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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27
Lyrics of the War.

This contest with Spain has been
rich in subjects and incidents for song
and story, more rich, perhaps, than any
similar period of human strife. Even
the Crusades for the recovery of the
Holy Sepulcher, fruitful in romance
and dramatic incident, in deeds of her
oism and displays of chivalry, were not
more productive of great subjects for
the poet or the painter. "The Voice
of the Oregon" recently published in
the WATCHMAN, was one of the best
in spirit, conception and effective
phrasing, and in the recent battle off
the south coast of Cuba the great bat
tleship that followed down the billow
her guide, the southern cross" till she
doubled the cape and was piloted by
"the cleaning northern star" to the
society of her waiting comrades, after
thirteen thousand miles of arduous
voyaging, has gloriously fulfilled her
promise to show all the world show we
pay our debts of honor, we mailed
knights of the sea-" Joaquin Miller's
stirring lines on Scuba Libre," among
the best that have been written, are
here reproduced:
Comes a cry from Cuban water
From the warm, dusk Antilles
From the lost Atlantas daughter,
Drowned in blood as drowned In seas;
Comes a cry of purpled anguish
See her struggles, hear her criesi
Shall she live, or shall she languishP
Shall she sink, or shall she riser
She shall rise, by all that's holyi
She shall live and she shall last
Rise as we, when crushed and lowly
From the blackness Of the past.
Bid her strikei 10, 1t Is written
Blood for blood and life for life.
Bid her smite, as she is smitten;
Stars and stripes were born of strife.
Once we flashed our lights of freedom,
Lights that dazzled her dark eyes
Till she could but yearning heed them,
Reach her hands and try to rise.
Then they stabbed her, choked her, drowned her,
Till we scarce could here note
Ali these rustling chains that bound herl
OH these robbers at her throat
| And the kind who forged these letters?
| Ask five hundred years for news.
Stake and thumbscrew for their betters9
mquisitonsi Banished Jewsi
Chains of slavery What reminder
or one red man in that land?
Why, these very chains that bound her
Bound Columbus, foot and handi
She shall rise Columbus
From his chains, from shame and wrong
| Rise as Morning, matchless, wondrous.
| Rise as some rich morning song
Rise a ringing song and story,
ValoT love personihed.
Stars and stripes espouse her glory,
Love and Liberty allied
The destruction of the Maine has
been the subject of great deal Of
verse, good, bad and Indifferent. Ellie
Wheeler Wilcox has written one of the
best of these, which was recently pub
lished in the Home Journal of New
York, from which these stanzas are
taken:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27

Associate Judge Brewer of the
United States Supreme Court said to a
friend at Topeka:
"The United States is amply able to
settle the question of peace without
any assistance from anybody, and on
terms suitable to herself.o
Nothing sounder than this has ever
come from the Supreme Court of the
United States.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27
South Barre.

Harry Ford OF Montpelier and Mrs.
Aline Walker visited friends in town last
Sunday. Mrs. Holt OF Montpelier
spoke at Unity Temple last Sunday -
Milo Tucker has returned from visit to
Marshfeld. - Mr. and Mrs. Leon Sal
tor visited in Chelsea last week at the
home OF Mrs Salter
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27
A Case for Patient Wisdom.

There has been some friction be-
tween the insurgents and Gen. Shafter
at Santiago. The nature of the trouble
between the United States forces and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27

THERE is glory enough in the naval
battle and victory off Santiago to 60 all
round, as Lincoln said of the rivalries
of the commanders of the Civil War
The people are interested in the ques-
ton of the allotment of honors only to
see that every officer and man has his
full share. 1t was the victory of every
man on the fighting ships from the
coal HEAVIER in the bowels of the ship to
the admiral or commodore on the
bridge-a syndicate victory as Commo-
dore Schley aptly describes it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27

