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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

bench downward, under the prohibitory
law. They are at heart law-breakers,
and law-breakers derive hope and en-
couragement from their incendiary pub
locations. -
HAVING held up the money congress
appropriated for the payment of the
sugar bounties of 1894, on the ground,
as determined by himself, that the act
appropriating the money is unconstitu-
tional, Controller Bowler of the treas
ury department has deigned to have the
question of the validity of the appro-
priation act argued before him August
z. The claimants are foredoomed to
an adverse decision. The hearing will
be farce. Secretary Carlisle, Bowler's
superior in office, has declined to inter-
fere. The president will be appealed
to, but it seems to be clear that Con-
troller Bowler is acting either under
instructions from his superiors, or on
tacit understanding that he will not
be overruled. 1t looks like a most
extraordinary assumption of authority
for subordinate official of the treas
ury department, whose duties were sup
posed to be purely ministerial, to take
into consideration the question of the
constitutionality of law of congress
and to decide that question. There was
an idea, previous to Bowler's coup
detat, that the determination of such
questions was clearly and indisputably
among the functions of the supreme
court; and there is now a very decided
opinion that, in passing upon the legal
ity of the sugar-bounty appropriation
act, an under-strapper in one of the
business departments has usurped the
office of the great judicial power of the
government, and that the secretary of
the treasury and the president have
taken cognizance of and approve the
usurpation. Apparently sugar pro-
ducers will have to "wait little
longer" for their just dues-till this
period of C@sarism has passed and re.
publicanism resumes its sway.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31
Mortified Items.

Band concert on the park next Saturday
evening.
The oorn-canning factory will start up
about August 20.
A pension has recently been awarded to
George w. Durham.
o. f. Stebbins and family are in camp at
Lake Sunapee, n. III.
Frank P. Webb Of Arlington was the
guest OF H. l.. Kenyon last week
The Universalist ladies will hold social
in Concert Hall on Thursday evening,
Rev. L. P. Tucker is expected home
August l from his vacation at Fairlee Lake.
st. Mary's Church and the Mortified
Savings Bank have been wired for electric
lights.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. e. Campbell and little
son OF Middlesex spent Sunday at Homer
Denny's.
Rev. Father Donahue was at Whitehall,
N. Y, last week to attend the funeral OF a
relative.
Professor W. r. Hurlbut and Mrs. Wilbur
Shepard are attending the summer school
for teachers at Essex.
Albert Chase and family returned last
week from Highgate, where they have been
for the past four weeks.
The old brick house on Main street,
known as the John Gregory place, has been
purchased for 81 200 by Rev. Walter Dole
of Enfield, N II.
Rev. G. r. East is visiting at his former
home in Reading, Pa, and there will be no
services at the Universalist church until
Sunday, September /.
Dennis Sployd was before Justice Will
liam Davis last week, charged with intoxi-
cation. He pleaded guilty and contributed
S16.40 for the benefit OF the state.
MIR. Denman and Mr. McNeill held service
at the Methodist church Sunday morning
and at the Congregation alist church in the
evening. Union meetings are to be held
during the week.
The friends of Princip pal W. K. Hurlbut
and Miss Lulu Brigham, assistant precept-
ress Of the Mortified Graded School, are
congratulating them on their engagement,
recently announced.
A reunion of the Fletcher family, OF
which l.. @ Fletcher aud Mrs. Frank Plum.
ley OF Mortified are members, will be held
Wednesday, August 20, at the Bromheld
| Street Church, Boston.
j. Elliott Smith OF New York was the
guest of DR.. George Nichols last Thursday
He has been, Tor week or more, with
Colonel Fred E. Smith, his brother, at
Montpelier, the latter having been danger
| ously i'll.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31
Sound MOney...Its New Converts.

