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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19

NEW YORK's constitutional conven-
ton is making the matter of preserving
her forests the subject of its attention.
An amendment has been adopted with
out dissenting vote to the effect that
the lands Of the state now owned or
hereafter acquired shall be forever
kept as wild forest lands. They shall
not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be
taken by any corporation, public or
private, nor shall the timber thereon
be sold, removed or destroyed" The
Empire State is having a wise regard
for the preservation of the Adirondack
Mountains, in which are the sources of
the streams that enrich the low lands,
and whose glories of lake and forest
contribute yearly to the health and
pleasure of thousands of invaids and
people seeking rest and recreation. In
the Adirondacks, New York has prop
erty of such priceless value that it can
not be estimated by any such sordid
standard as the worth of some millions
of feet of timber or cords of wood.
Heretofore by legislation, now behind
the ramparts of the constitution, the
state of New York seeks to protect her
forests. Vermont, we regret to say,
has taken no step to preserve the for
ests that clothe her hillsides and crown
her mountains. In one important par.
ticular, New York has an advantage in
this respect over this state-she is the
owner of large tracts of forest lands
but she is adding by purchase to her
arboreal possessions. In this way Yer
mont may make beginning in the
work of preserving her magnificent
forests, of rescuing them from the muir
derous destruction of certain class of
lumbermen who with axe and fire are
laying waste some of the fairest regions
of the state. The solicitude of New
York for her forest regions, as exhib.
tied in her efforts TO guard them with
the egis of her constitution, is com
mended to the attention of the people
of Vermont, upon whom this matter OF
forest preservation, in its various as.
poets, has been frequently urged.
FIVE THOUSAND voters who cas-
their ballots in Maine on election day
had no part in the result of the voting
simply because of some technical de
feet in marking their ballots. Chairman
Manley is authority for the statement
that those who lost their votes in thi
way were not wholly the ignoran
class, but embraced such men as ex
United States Senator James W. Brad
bury and Ex-Governor Joseph H. Viii
liams. A law that DISTINGUISHES lega
voters is justly the subject of criticism
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19
The Waterbury Fair.
Tenth Annual Gathering of the Wnoosld
valley Agricultural Association - The
Most Successful in its Uistory-Fine
Weather and Large Attendance.

For the first time in the ten-years' exist
ence of the Winooski Valley Agricultural
Association, the fair held last week had
three successive days of fine weather. This
materially swelled the gate receipts and
caused the officers of the association to
wear a complacent smile. During the past
summer the grounds have been materially
improved A new covered grand stand has
been erected, new horse-sheds built, and to-
day the association owns az well equipped
grounds as can be found in any town in
In the state outside Burlington, Rutland
and White River Junction.
The fair opened last week Tuesday with
an unusually good attendance for the first
day. The green race and iour-year-od race
came off in the afternoon. The former was
won by Ella D." owned by Eddie McGill
of Montpelier, and the latter by " Florence
b. j. W. Fountain of Winooski owner
Following is the official score:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19

g. K. Moody, the president of the asso-
citation, M. o. Evans, the vice-president,
e. q. Hooker the secretary, and G. n.
Arms the treasurer, all had their hands
direction, the work was carried on without
accident or delay, and the success of the
fair is due in no small measure to their un-
firing labors. The excellent music fur
nished by the Richmond Cornet Band is
worthy of special mention 1t is an organ
ization Of which Richmond is justly proud
and 1t deserves the rank 1t has taken among
the best bands of the state.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19

The exhibits of cattle, sheep and swine
were good and came in for goodly share of
attention. No poultry was exhibited.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19
SWINE.

w. E. Guptil of Waterbury showed a
White Chester SOW and pigs and Poland
China boar. n. H. Somerville of Duxbury
had on exhibition thoroughbred China
SOW, and w. II. Chase of Moretown White
Chester boar. On all these, premiums were
awarded.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19

On Thursday forenoon there was an ex-
hibition of gentlemen's single and double
drivers on the track. The races that after
noon were in the 800 and 2:35 classes.
which were both won in three straight heats.
The score follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19

The exhibitions in this department
showed that the farmers of Waterbury and
vicinity are not intending to throw over
board the sheep industry, even under a
tariff bill. w. E. Guptil and ID. T. Harvey
of Waterbury each had pens of handsome
grade Cotswolds. George McGrath of Dux-
bury showed long-wooled sheep; Frank
Ward of Middlesex, Shropshires H. E.
Haseltine of Moretown, grade Shropshires
ristown also had fine lot of Shropshires
on exhibition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19

rwo-THIRrY-FIvR GLASS.
Patchy, CHI. m, J. X, Lynde Wilamstown... |
Ella ID. br. M, Eddie McGill, Montpelier .... 2 3
Katie W" b; m, q. T.. Moody, Waterbury 80. 3 8
CONDUCTOR, BIS, CIV .Richardson, burlington.
IlmA 2 D IA 1.Qh
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

