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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12
The SenatOrship.

There was time in the history of
this government when high legal at
tainments were the first qualification of
a senator of the United States. Pre-
cisely what were the powers of the fed
eral government was a question long
and ardently debated in the United
States senate. Men of the stamp of
Webster, Clay and Calhoun were con-
tending for interpretations of the con-
stitution that were so widely at vari-
ance they could find no middle ground
they could occupy in common. Beaten
in forensic warfare, Southern states
men appealed from the forum to the
battlefield. The sword enforced the
broad, judicial, patriotic Interpretation
of Webster. There is now little ques-
ton, or little dispute, as to the extent
and character of the powers of the ma
tional government. After the period
of reconstruction, the great questions
that engrossed the attention of states
men became chiefly financial and COM
mercial the administration of the af-
fairs of the government became more
like the management of the business of
vast and complicated industrial cor
poration. Business quality, rather than
legal ability and learning, became lead
ing requirements of craftsmanship. In
selecting successor to Mr.. Edmunds,
Vermont should have some regard to
these changed conditions. In the list
of men named for the appointment, it
is not disparaging to any one to say,
none so completely meets the require
ments of the times as Redfield Proctor.
Lawyer-bred and with lawyers train
ing, he dropped into the current of bust
ness and developed a capacity for bust
ness affairs that amounts to genius.
The scope of his abilities has been
shown by his administration of the af-
fairs of the war department. Trans
ferred from Vermont to Washington,
his quality was subjected to test that
would give him national fame, or after
some brief season relegate him to the
management of his private interests at
Rutland. He has admirably passed the
ordeal, and to-day no member of Presi.
dent Harrison's cabinet stands higher
in the national confidence than Redfeld
Proctor. The outcome of the recent
case of Vermont, in respect of her
share of the direct tax, shows the ad-
vantage to the state of having at Wash
ington man of Proctor's stature
mental and physical; and we trust that
that man will be transferred to the seat
vacated by Senator Edmunds. To such
contamination of the senatorial ques-
ton, we believe large majority of all
the people would devoutly respond
Amen
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CONTINUED FROM FIRST rAaK.1

seemed willing to run the chances of a
prosecution rather than to break it, On
Friday Deputy Sheriffs Cook and Heath
raided the saloon, in the Selinas building,
run by Will Reed Reed, with the saloon
lists instinct, "sprung his trap" and his
bottled goods slid down a large wooden
trough landing on stones prepared for
their reception Deputy Cook went into
the cellar, made an opening in the lower
end of the trough and found one quart-bot-
bottle of whiskey not broken-and great
was the wrath of the owner thereof The
case of II. e. Bliss, proprietor of the Union
house, was postponed owing to Mr.. Bliss
sickness Reed was arrested and his case
was continued until August "a, j. II.
Senter furnishing $500 bail.
THE school board has elected principal,
and it Is eminently case of the Office seek
ing the man. Professor S. j. Blanpied of
Millbury, Mass, was elected last Saturday
night, rather than one of the twenty-five or
more applicants. His salary will be 1880.
Mr.. Blanpied was born in Ohio, and was edu-
Gated in the Ohio Wesleyan University in
Delaware, Ohio, from which institution he
received the degrees of A. b. and A. NJ.
He first taught in Huntington, Indiana,
then in an academy in Bloomingburg, o.. ;
was principal of the High School at Milford,
n. H., for ten or eleven years; was super
intendent and principal in Fitchburg, Mass,
for one year, and for the past seven years
has been principal of the High School in
Millbury Mass. He has also for the past
six or seven years during a few weeks in
the spring given instruction in elocution in
the New Hampshire College of Agriculture
at Hanover, n. II. He is forty-nine years
old, has a wife and two children-a son.
Raplph D., who is a student in Harvard
College, class of '94, and daughter, Ethel
o., who graduated from the Millbury High
School last June. Professor Banpied has
met with excellent success during all his
long experience in teaching, and Montpelier
is to be congratulated on securing his ser
vices.
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The President in Vermont.

