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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-21

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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-21
May 2o,21 and q

Twenty-Five military bands, which
will be five-hundred musicians in one
band, will be present.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

rectly. He chose an insidious way
of expressing his personal opinion
that the new school law is botch,
foredoomed to failure and final re-
peal-that the superintendent, possess
ing possibly talents and ability, might
become efficient by tireless study of
problems that are wont to yield their
solution only TO "master minds -; at
present, however, having Gmpliedly)
neither sound wisdom nor practical
experience, "he can hardly claim to
be communicating in much more
than the name"; the supervisors may
have the negative qualities of energy
and enthusiasm, but they are mere
novices, blindly experimenting with
educational matters; the examina-
tions test only the teachers patience
and powers of endurance" the ques-
tons devised for the test violating
every pedagogical principle" though
they may compare favorably with " the
conundrums " the farmers, doctors
and minister's" " in the might of their
ignorance" asked the school-marms
to answer before receiving permission
to teach, p this was the purport of the
speakers reference to the law and its
officials. Verify, Mr.. Sanderson's
"language surely was COURTHOUSE
Admitting that all Mr.. Sanderson
says of Vermont's rank in the scale of
illiteracy and of the school status here
is true, what shall be said of his dis
paragement of law that was designed
to remedy the state of things he de-
scribes? When a man has begun to
reform, is it the part of wisdom to he
continually reminding him of the En-
rors of his past life? 1t is the time for
helpful deeds and words, not for criti-
cism and nagging. 1t is an encourage
ing sign of the times that the people of
Vermont are coming to the support of
the law. 1t is winning its way to pop
ular confidence and good will; and the
iudicious course of the superintend-
ent and the supervisors is having much
to do with popularizing the law, and
Mr.. Sanderson has contributed, unwit-
tingly, to give both law and officials
quite boost.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

an exhibition of dense ignorance. The
cause of protection can never gain a
convert by attempting to close the
mouths of honest men who do not be-
lieve in it, That point, it was thought
had long since been settled. Perhaps
Mr.. Morse is not aware that there isn't
a college in the country that does not
teach the protection side of the ques-
ton as well as the free-trade side.
While the teachers of political economy
are, as a rule, free-traders, we never
heard of one that did not invite the
freest discussion by protectionist stu
dents. All the arguments for pro-
lection are stated fully and fairly. What
more could one ask? Perhaps Mr..
Morse would hire an inferior grade of
instructors for Harvard University
simply because they happen to believe
in protection, but we doubt if men who
have sons to educate even the manu-
facturers and merchants of Massachu-
sets, who have undoubtedly pros
pered under protection-wOuld follow
him in that backward courso.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

the state. Unless there is some unfore-
seen bad management in the matter,
il is safe to say that the time is coming
when the establishment of this bureau
will be looked back upon as the dawn
of new era for old Vermont, and there
will be wonder that her people were so
long blind to the richness of the re-
sources and advantages thus lying all
around them, while they were occupied
in hunting for -of-goldbehind-the-
rainbow in western and other distant
investments. The one great difficulty
to be overcome is the tremendous in
ertia of Indifference and discourage
ment among our own people" The
Rqormer is generally on the right side
of questions affecting the welfare of
the state and gives to all progressive
measures an intelligent and forceful
advocacy In this respect, and in
others, its course is in very marked
contrast with that of the journal at the
capital controlled by the Mikado of the
Vermont democracy. But this is not at
all to the discredit of the Reformer; on
the contrary, quite the reverse.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Civil Service Reform.

The evening lecture of Rev. i Ed
yrord Wr;,bt ON Cunda, ,rae nm oi,;l
".t " ~ TT w u
seINlce IClotiii' tlle IlteIdl supJecI peluS
Publlc business TO he Conducted on
Business Principles.' The following
abstract embraces the saIiant noipt. az
~ d;ao,,,',.s,', F'N'0 W
.ne "iSo"uise'
| take up the subject of reform in the
civil service partly in Difference to a request
made to the clergy of the land by large
number of divines, educators and philan-
thropsts The present spoils system So
called dates back to Andrew JaCkson's day;
indeed, one of our best authorities on the
subject finds the germs of it in Aaron Burr S
teachings. II has been established in prece-
dent, which has taken the force of law.
1t had come to such pass that within the
decade preceding the one now passing dis
missals and appointments were made by the
wholesale without waiting for change in
party ascendency. In the New York GUS
tom house in the $50 secular days preced-
ing the appointment of Mr. Arthur as col
lector there We're 1878 removals. These
were removals of republicans to make room
for republicans to whom political debts
were due The most intelligent and patri-
otto Americans, including jefferson, Henry
Clay; Daniel Webster, President Garfield,
Dorman Il. Eaton and Senator Evarts,
have spoken strongly and emphatically
against the practice. And the latest word,
perhaps, came from Theodore Roosevelt on
| Friday evening OF last week, when he re-
| ferred to it as " in its essence brutal and de-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Republican Br. n.

