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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14

country is deeply interested, and the
legitimate result of the situation is its
offer and desire for annexation.
FARMERS and others who are inter-
ested in the production of sugar in the
United States will have no great love
for the party which threatened even
the life of the tariff bill in order to pre-
vent the adoption of the bounty clause
giving a quarter of cent per pound as
an encouragement for the production
of beet sugar. Reference was made
last week to the fact that an amend
ment was proposed in the Senate to
the tariff bill, paying quarter of a
cent pound bounty for term of five
years on beet sugar produced in the
United States. The Senate would have
promptly passed this but for the an
nouncement OF Chairman Jones of the
Democratic National Committee that
the proposition would be met with a
prolonged and indefinite discussion
which would greatly delay and perhaps
injure the final passage of the tariff bill.
The sugar trust is greatly opposed to
the encouragement of the beet sugar
productions the United States, and it
will be remembered that Senator Jones
is one of the men who framed the pres
ent low tariff law in way to make the
sugar trust the most powerful and sue
cessful organization in the United
States.
THE hit bird futtered again last
Tuesday in the Mortified NeDs sane
tum, and the frantic efforts of the ed
itor of that paper to get himself out of
the hole into which his own utterances
had thrown him was the most amusing
and entertaining feature of the State
exchanges during the past week. In
his hysterical but vain attempt to
square himself with Sheriff Collins and
Deputy Sheriff Graves he departs en-
tirely from any semblance of truth, and
states that the Ne,Us never suggested
that the conduct of these county Of
fcials needed Investigating. Were the
game worth the powder the deadly par
allel would be sprung upon this unfor-
tunate editor, showing that the original
paragraph in the columns of the Ne,cs
in regard to the conduct of the sheriff
and his deputy, for which the WATCH
MAN promptly called the Ne,os down,
closed with these words, "The matter
ought to be investigated" Before the
editor of the News accuses the WATCH.
MAN of making false statements he
ought to remember the glass house in
which he lives. The Ne,os is occa.
sionally interesting, sometimes bright
but more frequently tiresome. Its ed.
itor Is to be commiserated on the fact
that from street rumors coming from
hangers on at police court in Montpelier
he called in question the integrity Of
two prominent and faithful officials Of
Washington county, for which he evil
IDENTITY long since repented in sackclott
and in ashes. A square retractior
would have been honorable, but such
beating about the bush and outrageous
lying is ridiculous.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14

The death of Senator Harris of Ten
nessee, has once more made Repre-
sentatives Mcmillan and Richardson,
of that State, rivals; they both want to
go to the Senate, just as they both
wanted the minority leadership in the
House, but that went to Bailey, of
Texae
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14

THE gold Democrats are already in
dicating a determination to stand in
line with the Republicans againt free
silver even though the new tariff bill
has not been framed on Democratic
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-14


Business is picking up a little AZ ,lee quar-
ries.
The Orangemens Society celebrated July
II in their usual way.
.Teamester Lucas lost one OF his horses by
a sunstroke last week.
All the quarries stopped work every
afternoon last week on account OF the ex-
treme heat.
A. NJ. Morrison has resigned his position
as foreman for Mr.. Gazeley to attend to his
livery stable.
Norman McAuley was Frustrated by the
heat while working in Gazeley's hay field
last Wednesday
VIM, vigor and victory; these are the
characteristics Of De Wits Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for constipa-
ton, biliousness and all stomach and liver
troubles w, E. Terrill & Co.
Topsham.
Farmers are busy haying, = Mrs,
Morrison is visiting with friends in Rye
gate. - Josie Morrison is working for
Everett Sawyer. - The creamery paid
its patrons fifteen and three-fourths cents
for butter in June. Charles Weed OF
Concord is at home. - Il. L. Corson and
wife have been staying for few days at
the home OF Mrs. Corson's father. Josiah
Page. s. Leon Brown Is helping Josiah
Page with his haying. - Married In
Groton July 3, by Rev. w. l. Todd, Eugene
Bishop to Matte johnson, both OF Orange.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-30

