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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02
A SPINSTER'S REVERE
written for The Herald

The bells were tolling softly and
solemnly, calling on all good people to
partake of spiritual food. But feeling
that 1 would rather stay at home and
mediate, 1 settled myself in a COM
Portable chair by the window. Look
ing out on the prospect before me 1
| beheld, first, green velvety lawns
separated merely by hedges, some
trees still bare and solitary, others
clothed in tiny leaflets, and having the
appearance of being touched by the
reviving breath of spring. The street
was quiet, and there was nothing to
di9cract ones attention except the dis
turbance caused by the whirring of
the electric cars. This noise, however,
subsidized very soon and then my
thoughts became fixed upon the in
ward life, and the outer world was en-
tirely forgotten.
Yes the year 1896 has arrived mark
ing my thirtieth birthday. Child
hoods days are 50 dim and distant
that they form but shadowy dream in
my horizon, and what do these years
have in store for me? Toll and toll is
the motto of the day. The path lead
ing to my field of labor looks the same
year in and year out. Every day
trudge to the schoolhouse, teach the
youths and maidens the problems con-
tanned in books, and as near as 1 can
those contained in real life. They bide
with me for a While, disappear, and
the same set of ideas, possibly with
few variations, are impaired to other
youthful aspirants. They enter the
schoolroom with hearts throbbing in
anticipation of the great deeds to be
performed. They grow up, mingle
with the world, and find that life con-
sists of q fixed routine. Striving to
obtain money to pay for food, wearing
apparel, and shelter over their
heads When this duty has been per-
formed to nicely sleep plunges them
INTO period of oblivion, but even dur
ing this time confused images of life.
sometimes the seeming preparation of
deeds that when awake would strike
terror to the bravest heart torment
their weary brains
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02
A $40 COLD Piece
WENT WALKING Up STREET.

other finally
right there into
oneof them.
a thing do likewise
Opportunity makes the opportunity.
clothes
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06
RICHARDS TO OLNEf
The Governor Addresses the Secretary
In Emphatic Terms.
As TO THE CREE PROBLEM
NJ ontana's Executive Contends.
hat II Is the Juty OF the ed
eral Government 70 Remove
the Canadian Subjects.


Special Dispatch TO the Standard
Helena, Feb. 5.-GOvernor Richards
to-day received a letter from Secretary
Olney on the Cree question. The sec
retary reminds the governor that the
Canadian government In 1892 agreed to
receive the vagabond Crees and says
that the department will take up the
matter at once. He says II the domin-
ION government agrees TO take is wards
back the state viii be expected TO take
prompt action towards having them
removed. Governor Richards IS not a.
ul satisfied with the apparent inten-
tious OF the department. lie thinks
that the general government must take
the responsibility and pay the expense
of moving the Indians. His reply mall
ed 10 the secretary to-day was emphat-
&c. The governor said after aclSnowl-
odging the receipt OF the letter:
1T is wholly unnecessary for you 20
forward 70 me copies OF letters received
from British authorities IN 1892. for
copies Of such CORE sponlence have
been on file I'm my office Tor some years.
! SO Informed you In "a recent converse
tlun held with YOU relative TO the Cree
question, in the presence OF Senators
carter and Mantle and Representative
Hartman of this state. ! have at no
time boon uumiudful that the Cana
dian auth1rit..a had sirni0ed a willing
moss 10 receive the Cree Indians II de-
litorcd TO them. but. sir. l am surpris-
,d that YOU should even intimate that
the duty OF making such delivery rests
upon the authorities OF the state OF
Montana. II IS a matter OF interns-
tional character and the removal ot
these Indians rests wholly within the
authority OF the federal government.
ANY attempt by tho state OF Montana
10 remove these Indians that resulted
ina bloodshel would result in interna-
tional complications. and this state
would be held 10 a strict accountable
ity by your department.
I'm addition - deuredations commit
tel by these Indians upon isolated
dwellings. upon live stock anf1pou the
game preserve ~ this state. smallpox
has broken ont among them IN some 10
callties. uecessItatius r.-ld quarantine
as well as local appropriations to pro
tert them from starvation. Some
months ago scarlet fevor was introduc-
81 into one Of our leading cities % the
state by these Indians and was stamp
"a out only AZ "a great expense after
many lives had been sacrificed. Not
withstaudiug these facts. I infer from
your letter that even should Montana
assume the right 10 deliver these In
dians 20 the Canadian authorities such
course would be acceptable 20 your de-
rartmgnt only I'm tho event that "A IA
vorable reply shall be received NJ tho
embassy I'm other words. Montana
must indefinitely abide the Cree nut
sauce with an II implies. unless thu
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06
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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06