THE admiral, victorious in the battle
he has directed from the flagship, is one
kind of hero. The captain that takes
his ship into action and inspires his
crew to deeds of valor by his personal
galantry is another kind. OF these
types this war is producing a lengthen-
ing and shining roll. But the youth
who plans deed of heroism that is at
the same time work of great and prac-
tical service to his country, the execu-
ton of which involves almost certain
death, that is Invested of the incite-
ments and associations which in action
go far to eliminate the pressing sense
of personal danger, who carries out his
purpose with GOODNESS and deliberation,
under the concentrated fire of his
enemy, without the exaltation that bat
tie surroundings produce, without the
stimulus of an opportunity to strike
back-this man is hero Of very diff
ferent kind. In such case all the
elements of both moral and physical
courage and heroism are present, di.
vested of every fictitious aid. Such
hero is Hobson, and such heroes are his
comrades of the Merrimack. The young
lieutenant was sent north on the st.
Paul last week to lay before the navy
department plans for saving the Cristo-
bal Colon. Modest, retiring, unher-
aided, in civilian dress, his identity was
revealed by his name on his baggage
when he landed in New York, and in
his hurried transit from the Battery to
Cortland street ferry to catch the train
for Washington, the word was passed
from lip to lip and he was chased by
the cheers of the crowded streets along
which he passed, and on the Jersey
side thousands pressed around him to
pay the homage of their hearts to the
hero, par excellence, of the war. In
Washington, the modest officer was the
man of the hour in the departments, at
the executive mansion and on the thor
oughfares. Cheers from the untitled
sovereigns, welcomes from all official
dom that had in them no suggestion of
perfunctioryness, were showered upon
the hero of the Merrimack incident.
And the young officers head retained
its normal size and his manner never
lost its air of quiet self-possession.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.
THE United States sells more wheat

THE United States sells more wheat
and -four to japan than do all other
countries of the world combined, and
the official figures in report from
United States Counsel Harris at Maya
saki, shows steady and healthy growth
in this trade. OF wheat the United
States sent in 1895 only 484, $40 pounds,
but in 1896 it had grown to 2,451 $3.50
pounds, and in 1897 to 12.467 ,466
pounds. OF -four we sent in 1896, 49,
1910 pounds, in 1896, 81 ,4OS,311 and
in 1897, 81 ,O94 $40 pounds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27

THAT protective tariff does not pre-
vent the growth of the United States
export trade ought to be too well known
to need proof, but in case there are
still few free traders here who need
proof, the following facts concerning
the exports to Canada for the first
eleven months of the fiscal year 1897,
when the Wilson tariff law was in eff
feet, and for the first eleven months of
the fiscal year 1898, under the Dingley
tariff law, are given. During the for
mer period, the United States sold
Canada S37,370, 1926 worth of goods,
and during the latter period, SAC, 251,-
22S, difference in favor of protection
of nearly million dollars month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27

THE trouble about the story of how
the war department was outwitted
when it contracted with a Spanish
steamship company for the transporta-
ton of the surrendered Spanish SOL
diers from Santiago to Spain was the
usual one-it wasn't true. The Span
ish steamship company will get no ad-
vantage whatever out of the contract
beyond the cash paid for the transport
tation, while the war department made
sure in placing this contract that no
complaint could be made against us in
connection with the treatment of the
prisoners on the voyage, and that there
would be no trouble about their being
landed in Spain. The contract speci-
fically stated that no vessels belonging
to the company would be allowed to
leave blockaded ports to perform the
service provided for.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Herr Strauss' Eccentricitfes.

Writing of the eccentricitiee of Herr
Strauss, the dance music composer, a
Vienna writer says he is as nervous as a
composer as he is director. Glad in a
velvet costume, with patent leather boots
reaching to his knees, his eyes af1ame
and in a fit of inspiration, he goes strid-
ing through the house like maniac. If
inspiration does not come to him in the
salon, he clutches his papers and goes
to his bedroom or to his wife's boudoir
Sometimes the waltz begun in the PAL
lor is finished in the kitchen. Nine.
Strauss, who appreciates and under
stands her husbands habits, has half a
dozen pianos scattered through the
house, and in each room table with
writing materials, SO that in whatever
nook her husband finds himself he is
quite at home. Nine. Strauss was once
favorite actress on the Vienna stage.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Cyclists as SpOrtsmen.