The following itinerary has been ar
ranged for the tour of President Harrison
in Vermont. The programme is pro-
visional one and is subject to slight changes
He will leave Saratoga, Tuesday, August
25 at nine A. M; arrive at Rutland at II 80
A. NJ; arrive at Burlington at 2:30 P. M,
stopping at Brandon, Middlebury and
Vergennes. His stop at Burlington will be
of two hours duration as the guest of Sena-
tor Edmunds. Leave Burlington at 1:l0 p
M, arrive at st. Adams at 5:15 and stop
over night as the guest of Ex-Governor
Smith. On Wednesday, August g. he
leaves St. Adams at I: 80 A. NJ. arrives at
Rouses Point, n Y, at s: 20, where he will
take DR.. Webbs yacht Elfrida " for Bur-
lington, arriving there at II 40 A. NJ. and
leaving ten minutes later for Montpelier,
stopping at Richmond and Waterbury and
arriving at Montpelier at /: Is p. NJ. He
will stop here and visit the legislature for
two hours and fifteen minutes He leaves
Montpelier for Wells River at 3. 80 p. NJ,
stopping at Plainfeld and arriving at Wells
River at five p. NJ, and St. Johnsbury at six
p. NJ, stopping at McIndoes and Barnet.
AT st. Johnsbury he will be the guest of
Colonel Fairbanks during Wednesday
night. He leaves st. Johnsbury at 9: 40
A. NJ. Thursday, stops at Newbury and
Bradford, arriving at White River Junction
at II NJ, and stops there two hours and
thirty minutes to attend the Breeders
meeting. He leaves White River Junction
at 2;30, arriving at Bellows Falls at four
and leaves at 4: 10. He will arrive at Proc
tor at 6: A. P. M, stopping at Chester and
Ludlow. He will stop at Proctor Thursday
night, and at Proctor and Rutland Friday.
He will leave for Cape May Saturday.
Private Secretary Halford and Secretary
Proctor will accompany the president, and
probably Secretary Rusk and Attorney
General Miller will also be of the party.
The president will travel III Governor
Smiths private car Bellevue.
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Gaattbman 4 Suutnal.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 70, 1891.
Our Supplement.

We present to the WATCHMAN read
ers a supplement containing sketch of
Vermont's civil history up to the time
of her admission into the Union; also
a graphic description of the Battle of
Bennington, and an epitome of events
leading up to that historic conflict.
We give also a description of the
monument reared to commemorate this
first decisive battle of the revolution,
and the whole is profusely illustrated
with cuts of the men, localities and OBJ
jects of interest associated with the
stirring times in the southwest corner
of the state one hundred years ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12
Baron Hirsch.

Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew philan-
thropist, is endowed with ample means
to carry out his benevolent schemes in
regard to his brethren. His is no or
binary fortune, even judged by the
hundred-thousand-dollar-standard. He
counts his millions by the hundred or
more, as he is variously estimated at
from 500, 900, 900 to $3.50, 600, 900. This
immense sum he has made within a
comparatively few years, The founda-
ton of it was laid in railway contract
with the Turkish government. With a
Jews shrewdness and tact in financial
affairs, he invested in railroad operations
in Eastern Europe and added enor-
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mously to his previous accumulations.
With an eye for speculation, he tried
his hand upon the Paris Bourse, and was
remarkably successful in his ventures.
He lives in handsome style in the
French capital, and entertains after a
princely fashion. Fortune has not,
however, warded off deaths approach
to his home, for only short time ago
his only son sickened and died. But
amidst his abundance his heart goes
out toward his needy countrymen,
and he takes great delight in de-
vising liberal things for their temporal
welfare. He seems to be raised up at a
critical time in their history to provide
for those of them who are being driven
from their homes through Russian per-
secution. -ETchdnge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

