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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18

The dropping of old soldiers from the
pension rolls by order of Secretary Hoke
Smith and Commissioner Lochren is to be
tested in the courts. In number of cases
that have come to light grave injustice ap-
pears to have been done, and it will be in
teresting to know whether the reasons
given for dropping the pensioners will
bear the test of judicial examination. Con-
gresham Dalzell of Pittsburg, has become
interested in the case of one aged veteran
and is prepared to make fight in his be-
half. In Baltimore it appears that some
so pensioners have been cut off, and it is
said that 10 of them will be compelled to
go to the poorhouse unless provided for by
their friends and neighbors.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18

The st. Johnsbury Republican says that
''it is possible that Vermont may enlarge
her resources to the extent of many thou
sand acres of land and several millions of
dollars without the expenditure of a cent"
The Republican then proceeds to show
that the state line between Vermont and
Massachusetts as accepted for several gen.
erations is the result of surveyors error.
and that part of all the towns on the
northern border of Massachusetts belongs
to Vermont. Vermonters would like to
have the Moody schools at Mt. Hermon,
Williams college and the big factories at
North Adams, in their own state, but there
is no reason for joyful anticipation over
the prospect of such additions to our COM
monwealth. The fact that no contest has
been raised over the state line during all
these years makes it very improbable that
any material change will now be made.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
The RerIng Sen Decl.ion.

The decision of the Bering sea court of
arbitration in Paris was made public Tues
day morning. In the main this decision
is favorable to the United States. On the
five points set up by the United States in
article six the decision is against this coun-
try. BY this part of the decision the claim
of the United States to exclusive jurisdic-
tion over Bering sea is denied; this sea is
held to be included in the phrase "Pactic
ocean" and the United States is held to
have no right TO protect the seals inhabit-
ing its islands in Bering sea when they are
found outside the three-mile limit.
The points settled favorable to the con-
tention of the United States are the estab-
lshment of a close season extending from
May to July 81. This close season must
be observed both in the north Pacific ocean
and in Bering sea. A protected zone is es-
tablished, extending for 60 miles around
the Pribylov islands. Pelagic sealing is
allowed outside the zone in Bering sea from
August ], but only sailing vessels may en-
gage in the fisheries, no firearms except shot
guns may be used, record must be kept
by each vessel of the date and place of cap
ture of every seal, and of the sex of the ami
mails, and at the end of the season these
records must be communicated by each
government to the other. The American
arbitrators have expressed their satisfaction
with the text of the decision. They be-
lieve that the regulations decided upon by
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
Gbe Dtrmumt 9b@nf1.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1898.

There are many people who believe that
when the present financial stringency is
once broken, money will pour out in a
flood and 60 a-beggng for borrowers Mr.
Eckels, the comptroller of the currency, is
evidently of this opinion, for he is quoted
in Washington dispatch as saying: at
might be well for the money hoarders who
desire to sell their money at profit to get
it upon the market at once, for within
brief period it will be drug on the mar
kat -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
President Cleveland left Washington

President Cleveland left Washington
early last Friday morning and went direct
ly to Buzzard's Bay, where it is announced
that he will remain until September l.
The reason given for his not remaining in
Washington is that he feels his health un-
equal to the strain of attending to the de-
tails of public business and meeting the
callers who would wish to see him. On
his arrival in New York Mr.. Cleveland
went at once to see his physician, who ac-
companied him on the remainder of his
Journey. While DR.. Bryant declared that
his patient was in good shape and only
needed rest, the impression of those who
saw Mr.. Cleveland was that he was far
from we'll. He has not recovered from the
rheumatic attack which he suffered early
in the summer, and his surplus flesh grows
to be more and more a burden. There is
no man of whatever political creed, who
does not hope that the President will have
a full measure of health in the months
that are to come. His life, at the best, can
not be an easy one, and he will need for
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
Linen Department

Table Damask, Napkins, Towels
and Crashes at about importers
and manufacturers prices; also,
bleached and brown sheetings of
all widths, comprising the most
popular makes at manufacturers
prices during this sale. Hosiery,
Gloves, and Under-fannels at same
important reduction in prices.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
ACIenn-Cnt Issnr II Ohm.