The wheelman himself can hardly be
held answerable for the death of a rab-
bit which bolted into his machine as it
stood by the roadside and broke it's
neck, and there was contri butory negli-
gence, as the lawyers say, on the part
of the cat which tried to go through the
wheel of passing bicycle and gave the
rider bad fall at the cost of its own
life. Much more noteworthy than either
of these was the achievement of a cy,
clist who while scorching along the
road Che must have been scorching) ran
into covey Of cartridges and killed
one, his wheel passing over it's neck.
The only way in which this curious
accident can be explained is to suppose
that the birds were "dusting' at a
bend in the road, and that the cyclists
approach, concealed by the hedges, re-
manned undetected till the enemy was
literally among them.-Chambers' Jour-
nal
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
A SILLY TRAGEDY.
The Duel Between Tom Porter and
Sir Henry BeIlasis.

Sir Henry Bellasis.
Some of the Royalists who were
forced to endure the English common
wealth seemed to console themselves
for the dizziness Of life under Puritan
government by fighting as many duels
as they could compass, SO that ignoble
squabbles and foolish plots make up the
history Of their days. = -
Tom Porter was Of family which
had zealously served the king. Under
the new government his occupation was
gone, and he descended to a triviality
OF life which finally involved him in a
most pathetic event. This was duel
which he fought with his friend, Sir
Henry Bellasis, and which, says Pepys
IN his "Diary,' is worth remembering
for 1.-THE Stiffness of the quarrel X X X a
kind OF emblem of the general complex
ion of the whole kingdom.
But silly az the quarrel undoubtedly
was it carried in it an element of heart
break.
The two young men involved were
intimate friends and companions, but
one day, "being merry in company"
Tom Porter said he should like to see
the man in England who would dare
give him a blow. With that Sir Henry
Bellasis struck him box on the ear.
The inevitable duel followed, wherein
each was wounded. Sir Henry proved to
be seriously hurt, so he called Porter,
kissed him and babe him fly.
"For, said he, "Tom, thou hast
hurt me. But will make shift to stand
upon my legs till thou mayst withdraw,
for would not have thee troubled for
what thou hast done.''
Porter profited by his friends gener-
osity and escaped to France. Sir Henry
died few days later, and Pepys con-
cludes. ''1t is pretty to see how the
world do talk of them as couple of
fools that killed one another out of
love-
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
SHOPPING IN ITALY.
Outlandfsh Methods That Make 1t &
Most TiresOme Task.

Most TiresOme Task.
A source of trial is what appears to
US the outlandish method of having
things that apparently belong together
sold in different establishments. Silks
are found in one shop, woolens in an
other and ribbons in third. At none
of these can one bay needles and thread.
II woman wishes to hang pair of
curtains. she purchases the materials at
one shop, the rod and rings at differ
ent place, the iron fixtures at a third
and has to 60 to a fourth to find an up
holsterer to put them up. She must
visit a tobacco shop for salt and cannot
find, as with US, vegetables, fruit or
bread at grocer's. 1t may thus readily
be seen that one must travel a good deal
to do her marketing or shopping.
> Add to all this the confusion incident
to the fact that the standards of measure
and weight are different from ours, a
meter exceeding a yard and a pound
containing but IL ounces, and faint
idea may be formed of the mental COM
plications Of the traveller.
There is also certain amount of
beating down to be done in nearly every
shop, and even after half an hours bar
gaining the purchaser cherishes awful
doubts lest she might not have bought
the thing cheaper. Shopping is really
almost equal to the contemplation of
faded frescoes for lowering the mental
tone, and it is hard to say which has
the more to answer for in the exhausted
state in which most travellers leave
Italy.-Harper's Bazaar.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
1T CURED THE COOK.
The Result of Her Masters Wres
thing Match With the Telephone.

