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Evening star., 1894-11-03
Use of the Mails.

The Post Office Department is conducting
en- investigation into several patent medi-
cine companies that are. 1t is charged, u.s.
ing the mails for purposes Of fraud. large
number Of such companies have been pro-
hibited the use Of the mails for the transac-
ton Of their business.
Evening star., 1894-11-03
THE EVENING STAR.

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Evening star., 1894-11-03

That Fortune knocks once at least
at every mans door.
That Tuxedo has the best Of train
facilities.
That we offer you the best lots for
the least money.
That the Title has been examined
by the Prince Georges County
Abstract Company.
That Deed Is given absolutely free,
without any cost to purchaser.
That Taxes are paid In full until
lot Is paid for.
That Tuxedo In not backed up by
any syndicate, but by the largest
operator in suburban property In
this country.
Evening star., 1894-11-03

''The head of the slave trade In Africa
before the war was Tippo Tib. who fitted
out most Of the expeditions which left
Zanzibar for the interior to purchase Ivory.
In order to buy this product, 1t was neces-
sary to have slaves, and villages were there
fore raided to get them. Some Of the slaves
were sold for ivory and the others were
employed to carry Il back to the coast,
where they were disposed of among the
Arabs. In all the slave raids made the
villages were pillaged and burned and the
infrm were killed. ] believe that as far
as slave trading is concerned, there is an
end to II in the Congo Free States. L do
not consider II possible that the Arabs
will ever again be able TO resume their ne
farious traffic within the territory west OF
the Tanganika." Mr.. Mohun will remain in
Washington some months In order TO com
plete his report for the State Department
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The south's Voice on the Tariff.

Eli Perkins has just returned from a
trip to Georgia and South Carolina. He
gave an interview to Boston reporter,
and here is what he says: 80, they feel
very happy down there" said Eli.
''they've got tariff of 100 per cent. on
rice, tariff on sngar and tariff on
Egyptian cotton. L asked Judge Lee at
Athens, Ca, if they were really all free
traders in the South.
"'We are free traders as far as North
ern manufactures are concerned he
said.
"'But don't you think lowering the
tariff lowers wages?' asked.
"'Why, of course it does, and that is
what we SOutherners want. We want
low wages. We hire negroes. We don't
work ourselves. We want cheap labor.
want free trade, and English and Ger
man wages
's'But wouldn't that break up the
manufactures IN New England?' 1 asked.
"'Why, of course. Who says it would
MT? With free trade the Yankee work.
men would work for German wages or
starve. But what do we care about your
Northern wages or Northern woTkmen!
We don't care if your Yankee factories
do go to rum. We are tired of support
ship everything cheap from Germany
and England, and build up Charleston,
New Orleans. and our Southern seaport
towns
"'Well, 1 said, you Southerners have
a good argument for free trade, but what
do you think of a free trader in Massa-
chusettsn
GA free trader in Massachusetts, he
exclaimed in astonishment, why, there
isn't one, is there?
"'Why, yes-now what do you think
of him?'
"'Think of a free trader up among
your factories?' he repeated. Think of
free trader tearing down your own
wages and wrecking your own factories!
Why, if l lived in Massachusetts, I'd
throw such man in the river. The
workingmen and manufacturers ought to
whip him out of the Statel'
But you think it is all right for you
SCusherners to be free tradersp said.
"'Well, it is policy here in the South.
We all believe in it because we don't
have any manufactures, and if we keep
in power long enough, we'll finally wipe
out all tariff and protection. We are on
top now. We Southerners have made a
tariff for Massachusetts,. We are the Ma
ton now. New England has voted it.
self out and voted the South in. We
have got just what we fought for at Get
tysburg. The darky is disfranchised.
Twenty thousand white people make
Congressman in Georgia, while it takes
100000 white Yankees to do it in the
North. One Southerner has as much in
fuence as five Yankees. Why, 100000
of us in the Sonth control 100000 and
make laws to suit the South
1T made my Northern blood curdle,"
said Mr., Perkins, the train moved off.
"How wish, Russell, your free trade
candidate for Governor, could have
heard the talk" he said.
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NEWS AND NOTES.