The revolution in Brazil seems to be
an accomplished fact. The empire has
long been ripening into republicanism,
and during the past year the process
has gone on rapidly. The imperial
government under the good and aged
monarch had fallen into state Of
innocuous desuetude. The stcrner
spirits craved new order of things.
In May last, when the alternative of
dissolution of the imperial legislature
or the resignation of the conservative
ministry was presented to the emperor
by the prime minister who had become
very unpopular, the emperor informed
the ministers that they must consent to
resign. Three conservatives in success
sion found it impossible to construct
cabinet. The task, delegated to the
liberals, wing of the imperial party,
was hardly more successful. One de-
cined on the score of ill-health; another
because the provinces were not al
lowed to elect their presidents and SEN
ators without the intervention of the
central government. A third selected
a ministry, but the legislature, after
turbulent debate, adopted a resolution
of want of confidence by a vote of more
than three to one. In the course of
the debate sturdy deputy pronounced
the new ministry mOnstrosity,n
saying that where monarchy falls in
agony, liberty springs up from the
seeds scattered in the fruitful soil"
He declared that the new prime minis
ter "would find himself mistaken in
his pretensions to strangle a republic.
All this vast eXpanse of country is be-
ing convulsed and aroused; the vibra-
ton of the new idea is felt in all bodies I;
in men and in things-aye, even in the
density of our forests will be echoed
the cry, 'AbUirO mOnarchidi ViCd q
republican," Something like these spir-
tied words has been heard in every
country that has revolted from mon
archy. A tumultuous scene eusued.
The deputies loudly applauded the bold
republican. The assembly was dis
solved, and the republican deputies car
red revolution to the four corners of
the empire. In the light of all the
facts, there is nothing surprising in the
triumph of republicanism in Brazil 1t
seems to have had a rational growth,
and we hope it has brains, patriotism
and an Anglo-Saxon back bone.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
SmOkeless and NOiseleSS Powder.

One of the remarkable inventions of
the day is that of noiseless and smoke
less powder. Captain Ledyard Els
worth of Hartford, Conn, is the man
who has compounded it, and as a re-
ward for his inventive genius and the
years of labor spent in perfecting the
formula he receives from the German
government 100000 and an additional
annual payment of $4,000 for ninety
nine years. Exclusive rights in every
country except the United States,
Mexico and Central America are given
to Germany, and it is possible that these
countries too will not be exceptions
to the monopoly. Captain Ellsworth
promised on paper that if informed by
November l of this year that Germany
wished rights in the United States,
Mexico and Central America, he would
convey them to her for the same con-
sideration as that named in the first
contract. 1t seems that Germany sent
word to Captain Ellsworth before the
time named, but that he did not re-
ceive the letter on account of absence
in the West. Whether his promise
will hold or not is a question to be set
tied in the courts. The inventor is re-
ported to have said that, as a patriotic
American, he wished this country to
share in the invention. If he said so.
he certainly took a queer way of ex-
hibiting his wish to improve our mill
tary equipment. But if our govern
ment can not profit by the invention it
will be its own fault largely. 1t ought
to have been the first to test the powder
and to adopt it, if there is any virtue in
it. While we have an army and navy
they should be equipped in the best
style. There is no excuse for letting
American inventions slip through our
fingers into European hands. 1t will be
interesting to see how successful future
tests of the powder are. AT Hanover,
recently, during sham battle, seven
teen thousand rounds were fired, to the
satisfaction of German officers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
SandersOn---Again.

Prominence out of proportion to the
real Importance of the matter has been
given to Mr.. Sanderson's censorious
address at the late meeting of the
State Teachers Association at st. AL
bans. The author has, however, felt
called upon, by the criticisms his
speech evoked, to declare in the Wood
stock Standard that he made no as
sault, " indecent or otherwise, upon
the state superintendent or the super
visors. He gave them credit for all
the talent which, for the sake of the
mighty interests at stake sic] he sin
cerely hopes they possess. His " Ian
guage surely was courteous and his
every statement absolutely true" His
"intention was to awaken public inter-
est in the schools" No law, not
even Vermont school law, is so in
fallible that it is a crime to discuss it,
or even to criticise its imperfections. p"
In conclusion, he says:
" / see much good in any education, how
ever imperfect, but as long as my native
state stands half way down the list of
states in her percentage of native-born il
lterates, and is at the very foot in the av-
erage weekly pay, per month, of female
teachers; as long as one-fourth Of her chill
dren of legal school age do not attend
school anywhere and the average daily at
tendance is less than one-half of those who
should be in school; as long as the careless
and the mercenary, either contentedly in
different or selfshly fearful that they will
have to pay for improvement, are willing
| to do the least possible for the public
schools-just so long will |, at every oppor
tunity, lift up my voice for whatever step
has been proven to be step forward"
The average Vermonter, although
the state may be as low down in the
scale of intelligence as Mr., Sanderson
with somewhat of JUNCTION, places it
can peer through the rounds of lad
der, or distinguish a church by day
light; and even persons of menta
powers 80 dwarfed do not need to bC
shown that the speaker was making, by
innuendo and insinuation, statement
that constituted studied attack on the
new school law and its ofiicers-an at
tack which he apparently lacked thu
hardihoOd or nanliness to make di
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Windham County Lands in Demand.

