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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26
l Will Not Drink.

Dear mother, received your letter
oh, how it cheered my heart
So far from home and friends,
Doing the workers part.
You ask about my habits.
Pray set your heart at rest.
do not drink, dear mother,
And try to do my best.
The tempters they are many
The tempted they are more,
And they often sail in their painted ships
quite smoothly from the shore.
But in looking down the river
Oh, their sufferings who can tell
see the struggling, helpless forms;
1 see the wrecks as well
see on shore friends weeping;
/ hear the children's cry
And again | see the cruel waves
Still running mountain high.
l stretch my hands to save them
Above the breakers roar.
All, too late, too late In sight of home
They sink to rise no more.
/ will not drink, dear mother,
And I'll try to do my best
God helping melville absent,
So set your heart at rest
Oh, happy, happy mother,
A victory you've won
And you a loving heart have blessed,
Oh, happy, thoughtful son !
Banner of Gold
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26

THE ROOT OF THE CONSPIRACY.
This is conspiracy between profess
sional farmers who want to pay low
wages and the unreconciled STAKEHOLDER
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26
TIE PROBLEM FOR LABOR.

Mr. BRYAN himself has a eli INNER
ing idea of where the laborer will come
in-or rather, of where he will 90 out.
There is one paragraph in his speech
which-whether it Was the result of an
unconscious stumbling into candor or
whether il was a contribution made in
the stress of logical discussion | am
utterly unable TO say-throws flood of
light upon the whole purpose under
lying this populist agitation. Wage
carriers, Mr.. Bryan says, know that
while a gold standard raises the pur-
chasing power of the dollar it also
makes it more difficult to obtain pos
session of the dollar. They know that
employment is less permanent, loss of
work more probable and re-employ-
ment less certain.
If that means anything, it means
that cheap dollar would give him
more employment, more frequent en-
ployment, more work and chance 10
get unemployment after he was dis
charged. Uaughter.) If that means
anything in the world to a sane
man, it means that if the laborer is
willing TO have his wages cut down he
will &C. more work.
There cannot be an abundant product
unless labor is extcntiyely employed.
You cannot have high wages unless
there is an extensive production in
every department of industry, and that
is why claim that the wages is the
one sole test of country's condition
that high wages mean abundant pro-
tsEE FOURTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26

Netice is hereby given that application will be
made to the next session of the General Assembly
for charter incorporating AS village that portion
of the town of Berlin included in the former School
District No. 5 and part Of School District Noe
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
CLEVELAND ON PARTY FEALTY

Before
ell managing editor the Constitution of the
National Committee
yielding
will the him
ton To this letter Mr. Cleveland replied which,
that it the Constitution with again be
GABLES 1S92-Clark Howell,
ceedny Democracy about it, and is pervaded with
Democratic frankness which
think THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE OF PARTY ORGANIZATION
ARBITRA-
CONVENTION the
opposed
o TO
surprised though
OVAL
everything.
congratulate each other glorious result in No
yember am yours
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

Insurance Co., is against free coinage,
because it would compel him to pay
his policies in fifty cent dollars. This
IL daisy. Does any one suppose that
President Greene would be for a gold
standard if he thought that free silver
would reduce his debts by one-half?
REMARK-The wage-earners and
producers can see for themselves.
Papers like the Times-Herald are doing
great service for free silver. Not hav-
ing truth on its side it garbles matters
in such a way that it makes the decep-
ton plain to the average reader. The
wage-earner knows full well nat Or
ganized money capitalists are not on
his side in this struggle. Their inter-
ests are opposed now as they ever have
been and perhaps will be for centuries
to come. Capital wants labor to pro-
duce as cheaply as possible. This labor
knows. AS one republican paper puts
It, "If we cannot quote labor as in favor
of maintaining the present gold stand
ard we ought not quote capital it does
more harm than good" Let us get off
this financial Issue onto the tariff. Pro-
lection is the campaign cry.
But the democratic platform does not
oppose protection.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
Teller MS a Bolter.

