greater admiXture
of firmness with persuasion and indul-
gence is required. The ascription of
adult intelligence to growing boys and
girls may be flattering to their vanity,
but it carries with it no endowment OF
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

tons for repeal. The principal assessor
of Boston, chairman of the tax commits
sion of 1884, and also the present tax
commissioner, appeared before the COM
mittee in favor of Mr.. Winn's views.
But the power of five hundred millions
of capital is too great at the state-house.
Nothing will be done at this session.
Vermont has been fortunate thus far
to escape the fatal mistake into which
the money-changers of Massachusetts
beguiled her legislature. We hope she
will keep a level head, and, proiting
by the example of her sister state, con-
tinue to defeat the scheme so often as
it shall come before the legislature.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
In MemOriam.

Died, in New York, Wednesday, May 10,
1889, Mrs. Minnie Robinson Wood, wife of
II. w. Wood the artist, and vice-presi-
dent of the National Academy. 1t is
needless to recount to the people of Mont
pelier the circumstances that invest with a
peculiar local interest anything pertaining
to the welfare of their artist friend and
townsman. Born and reared here, the sub
jects of some of the signal achievements of
his brush derived from this locality, resi-
dent here even after his expanding fame
and the greater opportunities of the national
metropolis had dictated the opening of a
studio in New York, the power of early
associations has never been relaxed. In
all his journeyings, and amid all the dis
tinction he has won in the world of art his
soul untraveled has still turned to the
sweet Auburn of his nativity. Its people
have followed his career with strongest
pride and interest, marked his triumphs
with greatest pleasure and have been
among his most appreciative critics and gem
erous admirers. In him the artist has
been supplemented by very amiable and
engaging qualities of heart and person, and
| in this popular attachment for her husband,
as well as by virtue of her own estimable
qualities, Mrs. Wood has ever been a
| sharer, though, by reason of misfortune,
often a silent and unseen partner. So the
announcement of her death and the event
! of her interment amid the scenes of " auld
| lang syne," have revived and tenderly
| QulCkentu bne interest Ill lle so Hlleu
with the pathos of existence. Mrs. Wood
was born in Grand Isle, Vt, September l6,
1924 Her father, a Baptist clergyman,
died, leaving her an orphan during the ten
der years of her childhood, and she was
nurtured in the family of an uncle, Dea.
Erastus Parker of Waterbury. September
"a, 1850, she became the wife of Mr., Wood.
In 1889 she accompanied her husband TO
Europe, he to study his profession, she TO
| learn something of the scenes and incidents
of European life. Since 1864 her existence
had been one of unrelieved invalidism and
suffering from paralysis, the active cause of
which was doubtless fall received year
or two before, but from which no imme-
date disability resulted All efforts to ar
rest the consequences of her misfortune were
unavailing. Year by year paralysis con-
tnued its slow but fateful progress, In
February last she could still receive a
friend for short call, but for several
weeks before the day OF her sad release
from suffering she lay at the verge of
death. Her long period of hopeless illness
was endured with courage and with
cheerfulness that became beautiful, not
through insensibility, but through great.
ness of mind Throughout her quarter of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THERE are some men whom nothing
but the possession of this mundane
sphere in its entirety will ever satisfy.
In this category should be placed the
name of Rev. DIR. Edward G. Towne,
who is suing his friend and Yale
classmate, Chauncey M. Depew, for
$500 in payment for his alleged serv-
ices in collecting points for Mr.. De-
pew's centennial speech. The points
were not used because Mr.. Depew had
finished his Grafton before DR.. Towne
sent him anything, the minister evil
IDENTITY not realizing the swift passage
of time. But when he learned these
facts DIR. Towne sent his friend
and patron bill for $500, intimating
that he had before collected large sum
for literary services when employers
had failed to pay him. Mr.. Depew
came down to the tune of $50, in addi-
ton to $50 before sent him for pur-
chase of books, whereupon his class
mate demanded Sl ,oUO, on penally OF
an exposure in the newspapers. The
president of the New York Central
railroad concluded to let the exposure
go on. The exposure is far more dam
aging to the reverend doctor than to
the silver-tongued Chauncey. No one
doubts Mr.. Depew's ability to collect
his own points and conduct the neces-
sary historical investigations. He
called on DIR. TOwne for assistance, not
from necessity, but in friendly recog-
milton of an old classmate. The doc
tors exorbitant claim for services, par
ticularly when the results of his re-
searches were delivered to Mr.. Depew
too late for use, reflects seriously upon
his ministerial character.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
A Lion In the Way.