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
ails to cure. % cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-30

As pleasant as honey and sure cure for
Indigestion, Dyspepsia. BIiousRsss, Stomach TFou-
bes. Bowel Disorders. LIVER Diseases, irreau-
lariy, Kidney Troubles, headache, Feyers.
Sick Stomach, Skin and Stood Disorders,
Thick and Salio@ Complexion,
And very many other disease &Gd com
plicaJi0n, due 81 an Inactive
tate of he bowels
PRUNELINE is me safes sd surest
"a hartic and aperieat Que caa use 1t
thoroughly cle,,iss,s with 'us srjping.
purifies the blood and removes All Ha>te
from the system. T. does away with
Castor Oil, Salts. Blue NJ ass and all
other nauseous purgauives. It tones and
energizes all the great organs of the
system. 1t is free from ali harshy act
ing drugs. and is always safe, always
ready, always reliable.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-30

Words said Mirabeau, words
are things" Aware of that
fact. those who serve the money
power by speech and pen are wont to
dub those who entertain sentiments adj
verse to government by money as an
archists, socialists and communists. But
be not daunted ON this contest by epithets.
The very combination of epithets will
show that they are words, nothing more
An anarchist is one who is opposed to all
government He is the ne plus ultra of
individualism. Society has nothing to
fear from the few hundred throughout
the Union processing that faith. At the
very opposite pole are the communists
who believe in government for every
thing, in the community Of goods. This
system failed under the Apostles them
selves who gave it a trial, and it is not
likely to be tried with any success again
while poor human nature remains what
it is. Between those two opposite poles,
anarchism or no government on the one
band and communism or government in
everything at the other lies socialism.
Every civilized government is to a large
extent and almost in proportion to its
degree of civilization socialistic. The orr
ginal conception Of government was
policeman with a big stick to prevent or
punish murder and violence, theft and
other crimes so that property and person
might be secure. But we have become
far more socialistic than that crude be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
UNITED STATES NOTES.

! The withdrawal of the United States
notes is still a live question, and will
continue to be one for some time. They
are but phase of the general fnan-
cial question, which will continue to
come up at intervals until it is finally
settled.
Senator Sherman, who is regarded as
the greatest authority among public
men on the subject of finances has
written to Senator Walker of Con-
necticut giving his views upon the re-
tirement of the United States notes.
He says:
United States Senate Chamber, Wash
ington.
ALBERT H. Walker: My Dear Sir
Your kind note is received. I do not
sympathiZe with the movement pro-
posed to retire United States notes
from circulation. 1 believe it is easy
to maintain a limited amount of these
in circulation, without danger or diff
Guilty. The maintenance in circulation
of $346. O0O 900 United States notes, sup
ported by reserve of $100,000O00 gold,
rot only saves the interest on $346, OO0,-
900 of debt, but is a vast convenience
to the people at large.
THE best form of paper money is
that which is backed by the govern
ment, and maintained at the specie
standard. The absolute security of
these notes was never called in ques-
ton, after the resumption of specie
payments in 1879, until the reserve was
being trenched upon, to meet deficien-
cies in current revenue brought about
by what is known as the Wilson tariff
law. of 1894 Very truly yours,
JOHN SHERMAN
There is no use IN keeping the reserve
and the notes, too. If the notes are
to be kept in circulation of course there
must be a reserve. If the notes were
retired. no matter how, there would
be no necessity for maintaining a gold
reserve. The notes are always a men
ace to the reserve. They are little if
any better than the notes issued by
the national banks so long as the notes
of the latter are secured by government
bonds. So long as government notes
circulate it is always in the power of
any money syndicate TO institute run
upon the gold reserve, and nothing
could prevent it. Free coinage of sill
yer is the cure for these evils.
The Wilson Go1man bill has not been
successful as a revenue producer, but
this is very largely owing to the fact
that times have been very hard indeed
for some years past. The last year that
the Mckinley law was in force it pro-
duced a deficit that still holds the
record for any one year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
A RADICAL REFoRMER.