Ia spite of the talk which has been
made in some quarters about the injury
to Vermont which Mr.. Valentines
circulars in relation to abandoned
farms have done, the state is getting
the best kind of advertising out of the
colonization project, and its advantages
and capabilities are coming to be appre-
ciated, both at home aud abroad, as
they have never been before. An illus
tration of this fact is found in visit
which a large and prosperous Iowa
farmer has Just made to this county in
search of location for large stock
raising scheme, principally for sheep.
This mans name is Benz. Barstow, and
he has evidently had large and profit
able experience in his chosen business.
Learning of our Vermont cheap farms,
he wrote Mr.. Mann of Wilmington for
information, and last week he came on
to make personal investigation on the
ground. He went first to Jamaica and
Wardsboro, and then to Wilmington,
where he received courteous attention
from the new Board of Trade in that
wide-awake village. Wednesday he
came to BratteborO, and from here
started toward home. Mr. Barstow Is
brother-in-law of DIR, Edward Judson
of New York, and brought to Mr.. Crow
ell card of introduction from him.
After making pretty extensive obser-
vations hereabouts, Mr.. Barstow says,
in brief, that our Vermont lands are
ideal lands for stock-raising, and he
wanted to know the hidden reason, if
any, why they are not all occupied for
| this purpose. To this Mr.. Crowell
answ cred, with truth, that the only rea-
son lies in the fact that the young men
desert the farms as soon as they are
grown up and flock to the cities. " You
have every advantage" Mr., Barstow
said, " over us at the West, with the
New York and Boston markets so near.
You beat us to death on the prices you
get. What kills us is low prices that
pay no profit. Land with us costs $50
or $40 an acre, while yours car be
bought for So and $40, and the Yer
mont land is better in every way for
stock-raising. One strong point is its
assured water supply" Mr.. Barstow
says the Windham county lands are ad-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

INDICATIONS point to the enactment
of national bankruptcy law at the
coming session of congress. President
Harrison has promised to refer to the
subject in his message. The so-called
Torrey bill is said to have a larger num-
Der of supporters than does the Lowell
bill. which General Collins of Massa-
chusetts favors. The recent meeting
of friends of national bankruptcy legis-
lation has caused more or less discus
sion, and the measure has apparently
gained ground by it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

The Bennington monument was
crowned with its capstone on Monday
afternoon. 1t was a simple ceremony.
Nothing but the booming of cannon
and the shouts of the spectators greeted
the stone as it began its upward course
of three hundred feet, but they were
enough The story of the event which
the shaft commentaries is too well
known to require repetition, and the
monument itself sufficiently enforces
the lessons of history.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

SENATOR BUTLER burst out in a
fierce TRADE against the North at re-
union of the Tenth South Carolina
Regiment last week. He complained
bitterly because Pennsylvania Grand
Army post objects to allowing monu-
ments to be erected for southern regi-
ments at Gettysburg, calling such a
position almost fiendish." What are
the facts? If the war settled anything,
it was that the South is a part of the
United States. Hence the war was a
rebellion and southern soldiers were
rebels. Is the North to commemorate
the valor of rebels by erecting, or allow
ing to be erected, monuments on the
Gettysburg field? Southern soldiers
should not ask it. The request COM
promises their dignity. 1t ought to be
their highest satisfaction to feel that
they fought bravely in cause they be-
leved to be right. If they fall back on
that, they may have the respect of the
northern soldiers, but never a shadow
of recognition of the righteousness OF
4" the lost cause"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Thanksgiving.