The Scripture respecting the joy in
heaven over one sinner saved, compared
with Just men that never went astray,
is exemplifed politically in the hallelu-
jahs of cuckoos and mugwumps over
Carlisle and Hoke Smith, recent con-
verts from the beresies of free and in
dependent coinage of silver to the
"sound money" doctrines of their mas
ter, the Yelled Prophet of the White
House. The fact that the change of
heart was contemporaneous with their
appointment to cabinet offices, that
patronage was apparently powerful
means of grace, detracts nothing from
the fervor of the rejoicing over their
conversion, and their entrance upon
evangelistic work in Kentucky and
Georgia evoked no signs over the "per.
nicious activity" of servants of the peo-
pie abandoning, for the business of pros
elyting, public duties they are paid
large salaries to perform. But the new
convert always wins the applause, par
ticularly if he has been tough case or
conspicuous for his heterodoxy. These
new democratic converts to sound
money" enter the arena of discussion
and speak with Astounding assurance.
The old financial saint who has always
toed the mark is not in it when these
converted sinners of silver politics take
the field. They have waited till the
floodgates of the political heavens were
open, and then "got tickets for the
ark" embarking as if they had always
read their title clear to mansions in the
skies of sound finance. In the eyes of
admiring cuckoos and mugwumps, they
are the real saints and heroes of the
sound money revival.
But what Carlisle or Hoke Smith is
saying has all been said before, as well
or perhaps better than these new con-
verts are saying it. Their zeal and
JUNCTION are suspicious. Possibly the
salvation of the democratic party is the
inspiring motive. The party is in i'm
minent danger. Its tendency, as shown
by it's votes, is towards free silver, and
this tendency must be changed or held
in check till the peril is past. Hence
the hullabaloo and hence the plaudits of
cuckoo and mugwump over the work of
the presidents "sound money" evan
gelists in the strongholds of the democ-
racy. When was there ever any anxiety
about the strongholds of republicanism
on this subject of free silver coinage?
When was it ever necessary to send re-
publican cabinet officers into New Eng
land, or any distinctively republican
section of the country, to preach the
gospel of "sound money"2 Sound
money as an issue is confined to the
democratic party. And there it is more
a question of expediency than of prin-
cipe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31
The German Emperor on a Yankee
Cruiser.

The cruiser New York." one of the
finest of Uncle Sans new warships, has
returned from the cele bratlon at Kiel
to the city whose name che proudly
bears. To Tribune reporter her COM
mander, Captain Evans, gives graphic
and exceedingly interesting account of
that great meeting of the navies of the
world. The German emperor was
nightly pleased with the "New York."
visited the ship several times and looked
her over in every part. The extent and
detail of the emperor's information was
very surprising. How he got time Ia
read it all was puzzle to Captain Ev-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

ans. One night, the captain said, he
was on the cruiser at dinner and did not
leave the ship till two O'Clock in the
morning. Yet at five o'clock, when
the captain had just turned into his
bunk for little sleep, an orderly came
to his door, saying, The emperor is
just passing the ship, sir" "God bless
him." the captain murmured from his
blankets. "Let him go. Don't stop
him for any consideration" After
leaving the "New York" the emperor
was off at five O'Clock on his own yacht,
steering her himself, to attend a yacht
race. Military as well as maritime af
fairs, from one end of the empire to the
other, engage his tireless attention. In
his visits to the New York" he put in
practice the surprises and the same
rigid system of inspection he applies TO
his own navy, but he always found
things in such admirable condition that
he sent his own naval officers and en-
gineers to take a lesson from the Yam
kee sailors. Captain Evans thus refers
to some of the "high doings" of his
imperial visitor:
"That same night that he was on board to
dinner we had finished dinner and come into
my cabin to smoke. 1t was about midnight,
and suddenly he rose up and said, Captain,
should like to look through your engine
ROOM Everybody was abed except the
chief engineer, but 1 acquiesced, and down
we went with our dress suits on. He went
over everything. We uncoupled an engine
for him in few minutes, worked the re-
versing gear for him, showed him every
thing, in fact, and then came back to the
cabin. Then he asked Captain, how long
does it take you to close your protective
doors? replied About thirty seconds In
the daytime He continued: Well, would
you mind doing 1t now for me?' Not at all
SIR said 1. This was great doings,
thought. But l ordered a general alarm,
You cannot imagine what that means; but
on board ship it means business and gener.
ally fight My men didn't know whether
the ship was going down or whether we
were going into battle. 1 wish, though, you
could have seen them. Why, they came
tumbling up like 80 many rats. Then for
an instant there was confusion, or at least
it might have appeared so, with so many
men hurrying about, and each bent on
his own particular business; but 1t was only
for an instant. The decks were cleared for
action, and the ammunition was coming up
in one minute and half. OF course
stopped the ammunition at once, for there
were two of my eight-inch guns pointing di-
rect at Prince Henry's palace. 1 had tc
laugh when 1 discovered the direction, and
if the ammunition had not been stopped we
might have blown a hole through the north
end of the German empire The emperor
was nightly pleased with the promptness
displayed, but then he must see the ammu
milton rooms and examine the electrical
apparatus for hosting shells"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

The United States cruiser "Colum-
bia" began on Friday of last week her
record voyage from Southampton to
New York. 1t is race against time,
but all the naval powers of the world
will be deeply interested in the record
the vessel will make.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

IN some portions of Georgia there is
lurking suspicion that, in changing
his mind, Hoke Smith was in 80 much
of hurry that he didn't get his new
one on quite straight. - Washington
Post Und).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.

