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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Plainfleld Items.

Through a collision with their team last
week, Mrs. Charles Perry and child and
Mr.. Perry's mother came near suffering
serious accident. The car riage was con-
siderably damaged, but the occupants were
not thrown out.
Mrs Mertie (Slayton) Danforth of Barre
was at Mrs. Nathaniel Austin's last week.
- DR. Will Lazelle and wife go away
this week to give the doctor an opportunity
to pursue his medical studies along special
lines. - K. III. Kiser is at home, i'll with
fever, from his place at the White Noun.
tains - A hired man of ID light Hollis
ter has been severely, if not fatally, injured
by an attack from a bull. - Misses
Alice Martin and Mary Lupien commence
teaching AZ South Barre this week. -
Will Nye has closed out his business in
Waltham, Mass, and is with his mother,
Mrs. Charles Lombard, who was sick last
week, but il now gaining. - A. N.
Greeley, with wife and Miss Gertrude, left
last Monday for a trip through Lamoille
county. DR.. Townsend of Bridport
has been in town this week to see his
brother Fred, who is sick with typhoid fe-
yer. - Mrs. John Henderson has gone
to Mooers, n. Y, on visit. - Mrs. Con-
Parks Is sick. - Isaac Austin has moved
into his new house. Bert Townsend
returned last Thursday from his trip to
Portland. - Rev. Mr.. Farrow's little
boy Harold was run over last week Monday
and received severe cut on the head, but
is now doing finely, - j. Bartlett is
sick with inflammation OF the bowels.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

might be able to keep up, with his fam
lily, respectable social appearance.
Now he talks of advancing $4,000 as
nonchalantly as he would then have
asked friend to take beer with him.
Dan isn't the only one of the crowd
who has got rich. Mr.. Cleveland has
become a multi. Northumberland num-
Der OF others, then poor, are now
wealthy" -
IN Kentucky, the democratic state
committee, in it's desperation, has pub
lished an address appealing to the
voters to save the state from the
perils of negro domination, which, it is
alleged, would be the consequences of
republican ascendency in the state.
The white population Of Kentucky is
about one million six hundred thou
sand; the colored, about one quarter of
million. The appeal of the local
democracy seems to be about as reason
able as the VOLTS tabled indictment
of the lamb at the brook. The most
heated Imagination could hardly con-
ceive, under the circumstances, any
danger accruing to the existing social
status from republican victory at the
polls. The election of Governor Hardin
in Kentucky would have no direct
effect upon the coinage question, but it
would be important as showing the
drift of opinion in typical democratic
community upon that question. But
the state democracy, with greater sense
and reason, could appeal to democrats
in q state election to ignore the cur
rency question, which is national
rather than state issue, rather than al
low the state, in the year preceding a
national election, to pass into the hands
of the enemy. The moral effect of
democratic defeat in the state would be
injurious to the party in the nation.
There would be some sense in appeal
ing to democrats to maintain the party
prestige, but there is neither rhyme
nor reason in this foolish and cowardly
appeal to race prejudice. Whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad, and the gods seem to have made
Kentucky democrats exceedingly mad
in this year of grace.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

THE Herald and Ne,os emerged last
week from a prolonged state of coma
long enough to peep incoherently few
syllables about defunct issue that,
after it was dead and buried, was I'M
Willingly championed by the comatose
contemporary. -
THE man who has assumed supreme
judicial power at Washington, Comp
troller Bowker of the treasury depart
ment, has "handed down" his decision
in the sugar bounty case recently argued
before him. He maintains his right to
refuse payments of the sugar bounties,
and argues that while it is his duty to
obey the laws-surprising condescen-
sion-the constitution is the supreme
law, and when statute is in apparent
conflict with the constitution it is his
duty to determine whether the statute
is the law. The comptroller refers the
whole matter to the court of claims
for adjudication.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Habitual Criminals,