A DULL TME.-Dogood Ito tramp)-Why
don't you go to work? What is your bust
ness? Willowy Wiliam--This is my vaca-
ton time; my regular business is starting
perpetual motion machines
Miss SMooTH.-That flower on your coat
is a bachelors button, is it not, Mr.. Allaine?
Mr.. Allaine-Yes, Miss Smooth; why do
you ask? Miss Smooth-I was wondering
if | touched the button would you do the
Minneapolis Tribune.
REV. PINK PUNK ON RESOLUTIONS
Nevah try to do too much, deah breddern;
it's good deal better to sign de pledge for
a week an keep it dan to sign it for twenty
years and go aroun' full all de time. Dose
kline OBJ good intentions am de sort ob
Belgian blocks dat paves de road to hell.
ONE wonders if Albert Victor, the oldest
son of the Prince of Wales, is going to
make a success of the heir-apparency.
Certainly he is far from being a pop
ular young man now, and the thought
of what might happen to the Brit
lsh throne in case of the death of the
queen and of the Prince of Wales must
wake Tory up in the night, if it ever
comes to him in his dreams. But this is
only serious introduction to little story,
which is here put down because ii is new to
print so far as | know. 1t is said to have
greatly amused the royal family, especially
the queen When Albert Victor, or " Prince
Eddie" as he is called (when he isn't
known as Collars and Cuffs y, was at
Cambridge, he was strolling one day in the
country, and overlook fellow-student,
who was vainly endeavoring to light re-
fractory pipe. I" What's the natter" said
the prince. Let me light it for you" "Ah!
you teach your grandmother TO suck eggs,
will you?' was the drawing reply; followed
by much quicker, " By Jove! you know
beg your pardon! l had forgotten who
your grandmother is. '-ChriStidn Union.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12
How American Forests Are Saved.

Mr. Editor Waiting for a train in the
northeastern corner of Vermont, visited a
band-sawmill for saving maple and birch,
of which forty thousand feet were cut in
eleven hours with one machine. Saws fifty
feet long and ten inches wide are changed
four times day, and all are filed by ma
chinery each day. The middle of the saw
is longer than cut or back, and they are
made to do good work with five-ton ten
sion. The blade cuts away but one.half as
much as the heavy rotaries in common use.
An endless chain elevator, on the gristmill
plan, brings along several logs at different
points without fastening them, and as they
roll down a steam "nigger hunts them on
the carriage and holds them until they are
securely logged. When one-half of the log
is sawed, the "nigger jumps again and
turns it, The boards are moving constantly
by power towards an edger, or, if none is
wanted, a skeleton chain platform rises and
carries them at right angles to cars that
move to all parts of large lumber yard, or
to immense drying houses Sawdust and
slabs furnish fuel for motive power. The
capacity of the mill has proved greater than
was anticipated, and spruce has been cut in
large quantities. A long train can be I'M
loaded down the roll-ways at once. The old
duty-free cry of our democratic friends is
here applied to round logs. Many million
feet of spruce, also, were landed by train in
the Connecticut during the winter and
spring, and is now being sawed at McIndoes
at the rate of two and quarter millions
month. Six cars are loaded per day from
the bcoms at Lake Megantic and taken to
mills at Bartlett, n. Ii. 1t would be one
way of giving information to some tariff re-
formers to send them where they can listen
to Canadian opinion of that Yankee log
trade ESSEX.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

ASK your friends who have taken Hood $
Sarsaparilla what they think OF it, and the
replies will be positive in its favor. One
has been cured of Indigestion and dyspep-
STA, another finds it indispensable for sick
headache, others report remarkable cures
of scrofula, salt rheum and other blood dis
eases, still others will tell you that it over
comes "that tired feeling" and so on.
Truly, the best advertising which Hoods
Sarsaparilla receives is the hearty endorse
ment of the army OF friends it has won by
its positive medicinal merit.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

THE car of Russia is very hard-work-
ing monarch. He is out of bed at seven
O'Clock and his entire day is a busy one,
He has a mania for learning even the
smallest details of the operations of the
government In disposition he is melan-
choly and disinclned to society. The EN-
press, in her fondness for dancing, has even
ing parties that bore her royal husband,
and il is related that on one or two occa-
sions he has sent the guests home betimes
by touching an electric button and extin-
gushing all the lights in the room.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

GEORGE A. AINswoRTH, Barre and Will
JAMESTOWN, dealer in pianos, organs and
sewing-machines. Competition in quality
and prices of goods challenged. Satisfac-
ton guaranteed. Barre headquarters, Per-
ley Chambers jewelry-store, 70 North Main
street. Correspondence promptly attended
to. Inspection of goods cordially invited.
n. Bile sells for S35 a vibrating shuttle
sewing-machine which the manufacturers
guarantee as being the best that can be
made"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

