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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

The details of the bill are not dis.
closed, but is it known in general
way that Hawaii is to come into
the United States as a territory.
The questions most difficult to settle
are still open, and among these are
the suffrage and contract labor. 1t
was agreed that citizens of the islands
should vote freely, but when the quail
fcations of electors for members of
the upper house of the territorial legis-
lature were considered the islanders in
sisted that there should be a property
qualification. In the tentative bill this
is placed at $1,000 assessed valuation,
or $4,000 worth of property.
The question of contract labor is an
other upon which the members of the
commission are not agreed. In its
present condition the bill provides that
the planters shall have ten years to
change from the contract to the labor
plan. One concession is reported
which will inevitably create discussion
and excite opposition, that oriental la
Dor shall be imported, for all time, for
the rice fields, and the sugar plant
ers are reported to be of the opinion
that this condition is necessary, also,
to enable them to continue the produc-
ton of sugar.
These expressions of opinion recall
the old argument by which slavery was
justified. Without the continuance of
enforced labor, it was contended, south
ern agriculture must perish. None but
negro laborers could endure the severi-
ties of field labor in the climate of the
South, and the negro would work only
under compulsion. This was the logic
particularly of the southern cane and
cotton planters. The emancipation
proclamation showed the fallacy of this
reasoning. Cane and cotton are still
raised in the South. Southern agricul-
ture has not persisted, but, on the con-
trary, has vastly increased, and negroes
are still the field laborers of that region.
But they are free negroes, not slaves.
Hawaiian rice and cane must in the
near future be produced by free labor
The American government will never
sanction permanent condition of servi.
tude, or semi-servitude, in the Hawaiian
islands. So soon as the evil of the ex.
listing labor system can be reformed
without introducing the other evils thai
follow in the train of violent changes
of long-established systems, so soor
free labor must take the place of con
tract labor. Take adequate time tc
effect the change without disastrou;
industrial disturbances, but the change
must be begun and completed at some
appointed time.
These two questions of the suffrage
and labor settled with wise reference
to the ultimate creation of community
entirely free and universally enlight
ened, such as shall become fitting ad
junct of the American Union, all Others
will be rightly determined in the nat
ural course of time and elaboration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
jim.

hear the drum roll, rub a-dub, dub,
And the piccolo's shrill refrain;
The boys In blue, with hearts so true
Are marching home again.
hear the drum. but 1t beats for me
Despair and grief's tattoo;
I'd be SO glad II our only lad
Our Jim-poor Jln-marehed, tool
hear the tramp, the tramp, tramp, tramp,
OF the army marching by;
Brave soldiers all, at their country's call,
They went to fight and die.
Their task is done; with heads erect
They pass thei re in review;
Instead of tears I'd give them cheers
II Jim-poor Jim-marched, too.
hear the clank, the clank, clank, clank,
OF the swords of captains gay;
But my worn eyes rest on the blood. stained
crest
OF a hill far. far away.
They left him there where the weeping winds
Sing dirges faint and few
They're home-God's light How grand the
sight
II Jim-poor Jim-marched, too.
George Hobart In Baltimore American,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

The Hon. Joe Bailey is not prophet
without honor. His powerful cam.
paign speeches in honor of his "leader-
ship" of the Democrats in the House of
Representatives have reused emotion
in one faithful bosom. The Bonhan
Ne,0s losses to the breeze the name of
"the fearless and intrepid Joe Bailey
of Texas" and makes him the Demo-
cratic candidate for President in 1900.
Joe Bailey is fearless and intrepid. So
is the COW before she learns, by per-
sonal experience with locomotive,
that two bodies cannot occupy the same
space at the same time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
The Territory OF Hawaii,

The American members of the COM
mission sent to Hawaii to formulate
plans for the government of the Ma
toms new possession has returned, af-
ter an absence of some two months.
They bring the draft of bill that en-
braces the present conclusions of their
labors. The commission will meet
again in Washington about the middle
of November to mature some unfnish.
ed matters before the meeting of Con
gress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