Mrs. Charles r. Lowell of New York
is a radical reformer. She says that
every one of the present generation
must have his funeral and new gen
Grafton be educated upon different lines
before we can expect any sort of de-
sirable reform. That may all be, but
the scheme is not wholly without it's
difficulties. For instance, who are of
the present generation? First of all
that would have to be determined. But
how shall it be determined? A census
Of all people now living in the United
States would seem to be the best
means. Then when this was done the
individuals Of the generation would
have to be identified; and when iden-
titled, registered.
When all this work had been DONE
some of the present generation would
insist on living even longer than a gov
eminent pensioner A happy thought
suggests itself. As Mrs. Lowells scheme
is very much after the order of
Utopia why not do as the Utopians
did and kill off all those who are use
less. as the present generation is, ac-
cording TO Mrs. Lowell?
Even after this there would be diff
ficulties. The generation to come would
be the inheritors of the ideas and ira
ditions of the generations that are
gone. and the seeds of evil would still
be in them. Then, again. if all the
present generation were dead, taking
the present generation as meaning all
living beings in this country, there
could be no generation to follow. In
that event, the whole difficulty would
be done away with.
Mrs. Lowell says that "a nation
which for three generations has ac-
guessed in a system of dishonest ap-
pointments TO public office, in dishonest
work of public officers, in dishonest re-
movals from public Office, could not
remain honest in other relations. The
poison has worked into the very life
of our people We are a dishonest ma
ton. We do not do honest work any
where"
Mrs. Lowell takes herself altogether
too seriously; she identifies herself al
together too closely with the nation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
A MISGUIDED JUDGE.

A rather remarkable case occurred
in Kansas City one day last week. 1t
was that of a boy, not yet u years of
age, who was prosecuted by his father
for theft. When he came into court
he was handcuffed to d highwayman.
The Star relates the case as follows:
who complains against the boy?"
asked Justice Kruger
4 do" answered grizzly-faced
man.
DO you know him."
We'll, I ought to; I'm. his father"
and the grizzly-faced man smiled a
sickly smile
Has he ever done wrong before? q"
asked the justice.
NO"
And you are going to send the lit
tie fellow 10 Jail for his first offense?
Don't you know that the association
with such men as that highwayman
will make a criminal out of him?"
I suppose so. 1 want to prosecute
him just the same. He took S25 out of
my cash drawer. 1 got it most all
back though and the father leered
triumphantly at The son, who was sob
bing gently and trying to wipe the
tears away with the back of his free
hand.
Come here, Theodore" said the jus
tice. The handcufc were removed.
What made you steal the money!"
Il was hungry, sir"
Don't you get enough to eat at
home?"
4 'spose SO, but she beats me-"
"Who?"
MY second stepmother'
Where do you live?"
twenty-five hundred and ten Nc
Gee street.
We'll, Theodore don't believe you
are really guilty Of any crime, but
have to send you to jail for five DAYS
because your father insists When You
get out go away from home. Almost
I imagine would be an
on your present home"
The justice was almost moved to
tears as the boy left the courtroom.
again handcuffed to the highwayman.
The following morning the judge went
to the county Jail and related the
case of the boy 10 the prosecuting at
torney and requested his release, which
was readily granted.
In sending that boy. who seems to
have been ill-treated by brute of a
father, to jail for a single minute, the
Judge made a great mistake, but his
to the boy and his whole con-
duct shows that it was of the head
and not of the heart. He should have |
refused TO sentence the boy, for it was
evident that the fathers complaint
was made through vindictiveness. The
Judge tempered justice with mercy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
THE LEGISLATURE.

