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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
President Andrews Pro and Con.

Twenty four of the thirty-seven mem.
have addressed an open letter to the cor
pOration of that institution in which they
protest at great length against the action
taken by the governing board toward
President Andrews, who has recently
resigned the presidency of the universi-
ty because the trustees wished him to re-
strain his enthusiasm for free silver. The
pith of the protest is found in the declara-
tion that, if the resignation OF President
Andrews is accepted, it will subject "the
whole intellectual life OF the university to
the deadening influence of known or sus-
pected repression and the burden and
stigma will tall on his successor in that Of
flee.
The best and most inclusive comment
which We have seen upon this case,
so widely discussed by the press, is that,of
the Boston Transcript, which says in sub
stance, that if President Andrews had con-
fined his teaching inside the college walls,
and if he had not been afflicted with such
an itching to catch the public ear, the cor
poration would not have felt compelled to
take any action in the premises. "If Pres
ident Andrews has deemed it best to seek
the pleasing martyrdom whose halo now
| surrounds him, he must remember that his
course imposes duties on others, who hold
that the purpose of great university is to
| cultivate mind and establish character, not
to implant theories which are open not
merely to the charge of fallacy, but also to
that of dishonesty"
In an interview published Wednesday
Congressman Joseph II. Walker of Wor-
| cester, Mass, a member of the board of
trustees of Brown university, states that he
started the movement against President
Andrews at the corporation meeting in
June. He did it, he says, as a matter of
| conscience and duty, but with the kindest
personal feeling. Mr.. Walker holds that
the trustees can no more allow the free
silver propaganda to be exploited by the
head of the college than they could have
| allowed the doctrine of estate rights" and
the right of secession TO be taught during
the war, or than they could allow the doc
trines of atheism and denunciation OF
Christianity to be made propaganda OF
| the college. In this contention we think
he is entirely right
1t is announced, by the way, that DR..
Andrews has accepted the presidency of a
new organization to be founded by John
Brisben Walker, the proprietor and editor
of the Cosmopolitan magazine, and to be
known as the Cosmopolitan University"
1t is to be modelled after the Chautauqua
school, and will be conducted by CORES.
pondence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

An experiment in economics will be
tried in New York city which promises to
| ill real want. d. O. Mills, a million
aire, has built ten-story hotel of Indiana
limestone and white brick in two parts
each in the form of hollow square, hav-
ing court yard reaching to the top and
ending in skylight. This hotel is on
lar design will be built at Clinton and
Rvington streets. The house contains
1850 small rooms, all exactly alike, and
each one has a window facing the court or
the street.
Patrons will have privacy and decency at
no greater expense than bunk in lodg-
ing house, the charge being 20 cents per
| room night. There are lockers in which
luggage may be stored, two wash rooms on
! each floor, and a number of rain baths
fitted in modern style. The building is said
to be the most perfectly ventilated in New
York. Electrical fans at the top of four
great aspirating fues have a capacity sufti-
cient to change the air in the whole build
ing once in 20 minutes. A series of hand
somely decorated parlors are divided into
three parts, the central one being the Ii
brary, with smoking and reading room at
either end.
There will be a restaurant connected
with the hotel where it is expected that
good meals will be furnished at 80 cents a
day, making the total living expenses of
the hotel so cents day.
The managing superintendent of the
house is now in Europe making a study of
similar establishments, and the fact that
they are all well patronized leads Mr..
Mills to believe that his venture will meet
with success.
Cigars and tobacco will be sold to the
guests of the house, but liquor will be ex-
cluded. This will give the hotels a tone
which will repel the "bum," and make
them doubly attractive for the better class.
The whole scheme, in which Mr.. Mills has
invested about 81 100000, is not a charity,
but business venture, which has for its
object the best hotel accommodations for
worthy people for the least money.
Similar hotels were built by Lord Row.
den. The Rowden Houses are looked up
on as models of their kind in England.
These houses are owned and managed by
corporations at the present time, while the
Mills Houses are the property of Mr.. Mills,
who received many valuable suggestions
from the managers of the Rowden Houses
| while he was perfecting his plans,
Mr. Mills is also deeply interested in
the model tenement house question, and
will build row of houses having all the
latest Improvements for the comfort OF the
occupants on plot of land near the
Bleecker street hotel.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

