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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-12

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granite industry on the business OF the
town is noticeable to every one. Within
three years, Mortified has made sub
stantial gain in population and taken a
step in material prosperity that gives
bright promise for the future. There
is more business here, more money in
circulation and more value in real
estate.
And we may add what the modesty
of the News didn't permit it to say.
that one factor in bringing about this
pleasant state OF affairs was, ,undoubted-
", the able and well-directed work Of
the enterprising andexeellent local pa
per.-St. Johnsbury Republican.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-12

Northfeld is hourishing like the fabu-
lous bay rum tree. The News makes
the pleasant announcement that "there
are nearly hundred men engaged in
stonecutting here. Three years ago,
the CHEEKY sound of hammer and drill
was unknown to rs. The effect Of our
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-12

Ell. Senator Edmunds and family sre at
Redlands. Cal. for the winter.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-12

The year of 1892 was one of the
most prosperous in Vermont since the
war, especially in Rutland County.
All kinds of business took boom and
the year ended with substantial savings
to the credit OF the people. Farmers
had fairly good crops and cancelled a
part or all OF the mortgages on their
farms, added to the quantity OF their
land and improved their homes.
Manufacturers found ready sale
for their products and increased their
plants, thus giving employment to more
men and women and increasing the
stability of the home market, which Is
yermont's great need in that it will en-
able the farmers to avoid the middle
men and the uncertainties of distant
city trade. Laborers, too, had a pros
porous year and saved larger per cent
of their earnings than in any other year
since the war, not to mention the homes
paid for and improved.
In this connection the advantages OF
the Vermont farmer and laborer are
not to be lost sight of. A commercial
traveller who has just been taking an
extended trip through the State saws
"This talk about hard times among
Vermont farmers is largely misleading
or false. Go into their homes and see
for yourselves. You will find books,
newspapers and nice furniture. The
daughter has a piano or organ aud Is
sent to the best schools. The wife has
a sewing machine and all modern aids
in labor saving. The son may be IN
college in this State or elsewhere. The
father has many hours OF leisure during
the winter and goes to town behind a
GOOD horse. He makes Iaoney toe, and
the mortgages are disappearing. de
has a thousand advantages of home life
not found in the city. He ought TO be
contented and happy. He is sure of q
good living and, best of all, he is inde
pendent.
Though the farmer has been yer,
prosperous, the tendency Of 1892 wa'
towards manufacturing, and th'
villages are fast becoming centers o
trade and education, which is enlargins
and improving the home market. No
that there is a tendency toward city hf'
but a movement in the direction OF th'
thriving villages, which are giving tn
farmers better prices for their product
and their children all the advantages Q
a city. Vermont has suffered much Il
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13

and the victim would pass quietly away.
In this case death would be painless and
absolutely sure, he says.
Baltimore firemen have a device for car
rying hose over the tops of cable cars so
there Is no delay to traffic in consequence
or fire along the line.
Charles Clement, of Rutland, VT, was
only eighty-six years old when he died the
other day. but he had taken part in one
OF the most thrilling scenes in the coun-
try's history. He of the twenty
five men who defended Lovejoy's printing
Office in Alton. ILL.,. when IL was attacked
by mob during the so-called Owen Love
joy riot.
IL would be a pleasure to know Miss
Smith of England better. She is de-
scribed as the protector of inexpensive
homes for gentlewomen." Among these de-
sirable places are some small furnished
cottages as low as 81 % a week After Miss
Smith shall have housed the impecunious
gentlewomen OF England she will be more
than welcome on this side.
At meeting in Boston, the other day,
under the auspices of the Massachusetts
Indian Association, Miss E. Pauline John
son. Of Canada. read several original
poems. She is the daughter OF Mohawk
Indian chief Miss Johnson appeared in the
costume of her tribe, which included a
necklace of cinnamon bear claws and a
bracelet of panther claws.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13
THE GRAND ARMY'S CHALLENGE.

