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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-30
" inter 10 Mexlc0,

Perhaps the most trying sun we have
here on the tablcland In the midwintcr
sun. 20 intense that tho native expires.
sion IL TINT ut bitcs," and yet men per.
form grcat journeys on foot or horse.
back under the sun Of winter without
injury. This may bc the classic land of
mnnnnn, Of delay and procrastinatio,.
but the people have stronger nerves.
and life. though led on simpler lines.
IL happier In many ways. Nobody goes
mad here from the heat. nobody tum.
blcs down corpse In the streets from,
the effects Of the sun. and rarely any
one remarks ab0ut the weather. From,
the time Of United States Consul
Strother down to the present time r..
siding and visiting Americans have
never wcaried Of prnlslng the incOm.
parable climate Of MexicO's tablelnntl.
Mexican Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

know whether it was poetry or not. The
public was delighted with it. And yet a
large part of it is merely music hall iingles,
ii ito be sung with banjo accompaniment.
But when in 1896 his "Seven Seas" came
out, the critics saw that he had the REL
poetry in him. Some of those powers are
wonderful. And when he wrote his 'Reces-
sionaP his political reputation was estab-
llshed. In the midst of Englands self
praise at the Jubilee, and her jingosm and
Imitation, came this quiet, moderate, ring
ing warning to be humble, a very prophet
out OF Israel, and it raised perfect storm
OF applause, showing how deeply religion
really lies at the Bottom Of all England's
greatness. 1t was great thing for Kip
ling to do. In my best judgment l think
the 'Recessionap is bound to take perma-
nent place in literature. In Captains
Courageous Kipling has thrown off a
good deal of his early fault: his vulgarity
and his impurities. It's a good Sunday
school book.
The best thing we can say about Kipling
is that he is on a steady upward trend
lie is Improving every year. We cannot
tell what he will do next, whether he will
write himself out or in the near future do
something immortal. l think the latter
hypothesis is the more probable, because
under klpling and at the bottom of his
genius is vrility and an originality that
cannot be covered up. His faults are
that he is too original, not that he lacks
anything, and this argues for the best in
the FUTURE
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
A Joint Commission Proposed

1t is entirely evident that Canada has
no idea of agreeing to settlement of the
sealing controversy by itself, but that she
means to hold this as a whip to compel the
United States to make concessions on 9TH
er points which are in dispute between the
two countries. A meeting of the Canadi-
an cabinet was held last week Immediately
after the arrival at Ottawa of Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, the Canadian premier, and Sir
Louis Davies, minister of marine, on their
return from Washington. The decision at
this meeting, it is said, was to send q COM
mission to Washington composed of men
familiar with the various questions involv-
ed to meet similar body appointed on be-
half of the United States, with ex-Secre-
tary Foster at its head, and endeavor to
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
Merchants, Week at Rns,on

Boston will open wide her doors to the
merchants of New England during next
week, and will extend to them more than
ever hearty welcome. Plans for the COM
fort, pleasure and profit of the visitors
have been long in preparation and are now
fully completed. One of the conspicuous
features of the occasion, coming next Sun
day, is to be the merchants week issue of
the Sunday journal. 1t will extend a
warm greeting to all the merchants of the
six states in very beautiful way. The
fine half-tOne section of the paper, always
notable for its attractiveness and artistic
value, is to have double the usual number
of pages, and the illustrations are to be
printed in colors. The addition of this
feature will not be permitted to detract
from the other parts of the Sunday Journ-
al, for the news sections will be as com
plete, the departments as interesting, and
the special features as attractive as ever.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

In speech before the Chamber of Com
merce of Croydon, England, President
Ritche, of the London board of trade, took
as his theme the decline of British exports,
upon which he hung a grave warning
against American competition.
"The-e is no doubt" he said, ''that the
United States are executing orders which
ought to be executed here, and you all
know an American firm obtained the con-
tract for the central underground railway
(of London), as its bid was lower than
those of the English concerns and it could
deliver the supplies three months ahead of
the British tenders. Many important con-
tinental orders have gone to America.
"The same is to be said of Egypt and
Japan, where the Americans are doing
work that Englishmen should have done.
Americas successful competition is due to
her enterprise in embarking capital, but it is
yet more due to the freedom her manufact-
urers enjoy on employing the best machine
ry and working it in the most economical
manner, untrammeled by the restrictions
which have hampered manufacturers here"
The Dingley tariff was also mentioned as
an American weapon against which Eng
land has no adequate remedy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