In sentencing, recently, to the longest
term of imprisonment the law allows, a
man who had killed his brother and
tried to kill his wife, Recorder Golf, of
New York city, pronounced the re-
spondent an "unmitigated beast" and
an "habitual criminal" one upon whom
all the agencies of reform had been
lost, who was utterly incorrigible, and
who should be permanently restrained
of his liberties. Every community has
these incorrigibles. Condemned to
prison for theft, or burglary, or arson,
or some other trespass upon the laws,
they are no sooner released from con-
Anement than they repeat their old
offenses or plunge into some new form
of crime. They become criminals by
habit.
At the meeting of the American
Social Science Association in Saratoga,
last week, Professor Francis Wayland,
of the Yale law school, in an address
on jurisprudence, called attention to
the fact that 100000 habitual criminals
are at large in the United States.
These have been found to be guilty of
train robbery, train wrecking, highway
robbery, etc. If the professor is right,
his statement discloses an appalling
and very discouraging state of things.
In number, his vast array of criminals
is somewhat larger than one and half
times the entire population of New
York city. 1t is somewhat less than
the population of Ohio or of Illinois,
by the census of 1890. 1t is equal to
the entire population of the United
States at the time they achieved their
independence. If 30 vast an army of
unreformed and unreformable Grim
inals is at large in the country, all of
whom, it is presumable, have been in
mates of prisons and reformatory insti-
buttons, the question is pertinent one,
Do those institutions, in any reason.
able degree, accomplish their purpose
as agencies of reform as well as places
of punishment? The fact disclosed by
Professor Wayland is also of very great
interest in it's relation to the safety and
welfare of the rest of the community.
The speaker proposed the perpetual
Imprisonment of these incorrigibes.
The outbreaks of lynching the press is
repeatedly recording, he regards as
perfectly natural and the result of the
Indifference of public opinion to this
dangerous element.
Possibly the professor is mistaken in
his estimate. He does not give the ba-
sis of his calculations, but after all rea-
sonable allowance has been made, it
must be clear to any observer of his
own environment, and any reader of
the columns of the daily press, that there
is a dangerously close approximation to
solemn fact in the professors figures.
If the country's institutions for punish
ing and reforming offenders are fail
ure to the extent indicated, and de-
PRAYED human nature is to 30 large an
extent irreclaimable, and Professor
Wayland's proposed remedy of per-
manent confinement is the only sou-
ton of the problem he presents, the
United States may find it necessary to
initiate Russia and make Siberia of
her Alaskan possessions; or, after the
manner of Great Britain, provide for
her habitual criminals Botany Bay or
Cape Colony.
The egg product of this country is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

A TIMELY REMINDER - Each season
forces upon our consideration its own Pc
culiar perils to health. The ad vent of fall
finds many reduced in strength and vigor,
poorly prepared to continue the business of
life The stomach and bowels, the great
highway of animal economy, is especially
liable to disorder in the fall. The nervous
system has also suffered in the struggle
Typhoid fever and malaria, in particular,
find in the fall that combination of earth.
air and water that mark this season as es :.
pecially dangerous. The falling leaves, the
decaying vegetables, contribute their share
OF contamination. Hoods Sarsaparilla fur
nishes most valuable safeguard at these
important points, and should be used in the
fall, before serious sickness has laid you
low.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

RELIEF IN SIX Hours. Distressing kid
ney and bladder diseases relieved in six
hours by the New Great South American
Kidney Cure. This new remedy is a great
surprise on account OF its exceeding prompt
ness in relieving pain in the bladder, kid
neys, back, and every part of the urinary
passages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention Of water and pain in passing II al
most Immediately. II you want quick re-
lief and cure, this is your remedy Sold by
Harry A. Slade, druggist, 10 State street,
Montpelier. VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

In Harry N. Pillsbury, of the Brook
Ign Chess Club, Yankeedom has Sec
ond Paul Morphy. This young man
has won the first prize at the Hastings,
Eng, chess tourney, defeating all the
most renowned Old World experts, in
Guiding Champion Lasker and several
ex champions, the photography of
whose foreign names is itself game of
chess. Pillsbury was born in Massa-
chusetts, and will be twenty-three in
December. This was his first appear
ance abroad, and he was the only
American at the tournament. He is a
hero of the ueni, uidi, vici sort, and he
will have rousing welcome home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