FROM almost every foreign country
comes an increased demand for Ameri.
can goods. American silks are actually
selling in France. A report from the
United States cousul at Athens, Greece,
has just reached the Department Of
State, declaring that "There cannot be
the least doubt of the necessity of d.
rect line of steamships between the
United States and Mediterranean ports.
There is wide field and large profits
for well managed line, and it should
be an American line. Many of the
merchants of Athens who sell imported
articles exhibit American goods as En-
glish wares, having been imported from
England. Nearly every mail brings
letters of inquiry to this consulate from
merchants and manufacturers of the
United States, all anxious to find a
market here for their products; for it is
becoming generally known that Greece
imports nearly all kinds of goods and
machinery. The English, German and
French transportation companies that
call here are doing very good bust
ness; but the Greek importers want a
chance to get imports directly from
America, and thus save the profits of
the middlemen."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

IT is thought by those who have made
study of our war with Spain and are now
writing its aftermath that the bloody strug-
gle will result in unifying the classes in this
country where they have been considerably
estranged OF late. Let us hope 30.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

THE election of Mason S. Stone,
State superintendent of education, to
the presidency of the Vermont State
Teachers Association, at the recent
meeting of that body in this city, was a
singularly spontaneous and happy ex-
preston of the confidence the teachers
OF the State have in the superinten-
dent and their appreciation of his la
bors for the improvement of the COM
mon schools, the institutions in which
the great bulk of the Senators and Rep
resentatives who convene in the State
House to-day received their education.
The value of the compliment was
greatly enhanced by the manner of con-
veying it. 1t has been the custom to
advance the head of the executive COM
mittee to the presidency of the associa-
ton. Two men on this committee were
rather neutrality-suspicious. from neigh
boring State and principals of schools of
the upper class, who had made up the
program according to their ideas of pro-
priety and courtesy. They seem to
have been somewhat out of sympathy
with the common school administra-
ton in the State, a circumstance which,
with others, had come to the under
standing of the teachers generally. The
committee appointed to make nomina
tions reported in favor of electing a
president by ballot, without formal
nomination. Mr.. Stone was chosen
president by very long lead over any
other person voted for. In view of all
the circumstances of the situation, this
emphatic endorsement of the superin-
tendent by those who have had the best
chance to become familiar with his ad-
ministration of school affairs was highly
significant.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

Queen Louise of Denmark died of
old age, which is something that has
always defed all alchemy and always
will.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has been
been given much satisfactory informa-
ton on the outlook for Republican sue
cess in the Congressional campaign, by
his callers during the last two or three
days. Among these were Senators
Hanna of Ohio, Mason of Illinois and
Pritchard of North Carolina; ex.Gov-
ernor Merriam of Minnesota, Repre-
sentatives Cannon of Illinois and
Hepburn of Iowa, and A. E. Holton,
chairman of the Republican State COM
mittee of North Carolina, who told the
President that the Republicans of the
Old North State would gain two repre-
sentatives in that State. The general
tenor of all the information was that
the Republicans have nothing to fear
except the existing over confidence,
which makes it difficult to convince
voters that their votes will be needed
this year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

Mrs. e. @, SMITH and family, servants,
ETC., arrived in town Monday and imme-
diately opened and occupied their legisla.
tive residence on lower State street. Col,
Smith arrived Tuesday on the flyer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

THE official vote as on file in the secre.
tary OF states office indicates that e. G..
Smith had SO 800 votes a majority over all
of 22,773. Wyman, the prohibition candi-
party must cast over Thousand votes to
be represented ON the state ticket this
number barely allows the official political
recognition OF the prohibition party.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
ARTHUR ROPES, General Editor.

THE war department put Colonel
Bryan and Governor Holcomb in hole
when the latter was asked TO decide
whether the regiment of Nebraska vol
unteers now at Manila, or that COM
manded by Colonel Bryan, shall be mus
tered out of the service. 1t was clear
case of beating these two very cute
politicians at their own game. They
expected the war department to name
the regiment to be mustered out, and
were prepared to charge injustice no
matter which was chosen. Now Col
onel Bryan himself must take the re-
sponsibility of deciding whether his
regiment remains in service or is mus
tered out, as it is known that he will
dictate Governor Holcomb's decision.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
The Cache In Alaska.