Vermont had two brigades at Gettys-
burg, regiment of cavalry and three
companies of sharpshooters. The sec
ond brigade fell on Pickett's flank and
contributed to the triumphant issue of
the historic battle. The Sixth Corps, to
which the First Brigade belonged, had
made forced march of thirty-two miles
to reach the field, and arrived at the close
of the fighting on the second day. After
the furious contests in the peach orchard
and wheat field on the left, it was eX-
pected that the confederate general
would make determined effort to turn
the Union left by swinging around
Round Top from the West and South.
To meet this expected movement the
Sixth Corps, under Sedgwick, with the
Vermonters in front as usual, was posted
from the summit of Round Top east
ward and across the Taneytown road.
The Union commander had placed
lion in the way of the advance of his
enemy in that direction. To commence
rate the part of the brigade in the
great fight, the idea of placing sculp-
tured lion at the point it held was sug-
gested and quickly adopted c. w.
Reed made study of lions sculptured
and lions living, and at length produced
drawing of the king of beasts that
meets the requirements of the occasion.
The old brigade was not destined TO
do battle on that memorable day. The
conflict came far to its right and rear,
and the soldiers chafed like Gagged lions
under the enforced inactivity. The
proposed statue will symbolic the
leonine characteristics of the brigade. 1t
is thus described: "The lion is of
large size-siX feet and six inches from
his fore-paws to the rear of the plinth
while his massive head is lifted aloft
and turned slightly to the right, as if
hearing the conflict to his right and
rear, while he is half rising on his
powerful fore legs, as if ready to spring
in either direction where a foe could
be encountered. The name is disposed
in masses, with deep recesses; the mas
sive muscle about the chest and Shout
ders appear to be tense; the diminish
ing body, not fat and " logy" like the
lions of captivity, but reduced and
hardened like a trained athlete, shows
the anatomy in every line, and even the
tail, which is curved around to the right,
shows fight to its very tip. Compared
with this truly majestic work, the lions
ordinarily seen in stone and bronze are
tame and stupid brutes. And yet there
is not a feature of this which is over.
wrought when the beholder bears in
mind the place where it is to be erected
the character of the organization
and the great occasion which it will
commemorate"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

Judge Benedict said: " A more shame
full or more lawless abuse of the pow
ers of the president of bank can
scarcely be imagined" Fish has never
repented, but regards himself as the
innocent victim of his young friend
Ward. He obtained Communication of
his sentence on representations that he
was very near to the gates of death,
and for his family's sake wanted the
privilege of dying out of prison. We
now hear that he means to go into
business again. There is seldom a
criminal in Jail or out less calculated TO
provoke sympathy than this sordid man
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

GOVERNOR HILL of New York has
vetoed the Saxton electoral reform bill.
He pronounces the bill in its present
form an impossibility, and recommends
the legislature to enact a measure en-
bodying those provisions which the
legislature and executive agree will
tend to reduce the evils of political cor
ruption. This is one of the most inn
pudent addresses governor ever made
to legislative body. In effect, he is
taking legislation out of the hands of
the men chosen by the people to enact
it, and assuming to impose his own
notions upon them. The whiskey
governor does not care to diminish
political corruption and has no desire
to kick down the ladder by which he
climbed to his present political eleva-
ton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE miners strike in Germany has
spread with alarming rapidity. In the
Rhenish Westphalia districts one hun
bred thousand men are thought TO be
out of work, and the number is con-
SANITY increasing. During the last
two years the production of coal has
increased over seventy-fve per cent,
the value of shares and the amount of
profits have risen with great rapidity,
while the wages of the miners have re-
NAMED at a standstill, the average
being two shillings and sixpence per
day. They ask for an advance of
threepence per day and limitation of
work to eight hours. The situation is
rendered doubly dangerous by the
prevalence of socialism in Germany.
So far the miners have not associated
themselves with any socialistic organ
ization, but the strike is liable to merge
into a socialistic movement at any
time, as the agents of the societies are
very active among the miners. Pub
lie sentiment is with the strikers, and
the emperor is known to have great
sympathy with them. In the event
of the companies refusing to make con-
cessions it is stated that he will pub
licly take up their cause and visit the
mining districts, in order to use his per-
sonal influence to prevent organized
| disorder.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE subject of the repeal of mort
gage exemption has been again before
the Massachusetts legislature. Henry
VIM of Boston, the eminent specialist,
appeared before the committee and
argued for the repeal of the exemption
law. He arraigned the law as "a gi-
ganic wrong, a subsidy to money
lenders which the government of Mas
sachusetts has eXtorted from her in
dustries already sufficient to duplicate
the Hoosac tunnel, an annual donation
which, if capitalized at four per cent,
is equivalent to free gift of the great
city of Worcester, thrown into the lap
of opulence as thaukless tribute
wrung from the labor of Massachusetts,
by the combined power of capital
and misguided press" Part of the
committee believed with Mr.. VIM,
and after his address the president OF
Amherst College, two professors of po-
litical economy in other colleges, Hon.
ID. A. Gleason, for seventeen years tax
commissioner, and others, sent in peti.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