Watch the Democratic orators try to
shift the responsibility for their coming
defeat. And Hill leads all the rest.
If there is one business in New York
city that has not been bled by Tammany,
will it please stand up and be counted.
If Senator Hill is elected Governor
of New York it will not be by President
Cleveland's vote, for he went back to
Washington without registering.
-AfteI Chairman Wilson has been re-
tired to private life by his constituents
he will enjoy the compliments which are
showered upon him by the grateful En-
glish trade journals more than he pos
sibly can now.
-"Who can tell what the new tariff
law may do in three years?" asks a
Democratic contemporary. Who, indeedG
We have had some taste of it, but he
would be rash who should undertake to
estimate its full capacity for mischief.
IF you pass this measure" said
Senator Hill in the Senate one day last
summer, "the States of New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut will be lost to
the Democratic party" What Senator
Hill wanted to get into the wake of his
own prophecy for it is hard to see, but
he Is there with both feet.-BerkshirC
Courier.
The Princess of Wales is an enthu
siastic tisherwOman and angles with a
$500 gold mounted rod. An information
al fishing match between Mr.. Cleveland
and the Princess might be arranged. Mr.
William London Wilson would be accept
able to both parties as the referee.
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OUR MONTPELIER LETTERS.
Our Regular Correspondence.
MONrPELGER, Oct. 20th, 1804.