The settlements along the Yukon are
few and far between and consist, f1.
the most part, Of the same elements.
There are the company S store; the huts
and tents Of the natives; the crowd OF
bowling dogs; salmon hanging in red
strips, FURNISHED with copper tinges il
the sun; little tots of children chatter
ing women offering baskets, moccasius
and trinkets for sale, and here and there
perhaps squad Of uniformed children,
marking the work Of some mission
good looking, clean looking children,
but, whether Christianized or not,
spoiled for living like natives again.
The problem is, What is to become of
them? Along the banks are occasionally
met the rude huts and tents of small
parties of Indians come hither to cut
wood for the boats or to fish, but, how
ever simple the habitation, it must al
ways have the cache. or .storehouse
propped upon posts to keep the supplies
out of reach of the dogs, for these dogs
can bite through tin can and almost
climb creased pole in search of food
The cache should have place on the
coat Of arms Of Alaska. 1t is universal.
1.-THE River Trip to the Klondike, I"
by John Sidney Webb, in Century.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
HAUNTED BY MEMORY.
One Man Who Will Never Forget the sa
moan Disaster.

One Man Who Will Never Forget tho ga
moan Disaster.
81 suppose that all of US who felt th'
living, frenzied force of that awful c..
shore hurricane will dream about i.
occasionally as long as we live, " Sc:
an ex-bluejacket Of the United State.
navy now living in Washington. who
was among the Vandalia ships COM
pany at the time of the great naval dis
aster in Apia harbor, Samoa, in revert
ing to that experience. "For three Or
four years after got out of that mess
all safe and sound the memory of it
used to get tangled up in my head when
was asleep, and would wake i'll ii
tremble and be unable to sleep for ti.e
remainder of the night. But time ha:
softened the craggier edges of the /,
membrance Of that horrifying blac.
wind, and once in spell nowadays
forget all about it for two or three days
at time.
'There was one man in my mess on
the Vandalia who was never quite righi
after we went on the reef. was ship
udtc WI 01Al LII oWO y OdAc "a tOA w a. a.
and his occasional wildness was plain
to all hands, and men who've been ship
mates with him since-for he's still IL
the outft-tell me that he's just as bad
~ haunted by the memory Of the disas
ter as he was when last / saw him.
This man was a shipwright, and his
name was Turley. Before we had that
bad blow Turley was as cheerful and a,
clipper q man around decks as | evcl
snapped yarns with, but when he got
we'll Of his broken arms down in Apis
he was changed man. Iznever saw
;; him crack a grin after the blow, ant
from stout, husky fellow he became
thin and haggard looking. He recovered
all right physically from the thing, yor
see, but it sort Of twisted his head ant
preyed upon him. He swung his ham
mock alongside Of me on the Alert fol
two years after we were sent up to duty
on the west coast again, and it was {
common thing for Turley to hop out 0.
his hammock in frenzy in the middle
of the night in port or at sea, yelling
like mailman: All hands abandon
shipl She's going to strikel' He created
lot of excitement up forward by doinG
this, but after awhile the men got usct
to it and only turned over when they
heard Turley bowling.
tIt was the regular thing for tho cor
poral of the marine guard at the gang
way to prod the poor chap awake whe;
he had these crazy somnam bulistit
spells and put him back in his hammock
for he'd come out of them as weak as !;
kitten and trembling all over. There
were number Of us on the Alert who
were washed up in the Samoan disaster,
and naturally once in awhile we'd gel
to talking about it. But it didn't taks
US long to find out that we couldn' t tall
about it while Turley was around. The
mention of the thing in his hearing
would bring an insane CLEAN into hi.
eyes, and he would suddenly begin t.
talk incoherently and at the top of hi:
voice about reefs and dragging anchor.
and all that, so that we learned tc
knock off Samoan hurricane talk when
he was around. don't wonder much
either. 1t was an evil enough blow te
nigh turn any mans headgesr topsy
turvy. "-Washington Star
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
A Picture of lola.