terrain church. Later he was pastor of
another church, and during years va
cation travelled in eastern Europe, Egypt
and Palestine, on which he wrote q
book.
In 1888 he became pastor Of the
Campbell Park Presbyterian church and
soon became noted for bold and elo-
quent preaching against the popular
sins of the day. In 1890 he determined
to investigate the evils of gambling, for
which it was alleged that Chicago was
the worst place in America, and with
an efficient guide he visited the principal
dives in the city. Meanwhile the so
called Civic federation was formed to
war against the city's worst evils, and
Mr.. Clark was made chairman of the
subcommittee on gambling. he laid his
plans like general, employed four Ca
pable lawyers, neither Of whom knew
the others were employed, collected am
pie evidence with. the aid Of detectives,
and then a general raid was made. It
was a brilliant success, and 'card
sharps'' fed the city by scores. He
declares that this is only a beginning.
1.-THE only thing to be done now" he
says, sis to keep close watch and
notify the police if they grow careless,
and then to take extreme measures it
they do not act on the, warning"
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
THE PARKHURsT OF CHICAGO.

Career of Rev. w. G. Clarke, Who Is Dis
tinguished by That Title.
Rev.. William G. Clarke, pastor of
the Campbell Park Presbyterian church
in that city, has rather suddenly become
famous enough to be called "the Park
hurst Of Chicago" He dashed upon the
gamblers and their allies without warn
ing, yet with we'll matured plans and
good legal backing, and, according to
his enthusiastic supporters, has the evil
doors on the run.
Mr.. Clarke was born April 10, 1861
Fort Sumter day-in Adrian, Mich.
His parents subsequently removed to
New York city and thence to Chicago,
where he joined the Presbyterian church
at the age of II. After brief term at
the Northwestern university and the
Chicago Theological seminary he went
to Princeton and was graduated at 20,
being the youngest student to finish the
prescribed course in social economy and
political science. He then travelled a
year, chiefly in central Europe, and
took the pulpit of the Waukegan Presby:
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

The long distance electric railway is
only matter of a little time. When
one considers that it has taken 200 years
to bring the steam engine to it's present
state of perfection, the progress made
by the electrical engine in Is years is
scarcely less than marvellous. The lines
Of electric railway are stretching out
longer and longer. At first they did
duty only as connecting links between
city and it's suburbs, then between ad.
jacent towns, and finally they are found
to be available where steam has hitherto
been believed to be the only propelling
power possible. An electric railway
will soon be in operation from New
York to Philadelphia A company has
been incorporated at Columbus, O.,
with the view of building completely
equipped electric road from Pittsburg
to Chicago. This is the longest distance
road of this kind that has as yet been
projected. Its great advantage will be
that it will put out branch roads at
small expense connecting with all the
towns along the line
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

O1' DOoo1A@> NAA0A'AA' II m usually
takes man clear out of the church at
the first step, and so there is no trial for
heresy. It is worth noting that DR..
Clark is much the same sort Of man
that Hicks was-a man of austere NOR
ais and almost ascetic life-and that the
besetting sin OF such men is apt to be
spiritual pride and excessive confidence
in their own judgment.
DR.. Clark is sc years old and a native
Of North Carolina, was educated at the
Friends school at Providence and at
Haverford college, near Philadelphia,
the largest Quaker college in the world.
He was graduated in medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania, but in 1865
gave up the practice to take the chair
of Greek and Latin at Earlham. He be-
came one of the most prominent preach
ers among the Friends in the United
States and in 1869 travelled abroad
and studied the oriental languages. He
was for time editor of The Gospel Ex-
positor and was practically the founder
Of the theological school at Earlham, Of
which he has since been the head. Last
summer he astonished his friends and
all the Quakers by asking for and re-
ceiving the rite of baptism at Damas-
Gus, 0.
When interviewed by the elders, DR..
Clark said he had long believed that
George Fox was in error on that point
and felt it his duty to be baptized. The
elders replied that baptism by the Holy
Ghost, as taught by George Fox, was
the only and true way in which bless
ing could be bestowed by heaven, and
that DR.. Clark had seriously offended.
He was given permission to renounce
his conduct and to make amends by
true repentance but the professor re-
fused. Accordingly he was relieved Vt
his pulpit work and the ban placed over
him until his trial.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
WHY Crime Flourishes In Cities.