THE subscription price of the WAToHMAN
Ia $500 year. For cash, strictly in aduance,
O reduction of fifty cents is made. Subscrip-
tions are reckoned By the month. To be en-
titled to the S1.50 rate, arrears must be paid
at the rate of $500 a year to end Of month in
Which settlement is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

THE WATCHMAN had no occasion TO
forget, or remember, or blink anything,
in McKane's previous history when it
referred to the Springfield Republicans
Characterization of him as "the re-
publican boss now serving out his time
in prison." etc, The reference was
disingenuous and misleading, as the
Reformer acknowledges, and was made
30 Intentionally by the Republican.
The WATCHMAN cited it as only one,
and comparatively trifling, instance
of the mugwump journals habit of
dealing in inuendo, when it does not
descend to direct and unblushing falsi.
fication, to score point against the
republicans. This in reply to the Brat
tleboro Reformer's reference to Nc.
Kane's reputed connection with re-
publican politics.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

SENATOR JOE BLACKBURN of Ken
lucky has recently been in Washington,
and there are reports that the admins
tration has agreed not to oppose the
senator's reelection if he will not talk
free silver in the state campaign. Mil
lions for Office, not one word for prin-
ciple, is the keynote of the democratic
policy. -
"DEFENDER" AND "VALKYRIE" are
both bracing up for the great interna-
tional trial. The latter has replaced
her spars and masts of Oregon pine
with steel ones, greatly tightening the
weight above the decks. The former
is making such changes and improve
ments as her recent trials show are
necessary. The great race will come
off during the second week in Sep
TENDER. -
REPRESENTATIVE of the New Eng
land boards of agriculture and cattle
com missioners met in Boston last week.
For carrying on to better advantage
their efforts to suppress tuberculosis,
they have formed an association and
elected officers. G. M. Winslow of Yer
mont is secretary, and Victor 1. Spear
is on the executive committee. The
recent death of a child in Greenfield
Mass, from causes plainly traceable to
the use of the milk of tuberculous
COW, has caused much excitement in
that locality and given new point to
the efforts to purify the herds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

THE free-rum and license newspa-
pers used to raise great hullabaloo
because only common DRINKS and the
keepers of low groggeries were pros
ecuted under the prohibitory law, and,
if guilty, fined or sent to the house of
correction. But man of property in
st. Johnsbury, the owner of two hotels
and other real estate in that place, has
been dned 500 and sent to the house
of correction for sixty days. Now
there is another hullabaloo because this
thing has been done, and the occasion
is seized upon to make capital against
the prohibitory law. If imbecility, cor
ruption, incapacity, or any other cause
or combination of causes renders it inn
possible to enforce the prohibitory law
efficiently and honestly in any locality, is
this good reason why it should not be en-
forced in a community of law-abiding,
law-respecting people? If low grade Of
morality exists in majority of com.
munity in the southwest part of the
state and horse-stealing is tolerated
there, community in the northeast
part of the state, for the sake of pre-
serving consistency of action under the
law, or for any other reason, is not
therefore, under obligation of any kline
to wink at horse-stealing. Under NJ
circumstances whatever will free-run
or license newspapers be satisfied will
the conduct of state officials, from th'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

The new state constitution of Utah
admits women to full suffrage. At the
regular election in November this in
strument is to be submitted to the peo-
pie of Utah for their acceptance or re-
lection. The question is raised, Can
the women of the territory vote in that
election? Utah is still territory, and
the election will be held under the
territorial laws. 1t will not become a
state until the constitution has been
adopted, approved by congress, and the
territory proclaimed state by the
president. The presumption is that
only those entitled to vote under the
laws of the territory can vote in the
November election. The opposite con-
struction is, however, strenuously main
tanned. If Utah desires to enter the
sisterhood of states next winter, and
not to cloud her chances, the women
voters will not participate in the cleo
ton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

Wells River.
In the absence of Rev. r. G. Bugbee, DR..
Palmer supplied the pulpit on Sunday,
Hale's Tavern had another benefit last
Friday night. About sixty were present.
e. Baldwin is bottling and selling the
water from his new we'll as mineral water.
The Christian Endeavor Society gave an
entertainment last Thursday evening which
was well patronized.
The Boston & Maine railroad is anxious
to have the patrons of the road do their
freight business at Woodsville, instead of
Wells River.
Patrons OF the Wells River creamery re-.
ceived eighteen cents per pound for butter
last month Seven hundred pounds are
made per day.
The many friends of Mrs. e j. Ranslow
are pleased to learn Of her intended visit
here this week. She will be accompanied
by her daughters Anna and Nellie.
What might have been a serious accident
occurred at the upper end of the yard here
Saturday forenoon. A special north bound
freight was on the siding, and, through the
carelessness OF some one, the switch was lett
open, and the mail train crashed into IT,
No bones broken, but several freight cars,
both engines, and the mail car, were pretty
much demoralized.
Mrs. Will Leighton is visiting her sister
at Berlin, N. II. - Mrs. @. II. Carpenter
and children of Bradford spent Sunday
with Mrs. A. f. Mullikin, - Lila
Learned, who spent the winter here several
years ago, is visiting her uncle, j. Learned.
- Rev. DR.. w. S. Palmer and wife are
stopping with their niece, Mrs. ID. r. Ali
son. - Mrs. Charles Gage aud son are
visiting at her former home, Rochester, VT,
and will visit friends at Montpelier and
Barre on their return trip. - Mr.. and
Mrs s. l.. d. Goodale 60 to Cabot this week
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-31