Commander-in-chief Adams. of the Grand
of President Cleveland that thousands CT
neighborhoods have their well-known fraudu-
lent pensioners, and calling attention TO
the sworn obligation of the Grand Army Of
the Republic Ito encourage honor and purity
in public affairs" makes the following ap-
peal to members:
Call the attention Of all comrades. posts
and departments of our order to the state
port to the honorable Commissioner of Pen
sions, Washington. ID. c., any person known
to be In receipt of a pension not justly en-
titled to the same under the law and for
ward duplicate of said report to these
headquarters at once.
In addition to this official call to the
Grand Army, the Commander-in-chief
makes the following pledge:
If these wrongs actually exist, the Com
mander-in-chief pledges the support of the
Grand Army of the Republic to those who
attempt, in the line of duty, to rectffy these
wrongs. assuring them that the Union vet
erans are anxious TO guard the treasury
of the Nation in time of peace they were
to defend its flag in time of war.
II the frauds exist, as President Cleve-
land asserts, in thousands of neighborhoods,
the men who are alleged to have been sent
out as spies upon pensioners should take
copies of the Commander-in-chief's order to
leading Grand Army men in these neighbor-
hoods and invoke their assistance rather
than encourage class of sneaks to make
confidential accusations against veterans TO
which they dare not append their names.
Conmander-in-chiefA Adams, in the course of
this order, takes the liberty to add that his
information is at variance with that of the
Presidents, saying:
The information that comes to these head
quarters daily of comrades totally disabled
whose pensions have been suspended, and of
widows whose husbands were killed in bat
tie being suspended until they can prove
that their husbands were naturaliZed citi-
zens of the United States, leads the Com
mander-in-chief to believe that that state
ment is broader than can be SubStantiated
by facts.
And that is the opinion of all fair-minded
people. There are no "stupendous'' pension
frauds. If there were the friends of the
Cleveland administration would discover and
report them.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13
PARKHURsT,s SUCCESS.

Last year. when the Rev. Parkhurst, OF
New York city, opened his crusade
against vice. some sensational features
about it gave the impression to the out
side public that notoriety was perhaps as
much his object as reform. Developments
have proved that this was far from being
the case and have shown him to be a man
of strong convictions. deeply in earnest.
and with purpose which he is determined
to accomplish. The sensational features
and the notoriety were incidents in his
work which were unavoidable, and yet
which were not without their uses. mas
much as they brought the conditions he
sought TO remedy to the attention Of the
community in a way that could not be
ignored and which soon created a senti-
meat in his favor. But the surprising
part of the Parkhurst fight is its success.
For years the iniquity of the New York
city government has been the theme of
pulpit and press. Newspapers have ex-
posed it's partnership with vice and crime,
and ministers and theoretical reformers
have drawn alarming moral lessons from
it and have urged somebody to effect re-
FORM But nobody undertook the task in
a way that meant business until Parkhurst
came to the front. With all the preaching
and teaching, the exposures and the warn
ings, the enterprise was considered hope
less Although the city authorities were
known TO be needless of law and to grow
wealthy from the private tribute levied
upon thieves and prostitutes and all classes
of criminals willing to buy immunity in
that way, no one had done more than
talk of the matter. No action had been
taken to show these city officials that they
they would be held responsible for proper
performance OF their duties. What is the
use?" was the invariable excuse; Tam
many is in control. and Tammany is all
powerful" But even Tammany. as Park
hurst has demonstrated. is not proof
against moral force Even in New York
city, where the worst of the vicious ele-
ments of the country are congregated. the
weight of public sentiment is in favor of
crime. Co!lusion between the authorities
and criminals is repugnant 10 all ideas of
right government, and when this collusion
is made plain by practical and unques-
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13

to a square, 1t follows that each side OF
the cap is appropriated to one of the
oergraduate classes little reflection viii
show that this left no side for the post
graduates, and if their status to be
designated by tassel 1t would be neces-
sary to find some place for it This diff
Guilty might have been solved by chang
ing the form of the cap from square to
a pentagon. but for some reason other
the board of control did not choose to do
that. Or they might have designated one
OF the unappropriatedA corners of the cap
as the site of the fifth tassel, but they did
not And this Is what gives rise TO the
trouble. The board simply decided that the
postgraduates should wear blue tassel on
the hat without saying where, thus throw
ing on the young women themselves the
responsibility of deciding where the tassel
shall be placed. The cap, it should be
stated, is worn with a corner in front. thus
bringing a corner on each side and one be-
hind. 1t is argued by the postgraduates that
the effect of the tassel would be practic-
ally destroyed by placing it behind. be-
cause it could not be from the front,
and that no sef-respecting young woman
would consent to making herself look lop-
sided by wearing tassel over one ear and
is directly in front, and 1t is claimed that
this would be both unbecoming and injuri-
Gus to the eyesight. For some reasons the
front corner would be preferable to any
other The tassel in that position would
be distinguishable quite distance, and the
person wearing it would feel that her
status was properly advertised in all kinds
of weather But blue is not becoming TO all
compilations, and some postgraduate women
might not care to have their faces brought
into such close juxtaposition with that
color. Besides, tassel in that position
would dangle before the eyes in walking,
and might have tendency to cause strabis-
mus. If it did not do that it would be al
most certain to come in occasional contact
with the nose. thus producing sensation
not conducive to comfort or self-control.
One can readily understand, therefore, that
the decision of the board of control has
caused quite a perturbation. The postgrad-
yates are utterly unable to decide where
the tassel should be located, and the un-
dergraduates are exultant over their dis
comfiture
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13