appropriation bills ran through tn" en-
tire afternoon. and was not cuu.lLi'i
when. at 4.30 O'Clock, the senate went
into executive session, and at o-0J
o'clock adjourned until tomorrow.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06
Annual
Inventory
Sale...

Our stock Of Watches,
Jewelry. Clocks and silver
ware is exceptionally large
and to reduce same before
inventory
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-06

Port Townsend Wash. Feb 5-Ths
EIlush steamer ArEenbevod. from Ja-
pan. arrived to-day. she was lons
overdue aua fears had been expressed
for her SAFETY
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
The Metaphor Completed.

Billy Mason made red-hot speech
at republican meeting tonight. He
quoted the end of the speech of the
Boy Orator that won the nomination at
Chicago, about the crown of thorns !"
and "cross of gold" "And this from
a democrat" said Mason, ga demo-
crat whose party has been engaged in
shaking dice for undershirts and giving
us vinegar on sponge to drink for the
last four years. Like Pontius PLATE of
old, he washes his hands in the pres
ence of the multitude and seeks to di-
vest himself of responsibility. He
talks of crucifying, does hep Does he
not remember that there would have
been no crucifixion if Judas had not
got stuck on silver? Judas has be-
trayed his party into the populstic
garden of Gethsemane, but, thank God,
the jingle of silver will not betray
seventy millions of American people"
Then did the populace of Centralia
yell. Ityelled itself out of voice, and the
echo of the yells could be heard at the
station, where the Boy Orator was wait
ing for his train. The Boy Orator got
back to Salem at eleven O'Clock and he
went right to bed.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
The Three RS Of 1896.

The Chicago platform declares for a
fifty-three-cent dollar as full legal
tender for all debts, public and private |;
and, consequently, for the forcible OBJ
liberation OF forty.seven per cent of all
indebtedness, private or public.
That is Reputation.
The Chicago platform also demands
a renewal OF the attempt to impose an
income tax, class tax levied against
the accumulations of industry and
thrift, confscating the earnings and
savings of the few for the benefit of the
many.
That is Robbery.
Again, the Chicago platform threat
ems the curtailment of the powers of
the Judiciary, the bulwark of life,
property, and our institutions against
the enemies of society; and it likewise
threatens to pack the bench of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in Or
der that the projects of Populism may
not be checked hereafter in that quar-
ter.
That is Revolution.
Mr.. Bryan stands for all three, Re-
pudiation, Robbery, and Revolution
New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
The Only Way.

Democrats who cannot stomach the
Chicago platform and ticket, who want
to see free silver, free riot, and the
rest of the red programme beaten, and
yet are reluctant to vote for Major Nc
Kinley and are talking of setting up a
third ticket, may save themselves some
future regrets by bordering the reply
made the other day by Senator Jones
of Arkansas, chairman of the Bryan
national committee, to the question,
I" Do you fear the placing of an indie
pendent gold democratic ticket in the
tield?" "Not in the least" answered
Senator Jones. "Why should we? 1t
will not carry any state, and the only
votes it will get will be of those dem
ocrats aoho aoould other,oise vote for Nc
Kinley or else go fishing" Senator
Jones is shrewd politician. He knows
perfectly well that third ticket would
be mere soap bubble. He will not
lose any sleep over an independent
democratic ticket. 1t is the democrats
who vote for Mckinley who will be
dangerous to the reputation ticket.
There is no difference betW cen voting
for the reputation ticket and giving
it a chance to win by refusing to
strengthen the only adversary that can
beat it. 1t will be disagreeable to dem
ocrats to vote for Mckinley. The tri-
umph of Bryan and the revolutionary
programme would be a good deal more
than disagreeable. 1t would be ruinous
and disgraceful.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