The legislature meets this morning.
1t is Utah's second state legislature;
it is Utah's first Democratic state leg
islature
The record of the first Republican
legislature was such that the people
refused to return that party to power,
and entrusted the management of the
states affairs. so far as the legislature
and county offices are concerned, to
the Democratic party. Had there been
an election for general state officers.
they too would have been Democrats.
The remarkable reversal of political
opinion in the state within a wear
shows how necessary IL is that the
legislature keep in touch with the peo-
pie, never forgetting that they are
their servants and not their masters.
The fate, not the example, of the Re
publican legislature should always be
kept in mind.
Not many laws are needed. The
work of the code commission will
have to be passed upon, and adopted
or rejected; no doubt it will be adopt
ed, but it should be very thoroughly
scrutinized to see that it is all that
it should be before being adopted.
Pass as few laws as possible; there
is more danger of enacting too many
than too few laws.
Let appropriations of public moneys
be only such as are necessary; and al
ways upon an economical basis
Grant no public moneys to any pri-
vate enterprise under any pretext
whatever.
Make taxes as light as possible, for
the burdens of the people are already
heavy.
Let the session be as short as posi-
bic, consistent with the well doing of
necessary work
Play for no politics, but let the rec
ord of the legislature speak for the
party
The responsibility for the work of
the legislature is entirely upon the
Democratic party and not upon the
Republican.
The approval of the governor for the |
of any legislation is not
necessary with the overwhelming
Democratic majority. The approval |
Of the people is necessary for all Iegis-
lation.
The interests of the people of the
state are the true interests of the
Democratic party.
Let the Democratic legislature bear
in mind always that the record it
makes viii be the test of fitness of the
Democratic. party to control and ad-
the affairs of the state of
Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

it impossible for the bad to be mis-
taken for the good. it is feared mat
tiers will remain as they are. Indiffer-
ence blocks the way at present. But
let the care OF the streets get into the
clutches of a fad, and much will be
forgiven
All very true, and exceIIently said.
The women of Boston no doubt have a
fruitful field before them, but to ask
them into it as laborers without any
voice in what shall be done except to
perform the tasks assigned them, is
not very encouraging to them. 1t is
all very well to ask why the women
OF Boston do not take a hand in the
management of affairs that so affect
the appearance and civic happiness of
city They do not simply because
they are asked to take a hand in the
superficial management Of matters and
nothing more. Why not give them
voice at the polls? Then they would
take an interest.
II things are to remain as they are
in Boston and the day of finer taste
is not to be ushered until the women
OF Boston take an interest in carrying
out the laws and ordinances, would it
not be the part of wisdom to give them
a voice in making the laws and ordi-
nances? If needed reforms are not to
come until they do take an interest,
why not create an interest in them
forthwith by granting them the suf-
frage? Give them the elective fran
chise and the interest will soon fol-
low.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
TALES OF THE DAY.
She Preferred TO Stand.

Boston Post: There is Just one vacant
seat in the Brookline car when it stopped
at Massachusetts avenue. and three
women got in The first two were friends
bound matinee-wards and they reached
the vacant seat first. Then the following
dialogue ensued:
You take it. dear; really don't care
to sit down"
No. no, I'm not the least bit tired;
please do sit there" gurgied her friend.
sweetiy.
But I don't want it,
And I'd rather stand.
Just then the third woman slipped by
them and wriggled into the vacant seat.
That ended al argument and the pair
reached for straps, shooting vicious glan-
ces at the unconscious woman who had
defrauded them.
Il beg pardon" began one of them, in
dignantly, but you have our seat
nm sorry" was the reply, delivered
with a smile OF SURPRISING sweetness,
but l understood that you preferred to
stand" and she began to regard the ad-
vertising signs with rapt attention
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
WOMEN AND CITY GOVERN
MENT.

The Chatterer in the Boston Herald
says: What a blessing it would be
to society at large if some of it's idle
butterflies who cosset infant lions and
exploit young art and dutter from
celebrity to celebrity in search of ever
vanishing excitement should make it a
fad to improve Boston. They have a
fruitful field before them, now this
poor old town is in a transition state.
and some of that energy going to waste
over nonentities might be exerted to in
spirit the community with a finer sense
of Improvement. Instead of letting
things slide, and leaving the newer
and greater Boston to chance. WHY not
take a hand in the MANAGEMENT of
superficial affairs that so affect the
appearance and the civic happiness of
city. When one constantly hears i'm
portant citizens repining at their dis
comforts and bewailing the selfshness
that is rendering their native place less
and less attractive, the question arises
Whose fault is it? Public opinion has
titanic power, but, unfortunately. il
moves, it speaks when the mischief is
done, the mistake has been made.
Then. too, personal interests are in the
balance Between the lack of native
taste and the Spectator there is not
much room for work, but the hope of
Boston's future as a center of wealth
and all that wealth creates lies in
what women are doing for it. Until
our women take an interest in carry
ing out the laws and ordinances, in en-
couraging the finer tastes, and making
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

