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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
The Cost OF the Show and the Returns.

The 6,0O0,0 900 fair at Chicago dis
tances all its predecessors in the mag
nifcence of its grounds and buildings
and the extent of its exhibits. Exclu-
sive of Sundays, the fair will be open to
the public 156 days. The gross receipts
must therefore exceed an average of
100000 daily in order TO cover the cost
of the exposition. That is, there must
be an average daily attendance of over
200 900 visitors who pay fifty cents each,
if the aggregate gross receipts amount
to the aggregate of the sums that the
nation, the city and the capitalists of
Chicago have invested in the fair.
Thus far, the average paying attend
ance has been somewhat more than
10000 daily, including opening day.
Excluding the first day, the average at
tendance has been about $4,000. The
average daily attendance at Philadel-
phia during May was $4,000. At the
Paris exposition, the admission to which
was one franc, or about twenty cents,
the average daily attendance was 1885,.
900 on week days and 100000 on Sun
days. Paris had local population
more than double that of Chicago, and
it was the capital city of pleasure and
travel for all the world. The average
daily attendance at Philadelphia for the
six months the exhibition was open was
81 900. Philadelphia and the cities
within radius of one hundred miles
had at that time some 100000 inhab-
itants, not counting the people of a
thickly-settled and prosperous country
within this radius. Chicago and the
large cities within radius that includes
Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St.
Louis and Milwaukee have population
of some 100000, not including the in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
Maple Sugar at Chicago.

Mr.. G. ID. Whitman, superintendent of the
Vermont maple sugar exhibit at Chicago,
writes the WArCHMAN that some forty-eight
exhibitors from all parts of the state are
represented in his display. Among the
number are some OF the best sugar makers
of the state and the entire exhibit is very
creditable to the state. Several lots from
the late sugar places are to follow. Among
the exhibitors are A. NJ. Foster of Cabot,
b. H. Bancroft Of Calais, Alpha Messer of
Rochester, A. s. Libbey of Mortified, Vic
tor I. Spear Of Brantree, Hon. w. w.
Grout OF East st. Johnsbury and S. III. Fos-
ter OF North Calais. The Vermont maple
sugar exchange also makes large show OF
sugar in commercial packages. Permission
to sell sugar has been granted the manager
of the exhibit, and sugar in cakes, hot and
on ice, will add to the delectation of visitors
to the fair. People of the Wild West who
have been buying bottled barbed wire and
hugging the fond delusion that they were
consuming the pure product of the Vermont
rock maple will be undeceived, but it will
require campaign Of education to con-
vince them that the translucent product in
Superintendent Whitman's packages of
syrup, with its delicate bouquet of the Yer
mont maple is not an adulteration. The
exhibit is in competent hands, competent
to represent VermontS interest in this
unique product, and the sugar-makers OF
the state should find, in the years to come,
an expanding market for their toothsome
pOOds
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
Obituary..

REED.-Ella II. VanDusen, wife of Leslie
10. Reed OF Minneapolis, and daughter OF
Dr. James M. VanDusen Of Waitsheld,
died in Minneapolis. April q, at the age OF
thirty-five years. Mrs. Reed was born in
Warren and came to Waitsfield when ten
years old. She fulfilled the promise OF
early childhood, and took high rank as
scholar in our public schools and at God
dard Seminary, whore she graduated in rs
as valedictorian OF her class During the
four years in which she taught in Waits
field, she retained the love and respect OF
her pupils, and by her sweet, pure, womauly
influence helped and encouraged all who
knew her. After teaching two years in the
Union school at Montpelier she resigned,
and was married to Leslie K. Reed, October,
1888, went at once to their new home in
Nebraska. They resided in Omaha for
five years, and then removed to Minneapo-
lis. Her death was caused by,an explosion
OF gasoline on the morning of April 81 and
all that care and skill and loving friends
could do could not save her, and she passed
away on the evening of the same day
While we all mourn her loss, we cannot but
be thankful for her pure, strong life and
gentle ministries 80 willingly bestowed
upon all, and especially the poor and home
less. Our deepest sympathies go out to the
loving husband, whose heart and home are
50 suddenly made desolate--t to the father
and mother bereft Of their only daughter,
and to the brother whose life was so fully
bound up In his only sister. May the God
OF love comfort them in their great sorrow.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

criticised for the curtness of his an
swer, and some of his critics go so far
as to call him boor. The New York
Sun allows that the dispatch might have
been improved in phraseology, and that
it shows temper; "but as direct and
energetic statement Of the constitu-
tional relations between the chief exec
utive of the federal government and
the chief magistrate of one Of the states
of the Union, Pennoyer's reply to MIR.
Cleveland is unexceptionable. 1t is
not often that dozen words convey a
greater constitutional truth or sounder
declaration of purpose" The Sun
turns the case around. If Mr.. Cleve-
land had received from Governor
Pennoyer message urging him to do
his plain duty in matter entirely within
the presidents province and entirely
outside the province of the governor of
Oregon, and had the president an
swered, will attend to my business,
let the governor of Oregon attend to
his" it is quite conceivable that some
people might regard the answer from
Washington as an epigrammatic rebuke
and an assertion of official dignity
worthy of place in history.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
Found Only in Novels.

