The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-30


THE real trouble is a lack of conf
dence, the president says. This trouble
began on the day of his election, and
has been growing ever since.
READERS interested in comprehen-
Give market report are referred to the
second page and to editorial remarks
thereon. The report has been trans
ferred permanently to that page, where
it will be found, much enlarged and
improved, fifty-two times in year.
Such changes, additions and improve
ments will be made as time and ex-
perience indicate.
In the debate on the Hawaiian reso-
luton, Senator Aldrich, in tilt with
Senator Mills, declared, in reply to
base insinuation of the Texas states
man, that the feeling which was be-
hind the New England senators was
spirit of patriotism, and that this spirit
"fills the minds of nine-tenths of the
American people," "When did you
get your last returns from the American
people2" demanded Mr.. Mills with i'm
prudent sarcasm. eve got Them" re-
torted the Rhode Islander, "in the last
November electionW
THE Newbury correspondent of the
Bradford Opinion is unable to see "where
or how the selectmen can get finger
in the pie" in the matter of recovering
from the school districts the money
they had in their treasures, or which
they distributed among their taxpayers,
when the town system law went into
effect. The Barre contest, he says,
was "between school officers" 1t was
a contest between the tom of Barre
and school district No. 10. 1t was
test case, and of course decides every
other similar case. The selectmen have
the general supervision of the affairs of
town, and if it is not their duty to
have "a finger in the pie," whose is it7
This the correspondent does not under.
take to say. The supreme court, in its
decision in the Barre case, uses the term
"trustee" in its general meaning. The
district was the trustee of this school
money. After April l, 1898, the town
became the trustee, and the selectmen
are evidently the officials through who
the town must act in taking measures
to get the money and in entering into
its possession. They are the new
trustees" as the court uses the word.
THE WATCHMAN appealed last week
to men and boys with sporting pro-
clivities not to shoot or disturb the
English pheasants which have begun
to nest and multiply in the Vermont
woods. DR.. Webb recently released
some of these birds at Shelburn Farms.
An esteemed correspondent reports the
presence of some of these pheasants in
Mad River Valley, where he says they
have nested and are rearing their
young. He earnestly bespeaks protec-
ton for them for few years till they
multiply and may be hunted without
danger of determination. They are
very tame, he says, and appreciate hos.
pitality and kindly treatment. If our
correspondent is not mistaken, and
some of DR.. Webb's English pheasants
have really shown their good judgment
by settling in the inviting precincts of
Mad River valley, or in any other
attractive locality in these regions, no
game law should be needed to secure
the strangers immunity from the shot
gun. Give the birds chance to grow
up with the country and to add to its
attractions as the abode of human
beings. Scatter grain where they will
find it, and make them feel at home
amid the SHOWS of Vermont.
REPRESENTATIVE DINGLEY of
Maine proposes heroic measure for
settling the seal question, unless Eng
land shall agree to effective regulations
for protecting the seals in Behring Sea,
especially from the depredations of the
Canadian sealers. Information fur
nished by the treasury department is to
the effect that the pelagic sealers,
mainly Canadians, secured last year
nearly 10000 seals, mostly females. OF
these, they killed 900 in Behring Sea,
whereas previous to the Paris settle
ment they had not been able to take
half this number. As nearly one hun.
dred sealing vessels are preparing to
sail with Alaskan spearmen on board,
there is little doubt that 100000 seals
will be slaughtered the coming season,
unless new regulations or legislation are
aHn al ~. s..s.