The biennial convention of the Worlds
W. c. T. U. is to be held in Toronto,
Canada, Oct 1926 Cheering indication
of the interest taken in it is the fact that
so great is the demand for reserved seats
from all parts of Canada and the United
States, as well as from the city itself, that
the committee has been obliged to number
the tickets so as to give early applicants
first choice.
The annual national convention is to be
held at Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. 20 to Nov. 3.
Many will be interested to know that be-
sides hearty invitations from the churches
and other organizations, and the mayor
and council of the city, that the governor
of the state gave an invitation as one of his
first official acts Nowhere is the leaven
of temperance seen to be working with
more encouraging results than in the sum
mer assembly. From five days to two
weeks are now given in nearly all Chau-
tauquas and camp meetings for temperance
teachings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
A cheerful Report from the West.

Melville E. Ingalls,, president of the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & st.
Louis and the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
roads, is in New York after a trip over
2500 miles of railroad, taken to find out
from personal observation the actual con-
dition and feeling of the people in the
West. Mr. ingalls, said in an interview:
"The country through which l travelled
was the Middle West. This is what l
learned. Not in the memory of the old
est inhabitants of that country has there
been such crop of hay. The wheat crop,
while not large, is of as fine quality as has
ever been produced. OF corn there will
be an abundance and there are oats galore.
Fat cattle are in demand and hogs are
bringing a good price. The wisdom of
our people asserted itself last fall as it al
ways has done, when the nation was pass
ing through crisis and the danger has
passed. The sober second thought of the
people is asserting itself They are real
izing now that all the money in the world
cannot be produced by laws, but by labor.
They are realizing that prosperity comes
not by talk, but by the natural laws of
trade and commerce, and they have con-
cluded that those laws are now making
things come their way"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

The past week has been a bad one for
the free siiverites and calamity howlers of
the West, The price of wheat has steadily
advanced and the price Of silver has as
steadily fallen. The value of the white
metal now stands at point where, as the
market tluctuates from day to day, the gold
value of the silver in a silver dollar is
worth l3 or A cents. The total advance
in the price of wheat within the past month
has been II cents bushel. On. an esti-
mated total crop Of 55O,O0O,OOO bushels in
the West and Northwest for this year this
advance means an extra $4,000, 600 put
into the pockets OF the farmers Of that sec
tion. The downward course Of silver to
the lowest point 10 has yet touched at the
very time when the price of wheat climbs
merrily upward has knocked out the m ain
contention of the free silver party in last
years campaign, that wheat and silver al
ways rise and fall together. This turn Of
affairs has made Bryan's friends try to pull
him off the stump. They want him to
come home to Nebraska and keep his
mouth shut for a while.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
McCIure,s Magazine for august.

The August McClure's is issued as a
special Midsummer Fiction Number, and
without ignoring serious interests, it justi-
fies its title in an eminent and most enter
tanning degree. A complete novelette, by
Rudyard Kipling, dealing with school life
in England and army life in India, and
obviously written straight and hot from
the authors own personal experience,
would alone, especially with its admirable
illustrations, make the number distinguish
ed. But there are four or five shorter
stories-stories by Conan Doyle, Robert
Barr, John Kendrick Bangs, and others,
each more or less novel and enticing in in
cident and interest, and most of them also
attractively illustrated.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
Send Bryan TO klOndike 10 Lecture.
From the Boston Herald

The Klondke gold fields, which are at
tracing motley rabble of diggers, will
prove the grave of hundreds, unless great
enterprise on the part of promoters goes
to the rescue. Starvation is inevitable
without the means of transporting food,
and it will be the "shopkeeper" rather
than the man with the shovel who will
make his fortune out of Alaska. 1t is a
terrific boom, quite commensurate with
the hungry gold seekers greed, but by next
week there will be a reaction; the excite
ment will abate and spectators and ad-
venturers will be in the dumps. Already
the pathetic story of hardship sand
wiches the fairy tales of successful pros
pectors. "Gold, gold, gold!" Why, this
is worse than the silver talk of last sum-
mer's Populists! And, by the way, would
it not be a good plan to send Mr.. w. j.,
Bryan on lecture tour to the Klondike2
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