THE details of the reciprocity treaty
effected with Spain, some time ago,
have lately been made public by presi-
dental proclamation. This treaty per-
tains especially to the markets of Cuba
and Porto Rico. Briefly outlined, the
agreement is that the United States
shall admit, free of duty, sugar, mo-
lasses, coffee and hides, while the
Spanish colonies admit from the United
States, free of duty, the products of
twenty of its most important industries.
This part of the treaty takes effect Sep
TENDER l, and continues in force until
July l, 1892, at which time a new
schedule still more favorable to Amer
lean commerce will 90 into effect.
This is an important treaty, as the fol-
lowing figures show: The total bulk
of our imports from both these islands
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890,
was S57 1853, 2l7. Our exports to those
islands during the same period were
only $l4, 9l7 200, or the imports were
nearly S43,000,000 more than the ex-
ports. Where the account is so one
sided it is evident which people will
naturally derive the greater benefit
from reciprocity. Even the treaty with
Brazil was not more advantageous to
American interests. The press and peo
pie of the whole country, irrespective
of party, unite in praising this phase
of the administrations policy. The
treaty is great triumph for the repub
lican party and progressive American
ism,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

A HANDFUL of raw pig-iron, weighing
about five pounds, is worth five cents; it
would make aboat sixty table-knife blades,
worth Sl5; converted into steel watch
springs there would be about 110,200 of
these little coils, which at the rate of S1.75
a dozen would be valued at Sl6,0S0.S3,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12
Pleasantries.


THE sLUGGARD.
was when young a sluggardly lOut
And they babe me 90 to the ants;
went, and they wakened me thoroughly,
For they crawled up under my trousers.
THE TRAGEDY OF DAY.
He went forth in the early morning,
A Joy to a mothers eye;
At even they carried him home a wreck
To waken a mothers sigh.
For the even and morn were the fourth day
And the month 1t was July.
BY A sTAY-ATHOME.
l would HE me to the sea-
If could but pay the freight;
By the country side I'd be-
No matter what the rate.
No matter what the rate,
Most spOrtively I'd roam:
If could but pay the freight
I'd not inger here at home.
/ would haunt the mountain side,
If could but pay the freight
By the inland lakes abide,
No matter what the rate.
No matter what the rate,
1 would fit through cooler zones,
But / cannot pay the freight,
For, alas am not Jones.
-NeW York Herald,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

THE close of Mr.. Parnells career as a po-
litical leader is evidently near at hand.
Dillon and O'Brien have declared against
him, and now Parnell claims only six con-
stituencies in all Ireland
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

THE papers in the suit for divorce brought
by Mrs James G.. Blaine, Jr., We're served
last Friday upon young James at Bar Har-
divorce is asked.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

THE confederation of Swiss cantons
is celebrating the six-hundredth ami
versary of the alliance of the three
original cantons. Centuries ago, some
Swedes left their native land for the
mountainous districts of Switzerland,
and, in course of time, distributed
themselves into three cantons, called
Schwytz, Uri and Unterwalden. From
century to century other cantons were
added, until the total number of states
at present is twenty-five. Switzerland
is by far the Oldest republic, and her
position, both geographically and polit-
ically, is unique. Her sons imbibe
from their surroundings the love of
freedom. Aloofin their mountain fast
nesses, they defy the monarchies of Eu-
rope. With justifable pride the Swiss
boast that they have never for any
considerable length of time been in
bondage to any nation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12

THE Worlds Fair project gains in
strength abroad if not at home. A So
Letting committee has been in Europe
and has visited England and France.
In England, Lord Salisbury, the Lord
Mayor of London, Mr.. Gladstone and
other high dignitaries pledged the cor
dial support of Great Britain and her
colonies. The reception of the COM
mittee in France was no less favorable.
The French art exhibit promises to be
a notable feature of the exposition. If
the rest of Europe emulates France
and England, the Worlds Fair will sue
coed so far as foreign nations are con-
cerned.
THE picturesque Earle has sold the
Express and Standard to Theophilus
Grout. In his valedictory Earle said:
"This is the third time we have owned
this paper in thirty-six years-have
written three salutations and three
farewells. Three times and out
We guess this is the Omega. Render
your thanks to Grout for fixing it so we
cannot return if we ever wish to do
So" In future state campaigns the
preference of the Express and Standard
will hardly be source of anxiety to
Orleans county's "favorite sons" In
this newspaper deal, do " coming events
cast their shadow before -?
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PhYSIclane.