The Investigations Of the Lexow COM
mittee in New York will show why
crime and immortality thrive and fatten
most vigorously in the largest cities.
With all it's costly and numerous police
officers city ought to be far more NOR
al and safer than country neighbor-
hoods, where there are no guardians OF
the law at all. There are enough police
men in every large city to make it as
moral and peaceful as the New Jerusa-
lem. Yet the fact remains that our
most successful swindlers and most des-
perate and depraved criminals COLOMBO
and are developed in the great city.
The Lexow searchlight in New York
reveals the fact that the criminals and
policemen there have been in league for
the past 80 years. Crime is fostered and
flourishes rampant because it pays the
police to encourage it and for no other
reason. They do encourage it. The
blackmail they levy on counterfeiters
and keepers of disorderly houses is d.
rect bid to bad characters everywhere
to come and quarter themselves in the
city. Anywhere else they would be I'M
safe. In the great city they are protect
ed by the police. Crime the most infa-
NOUS is made lawful.
A writer in the New York Press has
been calculating the amount crime has
paid to policemen in that city in the
past 80 years. He figures out that it is
not less than 800, 100000. There is a
regular tariff enacted from each unlaw-
full enterprise in each neighborhood'
The system is as fixed as that OF the
civil service. Many of the policemen Of
New York city are anxious to retire.
No wonder: They cannot exact blood
money from thieves, reprobates and
poor market people SO freely any more,
and their places do not pay them. Ev-
cry city in the Union ought to institute
exactly such an investigation as that
now carried on by. the Lexow commit
tee. Some things would then be uncov-
cred that would astonish respectable
people.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
BEWARE OF WILLIS !
He Should Not Be Placed ir
the Supreme Court Of
Minnesota.
Obscure and Cheap Politicians
Are Dangerous in High
Places.
JOHN W. WILLIS IS NOT COMPETENT.

The supreme court of Minnesota is
second to no court in the United States.
Upon it have sat many Of the most dis
tinguished jurists Of the Northwest.
And it is Of more than passing import
ance to the people Of the state that the
high standard of this court be main.
tanned for all time to come. This court
is practically the last resort Of litigants,
and to place upon the supreme bench a
man who trims his judicial rulings tc
fit the demands Of party expediency On
personal prejudice is toimperil the most
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

sacred interests Of humanity. A man
who has no higher conception of the
judicial function than to prostitute his
high place to the uses of political
mountebanks would be more dangerous
on the supreme bench than he would be
as governor of the state, for in many
possible instances tho supreme court may
set aside the acts of the chief executive.
Such q man is john w. Willis, the
Populist candidate for associate justice
of the supreme court. Finding himself
without q practice in the fall of 1892,
Mr.. Willis allied himself with the
most Objectionable political element Of
Ramsey county, and through it's aid &c.
cured nomination for judge Of the
district court. By the same means
which encompassed his nomination, he
was elected. He has served his mas
ters we'll, for upon the first occasion in
which his services were demanded he
laid his honor. his integrity and his
good name upon the altar Of the gang,
and rendered decision which has made
him the laughing stock of the state. It
was to the effect that man might
come into court as witness, swear that
he had not voted, but that he wanted
to vote, and If he had, he would have
voted for q certain candidate, and have
this statement checked up as a vote for
such candidate.
This decision resulted in the seating
Of q man who was defeated at the polls,
and Judge Willis became still more pop
ular with q certain class of voters. It
is q matter of record that Judge VII.
lis decisions have been overruled in
the supreme court in nearly every case
where an appeal has been taken He
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
October Ideas.

The editor Of Scribner's Magazine
finds two comparatively new notions
fitting about the October landscape.
One is the game Of golf, which some
people say is properly pronounced
'goff,'' though just why it is not easy
to understand. Golf has become SO pop
ular among outdoor people that it has
taken the place of tennis. It is so fasci-
mating that even the lovers of trotters
and racers forget to talk horse and grow
instead enthusiastic over the glories OF
golf Of the new favorite the editor
says, cit commends itself as serious
sport, fit to engage the we'll preserved
but not too boisterous energies Of the
middle aged, suitable for stout men to
apply to the correction Of obese tenden-
cies, and yet not too violent for the
spare frames Of the thin. "
The other October idea is the bicycle,
particularly its victorious advance
among women. The most striking point
about the bicycle he discovers to be that
it is going to change the outdoor COS
tune among women. He writes:
As sure as taxes, or the destruction Of tho
peach crop, or anything that is inevitable, it is
about to emancipate that suffering creation
from the dominion Of skirts. No woman CT
sense will ever discard skirts altogether. They
are far too seemly and becoming for that. But
woman has marked the bicycle for her own
and no woman can ride OH a bicycle without
discovering that skirts have their place and
their uses, and that there arc times and situa-
tiions where they are in the way: Tho bahit
of sea bathing has cone much to break down
the tyranny Of women clothes. Bicycles will
do the rest Already the divided skirt IS psed
by women on horseback without exciting tho
beholder's dismay, but that is not a fashion
that gives assurance Of extensive growth. But
that the woman who rides bicycles will wear
lznickerbockers is a bit Of concluded destiny;
that once having found them acceptable for
one form of exercise she may find them con.
venient for divers others is very possible, and
yet not appalling, since knickerbockers do not
look ill. That she will dance in them or dine
in them is not likely enough to give any one
valid grounds for anxiety; but, once she has
learned how, she will wear them without COM
junction on fit occasions where skirts too
much restrain as when she plays golf.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