1t will be seen that the duties under the
Mckinley act of 1890 have been practi-
cally restored. Those duties were popular
in Vermont, particularly among the far
mers, as they constituted an adequate bar
rier against Canadian competition. The
percentages in either column stand for ad
valorem duties. For example, the duty on
oats under the tariff of 1894 was 20 per
cent of the export value. If the export
price was 80 cents bushel the duty would
be six cents. Under the Dingley tariff the
duty is specific, - cents a bushe, without
regard to export price. Vermont grain
and hay, eggs and poultry, her potatoes
and maple sugar are protected against the
destructive competition of the products of
cheap labor over the border. Vermonts
faith in "McKinleyism' has been vindi-
Gated; better times await her farmers, and
therefore her trademen and the various
other classes which flourish when the far
mer is prosperous.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
The New Law VIII BE a Test.

The Wilson tariff, while undoubtedly
possessing features of value, was not of a
character to demonstrate the strength or
weakness of any particular economic prin.
ciple. 1t was neither one thing nor the
other. 1t was highly protective, but not
as loftily so as the present tariff which is
the highest we have ever had. Never be-
fore has so favorable an opportunity been
presented to test the stimulating and de
veloping power of protection as at present.
II will have four years Of trial, at least,
and if it justifes the hopes of its friends
'and the assurances of its sponsors, it will
be the dominant policy for a much longer
time. The unsatisfactory character of the
Wilson law tempers the feelings of even
those who do no, enjoy profound conf
dence in its successor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

Wheat is now going out from this coun-
try to Europe at the rate of almost a mil
lion bushels day. In eight days the ex-
ports and the engagements for export
amounted to seven million bushels. This
rate cannot continue, but at even three
million bushels a week it means pocketsful
OF gold dollars for the wheat growers and
a purchasing and debt-paying capacity
which they have not enjoyed before for
wears
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
Gbe 1Jrrmunt d9bemis.
BRATTLEBORO:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1897.

The fates are against the Populists in
Kansas this year. That state is expected
to produce 400, 100000 bushels of corn and
100000 bushels of wheat with other
grain in proportion this year. The farmers
will clear up 500, 100000 on their crops,
say nothing of their cattle and hogs. They
are too busy just now to :have anything to
do with Mr.. Bryan and his doctrines The
same is true in Nebraska, his home strong
hold
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
Vermont and the New Tariff.

IFTUW INC montpelier WaIchmanI
The subjoned table shows the duties
on leading Vermont products under the
Dingley tariff, and also the duties on the
same articles under the Wilson German
tariff of 1894:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
For Sale,

TTNHE PROPERTY of the late firm of NeWhall
81 Stebblns, HinsdRle, N. H., consisting
of Machine and Wood Shops, Store Houses, Ma
chinery, patterns and stock for the manufacture
of field Mowers and four kinds of lawn mowers
Sufficient water power for other business.
LORENZO STEBRINS Hnsdale, N. II.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
ADVERTISING FOR A COFFIN.

Hundreds of others voice Judge Loomiss senti-
ments.
Sumner L, Doane, 119 Capitol avenue, Hartford,
Conn proprietor Of the Hotel Branard, said In
answer to tn" question as to what he knew of Dr.
Flowers 4 ment and cure Of the sick Il had
Brght's di sc of the kidney. Doctored for
months vii ne best physicians in Hartford, and
grew rapid all the time. My physicians
finally infol md me that my day were numbered
that could not live more than three weeks. Sat
isfied that IL was all over with me- and wishing to
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

DR. j. l.. RATHBONE, VETERINARY
SURGEON. Office 81 Main street. Tele-
phune, 25.4
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TAR. c. A. PROUTY, ID. V. =. V. d.
- VETERINARY SURGEON and DENTIST,
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

" A. ROBERTS, NJ. d., Homeopathic
H. Physician and Surgeon; office in Boyden
block, Elliot street. Hours, 9 10 1880 A. NJ, to
$3.50 and Z to SPIN. Residence, Walnut street
TaleDhona
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06

4 r. WILDER,
n. Manufacturer Of Book Cases and Desks,
Picture Frames Also fine line of Pictures. Flat
Street Open evenings, 7to8.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-08-06
The New Tariff.