Some one gave me magazine the
other day that is published in London,
and that is said-by the publishers-to
be interesting, useful and profitable to
women. CHANGING through it's pages
my eyes were caught by the words a
bitter imprecation was Kissed forth by
the man brought to bay" Now, /
have always had deep desire 10 hear
some one hiss forth an imprecation,
especially bitter one. ] know such
things may be heard, because l have
read of them ever since l was six years
old, and extracted "The White Squaw I"
and other choice literature from the
Raggedy Mans room" have hunted
down the scornful curl of the lip and
the red pout of the neither lip, the
ashen face, the pallid brow and the sigh
that huttered; even the ghost of a sar-
donic smile have l seen, but the Kissed
imprecation has 30 far eluded me.-Etla
Higginson, in Peterson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
ExtOrtiOn at Chicago.

Reports, not from persons who may
be charged with hostility to Chicago,
but from the newspapers of Chicago it.
self, are rife of the extortion practiced
by the hotels and by the persons having
special privileges on the fair grounds.
The restaurants, the rolling-chair COM
pany, and every one upon whom the
visitors are in any way dependent for
their comfort or convenience, seem to
regard the public as huge orange
to be squeezed-and squeezed dry-of
its golden juice. Certain concessions of
an extraordinary nature have been
made to individuals. These concessions
include toilet-rooms, eating-houses and
seating facilities. The toilet-rooms, the
papers of Chicago are saying, are
shame and disgrace. Certain of them
are made free, but they are noisome
and pestilential affairs, unfit for and
impossible of use. So the people are
driven to the neat, well-kept rooms of
the concessionaires, for which they are
duly taxed. The eating-houses are
providing poor food, badly cooked and
worse served. The visitor is forced to
pay in waiter fees and extortionate
charges $3.50 for very cheap twenty
five cent lunch. So people who prefer
basket picnic to stalled OK and rob-
hnr IRWIN fhnt
lunches into the grounds and eating
them on the steps of the high-priced
restaurateurs. Opportunities to give the
weary rest are few and inadequate.
The benches that once dotted the park
are gone, and in their stead are rolling
chairs, the use of which costs seventy
five cents an hour, and camp chairs, for
which ten cents are charged. "The
only creature in the world who will SUBJ
NIT to this kind of robbery" says the
Chicago Journal, "is the rich snob who
likes the tipping system; but as ninety
nine per cent of the visitors to the ex-
position are people who have at least a
spark of independence, and who have
sense enough to know when they are
being held up and spirit enough to re-
sent it, the injurious effect of counte-
nancing this sort of thing will be i'm.
mediate and incalculable." But the
concessionaires of every class have
bought their privileges and paid high
for them. The fair management, in
these particulars, is in their hands, and
it is not likely that the axe will be laid
at the root of the difficulty. The priv
lege of preying upon the public has
been purchased and will be enforced.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

habitants of the smaller COMMUNITIES
within this territory.
Chicago's means for supplying an
attendance at the fair are, at the best,
no better than were Philadelphia
seventeen years ago, and they are prob
ably not nearly as good. Certainly the
people for an average attendance APP
preaching that at the last Paris exhibit
ton do not exist at Chicago or in the
country round about. So that, even if
the management derives money enough
from the concessions to eating houses
and the numerous other classes of con-
cessionaires to pay the running ex-
penses, estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000 daily, the probability that the
mammoth exhibition can be made to
repay the cost in direct cash is very re-
mote. But the fakirs, the Chicago real
estate men, the hotels and many other
classes, will fatten on the crowds and
the country at large may be so much
benefited that the general govern
ment can afford to charge to profit and
loss the S. 100000 of the peoples
money it has invested in the great
show
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