and charged to the heads of families who
are temporarily out of employment is
most judicious one. Unless the policy of the
country is to be one of sustaining pauperism
as an institution, everything possible must
be done to prevent the degradation of self
respecting poor to the condition of helpless
beggary.
The civic pride of Indianapolis will re-
spond unanimously TO the suggestion of the
committee that Indianapolis is able to care
for itself. If it is not, no city in the land
is. 1t has not a large number of rich men,
but it has as many intelligent prosperous
and kind-hearted people any city of it's
size in the country More than that it has
as few people who would be the objects of
public charity as any city Of it's population.
If Indianapolis Garnet carry its unemployed
labor. whose labor and earnings have con-
tributed so much to the growth and busi-
ness of the city, there will be terrible dis
tress elsewhere The weekly SUM oo 81, 800,
or even $500, is large burden, it is true;
but it can and must be raised.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. John A. Logan is of the opinion
that women who work for a living are less
likely to marry than those who do not.
Sarah Bernhardt says that she is not
a nun is constant surprise to herself.
What she has always desired most ardent
ly is to be a num-
A French doctor has invented a new
word, "onchyophagy." He applies it to
young girls who bite their nails, claiming
that the habit arises from deranged con-
diton Of the nervous system.
a woman's journal is published in
Alexandria, Egypt. with articles in it writ
ten exclusively by women. 1t is called El
Fatat (''the young woman'O. and is edited
by a Syrian lady. Miss Hind Noufal.
A new way to serve raw oysters is in
tall handled tumblers. a dressing of pep
per and salt. lemon juice and Worcester
shire sauce goes with them and they are
picked out with the long oyster fork.
The best report of the Pope's health says
that he has aged considerably and trem-
bles; but there is no more cause for alarm
than when his physicians declared. five or
six years ago, that the end might come
suddenly at any moment.
One of the curious matrimonial customs
of the Matabele tribes is that when chill
dren are born to a couple the father must
buy them OF his father-in-law, or. If he
fails to do so, the children become the
property. so TO speak, of the mothers
family.
A declaration of marriage in Siam is
simpler even than it used to be in Scot
land. You ask lady to marry you by
simply Offering her a flower or taking a
light from a cigarette If il happens TO be
in her mouth, and your family and the
brides family have TO put up at least
81 600 apiece for dowry.
A correspondent Of the Scientific Amer
lean suggests "gasacution' as a means Of
axa Ia ad
struction of an air-tight cell. into which
the prisoner can be introduced, knowing
as he enters that hs never to come out
alive Thc Gs cs@ld then be turned on
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13
OUR WOOLEN AND COTTON INDUS
TRIES.

Congressman Tarsney. of Missouri, a
means committee. is out in an interview in
which he says, Our wooden industry lags
behind our other industries. such as iron
and cotton-and why? Because the old world
has long had the benefit of free raw mater
ials." Mr.. Tarsney forgets that even with
free wool the American manufacturer will
still have to get his labor 80 per. cent.
cheaper than he now does. before he can
compete with the foreign manufactures if
the duty wooden manufactures is re-
moved. But, waving this point, it is not
in comparison with the cotton industry. In
1860 the total value of the wooden manu-
factures of the United States was $780,
364, being at the rate of $2.06 per capita Of
population. In the same year the total
value of the manufactures of cotton was
S115, ,6S1,774, and the per capita value S3.6S.
At that time the manufactures OF cotton
were nearly double those of wool. Cotton.
a raw material that is produced abundant
ly in this country, has been on the free
list all the time while there has been
duty on wool. yet the wooden industry has
made much greater progress than the cot
ton industry. In 1870 the value of woolen
manufactures and of cotton manufactures
was the same. s4.6O per capita in each case.
while in 1880. with heavy duty on wool,
woolen manufactures had increased to S5Si
per capita, while cotton manufactures,
with free cotton, had fallen to $3.SS per
S5.45 per capita and cotton manufactures
were SL32. There are no figures at hand
to show the relative growth of the two in
dustries since the passage of the Mckinley
law, but those who are in position to know
say that wooden manufactures have forged
still further ahead of cotton. In short, the
figures show that instead of our wooden in
dustry Tagging behind our cotton in
dustry. as Mr.. Tarsney asserts, because of
the want of free raw material, the former
has overtaken and surpassed the latter.
Evidently, the Missouri congressman is
like a great many other free traders-a
student Of WINS thor than of markets
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13
SEREDS AND PATCHES.