political sans culotte doing business
over the signature that belongs to none
but democracy. - Davenport Uowa)
Democrat.
The Weekly has from the first in
sisted that the money issue is para
mount in this campaign, and it will
therefore support the candidate of the
republican party. 1t believes that the
welfare and the honor of the country
are involved, and that the protection
and maintenance of both are largely
dependent on the election Of Mr.. Nc.
Kinley, because his party has promised
the country that it will preserve the ex-
listing money standard, and will defend
it from the assaults of the selfish, the
dishonest, and the ignorant persons
who controlled the democratic conven-
ton at Chicago,-Harper's Weekly.
SOMETHING must, of course, be par
doned newspaper which, having been
greatly agitated on behalf of the coun'
try because of the danger of free silver
coinage through the success of the re-
publican party in the coming national
election, finds itself constrained be-
tween Saturday night and Wednesday
morning to turn a double somersault
and land with both feet upon plat
form demanding the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at ratio of sixteen
to one. And when, in addition, it finds
it necessary to endorse the condemna-
ton of president and an administra-
ton which for three and half years il
has held up to its readers as the per.
sonification of political righteousness
it is small wonder the utterances of the
Argus DC Patriot in its current issue
are somewhat vague, not to say in.
coherent.-St. Adams Messenger.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
Lives of Mckinley and Hobart.

1t is the object of this book to give clear,
impartial, authentic, and complete history
of the public career and private lives OF
William Mckinley and Garrett A. Hobart
from boyhood to the present date; to record
facts incidents, anecdotes, stories, and ex-
periences that will reveal the true charac-
ter of the men and enable us to see them
exactly as they are. This is not only the
best but it is the cheapest campaign book
extant. This is the peoples edition, author
lied by Mckinley himself, and its price
one dollar :and upwards-brings it within
the reach Of all. There is no life of the can
didates "as good as" or as low in price as
Hon. Henry b. Russell's. Its author is
distinguished az one Of the most brilliant
journalists of our day. AS personal friend
of both candidates, 1t was natural that he
should be chosen as their biographer. The
illustrations are mainly from photographs
supplied by Mckinley himself and by mem
bers OF his family. They are beautiful
specimens of the engraver's skill. Agent
for Washington county, j. M. Kent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
South Woodbury. Items.

The Angels held picnic on Nelson
pond last Saturday.
Dana Conner and Abbie Minard were
married on Sunday, July 12
e. e. Ball has taken away the old piazza
on the south end of his shop.
Marion Wheeler, little daughter of B. W.
Wheeler, was cut on the forehead last
week by mallet head hitting her.
Mrs. Austin Carr, who died very suddenly
from heart failure while playing croquet,
was buried last Saturday. She leaves a
husband and two small boys TO mourn her
loss.
1t is expected that the Woodbury. Center
nine will play ball with the North Montpel-
Ter nine next Saturday on Pray's meadow.
The Center boys played on this ground last
Saturday.
The Band of Hope held their meeting last
Sunday evening. The programme con-
sisted OF speaking and singing and few
remarks from the pastor We hope their
numbers will keep increasing. There are
now fifty-eight members, and they are an
earnest set OF workers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
Press Notes.