"TRIP. LLOYD
-PHYs1cIAN AND SURGEON
-
once Lloyd Block, Cor. Pond & Expo. st. ONCE
Hours to IL A. NJ, to P. NJ, Sto 10 N.
Refers by Permission to Frank p. Gads0R and H. w.
1ianIy -ChdndleT.-----
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Lak5 Weir. Fla.
What Is Democracy ?

1t has always been our understanding
that it was based upon Jeffersonian
principles of equal rights. This is at
least the kind of democracy that We
have been taught as having been handed
down to us from the founder of the
party. Then if this be the case, we
could only ask for and advocate tariff
for revenue only, and the Alliance de-
mands that this shall be based upon an
economic administration of the govern.
ment. But how do We find things
among us to-dayP
Rancal was protection democrat,
and in the Southern states, where there
Is an output of iron ore, We find demo-
Gratis who are clamoring for protection
on iron and steel. Come down a little
further South, to the Peninsular of
Florida, and you win fad democrats
who favor tariff of dollar a box on
oranges Is this democracy? Is this
not depotism from Jeffersonian prin-
ciples? You who have so much TO say
about the immortal Jefferson, and so
many hard things to say against the
high-handed robbery of the Republi.
can party through a high protective
tariff. Whittier are You drifting
Come back into the fold. Has it really
come to pass that the Alliance in its
declaration of purposes, is the only or
ganized body that has retained the
principles of democracy? only a few
days ago good democratic friend said
he was convinced of the benefits of a
high tariff from hearing it discussed in
old Virginia, 1.-THE soil that is made ss-
cred by having in its bosom the remains
of Thomas Jefferson) says he, the
speaker, explained how We used to have
TO pay ten and twelve cents a pound
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| TO submit to the dictation of those whom God
| and nature intended for subordinates and suDRl-
| terms.
Subalternsl Subalterns! Maybe this
writer has royal, blue blood running
through his veins, or would he make
serfs of us? A man who would use
such language is a heather plutocrat.
who deserves future hi, if it is only
a confederate rough edged affair of that
intensely hot region.
A very good friend of ours, who is al
ways afraid something viii drop, says:
1--WE ought not to have SO much to say
about the leaders of the Democratic
party are they too good to be criticised"
Are they to call us OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
climates with IMMUNITY? We joined the
Alliance because we thought its prin-
ciples were just, and based as we yet
think, on the principles of Jeffersonian
Democracy, and we claim to worship at
the shrine of Jefferson, politically.
We claim the right and shall exercise
it of criticising these leaders who are
Democrats only in name, and when they
strike blow at the Alliance, we shall
strikeback. Such men as Oates that are
giyenover to an influence that has the
tendency to concentrate the wealth OF
this country in few mems hands, he
has always shown himself ready to
serve the corporate power of this coun-
try, thing we have abused the repub-
lican party for for the past twenty years.
1t appears to me if this gentleman wants
to continue to serve the corporations
with his mouth and his vote, it would
be better for him to 60 over to the Re-
publican party, as he would be more at
home and it is a certain fact that the
Democratic party would be rid of
nuisance. Il.
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Brother Hickson well Pleased
With he Alliance Department
of the Banner.
To Bro. F. H. Lyle.

ORANGE LAKE, July 2lst, 1891.
| have read your articles very closely
and with great deal of interest. You
and Bro. Baskin are making the Alli-
ance Department very interesting, de-
cidedly the most interesting part of the
BANNER, besides you are dealing in
solid facts and not wind. If am any
Judge, there are more facts to the square
foot in your Alliance Department given
every week than there are in all the
papeIs in the state put together. But |
am not writing for that purpose at all.
of the blessings the good Lord gives us
so bountifully,
I am Nnnrs .aru irlnlr
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am yours very truly.
WIN. HfcKsoN

We extend to Bro. Hickson our sin.
cere thanks for his complimentary notice
Of our department, ana fully appreciate
the same. The more so, az it is with us,
labor of love, given freely for the bene-
fit of the farmers nd laborers of our
country. L. aud B.