A Comparison of the General Features
of the New Law with the wilson, and
aud an Estimate of the Revenue 10 he
The herald., 1897-05-11
TWO OF A KIND
The Right to Property That 1nheres
in a Name

The Holiness Band" and the Church
of Cod are at outs. 1t might be sup
posed that as far as name goes, at all
events, the one was a mere synonym for
the other but it appears there is dis
tinction.
The leaders Of the Holiness Band are
MesGrs. Whistler, Morgan and others,
and the organization is an incorporated
affair and so, in some sort, the name is
a kind Of trademark. Suit was brought
against Spiers ct al, to quiet title to
some property on Fourth street, between
Spring and Broadway and the Church
of God" that rallies under the leadership
of Messrs. Tongue, Hopp and others in
tervened. These latter maintain that
they form the true Simon-pure Holiness
band, and are consequently entitled to
the property.
When first the suit was brought the
opposition obtained an injunction to re-
strain the Holiness band from prose-
cutting it, but when the matter came
up before Judge Allen he dissolved the
injunction. Then another injunction was.
obtained by the Church of God" but
yesterday Will D. Gould ESQ. showed
good reason why the injunction should
be dissolved and it was so ordered by
Judge Van Dyke.
These preliminary matters being dis
posed of the Holiness band that is, and
the Church of Cod that hopes to be
the Holiness band in possession. will line
up and fight the matter on it's merits
The herald., 1897-05-11
To Be Called Tomorrow

DEPARTMENT ONE-Judge Smith.
(2330) F. H. Pope, appeal; trial.
DEPARTMENT TWO-Judge Clark.
Perkins VS.. Barto; trial; no jury.
N. P. Q669) Estate of Theoda Wilkin:
final accounting and distribution.
N. P. (2033) Estate Of Ella Springer;
letters of administrat ton.
DEPARTMENT THREE-Judge York.
(27,179) Odle VS.. Odle; trial.
(26,7S2) Jay KS. Jay, divorce; 10 o'clock
DEPARTMENT FOUR-Judge Van
Dyke.
(27,O15) Davis vs. Davis ct al; trial.
DEPARTMENT FIVE-Judge Shaw.
(26743) Lucas VS.. McDermott, ct AL;
(26,715) Lucas VS.. McDermott ct al:
trial
DEPARTMENT SIX-Judge Allen.
(27,299) Dominy VS., Creditors; final
distribution.
S,1SO) Workman VS.. city of Los An
geles; trial.
TOWNSHIP COURT-Justice Young.
Keiger vs. Rappet ct al; trial, $3.50
a. m.
Whistler VS.. Hupp; $50.
Colyeal VS.. Dunant; trial, g. 30 a. m.
Horton VS.. Hintig ct al; trial. 1 80 D. m.
White VS.. Collins; demurrer, 1:3O.
Lidell VS.. Pacific States Life Assur-
ance Co.; 1:25 p. m.
Newlyn vs. Burr; 2:30 p. m.
Yee Ton VS.. Yonkin; 4 p. M
The herald., 1897-05-11
A CURIOUS POINT
How a Corporation May Hold EN-
ployees in Check

Sometime ago petitions were filed with
the board of supervisors asking that
certain boarding house and saloon keep
er at Alamitos be deprived of his license.
1t was understood that the people at
the sugar factory were mainly concerned
in pressing the matter. but upon coming
up for hearing no decisive action was
taken.
The same point arose yesterday when
the Tisnerat VS.. Dyer ct al, came up
for hearing in Judge Van Dykes depart
ment. The action was brought to re-
cover damages for the reason that de-
PENDANTS had obstructed their work
people from patronizing his place at
Alamitos, by threatening to discharge
them in the event of their doing So
A very curious point was raised on
demurrer. The defendants demurred to
the complaint on the ground that the
complaint did not state facts sufficient
to constitute cause of action. 1t was
contended that whether the defendants
in restraining their people from going
to plaintiffs premises had acted with
malice or not cut little figure for they
had committed no unlawful act. An
employer could discharge an employee
for any reason or no reason at all; and
an employee had also the right to quit
work without being required to give
reason for it. In sustaining this point
case was cited where, in Tennessee,
man kept grocery store. The mana
ger of the Chattanooga Railroad COM
pany forbade any employe trading with
the groceryman under penalty Of dis
missal. The matter was carried into
court and the railroad company was
sustained.
The case was submitted and Judge
Van Dykes opinion in the case will be
watched for with much interest.
The herald., 1897-05-11
ThE BRITISH ARnY