THE subscription price Of the WAToHMAN
is $500 year. For cash, strictly in Advance,
reduction of fifty cents is made Subscrip-
lions are reckoned By the month. To be en-
titled to the $1.50 rate, arrears must be paid
at the rate of $500 year to end of month in
vhich settlement is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

A WASHINGTON correspon dent has
this to say: "The publication of Sec
rotary Lamont's very generous offer to
advance $4,000 from his own pocket
to be used in paying soldiers salaries,
congress having failed to appropriate
enough for that purpose, while it could
not be legally accepted, served to draw
attention to the difference between
Dan Lamont's financial circumstances
when he made his debut in Washing
ton as Mr.. Cleveland's private secre-
tary and at this time. Then he was 80
poor that Mr.. Cleveland paid him ST.
900 year in addition to the salary of
private secretary, in order that he
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

POVERTY has its advantages. No
bomb-thrower invades its precincts or
mails internal machines to its victims.
One of these latter contrivances of
satan was recently mailed to Baron de
Rothschild, which was opened by his
private secretary and expended its dia-
bolical energy upon him, tearing out an
eye and 80 mangling hand as to rem
der amputation necessary. A few days
later a man with bomb, to which
was attached lighted fuse, entered the
bank of the Rothschilds. A detective
discovered his devilish purpose, seized
the missile and extinguished the fuse
before an explosion. The average NOR
tai would prefer comfortable poverty to
exceeding riches with perils like these.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

The egg product of this country is
estimated at $4,000, 900 year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

The situation in Kentucky bothers
the 1ribune's political Photographer.
He learns that I" the latest bulletin from
Kentucky is to the effect that Mr.. Car
Isle is to be the administration candi-
date for the presidency, and that is
why he, with all the administration
forces, is supporting Mr.. Hardin for
the governorship. Now, the admins
tration is supposed to be for honest
money; and Mr.. Carlisle with it. Mr..
Hardin, on the other hand, is an out
and-out free-silver man. So the hon.
est-money secretary, backed by the
honest-money administration, is work.
ing for the free-silver candidate this
year, in order to strengthen his own po.
sition as an honest-money candidate
next year. Will some one please pre-
pare diagram to make the case plain?"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

GENERAL JAMES S. CLARKsoN,
member of the national republican
committee from Iowa, believes that
Senator Allison is the logical candidate
for the presidency, but he expresses
the opinion, as the result of his observa-
tions in Pennsylvania, that the Key
stone State will be for Reed as the can
didate OF the republicans for the pres-
dency at the next national convention.
The tariff, he says, will be the issue in
the next campaign. The money ques-
ton has worn itself out. General
Clarkson agrees with Senator Quay in
regard to the elimination of money in
politics. He maintains, however, that
certain amount of money is necessary
in politics, as it is in religion. The
policies and issues of the party should
be printed and circulated in the cam
paign, just as the Bible is circulated
during revival meetings, and the CAM
paign orator should be paid just as the
preacher is paid.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Cabot.

A report OF the ordination and installa-
ton OF Rev. H. l.. Hartwell as pastor OF the
Congregational church, received too late for
last weeks issue, will be found on the third
page,
Paul Lance has been suffering for the
past week from a severe attack OF hemor-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
WORLDS GREATEST NEED.