The Result of Her Masters wres-
thing Match With the Telephone.
"About a week after the telephone
was installed-any electrical device is
always installed when it is brought
into the house-the cook was suddenly
taken i'll in the middle of the night,
and was requested to telephone for the
doctor. It took me fully ten minutes of
prolonged ringing and yelling before 1
could induce the central office to put
me into communication with the doc
tor. Then I sent an agonized howl
through the telephone, begging the doc
tor to come at once.
I'm the course of the following hour
six different persons carried on brief
conversations with me, but no one of
them was the doctor. In the case Of
each person it took about ten minutes of
hard labor to induce him to say any
thing Ineligible, and when the INTEL
ligible remark arrived it was to the
effect that the speaker was Brown or
Jones or Robinson; that he was not a
doctor, and that he would inflict per-
sonal chastisement on the man who had
called him out Of bed if he could find
the criminal in the morning.
AT last, however, my efforts were
apparently crowned with success. A
wretch who said he was the person of
whom was in search promised to call
at my house at once. Accordingly one
hour and quarter after had first rung
the telephone received hurried call
from the local undertaken, who insisted
that had telephoned to him to bring a
coffin without moments delay. got
rid of him at the expense Of shillings
and glass of wine, and am happy to
say that the shock of the visit cured the
cook without the aid Of any other med
icine. w. A. Alden in Pearson s
Magazine.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
THE OLD HYMN.
/ sat within vacant room, ..s. p ~ . ~.
A low ceiled room. quaint shaped, oak beam:

sat within vacant room, -. ~ ~
A low ceiled room. quaint shaped, oak beam
ed,
With windows looking off to sea,
Ger which the sunsets glory streamed.
I watched the farotf fitting sails,
And t'Halfway rock that looming rose
A tower from the heaving sea
Whereon the scattered isles repose.
And some one near me gently played
A dear old hymn that stirred my heart.
'Twas "Children of the Heavenly King
And what it woke made quick tears start.
The long years seemed to backward turn,
And I, a little child again,
Held fast within his strong arms clasp,
While soft he crooned the old refrain.
Oh, just once more to be that child
And know again the blissful rest
The old hymn brought me, rocked to sleep
With pillowed head upon his breast!
But only yet little while,
Though earth may call it years that creep
know he'll come to me again
And rock me to eternal sleep.
Mary Devereux in Boston Transcript.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Disgusted.

Old Lady Ito driver of growler)-
Now, driver, I want you to go very
carefully.
"Certainly, num-"
"And not 60 racing with other cabs. -
"No, num-"
"And not 60 round the corners
quickly"
"No, num-"
After the job the old lady, handing
him the exact fare, a shilling, said
"You have driven me very carefully
and we'll, and here is a shilling for
you. Have you driven a cab all your
life?''
mo, mum. I used to drive a hearse,
and blest if don't go back to it. It's a
better game than this. hope I'll drive
yer again, mum. "-London Fun.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Miss HOyt's Golf Arm.

Miss Beatrix Hoyt is a nonpareil.
Yet woman, she has mans arm and
a mans clear eye. That stroke Of hers
is an anatomical masterpiece, and some
day her ''golf arm" will be immortal
lied in that great history of sport and
athletics which is bound to be written
sooner or later. But, in spite of the en-
during accuracy Of that stroke, it is
wondered. if the woman golf champion
of the United States can throw stone
and hit the mark. Boston Herald.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Poker Diet.

Daniel O'Connell's sarcastic and
graphic description of lady of stiff,
cold and formal manners is very happy,
"She has all the characteristics of a
poke1-except it's occasional warmth. -
This recalls the story of the two Irish
servants who, discussing the stiff and
unbending manners of the young lady
of the family, agreed that "when she
was a baby her mother must have fed
her upon boiled pokers, underdone !''-
London Standard.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Royal Honor.

Louis XII Of France, having made a
certain bargain with King Ferdinand
of Spain, found that Ferdinand had
grievously cheated him, whereupon he
made complaint Of his dealing. The
Spanish king made answer to the court
as follows: ''The king Of France is
complaining that have deceived him
twice. He lies. I have deceived him
more than ten times
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
vararfes Of English.