After two months of delay the Ohio
Democrats have nominated their candidate
for governor and defined the issues of the
state campaign. Their nominee is Law
renee T. Neal of Chillicothe, whose two
distinguishing characteristics are his per-
sonal antipathy to Mr.. Cleveland, and the
fact that he drew up, and personally pre-
sented to the convention, and advocated in
an earnest speech, the tariff plank of last
years Democratic platform, which ''de-
nounces Republican protection as a fraud;
a robbery of the great majority of the Amer
lean people for the benefit of the few"
With Gov. Mckinley in nomination as the
Republican candidate for reelection the
issue could not be more sharply and clear
ly drawn. The situation is one which the
governor cordially welcomes. Mr.. Neal
nomination, he says, was logical and prop
er, considering his prominent part in the
Chicago convention, and his nomination
''means that there will be no straddling of
the tariff question. The battle will be
square, open, clearly defined one between
the party that has declared for a stand by
protective tariff and the party that de-
mands tariff for revenue only"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18

Mr. BlOunt, President Cleveland's COM
missioner to Hawaii, reached San Fran
cisco on his return Tuesday, He declines
to talk about affairs in Hawaii until his
report to the President has been made
public.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1893.

the performance of his duties the clear
head and wel-balanced judgment of which
a sound body is an almost inseparable ad-
junct.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18

Mitchell Bennett, aged Y, who had been
an inmate at the poorhouse in Windsor for
three years, committed suicide Monday by
hanging.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
THE VERMONT PHOENIX.
-,ttsHEp EvERY FRIDAY AT BRATTLEBoRo, VT, BY
0. l.. FREN CHI.

TERMS. 81 1.5Operyearina advance, If notpaid
sithin the year, $500.
Rates OF ADvERT1sINGf furnished on application
pirths Deaths and Marriages published free.
obituary Notices Cards of Thanks etc. rs cents
osr inch of II lines or less.
PIEnered atthe BrattleboroP osto officeassecond
,ss mai matter.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
Cloak Department
SECOND FLOOR.

Balance of Spring and Summer
Garments, Shirt Waists and Para
soils at a reduction of % to 90 per
cent. Also, a small lot of medium
weight Garments for ladies and
children carried over from last sea-
son, at one-fOurth the original
cost. Come early and get the best
selection. Terms cash, and no
deviation from the marked-down
prices.
q. O.J.PRATT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
OUR FINANCIAL LETTER,
Statistics of Gold and Silver PrOduc.
tiOn.
Currency Is Scarce Because II Is Locked
Up, Waiting for the situation TO De-
VeloP- Northern Pacific Again
Under "A CIOud---Congress.
"a BROAD STREET,

NEW YORK, August II, 1893.
AS the whole world is studying the
merits and dement's of gold and silver, the
writer has felt called upon to gather few
facts relating to the production of the two
metals. OF course the production of gold
and silver for the whole world cannot be
accurately given, but the director of the
United states mint does give an approxi-
mate estimate of each year from the best
statistics at hand. The total products of
gold and silver for ten years, beginning
with the year 1882, are given in round
nuOhare.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18

The eleven million dollar floating debt
of the Northern Pacific has carried the
company under again. "Friendly receiv-
ers" seem to be quite the thing these days
with various railroads. There has been
quiet Liquidation in Northern P acific for
long time. Last March the writer made
mention in one of his letters about the va
rious ills of this road. The operating de-
partment has been conducted by some of
the best railroad managers in the country,
but the financial end has always been weak.
Mr.. Willard has built too many costly
structures in an undeveloped territory,
putting many millions into hotels alone on
the Northern Pacific line. We all admire
progressiveness when it is not too expen-
sive, but hotel palaces fare rather hard
when they have to wait many years for
the country to grow up to their capacity.
The dilly-dallying going on in Wa shing-
ton shows that Mr.. Cleveland lacks control
of certain wings of his party. In the past
few years there seems to be a startling in
crease of sentiment favoring legislation
that will help a certain class dodge their just
debts.
My attention has just been called to a
very interesting article descriptive of Brat
tleboro, published in the United States
Investor, under date of August IL.
W. P. EAGER,
Banker and Broker.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
numbers :