Not More Hearing of the Gospel, But More
Seeing of 1t.
i've heard the Gospel for fifty years"
exclaimed good brother, whose works
Of charity and mercy were known
throughout the community where he
lived. What l want now is to see a
little more Of it before l diel"
That was significant utterance. 1t
touches the great need Of modern Chris
tianity-more doing, less doctrine. We
have all heard the Gospel till we know
it by rote and by rhythm. But have
we seen enough Of the Gospel to make
embodied Bible doctrines familiar
Most of US know the beatitudes by
heart. How many OF US know them By
observation? 1T is more blessed to
give than to receive" How often we
hear thatl Do we see lido we exem-
pity livery often2
Concrete gospel is what we want
nowadays-gospel which is visible to
the naked eye; gospel which doesn't
require microscope to discover its
own good work; gospel in the street,
gospel in the shop, gospel in the home.
We want to see men acting like broth
ers, as well as preaching brotherhood
and sitting under the everlasting in
doctrination Of brotherhood. We want
to see common honesty in business and
in politics mere than we need to hear
uncommon saintliness enjoined from
the pulpit. The world is full Of the
echoes Of the gospel, but there are
precious few substantial gospel exam
piles walking around where we can
see them.
Never in the history Of .Christ's
church was there more need of
actual, genuine, practical, embodied
piety; never was there less
need of the multiplication Of
creeds, theories, and exordiums
The Christian employer who shakes his
employees hand with an honest, manly,
hearty grip, treats him as a man and
brother, and scorns to jew him out of
honest wage, is doing more good in the
world-the present aforementioned,
prosaic, utilitarian, dollar-grasping
world-than any group of theologlans
who might be named.
Less gospel enunciation, more gospel
realization-that is what we want,
brethren. Are we chiefly helping peo-
pie to hear the gospel, or are we help
ing them to see it2 Both are good, but
for these days, and this great world
crisis, surely doing is better than any
kind or amount of exegesis.-Zion's
Herald.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22

Kansas City is trying hard to cult
vate honesty in her aldermen anert the
gas trusts efforts to secure favored
legislation. But the trust seems to
have the upper hold on the flexible
consciences Of her municipal guides.
Some light is thrown on their stan
dard of honesty and purity of purpose
by an incident that happened Monday
and told by the Star:
The Consolidated Metropolitan
Street Railway company recently sue
ceeded in ''railrOading" through both
branches Of the council over the may.
Or's veto franchise extending the
life of its entire system, without CIV
ing the city a cent. OF course the
motives actuating the council were
pure as the Ozark mountain water.
But here is an instance: Last night,
after the council adjourned, Alder.
men Brown, Regan, Morgan, Craig
and Morrison boarded a Walnut street
car. OF the five aldermen one gave
the conductor a nickel, while the
other four gave him the "strOng
glare" The Society for the Promo.
tion Of Confidence in Aldermen" Offers
a leather medal to the first legal voter
correctly guessing the name Of the
alderman who handed the conductor
a nickel, while disinterested philan-
thropist will give a wine supper for
positive proof that this same alder
man didn't have an annual pass in his
vest pocket.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22

his machine superior. But care not
how perfect a machine may be,
it will never be an unqualified sue
cess nor add fresh laurels to it's
reputation when it is run by a
man without sufficient ingenuity and
energy to properly hitch to and oper-
ate clod smasher. A great many bad
breaks and long delays are the legiti-
mate results of carelessness, pure and
simple, and he who makes getting over
the ground the one prime object, to
the neglect of his machine and
the abuse of his team, may ex-
pect frequent breakdowns and much
bad luck. The saying: Care makes
luck" will apply to running binder,
if to anything. If some little
thing gets out of order and the binder
begins to buck" it doesn't pay to get
in splitter and make matters worse
by changing things at random. Ihave
learned by experience that the best
plan is to keep cool head and locate
the difficulty before remedying it, or
even trying to do SO. Poor Irvine Is re-
sponsible for deal Of fussing In the
harvest field. 1t is nearly impossible
to do good, even work with poor, I'M
even Irvine. The best Irvine ever
used was pure MANILA; but so much So
called pure MANILA is poor MANILA,
that would just as soon risk good,
even grade Of new, white sisal. As
machines become old they usually pre-
fer little coarser grade Of Irvine than
in their younger days Good Keeling
is Indispensable to square, well-formed
bundles, but MO ironclad rules can be
laid down to govern position Of reel for
varying kinds and conditions Of grain.
This can be ascertained only by exper,
imentiug until best results are secured.
Tho reel should not run parallel
with sickle, but the outer end
should stand several inches for.
ward in order TO place grain upon
platform with butts In advance Of
heads, as the butts are always retsrd-
ed by coming in contact with the fall
ing grain. In standing grain, the ma
chine should run about level. It takes
but q moment when starting up Q
grade TO tilt the machine forward, and
vice versa. 1t should be so well bal.
anced that the tongue will play on the
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
LEAD THEM HOME.