Henry NJ. Teller, in coming out solid
ly for Bryan and Sewall, has proved
himself the ideal bolter of this era of
bolts. Mr.. Teller takes with him
choice bunch of mavericks ready to
offer their senatorial and congressional
TANKS to the branding irons of dcmoc-
racy.
Senator Teller and his confreres are
the only men so far developed in either
of the three parties or innumerable
sub-parties who have demonstrated
that they possess courage as we'll as
conviction. So far as can be observed
the other boilers have talked, threaten
ed, oajoled, implored demanded and de-
fed and then have calmly submitted
to their party collar with occasional
weak splutterings of disgust. Not so
with Senator Teller. He neither
threatened nor expostulated, after he
found the sentiment of the st. Louis
convention against him. He shook
hands with the chairman, told the dele
gates he "had been republican for
thirty-five years, but could not swallow
gold,' and then left the platform and
the hall.
Once outside of his party he has not
sought to gain control of it by forming
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

new branch or by holding another
convention. He has simply accepted
the logic of the situation, and, being in
earnest, has adopted the surest method
of defeating that which he could not
support. Right or wrong on the in
trinsic merits of the case. Senator
Teller has demonstrated the way in
which boilers from either side of the
question should go. He believes free
silver is right, and is doing all in his
power to defeat gold. The st. Louis
boilers are not straddling or attempts
ing to beg the question, and their
course cannot but commend itself to
fair-minded men for honesty of pur-
pose, sincerity and courage Chicago
Dispatch
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
CONVICTS


William j. Bryan, who was nomi-
mated by the democrats for President of
the United States. is the son of Silas
l.. Bryan, who was, for six years, cir
cult judge of the second circuit in this
state. Judge Bryan was in the habit
of opening his court with prayer. He
claimed that the Lord directed him
in making his decisions. He would,
sometimes, when in doubt in the midst
of trial, kneel down upon the bench
and ask divine direction. A noted
Peoria lawyer, meeting the judge one
day in the street, after the supreme
court had reversed six of his cases,
said: 81 see, judge, that the supreme
court has reversed the Lord in six
cases. What have you got to say about
it? l thought you decided your cases
under divine direction" Whereupon
the judge replied; THE supreme court
10 wrong. Chicago Legal News.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

The populst platform does not oppose
protection.
The silver platform does not oppose
protection.
At the same time the three platforms
declare for free silver.
The republican platform declares
against free silver.
The party papers must not recede
from the issue. They must fight us
along financial lines, It's a hopeless
fight of course and to tell the truth 1t
is pitiful to see the once great Republi-
can party going down to defeat with
Wall street. EX-REPUBLlCAN.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

A characteristic of Mr.. Bryan is his
capacity for telling joke on himself
and enjoying it. He recounted the
other day with good humor the critical
remark of a friend at the conclusion of
one of his speeches. ooh, well, Bryan,
anybody could be an orator who had
a mouth as big as yours. Why, your
mouth is so large you can whisper in
your own ear
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
Loyal to tho British System.

Detroit Free Press (Boltacratic): We
cannot support the democratic ticket
(The Free Press has an edition printed
in England. Its staff and owners are
pro British in their ideas as well as
their convictions.)
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
How the Mark Hanna S1OO.OOO,OOO
Trust Is Fighting Free Silver.
WALL STREETS COAT OF ARMS
Henry c. Payne. Honorod.

Wall Street Organ: If the labor shys-
ters think they can force Payne off the
ticket just because he opposed the
street car anarchists of Milwaukee in
their strike, they are sadly mistaken.
This is business mans campaign. The
shysters' men soon find out where they
are at.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

To the Editor of The World: The
free and unlimited coinage of silver
will help the laboring man by giving
employment to 100000 men in the
mines. If each one has a family of
three it would thus benefit 1000, 900
persons. Also thousands of others
would be benefited by making clothing.
provisions, ETC., for these employed
men.
Now, what does the present gold
policy offer? Nothing, only that times.
already as bad as can be, shall not get
worse. CYRUS SNYDER.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

Harper's Weekly always anti-Ameri-
can: We can swallow Mckinley and
protection rather than accept a finan-
cial system that would reduce the pur-
chasing power of the money due the
creditor class (meaning EnglanO.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

She NEW to the game)-What is the
umpire for? He "a rooter)-To show
that there is no pleasure without Its
alloy.-Philadelph North American.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

New York Times: W. P. st. John is
the only banker of the east who has
seen fit to join in the cry for free sill
Yer coinage.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
THE LINE OF BATTLE.
SIGNIFICANT THINGS FROM THE
CHICAGO IMES-HERALD.