That's quite a draft from the west
this morning, !" remarked the banker to
the cashier as they glanced over the
mail. 81 #
The new Office boy promptly closed
the transom and again stood at atten-
tion. Detroit Free Press.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02
Inside Information

Yeast-This discussion about the size
OF a whales throat, I notice, is still
going on.
Crimsonbeak-Yes. It's too bad Jo-
nah didn't leave some report on the sub
Ject. He must have had some inside in
formation.-Yo nkers Statesman. J..
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02

Shell really ought to have new
hat. .-.<. G.-
He-How would it do to stick a few
feathers in the top crust of one Of those
pies you baked last week: You would
nave something that would last then.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02

Some folks. 7 said Uncle Eben,
makes yer fink OBJ . circus boss Dey
gallops tell dey's ont OBJ bret, but dey
nebber gifts noWhar. = - Washington
Star.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02

The London Standard says the Scot
fish race is the most clannish, the most
ubiquitous, the most pertinacious and
the most instinctively coherent in the
world.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02

It is reported that 400, 900 canaries
change hands every year in the United
Kingdom alone, the value Of them be-
ing about e100, 600.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-11-02

There are too many firecrackers who
imagine they are IS inch guns in 90.
ciety. -Atchison Globe.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-11-25
Wednesday,.

40 ~ so EfEsGFAr
The residents Of the city have been
Kept hustling toget coal the past few
days.
Adiutant General Miller is looking
after some militia business at, Devils
Lake.
An excellent menu has been prepared;
for the Sheridan house, Thanksgiving
dinner tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. II. Poole and; Mrs.
Gonklins left last night for jamestown
where they will attend a Thanksgiving
party tonight.
Members Of the legislature elect are
making arrangements for quarters. III
the city during the session Of the legis
latnre which begins in. little: more
than q month, &
The rivalry betweenSthe electric light
plants ct Fargo is growing hot and the
Forum states that the Northern Pacific
owns the Hughes plant-which will
probably call forth q warm rejoinder
from General Hughes.
Notwithstanding the fact that; the big
fire occurredSthree and . half months
ago, SOME Of the brick in the ruins onSthe
lot adjoining the new Mckenzie build
ling are still hot, and occasional pufis Of
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-11-25
Saturday.

Major Fleming is a guest in the city
from Fargo.
Banker A. G. Clark of Steele is in the
city today.
Mrs. r. L. Best went to jamestown
last night to spend Thanksgiving.
Anew post Office has been established
in Morton county and named Hobson.
John Reissbeck, of Dickinson, and
j. H. Caldwell, Of Taylor, are in the city.
The store rooms in the First National
building are nearly ready for occupancy.
Judge Winchester, Lieut. Conklin and
DR.. Kendrick hunted a few days at
Sentinel Butte this week. !.
The Mandan Pioneer says that had
Holmes been elected governor the friends
of Kent hoped to ecure a pardon.
The work trains on the n. P. have
been laid off for the season, after doing
much work along the Dakota division.
Treasurer Allen of Emmons county
had one majority at the election of 1896
and 1913 majority at the Gle :tion this
year.
AL citizens should show their appreci-
alton OF good music by attending the
concert and ball at the Atheneum,
Thanksgiving night.
The Emmons county commissioners at
their next meeting. will set date for the
beginning of.business at the new county
seat. Editor Streeter's Record will
move with: the county seat.
William Sheriff the we'll known statior
agent of the Northern Pacific at Man.
dan has been requested. by the road tt
resign his position. The cause of the
resignation is not known, but there il
general regret in Mandan. at his dis
charge.
Judge Sauter tried a case for Judge
Winchester. at Dickinson this week;5tha
of one. Crews, a cowboYswho pounded III
an officer while drunk. He was foune
guilty and,sentenceswill he passedSDsc
6. The minimum sentence issa year ii
the pe~nitentiary. 81 &
Fargo Call: "A number of the In
dams from. Standing Rock reservation
who were here as witnesses before tn
United States grand jury, procured
nnantity Of thrA wafer 3. and !. when ;