MONIPELlEk, OCG. ZJJll, lOJ4.
have heard nothing but praise for
Bennington and the Soldiers Home and
its management, from all the fortunate
ones who visited there Friday. l was
pleased to be one of the number, not
only because it is so near my "native
land" but because it is one of the loyal
and patriotic institutions devoted to the
use of, and purpose for which, is one
of the most philanthrOpic and deserved
in the whole Union, the surviving sol
diers who risked their lives for their
country's cause.
The bill in the Legislature to divide
the city of Rutland, is daily causing in
creased interest, and both the town
and city are putting in extra work ION
| the outside" Gentlemen are here with
diagrams and maps explaining their side
of the question as earnestly as the man
at the door of the side show describing
the wonders beneath the canYas There
is no distinction as to who is ''buttOn-
hOled;' the 250 pound Senator is politely
asked for his attention as readily as the
| 130-pound Representative. 1t is an
nOunced that the Joint Special Commit
tee will 90 down to Rutland Thursday,
aud take testimony of interested parties.
| have heard it remarked that the whole
Legislature will be asked to go at the
expense of Rutland City, but it seems to
me that this would be cumbersome and
unnecessary.
Last Friday mornings session was
short-thirteen minutes. A large num-
ber going to Bennington, and the State
Prison Committee and guests going to
| Windsor to look over the State prison,
and many others going home, including
Speaker Stickney-Representative Lord
of Montpelier, occupying his chair until
| he returns-there were hardly enough
members for quorum in either branch.
And because of the fact that the clocks
at the State House had been set ahead
about half an hour, both Houses met and
adjourned, and the trains reached before
ten o'clockl This was clever piece of
bOyish roguishness of high order that
was never heard of in Legislature be-
| fore, and level-headed man. who does
MT talk much, innocently enquired /:
what can be done about it? Here we
be right at the head of Government and
where the laws are maden' The old
| saying, More truth than poetry" comes
in play here.
1t is now definitely decided that the
| election of State Superintendent of
Education will occur Wednesday at 2.3O
o'clock. NJ. S. Stone, the present incum-
bent, Prof. Davis of Bennington, and
Prof. Williams of SaxtOns River, are the
three most prominently spoken of for
the Office.
Monday afternoon several bills were
introduced of the usual order, and near
ly all the members were in their seats.
Several ladies with "cheery faces" were
guests in the House, and their presence
always lends an Intelligent charm" and
interest to the proceedings.
During my absence your especial cor
respondent, NJ" has been on the alert,
and will doubtless give you many points
that I've omitted.
THE HERMIT OF WooDFoRD.
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The report of Col. K. Haskins, Judge
L. NJ. Read and James K. Batohelder,
commissions appointed by Gov Fuller
to establish boundary line monuments
between Vermont and Massachusetts,
has been published. They give a full
statement, says the Brattleboro Refor-
mer, who seems posted, of the points in
volved, with the report of Prof Barbour
whom they employed to run the line,
and the evidence to show that the line
has never been right, because when Ha-
zen ran it he allowed too much for the
variation of the needle. 1t is not, how
ever, proposed TO change the jurisdiction
now, but there was disagreement as to
where the corner should be located at
South Vernon. The Vermont and New
Hampshire commissioners claimed from
the entries in Hazen's journal that it
should be six rods above the mouth of
Little Meadow brook, and the Massachu-
setts commissioners that it should be 1866
feet northerly of that at "Belden's Cor
ner," where a stone post once stood and
was found after much digging in the
sand. An agreement was finally reached,
at meeting last June, but when it came
to be reduced to writing afterwards, the
Massachusetts, commissioners repudiated
it, insisting that a point between Rowe
and Nottingham which has been agreed
upon from which to project line easter
ly and westerly should be carried North.
So the matter is blocked, while the New
Hampshire commissioners get instruc-
tiOns from their legislature and Massa-
chusetts is given chance to recede.
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that we are no poorer because we are
sending gold to Europe to pay for what
we buy. Perhaps not; but considering
the fact that our piebald currency has
only little more than per cent. of gold
under it as basis, and that the gold re-
serve is many millions below what in
more prosperous times was regarded as
a danger line, new demands upon the
Treasury for gold for shipment at time
when gold should be coming in, can not
be regarded without some uneasiness.
The picayune attempt to gather in a few
more gold coins by paying out Colum-
bian half-dollars for them, shows that
the Treasury authorities do not wholly
fail to appreciate the situation, though
they are weak in their expedients for
meeting it.
1t is worth noticing in this connection
that the natural result of the free trade
policy is to stimulate gold exports. Just
so far as that policy is a success, our i'm
ports will be increased. The avowed
purpose of that policy is to throw down
the barriers which have restricted i'm
ports of foreign merchandise. The
wants of the American people represent
a certain annual total of commodities.
We may buy those commodities at home
or abroad. If we follow the policy of
the free traders we shall buy as large
part of them as possible abroad. That
means that we must send out money to
pay for them. We are getting back to
the halcyon conditions which prevailed
under the Walker tariff, on which our
free trade friends vaunt themselves.
Under that tariff, the balance of trade
ran steadily against us. We sent out
hundreds of millions of gold to make
good the difference. After this process
had continued long enough, we found
the National Government borrowing
money with difficulty, and paying 10 or
Il per cent. interest for it.
Having restored to power the party
whose policy produced these results be-
fore, there is no reason why we should
be amazed to find ourselves headed the
same way again. We can keep on in
that way if we like it; or we can put the
control of the Government into different
hands.
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The Sixteenth of August,

Among the bills now pending in the
Legislature, is one naming the 10th of
August, with other dates, as a legal holi-
day in Vermont. The bill ought to pass.
Our readers will recall that Massachu-
setts has already acted upon the date of
the Lexington battle and Concord fight,
and why not our State also? The con-
troversy over the Bay State date will not
occur in Vermont over the Sixteenth.
because there is but one issue, and that
is settled. The Battle of Bennington,
as the turning point in the Revolution
has been acknowledged, and the Monu-
ment stands as its memorial for all time.
The day should be given up to patriotic
exercises, in the future as in the past,
and the legal sanction should be given,
so as to make the observance one by the
whole people represented in the General
Assembly.
We look to see the Bloomington Bat
tie Day. added to the list of legal holi-
days of the Green Mountain Common
wealth.
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"From Our Special Correspond
ent."
MONTPELIER, Oct. Goth, 1894.