preached to us at home and at churcn;
TO be sure, our sins bring US good deal
of punishment here on earth, but II us
and all our forefathers have been wrong
about hell I don't Just see how we can
be sure about heaven. Lookin at it that
way knocks the bottom out of every
thing 1t don't leave nothin' to cling to.
Don't you see it don't Marthy2"
Not quite. That would be surrenderln
our faith I'm not smart enough to make
out all Eta says or to answer when l
don't just agree with her. But. if / don
mistake the whole thing means that they
are givin the Lord credit for a little more
mercy than we used to do. They don [
think they'll stir UP his wrath by gettin'
closer to him and bein' more like children
to him. But, 'Lijah. no matter what way
you look at it there is solid ground for
us to stand on. We will keep right on
tryin' to live by the golden rule and the
commandments. If we do that we are
safe, no matter what the old teachers
or the new may study out. There IS
nothin' that calls on US to change our
course
You always could see things clear.
Marthy. There's nothin' fer me TO
trouble about"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
HORSES EAIRs TELL THE AGE.
New Way of Accurately Determining
the Animals Years on Earth.

New York Times: If perchance at
any time you see a man stealthily pull
a hair from a horses tail by the curb
ing you may know that he has the
experimental stage of the horsehair
| fad
/ The idea is this: Suspend a gold ring
from a piece of hair over half glass
of cold water and the ring will begin
to swing two and fro until it hits the
sides of the glass. Furthermore, 1t
viii strike the exact age of the horse,
or if it be a persons hair, of the per-
son upon whose head it grew
Recently a horse stood by the door
of shop on a side street. A hair from
his tail tied to the gold ring and duly
suspended swung twice only. the ring
shrinking out the two clinkS audibly
against the side of the glass. 'Ho,
hoi" quoth the skeptic, that horse is
II years Old Not so,' said the
owner of the horse. who was hunted
up. That's a 2-year-old colt" A hair
from the head of a very interested
young lady was distracted by her
from among its companions. The same
experiment was made, and the ring
struck 20-well, no matter just how
many-but she said well, that's my
very age" Another lady was agree
able, and this time the ring clattered
until it struck 81. 1t was her age.
A horse on a hack was unaware of
the exact moment when a hair was
pulled or of the experiment that rung
out II times on the glass of time
That said wrong" said man present
at the experiment. That horse is only
years old" Going home to dinner
one of the gentlemen overlook the
driver of this horse and asked him the
age of the horse. The driver laughed
and said He's most old enough to
vote Il heard that he was only -
We'll, he's twice seven and three
more
They are all converts to this wonder
full series of condolences. One thing
is absolutely certain. The ring will
swing with strange vigor. and there is
fun in the revival of the old-time mys-
terry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
WILLIE WALLIE ASToR.

Willie Wallie Astor
Slipped and sDrained ais pride;
Then he sobbed and sighed
For a porous plaster.
England is far Vasterr
Joyfully he cried
Ger the ocean wide,
| Will be a. master:
Millionaire and lisolomat
And . postmaster,
If l don't, I'll eat my hatr'
Said Willie Wallie Aston.
Willie Wallie Astor
Sailed across the sea;
This is slow said he,
Let us travel faster,
Willie knew he daster
Very swedish be;
Ran a paper free;
Met the queen and sassed her.
Millionaire and diplomat
Swelling like a Shasta:
America? Why, where is that?'
Said Willie Wallie Aston.
New York Press
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11

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