Mrs. HARRISON is not as fond of
newspaper notoriety as was her bril-
liant predecessor. She has accordingly
requested Washington correspondents
to refer to her as seldom as possible.
They have treated her, therefore, with
the courtesy her retiring disposition
Graves. 1t is rather strange that Mrs.
Cleveland, who pretended to be so
greatly annoyed by the omnipresent re-
porter, should not have hit upon this
simple eXpedient.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

SENATOR PALMER of Michigan, who
sailed last week for Spain as United
States minister, is reported to have
said: " l would rather grub. sage-brush
on my farm near Detroit than live in
the castles of Spain and make salaams
to her king" 1t is too bad to compel
the senator to martyr himself in the
aforesaid castles. There are lots of
hungry individuals at Washington who
are just signing to go into the salaam
business. BY all means let the senator
be restored to his beloved sage-brush.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE veracous Argus declares that
one A. M. Woodbury. of Burlington is
already waiting by the political pool
for the agitation of the waters in 1890,
with the hope that he may be cast in
and emerge a governor, or words to
that effect. 1t further AYERS that " the
authorship is certain to go to Colonel
L. p. Powell if he wants it" with much
more of prognosticating, all of which
is important if true, but all of which is
probably as defective as the Argus
proof-reading.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

ALLEN THoRNDIKE RICE, editor of
the North american Revie,C and newly
appointed minister to Russia, died sud-
denly, at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, last Thursday morning. Mr.. Rice
had been suffering from throat difficulty
for some time, but was not supposed to
be in any great danger. The deceased
was born in Boston in 1858 and was a
graduate of Oxford University, En-
gland.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

AN incandescent contemporary re-
marks In no other state in the Union
is there such lack of gallantry as in
Missouri. The male students of Colby
University, at Waterville, hazed a lot
of girl students by turning hose on
them through their open windows. u
A consultation of the family cyclopedia
will reveal unto the sapient editor the
fact that Colby University is located
in the state of Maine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

BALLOT REFORM has enjoyed an eX-
tensive boom during the last six
months. Already eight states have
practically adopted the Australian sys-
tenn. Massachusetts took the lead
and Indiana, Rhode Island, Missouri,
Tennessee, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Montana have followed suit. Connec-
ticut and New York are in the same line
of reform, though not yet able to pass
satisfactory measures. The indca-
tions are that the people are thoroughly
aroused all over the country, and still
more sweeping movement in this direc.
ton may be expected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE Connecticut house of represent
atives met the free-pass question the
other day and came off victorious. The
question came up on resolution di'
recting the state comptroller to obtain
from the railroad free-passes for the
members for the full legislative ses
sion and forward them to the members
before the opening day. After long
debate the resolution was rejected by
an overwhelming vote.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE cable brings the announcement
that the Parnell commission will not
report to parliament till next February
The learned members of the commits
sion are determined to take their time
about passing upon the mass of evil
dence that has been unloaded upon
them. In the meantime Mr.. Parnell
need lose no sleep specializing about
the result.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE republican league of Connect
cut shows healthy growth. In April
of last year there were twenty-three
clubs, with membership of a ,175; now
there are 121 clubs, whose members
number some 10000. The league is
flourishing, not only in the Nutmeg
State, but all over the country. 1t has
come to stay.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

THE New York Tribune will prob
ably lose its brilliant London cores
pendent, Mr.. G.. w. Smalley. Mr..
Smalley has taken apartments at the
Hotel Meurice, Paris, and is acting as
secretary to Minister Reid. 1t is ru-
mored that he will be appointed first
secretary to the legation at Paris, in
place of M. Vignaud.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22
6Mattbman 4 Sournal.
WEDNESDAY, MAY %, 1889.

The result of the elections in North
and South Dakota last week, for dele
gates to the constitutional conventions
that meet next July, was favorable TO
the republicans.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

JAMES ID. FISH, the incarcerated
bank president, left Sing Sing prison
week ago Saturday, and is now a free
man. In passing sentence on this man
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

IF you have job of printing of any kind
send to the WATCHMAN office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-22

SHOULD every one his quarter give
This church, which now is small,
Will such capacious quarters have
AS will provide for all.
So herewith find the quarter, which
freely give to thee,
And some day may the good Lord show
Some quarter unto me.
Washington Critic.
The festive flies begin to flap
Their little wings and stare,
With winkless eye, to find the chap
Whose head is minus hair
And when they find their luckless prey
They'll light upon his head,
And skate across his crown all day
Until he goes to bed.
--NeW York Journal.