Twenty Eight Statements from That
Paper All of which Arc Contradictory
Little Truths Which Strike Home
Centor Shots.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03
TEXAS NEWS NOTES.

DOn COUNTY, WAS IOulU u6du III DIS Deu
few mornings ago.
The town of Buffalo, Leon county,
was burned recently. Loss estimated
at 100000 or $4,000.
At Peoria, Will county, recently. Mrs.
Hague and an infant sustained "a Gus
injuries by runaway horse.
w. H. Fielding, a gLnner, residing
at Petty, Lamar county, had his arm
broken in a steam cotlcn press the
other day.
A lady named Woodbridge living in
Denton was hooked in the side few
days ago by a COW, breaking one rib
ard trulsng her up Considerably.
Near Kingston, Hunt oounty, the
other day four young men were pick
ing ootton fer a wager and got over
heated and are in a. serious condition.
A few nights ago, at Houston, James
Hoge died suddenly at the Denver ho-
tel from hemorrhage OF the lungs. He
was &c years old and came from Pitts
burg Pa.
Tom Furslsn. carpenter, while
working ON T. p Murray's residences
in Kaufman, Kaufman county, wa5
overcome by hsat several days ago.
He win recover.
DIR. ]. II. Forahand, who practices
medicine at EurnIham. six miles west
nj Ennis YVES thrcwn rrclm his buggy
and his arm was broken below the
elbcw fow d,ay9 n,o.
Hans Mabcke a well known Young
man of San Antonio. and clerk of the
Mahrcke hotel. died from an overdose
of morphine few DAYS ago. taken to
cure a severe headache.
At DastroD. Eagtrop county. dill
cu.ty occurred recently between A.
Guge and w. Hernes. in which the lat
ter received a severe and painful knife
wound in the hand. Guse was arrested.
ard gave bond.
In a Giflc,;,ty ;, a se,c,n ut Mex.a.
limestone county recentlv 7. r. Mess.
a. rrtnter. was dangerously cut with
a. knife in the mask. having his right
e9r almost severed from his head.
N,.s win rc.,2yer.
Dave DIllineham. \ brakeman On the
Houston and Texas Central. while
counting cars in the oil mill ward at
BRENNAN recently. was caught between
two cars and badly mashed. He was
sert to his home in Austin.
Kaufman counrr, Gar, boast n, hay
ing tae youngest schccl teacher in the
staj.e. Willie Daushelty is only IL
yeans cid, and has school eli thr-
teen little pupils. all of whom are
Sid to be learning RAPIDLY.
Al sbormar sr.i, how cortaininv
what IA nrobablv tho bo,es ~ an miami
was found heIow Ratsel,'s mark in the
creek few evenings ago. They have
been viewed by Coroner Hink.e, and an
investigation VIII be pushed.
raeno man manned Waite uones
vas eo,,nd or tha N,e,w o,eeeps P,o,s,.
fsu, n,c,,r,enos oe,o n.l,r Nno,-haarn
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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-09-03

New York World: This state is alive
with the silver 'heresy." Labor is al
most unanimous for cheaper dollars
clearer labor.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

Clouds overcast the sky the greater part
Of Aug. IS in Boston. The SUMS face wa.
but rarely visible There were several
showers in the lato afternoon, but we had
no rainfall between and z D. m, not
withstanding which "A rainbow with all its
beautiful colors was on the southeastern
horizon. The rays Of tho setting sun picrc-
ing through the ascending vapors had
formed it.
Turning to tho west ct $3.50, a long, mar
row, dark island seemed to DO floating in a
blue green smooth lake surrounded by q
rocky shore, stream of fiery molten lava
winding its way through the rocks But
there were no islands, lakes and rocks 1t
was the western sky, the suns fiery rays
giving higher colors to the blue sky, a
dcnser dark to the dark clouds and show
ing his fire in intense colors through the
lighter vapOrs
Buta great surprise rewarded the watch
ers Of this glorious sunset There to the
left, south Of the setting sun, about four
degrees from tho sensible horizon, clouds
were heaped ON top of each other and while
the last rays Of the sun wore beating on
the city of Boston, still damp from the aft
ernOon rain, its picture was being photo
graphcd on the clouds. The blocks of
houses were plainly visible; the Charles
river and Boston harbor marked the out
lines of the city plainly on the clouds. For
three minutes the outlines became more
distinct; then, when the suns fiery face
was half way below the horizon, they
faded away and disappeared Boston
Transcript
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
ModIca1 .EthIos. Newly ulustratod.