BRYAN says he is child of destiny.
A backwoods philosopher once said
that wedding is destiny, and hangin'
likewise"
MCKINLEY has made twenty-four
speeches in the past twenty-eight days,
and the boy Orator" will have to do
some hustling to keep up his record
for talk-while for sense he will not
be in it.
If the democratic convention had
been deliberately destined to construct
declaration of principles calculated to
drive men out of the party, it could
hardly have done it's work more effec-
tively.-Atlanta Journal.
THE Le,oiston Sun will not support
the platform or nominees of the silver
democratic convention. The accept
ance of silver platform, the Sun hon
estly believes, would bring disaster and
panic. 1t means the reputation of the
country's honest OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ton Sun.
WE will not stultify our record by adj
vocating the election of the nominee.
We are democratic; this platform and
ticket are anarchistic, socialistic, every
thing but democratic. We cannot Join
movement in which Altgeld and Till
man and their sort are set up as apos-
tles.-Chattanooga Daily Times.
NEVER before, in its remembered
history, have the councils around the
democratic campfire been usurped by
the repudiationist, the pOpulist, the
renegade republican, and the political
nondescript as they have been up to
this moment in Chicago. The demo-
Graf who loves his party we'll and his
country better trembles as he sees the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
The Issue..-State and National.

In round numbers, there are some
$4,000 depositors in the savings banks
of Vermont, and the aggregate deposits
are about $50, 100000 Probably $685.
100000, five-sixths of this aggregate,
represents accounts of less than 81 800
each; and $4,000, 900, or two-thirds of
the aggregate, is in accounts of less
than $500 each. These deposits are
made by laboring men and women, by
farmers, by guardians and by trustees
of estates, and in the greater number
of instances represent the savings of a
lifetime, the whole OF the depositor's
worldly wealth. These deposits are a
debt owed by the banks to the depos-
itors. The deposits have been made in
gold, or in money at parity with gold,
and the officers of the banks have in
vested this money in notes, bonds,
stocks and mortgages payable in as good
money as was loaned on these securi-
ties.
The democratic platform recently
adopted at Chicago demands the free
and unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of 10 to
l, without waiting for the aid or con-
sent of any other nation" 1t de-
mands, further, " that the standard
silver dollar shall be full legal tender,
equally with gold, for all debts, public
and private" When Senator Hill of
New York proposed an amendment
| providing that this change shall not af-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22
ao4attbmam 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, JULY %, 1896.
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.

The subscription price of the WAToHMAN
10 $500 a year. For cash, strictly in advance,
reduction of fifty cents is made Subscrip-
tions are reckoned By the month. To be en-
titled to the S150 rate, arrears must be paid
at the rate of $500 year to end of month in
which settlement is made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

A DECISION was rendered in New York
last Friday by Surrogate Fitzgerald sustain
ing the report of David w. Clure, appraiser,
holding that the 50, 100000 bequest of Jay
Gould TO his son, George Could was ex-
empt from the inheritance tax on the
ground that it was bequest made to Mr..
Gould in return for valuable services rem
dered his father
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

WILLIAM G. WHITNEY, in the sub
joined dispatch to the United Press,
New York, manages to make his course
as clear as the MONDAY sun: "Will you
be kind enough to correct the state
ment that desire the endorsement by
the state organization of the Chicago
ticket? There are no possible condi-
tions or circumstances that would in
duce me to vote for it or assist it,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

"CYCLoNE " DAVIS, the sturdy pop
ulist from the Lone Star state, will have
nothing to do with the southern brig
adler. I" If we are beaten by him." he
says, eve will make him stand on a
platform that will make those eastern
democrats think that they have swal-
lowed bushel of centipedes." Cent?
pedes and vitriol are as bread and milk
to the democratic stomach that revolts
not at the Chicago platform.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

The list of democratic papers bolt
ing the Chicago platform and candi-
dates now exceeds one hundred, and
probably the returns are far from COM
plete. Some twenty are in New York
state and city; an equal number in
New England; six in New Jersey; over
thirty in the South, and many of the
leading papers in the West.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