A sensation was produced in Boston
Tuesday by the refusal of the state board
of railroad commissioners to give it's ap-
proval to the lease of the West End street
railway system to the Boston Elevated rail-
road company. The lease cannot become
valid without the approval of the commits
sioners. Their opposition is based on two
points; first, that the lease, as drawn,
takes the West End out of the special
class of railways that may be controlled at
any time by specific legislation; second
that the proposed rental for a term of 90
years is at such high rate of interest as
to tax the earning capacity of the system
to its utmost, and it would therefore be
against the public interest by tending to
block any reforms in the reduction of ex-
isting rates of fares. This decision GER
tainly proves the integrity and independ-
ence of the railroad commission, and its
determination to protect the public inter-
ests as against the encroachments of cor
porate monopoly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

Physicians of the New York Academy
of Medicine spent several hours the other
evening discussing hypnotism as an agent
in treating certain mental and nervous dis
eases. 1t was conceded by several of the
physicians present that "a certain mental
and physical ailments the diseased condi-
tions had been ameliorated by the use of
hypnotism, where the agencies and RENE
dies usually recognized had failed But the
consensus of opinion evidently was that it
would never be of extensive practical use.
The way in which sensational newspapers
have exploited hypnotism in connection
with crime was strongly deprecated, and
one of the most prominent men present
declared that it was impossible for any
person not criminal by instinct to be made
to commit a crime through hypnotic innu-
ence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1897

reach settlement of the boundary and
other questions at issue between the two
countries. At the close of the cabinet
meeting Premier Laurier said "It is plain
to us that the sealing question cannot be
settled by itself. 1t can only be consider
ed in connection with irritating and i'm
portant questions"
When these facts became known in
Washington there was given out for the
first time a statement of the exact propo-
stion which was laid before the Canadian
officials. The proposal of John w. Fos-
ter, representing the United States govern
ment, which the Canadians took home
with them to submit to the cabinet at OF
tawa, was as follows
First-That both nations agree at once
to suspension of all killing of seals dur
ing the next season in the Pacific ocean
and the Berlng sea, the modus to 60 into
operation the first of next month.
Second-That representatives of the
governments of the United States and
Great Britain, including Canada, be desig-
mated to enter with as little delay as posi-
ole uPon Tue COnslueraJlOn OF all unsettled
questions between Canada and the United
States, with view to the settlement by
treaty, this to include the sealing question
and any other matters which either gov
ernment may choose to bring forward.
The state department has not been Off
cally advised that the Canadian cabinet
has acted on the proposition, but an early
answer is expected. as is shown by the fact
that the date set for the modus vvendi
stopping the killing of the seals to 90 into
effect is no later than Dec. /.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
1t Is a Struggle for Life.
The Austrian Premier's Sensational DE
cl"ration that Europe Must Combine
Against the United States.

clhrat1On that Europe Must Combine
Against the United States.
Count Goluchowski, the Austro- Hunga-
rian minister of foreign affairs, made an
appeal to all Europe in his recent annual
address at Vienna before the Austrian and
Hungarian delegations, TO take advantage
OF the present era of peace and to Join
closely for the vigorous defence of condi-
tlons common to each European country
as against the crushing competition of
transatlantic nations" He said: "a turn
ing point has been reached in European
development which calls for the unremit-
ting attention of government The great
problems of material we fare which become
more pressing every year are no longer
matters for the future, but REQUIRE to be
taken in hand instantly. The destructive
competition which transoceanic countries
are carrying on at present, and which is in
part to be expected in the immediate fu-
ture, requires prompt and thorough coun-
teracting measures if the vital interests of
the people of Europe are not TO be grayely
compromised.
1--WE must fight shoulder to shoulder
against common danger and arm our.
selves for the struggle with all the means
at our disposal. Just as the 10th and 18th
centuries were absorbed by religious, wars,
just as the 18th century was marked by the
triumph of liberal ideas and Just as the 10Th
century has been notable for the appear
ance of great questions of nationality, so
will the goth century be for Europe pc
riod marked by struggle for existence in
the politico-commercial spheres. Euro
pean nations must close ranks in order sue
cessfully to defend theirexistence. Nav this
be realized everywhere, and may the epoch
of peaceful development we now confidently
anticipate be employed in collecting our
strength and devoting ourselves chiefly to
this end"
This declaration produced a profound
and almost sensational impression.
1t is believed that before Count Golu
chowski made public so remarkable enun-
citation of policy he had the consent of the
other European powers with the exception
England, and spoke as the mouthpiece of
those governments. OF course by ''trans-
oceanic countries" the count meant the
United States and his declaration referred
to the industrial competition with this
country.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

While the whole country rejoices, New
Orleans rejoices most of all that its epi-
demic of yellow fever is over. The quar-
antine against the city has been removed,
business has resumed its ordinary chan
nels, and the railroad lines are once more
running their full complement of trains
through all parts of the South. 1t is esti-
mated that the visitation has cost New
Orleans, including stcppage of business,
So, 100000. One-tenth of this sum spent
in attention to the sanitary condition of
the city would doubtless have prevented
the outbreak.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
Bovine tuberculosis,
Work of the Vermont Cattle Commits
sioners for the Past Year, with Com
clusiODs and Suggestions.