IL VIII De seen from this table that the
silver production has been developed in a
marked degree, while the gold supply
shows slow though steady increase. 1t
may also be of interest to know the coun-
tries which are the chief contributors of
metallic wealth. In 1891 the United States
stood at the head of the god-producing
countries, with S33 100000; Australia
second, with S31, 100000; Russia third,
with s24,OO0,OOO; Africa fourth, with S14,-
OOO,OOO. OF the silver-producing coun-
tries the United States also stands at the
head, with S75,OOO,OOO; Mexico second,
with 100000; Bolivia third, with $15,-
100000; Australia fourth, with S13,OOO.-
600.
California is the largest producer of gold
of any state in the Union, and Colorado
takes the lead of silver-producin states,
with Montana a close second.
The present wailing of no money comes
very near being absurd. To be sure there
is at the moment great scarcity of cur
rency. This scarcity, however, is brought
about by the deep-seated distrust of the
future, and this epidemic of distrust or
contraction of credit has taken money
from its ordinary and proper chanels. The
banks seem to be guilty of boarding mon
ey as well as the Stocking" class, and
while this boarding process lasts, money
must of necessity be scarce.
In this connection it may be a question
of grave doubt whether any system of cur
rency ever conceived by man could fully
cope with the present money stringency.
The statement of money in circulation on
the first of August shows over $24 per
capita. From 1869 to 1877 the per capita
circulation ranged between $19.19 and
$14.6O, this latter sum being the per capita
circulation of 1877. The writer can only
find in his book of finance three years in
which the per capita circulation exceeds
Our Dresent circulation viz
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
Carpet Department

All-wool Ingram Carpet at 55,
90 and 65 cents; Body Brussels and
Tapestry Brussels from 30 cents
to ST a yard. Art squares, Smyrna
Bugs and Straw Mating at the
same general reduction from reg
ular prices.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18
Business Garns.

OuERMAN a. JENNIE,
General Insurance and Real Estate Agents.
Representing Companies whose assets are over
100000.
TENEMENTS TO LET.
AGENTS FOR BABcocK FIRE ExTINaUIsHERs.
Office in New Bank Block, corner of Main and
Elliot Streets,
BRATTLEBORO, VT.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01
POLAR BEARS KEEP COOL.

Tropical Animals In Captivity Suffer
Most During the Heated Term.
'It will surprise most people," said
Superintendent A. E. Brown, of the
Philadelphia geological garden, to a
Record man, ''to learn that the polar
bear stands the hot weather of the dog
days in this locality better than the
African lion. On hot days the lion
will get off his feed; the bear will not.
The tropical animals in the garden"
continued the superintendent, ''are the
ones mostly affected by the extreme
heat of midsummer, strange as it may
appear. l suppose the reason of it is
that the heat there is more moist than
that of the tropics, and, as it were, of
a different character. Whatever NOR
tality OCCURS among our animals dur
ing heated term is mostly among the
tropical animals, especially the African.
In hot weather / have watched the
polar bear go into his tank, and then,
instead of lying in the shade, extend
himself in the direct rays of the sun,
where the water on his skin would
evaporate. He found out for himself,
/ suppose, that evaporation causes a
lower temperature Again, it is some
what astonishing, at first, that our
polar bear should suffer sometimes as
he does from the severe cold of winter.
| have seen him shivering on one Of
those bitterly cold days, when the sky
was overladen and the air full of mois-
ture. The moisture was evidently what
affected him. In the arctic regions it
is so cold that the moisture is frozen
out of the air. Birds do not like the
heat. 1t makes them perch with
dropped wings. Heat affects not only
the animals in the garden, but the
finances of the garden itself A differ
ence of ten degrees in the thermome-
ter, say if it is ninety-fve instead of
eighty-6ve, means loss of several hun
bred dollars in our gate receipts for
the day.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01
Pigmies in Spain.