Obtains Coffee Direct From the Plantations
The British government formerly
brought the coffee intended for the army
directly from the coffee. plantations in
Java, and the term "Old Govt Java" is
familiar to all.
Mr.. P. M. Hanney, now manager of the
grocery department of the great house
of Siegel Cooper & Co., Chicago, was To-
Gated in Java for about nine years, pur-
chasing coffee for her majesty's troops,
and his ability to judge of the quality
and flavor Of coffee will hardly be ques-
toned.
Experts of tea. coffee, tobacco ard
article they judge so keenly of. Indeed
the reverse is frequently true.
In Mr.. Hanney's family, Postum, the
health coffee made by the Postum Cereal
Co., Lim., of Battle Creek, Mich, is used
in place Of coffee. The immediate cause
being that the wife had trouble in de-
gesting coffee. and Mr.. H, knowing that
the grain beverage which looks so much
like coffee and which fits the coffee
drinkers taste, was pure and nourish-
ing drink introduced 1t to his own fam
lily, with the result that the old ailments
which were directly attributable to
coffee-drinking, have materially disap-
peared.
Proper adjustment of food and drink
means good bodies, clear minds and the
ability to push to the front and make
a success of life, while those who insist
upon using such dietary articles as they
know check digestion and impair the
health, will lag in the race for prosper
ity. The law of the survival of the fit
test is plainly marked.
The herald., 1897-05-11

brought by plaintiff against defendant
for q certain stock Of goods and mer-
chandise which defendant had seized by
writ Of attachment as sheriff of River
side county on the suit entitled ]. A..
Simms VS.. e. M. Stanton. The defend
ant justified under his writ. Plaintiff
claimed ownership of the goods at the
time Of their seizure. Upon being tried
the court rendered judgment for defend
ant, upon which plaintiff moved for
a new trial which was denied and the
appeal was taken from the order deny
ing the new trial
It appeared that Stanton was engaged
in business as jeweler at Riverside. in
1S93 and made proposition to certain
San Francisco creditors by letter dated
December 10, 1898, as to his financial sit
uation, the result of which was that
these creditors assigned their claims to
plaintiff and empowered him to pur-
chase the stock held by Stanton and re-
ceipt the several claims so assigned
"the goods to be taken in full of the cred
itors' claims" On December %, 1898.
plaintiff went into possession Of the
property by virtue of bill of sale given
by Stanton and on the1face of this bill Of
sale was shown Stanton's liabilities and
assets: Liabilities. zoo; assets, SILL
S74. Sc. The sale was absolute on its face
and was for the consideration of $5532.77
Plaintiff took the assignment of two in
srrance policies covering the property.
which were accepted by the companies;
and plaintiff testified that by his own
inventory, made at the time, the goods
were reasonably worth $7007.S1, besides
fixtures and tools, worth $1,000 more.
There was forced sale of the goods
and after $1459.S1 was received the sale
closed. On January 10, 1894, defendant
levied writ of attachment upon the re-
naming goods at the suit of one Simms.
The question arose whether the goods
remaining were simply held in charge
by Stanton. The creditors contended
the goods were taken in payment of the
debts; that the sale was an uncondition-
al one and that plaintiff had no right to
make it conditional sale Stanton tes
titled that the bill Of sale was given as
mere matter of security and plaintiff so
recognized it.
The herald., 1897-05-11
OLD AND FEEBLE
A Fortune Which Mrs. E. j. Cashatt
Refuses to Claim

Mrs. Eliza j. Cashatt is an old lady
of C3, who, it appears. doesn't know
when she is well off. She is living in
squalor and yet there is a modest for
tune awaiting just for ner to put out her
hand and claim it.
Frank Cashatt, the lady's son, yester-
day filed his petition in the probate
court, asking that under these circum-
stances a guardian be appointed for the
person and estate of his mother. He
claims that his mother is entitled to a
large and productive inheritance from
the estate of her father, in Ohio, which
was handed over to W. w. Graham of
Olathe, Kansas, who has appropriated
it to his own use
For six years the son has supported
his mother, and is still willing to do so,
but with advancing years and physical
infirmity Mrs. Cashatt's mind has be-
come enfeebled. She refuses her sons