Like thanksgiving proclamations,
thanksgiving editorials have become
somewhat perfunctory productions,
but causes for devout thanksgiving are
always fresh, and the spirit of thank
fulness in all persons whose faculties
and functions are in normal condi-
ton never fails when they pause long
enough to make an honest enumera-
ton, not merely of their special, but
of their everyday, mercies also. Good
things to eat, good health and good di-
gestion are tangible mercies that are
reasonably uppermost in human esti-
nation, and may justly inspire fer
vent feeling of thanksgiving in those
who have them, for
Some haze meat that Gamma eat,
And some would eat that want it;
But we haze meat, and we can eat
So let the Lord he thankit."
Here is the popular idea of thanks
giving and its fountain-head, and no one
wants to quarrel with it. Thanksgiv-
ing day is not exactly a time for
Notifying the flesh. Good cheer in
the shape of turkeys, chicken-pie, plum
buildings and the long list of accom-
panying goodies is indispensable to the
happiness of the young folks, and their
elders are not unmindful of the pleas
ures of plentiful table. A good bill
of fare is one of the necessities for a
proper observance of the day, but the
sermonizer, the rejecting man and
the philosophic person would neither be-
gin nor end the catalogue of his mercies
with the number and quantity or quality
of the things he thrusts into his mouth
on thanksgiving day. 1t is not our
business to preach, and we are not going
topursue this subject, and so encroach
on the domain of the clergymen who
will tomorrow discourse on the spirit
ual reasons for thanksgiving, individual
and general, in this year of grace one
thousand eight hundred and eighty
nine. 1t is their province. The governor
has assigned the duty to them. We are
simply going to exhort our readers to
heed the governors injunction, 90 to
church, hear the preachers and cult
vate a spirit of devout and rational
thanksgiving.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
BOycOtting Harvard.

Elijah A. Morse, better known as
" Rising Sun Morse" who succeeds
Hon. John ID. Long in congress this
winter, is making bad matter worse
by attempting to explain his threat to
favor boycotting Harvard University if
it continues to teach free-trade doc
trines. 1t was at dinner of the Nor
folk Club in Boston, before the recent
election, that he said that if Harvard
" is to degenerate into a school of
democracy and free-trade, the manu-
facturers and business men of Massa-
chusetts who have sons to educate, and
who would be ruined by free-trade,
have the remedy in their own hand"
Now the congressman says: "The
most that can be said of my utterance
is that it implied demand from the
patrons of this ancient institution, from
the fellows and overseers Ga large ma
jority of whom are most undoubtedly
opposed to free-trade), that the teach
ing in favor of free-trade should change,
and implied, possibly, change of presi-
dent" The speech was an excellent il
lustration of bigotry hardly to be looked
for in Massachusetts congressman,
while the explanation-which is an ex-
PLANTATION only in the sense that COM
plete backdown is an explanation-is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
GNattbman T. Journal.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER q, 1889.

The reasons why civil service re-
form commends itself to the people of
this country as something of prime i'm
portance, for both business and moral
reasons, are stated by Rev. j. Edward
Wright in the clearest possible light in
his lecture of last Sunday, AS he says,
people will accept the reform when
they understand it. They will under
stand it if they read Mr.. Wright's lee
ture, which is reported elsewhere.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

IN his annual report Secretary
Proctor mentions the fact that colored
soldiers in the regular army seldom de-
sert. Their previous condition in civil
life is not so pleasant nor so promising
as the military life. With regard to
the general subject of assertions, the
secretary says that the prevailing i'm
preston that they are on the increase
is not altogether correct. Still they
are pretty numerous, and the depart
ment does well to suggest some reform
that may have the effect of decreasing
the number. If the negroes stay in the
army because the life is peasanter than
civil life, the obvious conclusion is
that army life must be made pleasanter
to the white soldier than civil life is.
Better pay for non-commissioned Of
ficers, shorter terms of re-enlistment,
and less arbitrary code of punish
ment will do much in raising the tone
of the army.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

IT is sad to think of Harriet Beecher
Stowe passing her last days in a condi-
ton of mild insanity. She has left an
indelible mark on history in her
contribution to the force that killed
slavery, and, better than that, she has
lived noble and beautiful life that has
been strong in its influence on not only
personal friends, but all who have
known anything oft. tbs said that she
has become child-like and simple in her
ways. If so, there is in it something
not unpleasant to think of. tits like the
dying away of sweet music that be-
comes indistinct as it passes on and is
heard at a distance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

TIE Caledonian says " the fact that
every one desiring to teach must as
semble at the county seat at a certain
time and spend two or three days on
expense is one criticism made on the
in the law. Public examinations of
applicants for teachers certificates, the
law says, shall be held in each county,
at convenient places to be designated
by the supervisor of schools, and a
two weeks notice of such examinations
is to be published in all the newspapers
of the county. Examinations were
held in this county this fall at three
places
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

THE Brattleboro RGormer Demo
cratic), in an editorial article on Com
missioner Valentines recent circular to
the listers, says: "Major Valentine is
entitled to credit for the earnestness
with which he has entered upon his
work and the thoroughness with which
he has undertaken to do it, improving
every avenue of effort to revive and
invigorate the industrial energies of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27

miraby adapted to sheep-raising, and
the thing he has in mind is to find
tract of one thousand acres that can be
bought at low price, and put on two
thousand sheep to start with, and some
hogs. Wilmington people expect to
hear from him again. The statements
made by Mr.. Barstow are worth max
ing note of by some of our dissatisfied
farmers. -Ph@nir.