Lord. We can trust Thee for our holy dead;
Thy underneath the shadow Of Thy tomb
'Heaye entered into peace; with Bonded head
We thank Thee for their rest, and for our
hghtened gloom.
But, Lord, our living, who on stormy seas
! OF sin aud sorrow still are TEMPEST tossed;
Our dead have reached their haven; but fol
these
Teach US to trust Thee, Lord, for these our
b loved and lost
For these We make our passion-payer by
night,
For these we cry to Thee through the long
I day.
( We see them notch, keep them In Thy sightl
; From them and US be Thou not far away.
And II not nome TO US, yet lead them home
! To where Thou standest at the HEAVIER ly gate,
That SO from Thee they shall rot farther roam;
And grant US patient hearts Thy gathering
time 10 wait
Sunday Magazine.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
Notice to Teachers.i

The Wellington city teachers ex.
animation will be held in the high
school building, beginning at $50 a.
m. August rs. All teachers in the
city schools whose certificates expire
within the ensuing school year are re.
Quested to be in attendance. Teach
ers in the county desiring to apply
for a certificate to teach in the city
schools are invited to attend this ex-
animation. Fee Sl.0O
EXAMINING Committee.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
School Announcements.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AUG. 20
AND 27.-on these days, beginning at
9 a. M, at the high school building.
will be held the annual examination
Of the teachers of the Wellington
city schools. City teachers whose
certificates expire this year, and any
person who may desire a certificate TO
teach in the city schools should be
present at this time.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. ARG.
% and 29.-Parents DESTROYS of send.
ing children to school. who have not
heretofore attended, will please call
at my office during those days for the
purpose of enrol ing these new pupils
and assigning them to their respect
i've grades. BY attending to this
matter on these days much time and
annoyance will be saved to teachers.
parents and pupils.
All high school pupils will please
call at the Office either Wednesday or
Thursday for the purpose of enrolling
and selecting their studies for the
coming year.,
All pupils in grades DESTROYS of TAX
ing an examination in a higher grade
must be at Office at 9 a. m. Wednes-
day.
FRIDAY, AUG. 30, AT "a. M.-The
high school will meet in regular ses-
sion for the purpose of assignment of
lessons.
SATURDAY, AUG. 81, lat 9 A. NJ
Teachers Of the city'schools will meet
at high school building. All must be
present.
MONDAY, SEPT. 2, AT "a. NJ
School opens. Fl. F. NJ. BEAR,
Superintendent.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22

neck yoke much Of the time. '0fcourse
this cannot always be done, particu-
larly with the old fve-horse steplad-
der machines, but these are back num-
bers now, and the new, low, sensible
ones do not have so much swing" In
mid-air. 1t is cheaper and more hu-
name to carry the machine on Its
wheels than on the horses necks. II
should, therefore, be tilted back when
the driver leaves his seat; if it stands
long the binder may be shifted back
also. George F. Petit, in Orange Judd
Farmer.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
RAMS HORN NOTES.
Little Thoughts That RIshtfully Applied
win nslp You Live kirht.

win hslp You Live Right.
Whatever God will have US to do He
will help US to do.
10 know some people is q standing
invitation to be good.
The man who would walk with God
can not do it in crooked path.
Comparing ourselves with somebody
else won't make our shining any safer.
When God gives US burden to carry
it is to show US that we need his
strength.
The pleasures Of sin are only pleas.
ures for season.
Some people pray that God will use
them, but they want Him to do it in
their way.
If you want God to warm others, ask
Him to send fire from Heaven into your
own heart.
If we will make it the habit Of our
lives to look on the bright side, we
will always have a bright side to look
,on.
! A revival Is as much the result of
obedience to certain laws and condi.
tons, as the production Of an electric
light.
Religion pure and undefiled never
makes a prayer for the good Of men
that it is not willing u hss Of its
sSat and help spsgsl. -
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-08-22
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

MORE butter is injured in the ripen-
ing of the cream than at any other
point.
IT is undoubtedly true that food of
all kinds favors milk to a greater or
less degree.
In the season just ended Canada and
the United States sent to Europe near
ly $500, 900 barrels Of apples