If any one wants to know why prices
on all farm products are low, fearfully
low, let him look over the list of silent
factories, dead furnaces and empty
shops. These are the reasons, more
ELOQUENT and more convincing than all
the oral and written testimony that has
ever been produced. And this the full
fillment Of Republican prophecy, liter
Ally and absolutely
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

commonly cSu-
ed, have had 10
little trouble
with heresy that
the case Of DR..
Dougan Clark OF
Earlham college,
Richmond, Ind,
excites special
attention. The
principles of the
Friends are SO
clearly defined
and SO easily un-
derstood that any
danartura from
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

The South sighed and longed for the
Democratic tariff bill. but since its pas.
cage cotton has sold at the lowest price
known in the history Of that staple. 1t
has fallen below Scents pound at New
Orleans
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
StrenGth of Jack Frost.

No receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the bursting
power Of freezing water. Twenty pound
steel shells have been burst asunder as
though made Of pottery.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

Court consists Of Chief Justice and four Associate Justices
will elected
the Supreme Court Of the State Of
enclosed black
referred to Associate Justice L. W.
residence St. Cloud for
West believe taking members
influence should
for a election
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
DR.. CLARK WAS BAPTIZED.

Placed Under the Ban of tho Quaker
Church In Consequence.
Since the days Of Elias Hicks che
Quakers. as the Society Of Friends are
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

A japanese writer. Kanzo Uchimura,
says that, "sympathetio neutrality" is
all Japan asks from the other nations
while she is engaged in thrashing China
That is just what she is getting from
America anyhow.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
rroops Pourinr Into Tein Tsin.

LONDON, Oct. 20.-A dispatch from
Tein Tsin states that troops are pouring
into that city. General Chesney OF the
British army has received permission
to accompany the Chinese army in the
field.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

An editorial in the London Times
says, 1--WE are customers of the United
States for exactly half Of its domestic
products.''
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

You cannot get into mischief or trou-
BILE while you are at work.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

Everybody knows what other people
ought to do &
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
Biermann Was a Good State Auditor
= For Lumber Companies.

But Bob Dunn and Governor
Nelson Brought the Lumber
Companies to Their Knees,
and They Have Paid the
State Thousands Of Dollars,
and Will Pay Thousands
More How Biermann Dis
posed Of Standing Pine.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26

July, 1893. In explaining his connection
with the matter, Mr.. Biermann's defense
was simply that he had right, under the
law, to do what he had done.
Trial Disclosed Some Queer Thinga
On the trial of the case it appeared that
Mr. Biermann had stated in the permit is
sued that there were 700,000feet of timber,
whereas, in fact, there were $500, 900; and
while Mr.. Biermann had sold the timber ON
section SO on January Goth, 1892, at pri-
'Vate Sale, yet when he made out the per.
NIT, he dated 1t back to December 9TH.
1891. This was because there had been .
Subtle sale upon that date, and one who
did not look into the matter too carefully
would not discover the fact of the private
sale.
Mr.. Biermann stated that the timber
had been properly estimated and appraised;
the court found that no estimate or ap
praisal had ever been made.
The court, after hearing the case. cam
.elled the permit, thereby giving back to
tha state s OOO, 600 feet of timber. and found
that the timber which had been cut was
,s,orth a per thousand, although Mr.
p;armann had sold it for q. judgment
5% ,,ns piyen in favor of the state anu the
amount paid over to the state as a resu''
\ 81 this suit, was 80, SO2 AZ. .~..~
r,etsrmined to Run Down Pine Lan'
Frauds. -
n. 1 result Of the investigation insti
Il %rted bv M. Dunn, the legislature 6efor
- adjournment appointed general paw
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1894-02-17
STATE OF LOUISIANA,

fifth Judicial District Court,
Parish of Nermilion-No. .2Al.
Succession 'of Joseph Bopllaris.
Application o.lHomer Decuir, to be
discbargedas administrators Of
said succession.
Notice is. hereby given to all par
ties interested in said succession or
having any. opposition to make to
the application Of Homer EDeenir to
lie discharged as administrators Of
the aforesaid Succession and alsp
that his bond be Cancelled TO file the
same in writing in the off e of the
clerk of court within ten days from
the date hereof.
Given under my official signature
and seal Of court this nth Gay OF
February, 1894.
ALCTDE LEBLANC,
CleIk of Court.