MONTPELIER, Oct. 29th, 1894.
To a locker on the Capitol bore a
strong resemblance Friday to Gold
smiths deserted village, and a visit to
the State House at noon brought to my
mind the words of the poet:
Il feel like one who treads alone, some banquet
hall deserted;
Whose lights are fed, whose garlanGs dead, and
all but me departed"
The desire on the part of the members
on that day to get away appeared to be
general, and all that was needed was for
one to go, and the rest were ready to
follow. The spirit was willing; the flesh
was weak.
The stampede may be said to have be-
gun when party of nearly one hundred
Senators and Representatives packed
their grips for your fair land of Molly
Stark, whittier they wended their way
for the purpose of investigating the
Soldiers Home and to partake of the
hOspitalities of Col. Coffey, the genial
superintendent of the institution.
With their departure it was at once ap-
parent that there would be no business
transacted that day, and when some I'M
wary son of the commonwealth remark
ed that 'He'd be darned if he was goin'
to stay" the sentiment seemed to be
general rallying cry for the Legislative
ranks to leave.
AS if in keeping with the general state
of demoralzation the staid old clock
that has so long done duty in
the Representative Hail. appeared to be
anxious to ''get off, and through some
unaccountable way got ahead nearly an
hour, so that the residents of ''sleepy
hollow who are accustomed to begin
their morning devotions at 915 o'clock,
were startled at that hour by seeing a
general bolt from the doors of the Capt.
tol, and in response to the motion made
by the gentleman from Richford that
the House do now adjourn" it was so
ordered by an almost unanimous vote.
There were few conscientious members
who thought that their constituentswould
not like the idea of adiourning so early
in the day, but they quickly pulled into
the traces, and when the 10 a. m. train
had gone members of the Legislature
were like angels visits,-'few and far be-
tween.'
From all that can learn the members
who went to "the land of Molly Stark
were we'll pleased with their trip. Some
who had never been there before were
surprised, not only with the appearance
of the Home, but with the air of pros
perity that appeared to prevail in your
village. But few of the party returned
until o-day, but those that came Satur-
day appeared to be well satisfied with
their visit.
Your correspondent would have liked
very much to have been one of the party,
but circumstances cannot always be con-
trolled. However, as l noticed that your
regular and volunteer correspondent
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-10-30

During the recent excavations unC Cr
the court house at st. JOhnsbury, wors-
men unearthed parts of coffin and bon )
of human skeleton.
Fred G. Fleetwood, of Morrisville, who
recently passed the highest in the Stare
examinations for admission to the ba.,
will be Congressman Powers's private
secretary at the next session of Congress.
B. Cannon, Jr., of Bellows Falls, assis
tant adjutant general under Department.
Commander Hugh Henry, will be call
didate for the office of Department Con-
mander of the Vermont G. A. X. at the
Brattleboro encampment in January.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Fish and Game League will be held az
Montpelier November 10Th. A banquet
will follow at the Pavilion hotel.
The circulation of the Rutland free
library has increased $50 volumes within
the past month. For the two previous
months the circulation had increased
over that of the corresponding period of
last year 200 volumes.
The Barre Congregational church has
extended a call to Rev. James l.. Hill. ID.
D. of Salem Mass, offering salary of
81, 800. He will probably accept.
Parties in Brooklyn, N. Y, are search
ing for Sarah E. Cooper or her heirs. She
is supposed to have been resident of
Royalton about the year 1868. She or
her heirs can be benefited by sending
their addresses to p. o. box, No. Station
w, Brooklyn, N. Y. Any person know
ing the families will confer a favor by
sending their addresses.
Probably the Oldest locomotive engi-
neer in service in Vermontis S. j. Wilson,
Lyndon's town representative. Born in
July, 1881, he left his New Hampshire
home at IS years old and went into train
service on the Vermont Central. The
next year, 1850, A years ago, he served
on the Passumpsic road as fireman. After
two years as fireman he secured an en-
CINE and has been in constant service on
an engine ever since. During A years as
an engineer, Mr.. Wilson has never in
jured passenger and has never been
mixed up in railroad catastrophe.
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For the first time in his life a sort of
holy terror has seized upon David B..
Hill, One would not suspect him of be-
ing troubled with religious thoughts,
but he has discovered, or thinks he has,
a society in existence which is intoerant
of the religion of others, and he thinks
the Republican party is giving it encour-
agement. Mr.. Hill may have sources of
information of which we know nothing;
but if the Republican party is encour-
aging the A. p A., it is for the same
reason that Hill used to encourage the
Prohibitionists. The latter came chiefly
out of the Republican party. but the
A. p. AS are almost exclusively Protest
ant Democrats. This is because the Re-
publican party is good enough party
for any American citizen, Protestant or
Catholic, while among Protestant Demo-
Gratis, made up largely of imported anti
Catholics, there is intense bigotry and
Bectartan hatred.-Granville Sentinel.
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1 saw Senator Proctor of Vermont,
says Gable" in the New York Press,
on the street last week. He was on his
way to Europe, where he will stay until
it is time for him to 90 back to Washing
ton again. He likes the idea of Septem-
ber elections because it gives plenty of
time for rest before Congress begins.
But he says it was not an election that
they had up there this year, simply a
walkover. And that reminded him of a
story. Several years ago the Vermont
Democrats got up courage enough to
think of getting up mass meeting. So
they sent very formal letter to George
NJ. Stearns, the eminent Massachusetts
Democrat, inviting him to come up and
address them. Mr. Stearns received the
letter, and his eyes twinkled as he replied:
"Tell the Vermont Democrats that if
they will all get together and come down
and meet in my back yard 1 will talk to
them" The mass meeting was given
up,
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FOR ONLY