The British Medical association is once
more in danger of making fool Of itself
AS every one is aware, the medical profess
sion hates an advertising doctor as savage
" as the Stock Exchange hates an adver-
Using broker, and it will spend thousands
Of pounds in crushing a practitioner who
attempts to attract public attention by
means which are not quite orthodox. A
young and struggling doctor is expected
merely to hang out his sign and then sit
down and starve until patients begin to
come to him. Some of the members Of the
British Medical association, l notice, are
even trying to get the practice Of placing on
doorplates the words physician and sur
geon" brought under the head Of advertis-
ing. At the association meeting at Car
Isle one doctor declared that man who
did this was a quack and should be treated
as such. The whole profession, in fact, is
in danger of being made ridiculous by a
few foolish and overzealous members, who
are as energetic in smelling ont heterodoxy
as Zulu witch doctor.-LOndon STANDARD.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
sanctuaries In London.

1t may not be generally known that
there IS a region in London where the cor
oner's writ does not run, where his officer
has no right TO enter and where the busy
citizen may rest in peace, secure from the
annoyance Of being summoned on Jury.
This haven Of rest is over tho river in
Southwark ard is known rs tho Liberty
of the Clink. 1t consisted originally of
about 40 acres around tho palace Of the
bishop Of Winchester At ono time It con
tained court and prison OF its own
The latter, however, was burned down by
q mob in the riots of 1850 and has never
since been rebuilt.
Tho Liberty of the ClinlS" is bounded
by tho Thames on the north St George
parish on the south, St. Saviour's dock on
tho east and Christ church and Paris gar
dens on tho west. At one time 1t was an
immensely fashionable quarter, for John
de Mowbray and many other great people
had their palaces there in the fourteenth
century.
Old London possessed many such sane
tuaries. At first they were meant merely
as places Of refuge for hunted men, but
they soon became the homes Of all the worst
scum of London. Macaulay's pen has de-
scribed them in all their horror
Among the most noted sanctuaries were
those Of Westminster and White Friars 1t
will be remembered that in the Fortunes
of Nigel the latter is mnde use Of by
young Nigel after his duel with Dalgarno.
Although a few years ago the privilege
of the Liberty Of the Clink" was success
fully pleaded for bya citizen Of Southwark
when called for a juryInan, 1t Is somewhat
if tho point were pushed, whether
tho old time sanctity still clings to the spot
-pearsOn's MeeklY
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
End of tho world.

In these latter days there is nothing so
extraordinary as the rccrudescence of old
superstitions in skeptieal France. What
with appearing archangels and Madonnas
and disappearing devils, the Gallo intel
lect has been kept in ferment Of excite
ment. And now comes a new disturbing
element In the shape of two prophecies
foretelling the end of the world in 1890
In these prophecies religion and science go
hand in hand. One was made over three
centuries ago by Frere Philippe Olivarius
of the Abbey of Citeaux, who had in his
day, so we are told, "a great reputation for
perspicacity He began by the genial
prediction that in the year 1896 Paris
would be blotted out, never to reappear;
that many great cities would be burned,
and that the end of all things would be
three years later Tho other prophecy is
by Professor Falb of Vienna, who has
achieved reputation throughout Europe
through his successful forewarnings Of the
earthquakes Of 1898 In Zante and in south
ern Hungary. He now asserts that on
Nov 10, 1899, that heavenly wanderer
known us the comet Of 1866 will appear
and collide with the earth, smashing into
atoms. Itwould seem, therefore, that now
is the time to order carly your ascension
robe if you wish to be early and avoid the
rush New York Herald.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
woMEN.s FRIENDSHIP.
It Sometimes Takes the Place OF Hus-
band and Children.