Work of the Vermont Cattle Commits
clustons and Suggestions.
The report of the Vermont board of az.
riculture as cattle commissioners for the
year ending July l, 1897, which has Just
been issued, relates in the main to work
done in testing for tuberculosis. During
the year total of II, 100 cattle were tested
in herds and 1886 for drovers, or 17,7S5 in
all. The number of cattle killed was 5S4, for
which SSS06.75 was paid. The certainty
with which the tuberculin test works is
shown by the fact that of the whole num-
ber of cattle killed only five were found
free from disease. In six other cases there
was some doubt and the loss was shared by
the owner and the state jointly. The COM
missioners believe that the question so
often asked, "Does the tuberculin test
injure healthy catte?" can be answered
with positive no. The experience of the
Vermont board covers nearly 2OOO herds
and $4,000 animals and in no case has
even reasonable suspicion of injury come
to notice.
The report emphasizes the necessity of
re-testing herds until the disease has been
eradicated. During the year 1O5 animals
were killed in herds on re-tests. In the
same herds 442 animals were killed on the
first test. The proportion is practically
one-fourth-fgures which would seem to
be conclusive on this point.
The contagiousness of the disease is en-
phasized. One instance was found where
a diseased COW was tied in stable from
Saturday night until Monday morning.
Three months later four cases of the dis
ease were found in the herd, two of them
being animals on each side of the stanchion
occupied by the diseased COW. In another
case COW which afterward proved to be
diseased, was put in a tested herd known
to be free from the disease and six months
later II head of the cattle were found to be
diseased, 1t is believed that the disease
never originates in herd, but that it al
ways comes from contact with diseased
animal.
In some sections of the state, notably in
Randolph, Braintree and Brookfield, and
to great extent in Stowe and Morristown.
very thorough work has been done in test
ing herds and the disease has been practi-
cally eradicated. Comparatively few ami
mails were tested in Windham county, the
report showing only 149 in all. OF these
j. II. Ware of Townshend had 49 tested,
M. Robbins of Brattleboro, 35, H. G.
Clark, p, Geo. II. Phillips of Putney, 16,
and E. ii. Akley, Vernon, IA.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
That Extra 10 Per cent Duty Again,

1t is understood that for the last two
months Senator Elkins has been making
preparations for campaign, which he will
inaugurate Immediately after Congress con
venes, in favor of bill imposing a dis
eliminating duty of ten per cent on foreign
goods brought into the United States over
the Canadian Pacific railroad. Senator
Elkins declares that Congress meant ex-
actly what it said in the tariff law with re-
gard to the matter, but in order to remove
all doubts on the subject he will try to
have bill passed making special provis-
ion for the imposition of these special du-
ties. The measure will be bitterly opposed
by the representatives of the New England
states
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
The President Favors Arbitration
From the Burlington Free Press

From the Burlington Free Press
Hon. George F. Edmunds, president ot
the arbitration conference, who with other
representatives of that body called upon
President Mckinley recently, is said to be
confident that negotiations for a genera
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain will be concluded
and that such treaty will be ratified dur.
ing the coming winter. The President is
said to have informed his visitors that ne
gotlatlons were now in progress with the
British government, and TO have expressed
the hope that the desired end would be
reached at an early day. Moreover the
President, according to report, desires as
soon as an Anglo-American treaty is con-
cluded to enter into negotiations with
France, Germany and Russia to secure
similar conventions.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World claims to know that in
stead of a permanent treaty, as contem-
plated by the treaty which was defeated in
the Senate, the new treaty will provide that
whenever disputes arise the United States
Senate and the British government shall
each have power to determine whether the
matter in question is a proper subject for
arbitration, and if it should be so deter
mined, then both governments are to agree
upon a board of arbitrators created for the
occasion,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
Terrible Figures.
From the Springfield Union

General Blanco has informed the world
of the fearful losses of Spanish soldiers in
Cuba. One hundred and ninety-two thous-
and regular soldiers were sent to Cuba for
General Weyler's campaign. General Blan-
co tells the Spanish government that but
$4,000 of these are available or fit for du-
ty. Forty thousand are in the hospitals,
so about 5000 have died from disease or
wounds. As no real battle has been fought
and as the Cubans have a comparatively
Insignificant army, which at no time has
averaged more than $4,000 men, does it
not seem as if Spain's effort to subdue the
freedom-loving Cubans was altogether
hopeless? 1t is surprising that Spain has
permitted the publication of such terrible
figures.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