Taint the most morrel man that gifts the
most votes.-Jedge Waxem.
Hawaiian Lilies are dearer than the Ber-
muda variety.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
One Of the most satisfactory places to at
tend a church fair is at her home Sunday
evening.-Lowell Courier.
A new counterfeit 500 treasury note Is
out It's of the series Of 1880 and appro-
priately marked letter B.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The State Department has not yet issued
It's advertisement asking for sealed bids for
tne Italian mission.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
That there will be neither marrying nor
giving In marriage in heaven will make
that place rather tedious to actors.-Chi-
cago Herald
If Congress really intends to pass the
Wilson tariff bill 1t certainly ought to make
some new provisions for handling bank
ruptcy caSes.-Detroit Tribune.
A Michigan woman was recently killed
by tight lacing. The moral of this is, of
course that Michigan women ought to have
tougher observation-disclosures City Journal.
What is the use of your wishing?
Some Of these days there'll be fishing;
Best thing to do is to keep feeling fine
Get your bait ready and lengthen your linei
Atlanta Constitution.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13

The success of the Cleveland-Gre
plot for the overthrow of the provisional
government in Hawaii depended largely on
keeping the people of the islands and those
Of the United States in ignorance, respect
lively, of what was going at the other
end Of the line. In furtherance of this plan
they reckoned that news between the coun-
tries would only pass by the regular steam
ers between Honolulu and San Francisco,
whose dates of sailing and arrival could be
counted on with certainty. But their
schemes have gone awry, owing to the
leaking out of news through other chan
nels. The world is large, and it is hard to
plug up all the holes through which news
may escape Thus we have had Hawaiian
news by tramp steamers, by sailing vessels
and by cable from New Zealand and China,
and. no doubt the people of the islands have
had advices from the United States by as
many different channels. The effort to sup
press information has been a failure, as
any intelligent person might have known
in advance it would.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13

tionable proof the general displeasure
quickly makes itself felt There has been
great commotion and agitation and gen.
eral overturning in New York police cir
cles, all because Of Parkhurst's work, and
unless signs fail this is only the beginning
OF the revolution. 1t is a remarkable ex-
ample Of what one man can do when he
is tremendously in earnest and is proceed
ing on principle that brings him in ac-
cord with the moral sense OF the commu-
nifty. He has suffered obloquy and perse-
cution. and his life has been threatened.
but even at this stage Of progress, when
he sees his opponents only beginning to
move in the way he would have them, he
can be excused for smiling in righteous
triumph.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13

The French police seem to have acted
with great promptness and intelligence in
regard to the recent bomb-throwing Incl
dent. Their first step, taken almost in
stantly after the explosion, proved very
effective This was to guard the exits from
the building and permit no person TO pass
out until he had undergone an examna-
tion and been subjected to special survel-
lance. BY this means they were able to
get the first clew, which finally led to the
discovery and arrest of the guilty person.
But his Identification was not made COM
plete till after a series of Investigations
prosecuted during one entire night by four
detectives detailed for the purpose, who
worked on different lines, all concentrating
at one point and on the same person. There
was no time lost, no confusion, no work.
ing at cross purposes, and, so far as ap-
pears, not a single misstep. Considering
the size of the city, the facilities for con-
cealment and the panic into which it must
have been thrown by the event. the prompt
discovery and arrest Of the bomb-thrower
argues fine police work.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-13
Blue and Gray.


During this year OF seeming idleness,
young Henry conceived the idea Of becom-
ing lawyer. Digging in the soil would
not yield him a livelihood; drawing mo-
lasseS and measuring tape had produced
the same barren result. But words never
failed him. He could move or melt any
audience before whom he might stand.
Therefore, he determined to earn his. liv-
ing by his tongue.
The wonderful mental capacity Of this
broken-down farmer and merchant may be
understood when We learn that after a
very few weeks OF reading and study. he
presented himself at VILLA nlsburg before
the examiners, and was admitted to the
bar. Not, however without much urging
and entreaty. for the examiners soon dis
covered the paucity Of his knowledge of the
statutes. In spite Of his ignorance of the
forms and technicalities, young Henry
pleaded his own case we'll that he re-
ceived his license, not at all because Of
his legal proficiency. but solely because Of
his ingenuity and the promise he gave OF
future usefulness One of the examiners.
Mr.. John Randolph, was SO much shocked
by the uncouth appearance Of the man that
he at first refused to examine him. But he
shortly discovered that the candidate was
diamond in the rough, and after subject
ing him to a most severe series of subtle
and intricate queries, he was forced to re-
mark, Mr.. Henry. If your industry be
only half your genius, augur that you will
do well and become an ornament and an
honor to your profession" Prophetic