Since the explorations of recent trav-
elers have completely verified the older
accounts of the existence of race of
dwarfs or pigmy men in Africa, re-
newed interest has been aroused in the
tradition that race of human dwarfs
also lives in Spain. Mr.. r. G. Hall
burton, who has specially interested
himself in the investigation of the
truth of this tradition, seems convinced
that it is true According to the infor-
nation he has collected, these Spanish
pigmies vary in height from about
three and quarter to four feet, and
they are precisely similar to the dwarfs
of Africa. They possess the tufts of
wool which are characteristic of all
dwarf races Some of these little peo-
pie are said to live in the valley of
Ribas on the slopes of the Pyrenees,
and to be employed as shepherds. The
British consul at Barcelona is con-
WINGED of their existence, and as the
distance to their country from BARGE
Iona. or from southern France, is not
great. additional information about
them should soon be forthcoming
oath Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01

Iore no cause Tor sadness, for through
out all Spanish America the death of a
child is considered rather matter for
rejoicing. So, while the bells clattered
more merrily than ever, the joyous
group passed the turnstile, traversed
the cloisture of the church and halted
beside shallow hole
Looking into it we saw that its sides
were a sandwich of different layers
and strata of bones and broken coffins,
smoothly cut by the spade, and that
the heap of fresh earth beside it con-
tanned a skull or two lone with long
black hair clinging to it,, some old
joints and marrow bones, a baby's shoe,
bits of coffin. shreds of clay-soiled grave
clothes, and other recuerdos of the for
gotten dead. A grave digger, wearing
a long, brown-striped poncho, placed
the rose-strewn box containing the
angelic into the hole and proceeded
to shovel the dirt and bones in upon 1t,
incidentally pushing in the hairy skull
with his bare foot; now and then get
ting in to stamp down the loose earth
and make all snug and secure. Then
the group left the cemetery, still gay
and happy, the mother without tear
in her eyes, but chattering with the
rest-not because she was lacking in
natural affection, but because she be-
lieved with mistaken trust that her
baby was not there in the damp earth
but safe in Mary's arms, where she
would one day find it. She carried
with her a black wooden cross, with
the embroidered linen that had draped
the coffin wound about it.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01
To Feed the Pigs.

As soon as the pigs begin to eat, a
place should be provided where they
can be fed by themselves. This is al.
most necessity if the best growth is
secured. In providing this, however,
care should be taken to have the place
where they go in cut sufficiently large
to admit them readily. If they are
obliged to crawl under or squeeze
through, there is always more or less
risk of their injuring themselves in
some way. They may rupture them
selves, get crooked feet or crooked
back. Have the passageway arranged
so that they can walk in and out on
their feet without crawling. A shallow
trough, with cleats across to prevent
any of them from getting in and lying
down in the feed, is necessary to feed
them to the best advantage.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01

A new method of preserving pictures
is being experimental with in London.
1t consists of placing the surface of
the picture, be it canvas or paper. in
vacuum, thus protecting it from at
mospheric action. The picture is in
closed in metal frame or case cover
ing the back and sides and projecting
from the sides like an ordinary frame.
A plate of glass is inserted in the edges
of the case, just as in an ordinary
frame, and Theoretically sealed to the
metal. The air is then withdrawn
from between the surface of the pic
ture and the glass, and the painting is
in vacuum. 1t is believed this plan
will effectually protect pictures from
the action of dampness, air, gases and
other causes that operate to destroy
paintings exposed or framed in the or
binary WaV
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01
WITHOUT HIS BALANCE WHEEL.
Miseries of the Would BE Gay Dog Whose
Wffe's In the Country.