THE secretary of the treasury who
lacks the confidence of the most intelli-
gent and conservative bankers of the
country must be considered somewhat
undesirable official. -NeU York Sun.
BECAUSE the last congress did not
repeal the silver purchase act the Cou,
rier- Journal calls it unique aggrega-
ton of incompetents." This is a truth
full description. If the president had
believed the new congress was any less
incompetent, perhaps he would have
called it together in extra session.-Mil-
,oaukee Sentinel.
Is it possible that the Cleveland
Gresham combine will give up the trade
arrangements with Cuba extorted from
Spain, in face of the facts that our trade
in eighteen months with that island
and Porto Rico has increased SIS, 1922
1898, of which S14 $40, 439 was exports?
Spite which would lead to such surren.
der Of a valuable market might be
stigmatzed as madness.-Indianapolis
Journal.
THE Kansas City Ministers Alliance
shocked some of the lay brethren into
absolute speechlessness by deciding to
have ball game at Washington park,
May 8. The Rev. j. M. Cromer, as he
looked around on the twenty. five breth-
rem at the meeting, pretended to detect
sallow faces and heavy eyes. He there
fore moved that the Minister'S Alliance
assemble at Washington park, Monday,
May s, for a game of baseball. The
motion was carried with enthusiasm. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
Note and Comment.
THE LOST CHORD,

THE LUST CHUKD,
The kingdom has come, and the glory
OF triumph has settled down;
And the march and battle and foray
Are crowned with the victor's crown.
The chiefs and the leaders have chosen
The prizes they fought to win;
They have parceled them out by the dozen
To those who had helped them in.
They have hurled from the throne pretend.
ers,
They have given the power to those
Who rose as the party's defenders
And battled the party's foes;
But say,
Where's Wayne MacVeagh?
-NeU York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

81 AM so TIRED is common exclama-
ton at this season. There is certain brac-
ing effect In cold air which is lost when the
weather grows warmer; and when nature is
renewing her youth, her admirers feel dull,
sluggish and tired. This condition is owing
mainly to the impure condition of the blood,
and its failure TO supply healthy tissue to the
various organs of the body. 1t is remark
able how susceptible the system is to the help
to be derived from good medicine at this
season. Possessing just those purifying,
bulding-up qualities which the body Graves,
Hoods Sarsaparilla soon overcomes that
tired feeling, restores the appetite, purifes
the blood, and, In short, imparts vigorous
health, Its thousands OF friends as with one
voice declare at makes the weak strong"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10
THE Vermont editors report their ar

THE Vermont editors report their ar
rival at Chicago and that they find the
exposition in a very unfinished and
chaotic condition Fully four-ffths of
the exhibits, the Free Press correspon-
dent telegraphs, are unpacked, and the
show will not be in proper order before
June |. The Vermont building is un-
finished, but will be dedicated TO day
and completed afterward.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

not known when the first match game will
be played.
PAT" is convinced that the hands, and
not the eyes, are made to catch balls with.
EDWARD CoLToN OF Irasburgh has entered
the school, and is an acquisition to the base
ball team.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

The Windham county democrats pro-
pose to leave the choice between candi-
dates for local offices at the disposal of
the general ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for example--to the voters of both par
ties in the community the official is to
serve This reasonable course the ar
gus condemns, and says the Windham
county members of the state and county
democratic committees, in assuming
the duties of federal officials and depart.
ments, have acted with more zeal than
discretion and with greater enthusiasm
than WISDOM" and have " undertaken
to extend the idea of civil service re-
form in manner that is as novel and
beautiful as 1t is childishly simple"
The organ Of the bourbon democracy
sees in the Windham county plan
deep-laid plot to give the republicans
the control of the offices. The Reformer
replies with force and dignity. The
Argus argument, it says, would be
good one for the car of Russia to make,
but has no place in America. 1T is
time to broaden out" the Reforn,er
concludes. The Argus has never
broadened" in that direction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

REV. WILLIAM LAWRENCE, dean OF the
Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge,
Mass, has been chosen bishop OF the diocese
Brooks.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

hrOadened'' in that direction.
THE German reichstag has rejected
Chancellor Caprivi's bill for increasing
the army, by the decisive vote of 210
against the bill to 1872 in its favor. The
bill embodied the military policy of the
young emperor, which has been deci-
sively defeated in the representative
branch of the German parliament. The
emperor Immediately dissolved the
reichstag and Germany will resound
with the contentious that will precede
the election of new assembly. Politi-
cal excitement runs high. The social
istic and every liberal faction in the
reichstag and on the outside is stoutly
opposed to the miltarism of the en-
peror, and the defeat of the army bill is
received by them with cheers and
demonstrations of wild delight. 1t is
believed that the new house to be
elected will have even larger majority
against the emperor than existed in the
body he has just dissolved. Had the
young emperor been willing to limit the
term of military service to two years,
in the opinion of some, the measure
would have passed. But the govern
ment refused to propose an amendment
liberals are many bold men and forceful
debaters. The German stump in the
campaign now begun will rival the
American in the midst of national cleo
ton.
GOVERNOR FLOWER of New York
has heard and carefully considered the
appeals for executive clemency made in
behalf of Carlyle W. Harris, convicted Of
numbering his wife and sentenced to
death for the crime. Harris was med.
cal student and his family moved in the
upper circles of society. He married
Helen Potts, his schoolgirl fancy, clan.
destinely. and when he wearied of heI
he gave her morphine pills to rid him
self of the incumbrauce. He was trieC
and convicted of murder. The court Of
appeals affirmed the action of the lower
court A motion for new trial was
made on the ground that new evidence
of the respondents innocence had beer
discovered, the evidence, it was alleged
showing that Miss Potts was a victim o.
the morphine habit, and died from the
effects of poison self. administered. A
new trial was refused on the grount
that the alleged new evidence, if true
could not have changed the result. Thc
defence took the matter to Governor
Flower, who appointed a competen
person to take the supplementary ties
timony. The result of the hearin!
tended to strengthen the theory of tn,
respondents guilt and to awaken
fresh feeling of horror for the crime o
which Miss Potts was the victim. |
destroyed the feeling of sympathy tn,
denial of new trial had created TO
Harris, and public opinion approves thu
ls.uA ~E 1.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
The Importance of the Fair.
Harper's Weekly