It Sometimes Takes the Place OF Hus-
band and Children.
The healthy, latter-day independence
Of women is more closely connected with
their friendship than most people rec
ognize. The latter part of this age
has seen many unexpected develop
ments of our sex. There Is the bachelor
woman, the club woman and the bicy-
cling woman, not to speak of many who,
by reason of varied Occupations and in
terest in some calling or profession by
/ which they maintain themselves, have
learned to. look ON matrimony as beau
tiful incident, which occurs in some
lives, not necessarily theirs, nor need
It be demanded for their happiness,
prosperity or general contentment.
Failing marriage, many clear-headed
girls have found cordial friendship
for one of their sex, if not a substitute,
an excellent institution. Such friend
ship has something exhilarating and
healthy in It, There is companionship
without the ties that bind the wife and
mother so firmly-some one who eau
be consulted and yet whose advice need
not be followed; some one who can
sympathize with daily struggles and
with unceasing aspiration Verify, the
healthy, cheerful woman, who dwells
with her friend, who thinks naught of
going alone with her to theater or re-
ception, who earns a pleasant liveli-
hood and is neither "cribbd, cabin'd
nor coffin'd7 by household duties, is
not being to be tenderly pitied, even
If she is living her life without the
highest Joys Of the deep, trusting love
of a husband and the passionate pleas
ure at the touch of baby fingers, the
grasp of little one who is all her own,
her contribution to the great human
race.
In the rush and fret of life the woman
who is one of large family, each mem.
Der of which has a claim on her, has
scarce opportunity to form one of those
elevating, steady friendships which
serve to broaden and develop on each
side. The single woman, the recog-
nized bachelor woman" who, in our
mental fancy, is distinct from the slight.
ingly-describcd "spinster," makes the
best friend and confidante. She it is
who stands by her friend lin sickness
and in sorrow" helps her through the
dark days, enjoys her triumphs and be-
lieves in her aspirations and loves as
Jonathan loved David. Happily there
IS an extensive law of compensation in
this world and the women who never .
wear the crown of household queens,
but love one another with ever-steady
devotion which nothing can diminish,
have enjoyed one of the beautiful things
of this life.-London Lady.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
Is PersonaIIty Fading?

Is there already reaction against oui
severely intellectual view Of life? One
story whose lyric style caught something
Of the throbbing Of pure emotion has beer
eagerly devoured by a hungry generation.
In Trilby there are men and women hui
man to the touch. Hall Caine dares cope
with human passion. But tho spectacular
emotions Of his heroes have in them some
thing too remote to win our sympathy We
cannot all hive platforms on which to pass
the crises Of our lives. Meredith still
breaches his gospel that life is greater than
any one idea of life. But at times the eager
ness Of tho preacher weakens tho message
His people, though not inoarnate notions,
are too often incarnate impulses.
If 1t were not for these signs of change,
one could almost think that In real life, too,
not fiction only, but personality, is fading
into the abstract 1t is possible that these
impalpable heroes and heroines represent
an actual ioosening of grip on reality on
the part of people supposed to be alive
There aren't any real women in tho
world any longer, said clever critic the
other day. "They are just ideas You
might fall in love with half dozen of
them and not know it.
The remark carries with it warning to
a generation moro interested in questions
about life than in living.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
Didn't Look Reasonable.

The other day Maurice Thompson, the
writer, visited Calhoun, Ca, his old boy
hood homo.
"Who' 8 that yanders" asked an old coun-
tryman, indicating Thompson, who was
standing before "a grocery store whiting a
pine box.
1.-The tall fellow"
eyes.
"That's Thompson-Maurice Tbomp-
son.
'whatl Tho felior what use ter play
eroun hercgn
''The very same.
"You don't tell mC?"
"Fact. But he's At great man now-one
Of tho most successful OF literary men,
"Onpossiblep'
Fact I tell you. Hes great man
now.
"Well, +" said the old man doubtfully,
chit may DO So but hit don't look reason
able 4"
Not reasonable
mol Nily''-and he drew closer and
lowered his voice llttle-''ho used ter 60
flshin with lnor'-New York Tribune.