Gov. Mckinley, in his triumphal tour
of the Empire state last week, was sub
ject to some Interruptions and questions
One was a suggestion that if the mills
did not run their employees could go to
farming. At an enthusiastic reception
in Geneva, among other things, he said ::
'Some people want our idle men to go
to raising wheat, but take it that what
the farmers of this country want is not
more wheat reapers but more wheat eat
ers. Great Cheers. The great slogan
of the Democratic party is the open mar
kets of the world, but the fact is that
their foreign market is great free trade
shadow dance. When you get to it, there
is nothing in it,"
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Gold Going out,

There is no mystery about the resump-
ton of gold exports, says the Boston
Journal. 1t is not necessary, as the
Treasury officials appear to think, to at
tribute it to some occult speculative
movement. Gold is being shipped
abroad simply because the transaction
is profitable one at the prevailing rates
of exchange. But what is it that makes
gold exports profitable at a time when
the normal course of the precious metal
would be in the contrary direction?
Here again there is no mystery. 1t Is
simply that we are exporting less mer-
chandlse than we are importing.
Tariff reform organs blandly assure US
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When Others Fall,

Hoods Sarsaparilla builds up the
shattered system by giving vigorous ac-
tion to the digestive organs, creating an
appetite and purifying the blood 1t is
prepared by modern methods, possesses
the greatest curative powers, and has the
most wonderful record of actual cures of
any medicine in existence. Take only
HOOd'S
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STATE NEWS.

Hoods pills are purely vegetable, and
do not purge, pain or grippe. 25c.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-25

Herbert Spencer. while travelling =
England pl-lcad upon every man -
t1e cars who smoked or who even at
tempted % smoke OFT Of the windows
Is It dIsaEreea5Ie 90 vC-:" they would
ask Not &c all. 80 he would reply
but II i against the law. and the law
Is . proper one Eou have no right 20
break II, and Won shall not do II, and Il
YOU do not desist VIII call the guard -
With porter, cabby or steamboat cap
tain he was ever ready 20 DO battle IN
the cause OF justice, but he had no pa
rierce with chronic fault finding 4
Csed 70 visit Carlyle, " h. said, but he
has got - cross and misanchrOpic and
raves 50 constantly about the HORRIBLE
state u things that I couldn't stand IT
do not want % argue with him, and l
won't listen 20 his nonsense, and 20 !
say away. San Francisco Arc1caC-