There is one melancholy thought ire
pressibly stealing over the beholder Of all
this magnificence-that it will be among
us IN its bodily existence only so short a
time. Like gorgeous dream of human
genius, it has arisen, and like a vision it
will pass away. 1t will live. however, as
glorious memory, and long be spoken Of
by this and coming generations as one of
greatest marvels of the closing nineteenth
century. Every one who has seen it will
treasure the remembrance of what he saw
as precious treasure which no one will
be willing to part with for anv price, while
those who now miss this great opportunity
will never cease to deplore the irreparable
loss caused by their gross neglect when
they hear others tell the wonderful story.
Even people of small means should not
recoil from the expense of journey which
In these hard times they may cons der an
extravagance, and they should not fail to
bestow upon their children the boon of
the enlightening and ennObling impress
sions which this grand spectacle con-
veys, and which. in all likelihood. will be
the only opportunity In their lives to
receive and enjoy.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01
Good Use of a Flag.
London Spectator.


In Havana there was one evening q
great row in the streets, and man was
killed. Every one ran away except an
EnglishmaD, who did not see why he
should run off, but stopped to do what he
could for the wounded man. The city was
then, as it often was. under martial law,
and In few minutes a party of soldiers
came up. walked the EDglishman off, he
was tried then and there by sort of
drum-head court-martlal, and condemned
to be shot the next morning at O'Clock.
de managed to get the news conveyed to
the English Consul, and at Z As o'clock
next morning the Consul appeared In his
coach and four, uniform, cooked hat and
sword. all his orders on. etc. The shoot.
ing party was drawn out, and the prisoner
was there. too. The Consul walked up to
the officer commanding the party and de-
manded the life of his countryman.
Very sorry" said the officer, ''but l
must carry out my ORDERS" and he showed
the warrant signed by the Governor.
well" said the Consul, Eat least you
VIII allow me to shake hands with him be-
fore he dies"
Il cannot refuse that" was the reply.
On which the Consul stepped up to the
Engiishman. put his hand into his breast
coat pocket. drew out a Union Jack, un-
folded 1t. threw it over the man and then
said:
There. now; fire If you dare!'
The lieutenant was staggered. The mat
ter was referred to the Governor. and the
Engishman was saved.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-10-01

sisted of few threadsof bogus gold in M
coffin of Pepin and tue seal of Constant
de CASTLE. &c
Upon each coffin there was an in scrin-
non upon plate OF lead or conner Thsy
were torn off. One of them, that OF Touis
AlV, was found again in 1920 in the sbon
OF braZier, who used it as a saucenan
oome OF the bones were thrown into the
cemetery, but the greater portion Of tb. M
TOT ce.hained III the collins. In three DAYS. the
9th. 7th and 9Th OF August. fiffy-one tom III
were destroyed. The news was announced
all over the country and the evan VAS
celebrated by the least of the 10th of Ang1
ust. For all that, it was considered It's
LUIS LUIS revenge. was not sufficient They
Iau broken the images of tie kings: now
'ney determined to attack their remains.
a crowd Of citizens of Saint Denis.
joined by several politicians Tom Paris
S,opped nrst before the tomb Oh Turenne'
Ihey Iound the coffin in q v,NIt placed
immediately under the marble nSrnment.
Ihry opened 1t. The features ofkhe hero
OF SaizDach were unchanged. he BODY
presented the appearance of ! dried
mummy. 1t was placed in the cas- of p
man named Host. He placed it in N nah
box and deposited it in the sacrisg and
ior eight months he exhibited it as acnri-
Gus relic and charged a fee of admision
Not being satisfied with his profits ifthe
exhibition line, he took out the teeth of
lhe great Turenne and sold them one Nv
one. When this outrage was discovehd
me body was sent to the ,ardn ds
Iiahtes, and two years afterward it wa
placed In the Temple of Mars, formerlY
tue church of the Invalides