ST. LOUIS is again the center of
political Interest. Two national con-
ventions are held there to-day-the
populists and the silver party. The
latter is entirely independent of the
former and will unquestionably accept
the silver plank of the Chicago plat
form and the nominees of the demo-
Gratis. With the populists the case is
entirely different. The schism in the
democratic party on the question of
the free coinage of silver is equalled in
dimensions and violence in the peo-
ple's party by division on the question
of nominating or Of endorsing the NOM
ination of Bryan and Sewall. The
Southern States, whose delegates and
those who agree with them are dis.
tinguished as middle of the road
populists, are infexibly opposed TO any
affiliating with the democrats. They
are for the Omaha platform, its sub
treasury scheme, greenback distribu-
ton, Notwithstanding bonds, grad
uated income tax, free coinage of silver,
and for the nomination of simon-pure
populist ticket The western popu-
lists are for nominating Bryan and
Sewall, and all the forces of the tri-
umphant wing at the late democratic
convention are working to secure the
alliance Of the populists. Over this
question the contest wakes hot. The
southern delegates say they have been
cheated at the polls by the democrats,
their candidates counted out, treated
worse than the negroes, and they will
have nothing to do with the democratic
party. Their weakness is the fact that
they have no strong leader around
whom they can rally. The other fac
ton knows just whom it wishes to
nominate, is led by the old populist
leaders in the West, and is aided and
abetted by the populist democrats.
They are likely to win, and the other
faction is likely to bolt and put up a
straight populist ticket Thus may
another political house be divided
against itself.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

The silver republicans who bolted at
st. Louis have gone over to the DEM
ocratic camp, and the democrats are in
camp with the populists and anarchists.
Black spirits and white,
Blue spirits and grey;
Mingle mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-22

THE newspaper organ and the abject
servitor of the ring that recently came
out of the fiery furnace at Burlington
with the smell of fire and the fumes of
birthstone on it's garments, recently
made the startling announcement that
"the Vermont republicans have a
journalistic Altgeld in their midst"
This paper suggested that an un-
prejudiced observer of recent political
events in this state might more rea-
sonably conclude that the Vermont
republicans have the Forty Thieves
in their midst" The contemporary,
with that intellectual acumen and
brilliance that so distinguish it, con-
strues this suggestion as ga plea Of
guilty by sheet published at the state
capital" But why does the Free Press
rise up when the Forty Thieves are
mentioned?
SPEAKER REED will not only take an
active part in the national campaign,
but he will also be a power in the state
and congressional elections in Maine,
which will occur in September, in order
to show the country the falsity of the
claim put forward by Mr.. Sewall, the
democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent, that the silver sentiment is on the
increase in Maine and in New England.
He believes that the best way to show
this is to pile up an enormous repub-
lican majority in September in his
state, and he intends using all his i'm
mense power as a campaigner towards
the accomplishment of that end. 1t
would be well-nigh impossible for big
Tom Reed to add to his popularity
among republicans, but if anything
would do it it would be this course.
His action will make him new and
staunch friends, because:it will show,
what all his personal friends, including
Governor Mckinley, already know, that
he is not sore-headed because he did
not get the presidential nomination.
INSIGNIFICANT as was the part
played by Mr.. Bryan in the two con-
crosses in which he served, it was suf-
fcient to stamp him as being untitled
for the presidency of the United States
Progressive Americans have been in
favor of the building and maintenance
of navy sufficiently strong to com
mand the respect of foreign nations,
and the events of the last few years
have fully justified the correctness and
patriotism of that position. There
have been several times when the
strength of the navy has been factor
the principal factor, many believe,-in
preventing war. Mr.. Bryan proved his
unprogressivenes when he was in the
house, and when the navy was more
than twenty-five vessels weaker than il
is to-day, by opposing the building Of
new ships, on the ground that the navy
was then strong enough. 1t is suct
things as these, and not platitudinoui
speeches delivered in sonorous tones
and with dramatic gestures, which