Miseries of the Would BE Gay Dog Whose
Wife's In the Country.
When a man packs his family off to
the country he revels in his secSet,
wicked soul over the thought that he
is going to have high old time, when
he will make sure that there are still
cakes and ale and that ginger are still
hot i the mouth. This delightful de-
fusion lasts about three days, accord
ing to the San Francisco Argonaut, or
at most a week. He eats one or two
crack dinners, prepared by an accom-
plished chef; the result is parched
throat, a headache and other premon-
itory symptoms of indigestion. He
mingles in the gay and festive throng
of which he was an ornament in his
callow days; he is astonished to find
how empty-headed the young men are
and how stupid and vulgar the women.
Is it possible that he ever enjoyed that
sort of society? 1t gradually breaks
upon him that he has outgrown the
Joys of the coulisses and that he can
no more relish the rather liberal jokes
of Aspasia than he can eat candies.
He drifts into his club, where he finds
a lot of old fogies who say dull things
in dull way upon dull topics. He
flies headlong from fiend who wants
to discuss the tariff with him and
takes refuge in his empty home, where
he finds that the single servant who
had been left in charge has drunk up
all the sherry and forgotten to make
a &c bod
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01
The Goxsrnmsnt Seal.

When ON July 4, 1910, the continent
tai congress declared the English
American colonies to be free and indie
pendent states, they appointed com
mittee to report device for seal
the emblem of sovereignty. That com
mittee and others from time to time
presented unsatisfactory devices. FL
nally, in the spring of 1882, Charles
Thompson, the secretary of congress,
gave to that body device largely sug-
gested to John Adams, then United
States minister TO the court of Great
Britain, by Sir John Prestwich, an
eminent English antiquary. This sug-
gestion was made the basis of a de-
sign adopted by congress, June 90,
1899, and which is still the device Of
the great seal Of the republic
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01

The beginning of the eighteenth CEN
fury witnessed an epidemic of poison
ing in France as well as Italy. The
business was begun in France by two
Italian prisoners named Exili and
CHASER The prisoners were discovered
by the aid of the clergy Exili and
CHASER were sent to the bastile, where
they both died. The latter lived long
enough, however, to communicate the
secrets of his business to the infamous
st. Croix, who became the teacher Of
the equally infamous Mime. Brinvil-
Tiers. st. Croix was instrumental in
the death of large number of persons,
and finally was himself found dead in
his laboratory, where he had been
overcome by the noxious vapors Of the
poisons he was distilling.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-01
THE WIDEST RIVER.
The Rio de la Plata, Whose Banks Are
1913 Miles Apart.

1e5 Miles Apart.
Were it not for decided difference
in the color of the water you would
never know when the Atlantic is left
and the Rio de la Plata entered, says a
writer to the Philadelphia Record.
The high-rolling, white-capped pillows
are the same, and no land is visible,
for the great river which James Diaz
de Soils discovered is one hundred and
twenty-five miles wide at its mouth,
though with an average depth of only
fifty feet. Sebastian Cabot, who ar
rived in the year 1920, soon after the
natives had murdered poor Don Soils,
dubbed it River of Silver, not on ac-
count of its color, which might have
won for it the more appropriate name
of Golden river or River of Chocolate,
but because he had wrested quantities
of silver from the Indians who swarmed
it's banks, and naturally imagined that
an abundance of precious metal re-
manned in the vicinity In point of
fact the terms Argentina and Rio de la
Plata (both meaning the same thing
with reference to silver are misno-
mers, for no metals of any sort, pre-
cious or otherwise, are found along the
banks of the mighty stream or any
where near 1t, and the scanty argentif-
erous deposits in the hills Of the int.
rior have never been worked. The In
dams aforesaid probably obtained the
silver which so excited Spanish cupid
ity from Peru and Bolivia, by some
primitive system of internal commerce
known only to themselves. To this
day metals do not figure in the exports
of the adjacent countries-Uruguay,
Paraguay and Argentina, but such
prosaic articles as hides and tallow
horns, woods, preserved and refrig-
Grated meat, etc.-for their wealth lies
solely In grazing facilities and fertile
coil