bench downward, under the prohibitory
law. They are at heart law-breakers,
and law-breakers derive hope and en-
couragement from their incendiary pub
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-02
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agony in the corridors of the hotel, and
was informed on New Years eve that a
hen which crows and woman who
whistles are two denominations of man
kind and nature, has also sworn big
swear that she will never pucker up her
lips egsin to let out sibilant sounds rep
resenting either comic song or ballad.
Everything In good time, however.
When Souea composes a new march, or
Lottie Collins comss out with another
popular horror. birdie will have to whis'
tie la meme chose, as before. and her
VOW will come down with 8 dull kind Of
Q thud and be shattered.
lobe Wilson. the king of tbs tramps,
is about the only one of the great con-
glomeration of fellows who swear off
who ia moderately certain to keep bis
oath. lobe swears every year on the
1st OF January that he will not do @
single stroke of work during this whole
year. barring untoward accidents and
the visitation of God. He keeps his
word, too. The untoward accidents
to which he refers are such things as
being arrested for begging or getting
drunk, and the visitation of God is join
ing the chain gang, when he does nearly
enough work each day to pay for half OF
his daily board.
Will the following classes inform THE
HERALD whether they have sworn off:
The man with the tomato cut of hair,
who doesn't know football from cricket;
the man with the creased pants, whose
hand.me.down suit cost $3.50; the young
lady salesman with the mandolin case,
in which she carries her lunch; the fell
low with the overcoat that reaches to
his ankles. hiding the fact that his
willieboy garment is in hook to pay for
the beer; the boy who has a baggage
check at the end of his chain, because
his watch had to be pswned to pay for
his losses at poker.
Swear off, all of you. from ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain while
there ia time, and don't go back on tn ct
poor old recording angel, who is SO pa
tent yet after having been fooled for 10
these many, many thousand years.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-02
Z[LIAUX'S DEATH.
DRUG CLERK FOUND WITH A
FRACTURED SKULL.
Hospital-No Clue az to How
He Was IDj ured.

! In the death of David Ziliaux,
| chemist formerly OF this city. the polic
of San Francisco have n mysterious cas-
on their hands. Tbs man was found a
Market and Mason streets, that city
Sunday night with his skull fractured
He never recovered consciousness snG
died yesterday.
ziliaux left this city nearly year ago
He came here from Hamilton, Ohio
where his father, Jacob Ziliaux. hi
brothers, George a., Samuel F. anc
Charles j., and several sisters live. He
was widower, and he had children liv-
ing with his parents in Ohio. lie was
about 80 years OF age.
While in this city Ziliaux was SIM
ployed as a druggist IN the drug store OF
Il. N. Van Horn, 247 East First street.
He was considered a temperate man,
and had little money. In fact he tried
to borrow money before leaving. Iiliaux
was member of the Foresters in this
city and was well liked.
The San Francisco Call, in speaking OF
the case, says:
There are strong suspicious that
Ziliaux has bsen eand bagged and
robbed. 1t was thought at first that he
might have been run over by car or
had fallen off car, but there are cir.
cumstances which exploded that idea.
la the frat place, although we'll
dressed man. there was not one particle
Of coin in his pockets, no ring on any OF
his fingers and no watch or chain in his
pockets. He was practically cleaned
out. 1t seems unreasonable to euppose
that man in his position would have
been in O strange city without cent In
his pockets.
Besides, Market street was wet and
muddy from recent rains, but there was
no mud on bis clothes. which there
would have been if he had been struck
by car or fallen from one.
Tho presumptioni is that he had bet n
beaten and robbed in some house not
far from the corner of Market al d
Mason stree,s and then left on the sidt-
walk to be picked up by some passer-
by.
"It ia considered probable that the
fracture of the base of the skull was
caused by the blow on the eyebrow,
which the doctors say ia not by any
means an uncommon occurrence. He
had been possibly struck on the chin
first and then ON tho eyebrow.
There were dried blood marks on his
clothing, which led 90 the belief that he
had been bleeding for come time before
Reardon found him ON Market and
Mason streets.
THE police will make thorough in
vestigation into the case. but meantime
it il enveloped in mystery"