Secretary of the Treasury Gage was the
guest of honor and chief speaker at the120th
annual dinner of the New York Chamber
of Commerce which was celebrated at Del
monico's Tuesday night. Mr. Gage took
outspoken ground in favor of immediate
revision of our currency system. Lack of
such revision, he said, is the one menace
and drawback to our permanent prosperity
as a nation. He did not give his ideas on
the subject in detail, since, he said, it will
be his duty to set them forth officially a
little later.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

There are indications of determined
attack on civil service reform to be made
at the coming session of Congress, but
President Mckinley lets it be known where
he stands by so broadening the construc-
tion of his rule regarding removals from
office as to make it apply to reductions in
the service as well as to removals. His
purpose is, in short, fully to protect gov
ernment employees in all their rights under
the civil service law, and to prevent inter
ference with them for any partisan reason.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
Gbe Uermumt ]9bGmis.
TIE N PAG e S
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1897.

Canada also kept Thanksgiving yester-
day. Another bond of union between the
countries, surely.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

Senator Morrill, thinks the chances are
not good for currency reform at the COM
ing session of Congress.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26
B. MANCINI
Boots and Shoes Repaired.
Down Stairs in Thomas Judges Block,
Opposite American House.

First class work guaranteed at the f lowing
prices: Ladies' tap sole and heel, sewed, 65 cents
ladies' tap sole and heel, nailed, so cents; men 8
tap, sole and heel nailed, IS cents; mems tap,
sole and heel sewed, 81: boys tap, sole and heel,
nailed, so cents; children's tap, sole and heel
nailed IS cents rubber boots, tap and heel rs
cents Good leather and findings sold at whole
sale prices. 3S
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-11-26

ADVERTISED LETTERS.
Women-Mrs: Albert Bastin, Mrs. L. NJ. Martin,
Mrs. Julia McElray
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10
PAoroeRAPHrne TELESCOPE.

The Huge Instrument which Has
Just Deen Erected at Dublin.
The photographing telescope has
been under construction for three years
past by Sir Henry Grub, of Dublin.
The new Photographic refractor has an
object glass &c inches in diameter, with
focal length of % feet and six inches
and is the largest refractor as yet spe-
cially made for Photographic purposes.
The photographs it win take will be on
twice the scaleof the photographic map
two millimeters to one minute Of arc
and on account of it's relatively short
focal length it will possess very great
light-gathering power. For separating
close double stars and in other cases in
which larger scale is desirable and
there is an abundance of light, an en-
larging lens can be readily adapted to
magnify the image to any extent that
may be thought advantageous. The
function of the 1871 inch Merz refrac-
tor, which is mounted as guiding tel
escope, is to enable the observer to
watch the star during the mean of the
| delicate slow motions in right ascension
and declination to bring the image
back to the center of the sensitive plate
as represented by the cross of spider
| lines, should the telescope, in spite Of
all precautions fail to keep precise time
with the star. Everything included the
telescope weighs some ten or twelve
tons, about half the amount being ac-
counted for by the moving parts. The
object glass Of the large refractor
weighs, with the cell in which It Is
mounted, shout $50 pounds, the flint
disk being 1853 pounds and the crown %
pounds The mirror of the reflector
weighs, with its cell, about 500 pounds,
ind the attached spectroscope about $50
pounds.-Toledo Blade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10

During the summer OF 1891 MIR. Chas.
P. Johnson, a well known attorney OF
Louisville, KY, had very severe at
tack of summer complaint. Quite
number of remedies were tried, but
failed to afford any relief. A friend
who knew what was needed procured
him bottle OF ChambeTlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrsloea Remedy, which
quickly cured him and he thinks saved
his life. He says that there has not
been day since that time that he has
not had this remedy In his household.
He speaks Of it. in the highest praise
and takes much pleasure in recommen-
ding 1t whenever an opportunity is Of
fered. For sale by all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-10

In announcing his intention of inn
mediately returning to America, to see
If his efforts in behalf of a peaceable
and speedy solution of the strike diff
Guilty might be successful, Bishop Pot
ter has only added another star to his
crown of Americanism. When those
in high places in the church and in the
state interest themselves in behalf of
workingmen, particularly in behalf of
the mining masses among whom so
large percentage is of the lowest for
eign class, there is hope that the situa-
ton of the laborer will improve.