This is how lola is described by
Stuart Henry in 'Hours With Famous
Parisians:" A business man, no emo
ton, no ideals, no imagination, no
poetry, in his personal intercourse. He
does not try to win or entertain you.
He takes no personal interest in you
and does not expect you to take any
personal interest in him. He talks
frankly and freely about everything,
but in secular way. He makes life
seem to you merely commercial career.
Fiction for him is editions of 100, 900
francs year. His magisterial and mag
nificent panoramas Of descriptions, un-
equaled for their kind, are all measured
off in his mind as SO many rods Of print
ed matter at SO much rod. No personal
magnetism, no sentiment, no perfume,
no rose colors. Life has been for him a
blunt, rude, british thing. He has con-
quered merely because he has worked
harder than any one else. With him
naturalistic literature succeeds only by
the sweat of the brow. What loins Of
strength neverthelessl What Titanic
capacities to achieve! He towers over
all his Partisan contemporaries, as Vic
tor Hugo lowered over his epoch.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
DisraeIi,s Manner.

have no doubt Disraeli loses friends
by his apparent insouciance and the
method in which he walks to his place
without looking at anybody-but I
surmise from my own experience that it
arises from nearsightedness. I perceive
that he cannot tell what o'clock it is
without using his glass, and somebody
told me lately that be saw him hailing
a police van, mistaking it for an omni-
bus His face is often haggard and his
air weary and disappointed, but he has
the brow and eyes Of a poet, which are
always pleasant to look upon.
He generally says the right thing at
the right minute and in the right way,
and he is Justify cheered, but sitting
among the opposition have abundant
reason to note that he is not completely
trusted. It is said that young Stanley
and other youngsters of his class believe
in him and that the man who is SO tact
turn in parliament is charming COM
panion among his familiars and is a
gracious and genial host. Some Of his
postprandial mots steal out and, should
think, make fatal enemies. Somebody
asked him lately if Lord Robert M. was
not stupid ass. 'No, nc" said Benja-
min, mot at all; he is clever ass. -
"My Life In Two Hemispheres, Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
DR.. LYMAN BEECHER.
The Great Preachers Peculiar Habits Il
Preparing His Sermons.

The Great Preachers Peculiar Habits In
Preparing His Sermons.
DR.. Lyman Beecher's peculiar ha bits,
shown by his method Of preparing ser
mons, are illustrated in Annie Field !,
latest book, 1.-The Life and Letters {
Harriet Beecher Stowe" In her wortiy
''If he was to preach in the event.
he was to be seen all day talking vi
whoever would talk, accessible to i,
full of everybody's affairs, business ii
burdens, till an hour or two before =
time, when he would rush up into ]
study (Which he always preferred shc..
be the topmost room of the house,, ait:
throwing off his coat, after swing
two with the dumbbells to settle I'll
balance of his muscles, he would sit
down and dash ahead, making quaint
ties of hieroglyphic notes en- small stub
bed bits of paper about as big as the
palm of his hand. The bells would be-
gin to ring, and still he would write
They would toll loud and long, and his
wife would say, He will certainly be
late, and then would be running up
and down stairs of messengers to see
that he was finished, till, just as the
last stroke Of the bell was dying away,
he would emerge from the study with
his coat very much awry and come
down the stairs like hurricane, stand
impatiently protesting while female
hands that ever lay in wait adjusted his
cravat and settled his coat collar, call
ing loudly the while for pin to fasten
together the stubbed little bits of paper
aforesaid, which being duly dropped
into the crown of his hat and, hooking
wife or daughter like satchel on his
arm, away he would start On such a
race through the streets as left neither
brain nor breath till the church was
gained. Then came the process of get
ting in through crowded aisles wedged
up with heads, the hustle and stir and
hush to look at him as, with matter
of fact, businesslike push, he elbowed
his way through them and up the pulpit
stairs. Z"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
A PIRATES FITTING END.
The Buccaneer LOlonnois Was Torture,
to Death by indiana.

The Buccaneer L'Olonnois Was Tortured
to Death by Indians.
In st. Nicholas, in his series Of
sketches of ''The Buccaneers Of Our
Coast" Mr.. Frank r. Stockton tells Of
the adventures Of L'Olonnois, the
Frenchman. While coasting along Hon
duras L'Olonnois ran his vessel ashore.
Mr.. Stockton says:
AS it was impossible to get their
great vessel off the sand banks the pi-
rates set to work to break her up and
build boat out Of her planks. But
when they began the work they had no
idea it would take SO long to build a
boat. It was months before the un-
wieldy craft was finished, and they &C.
cupied part Of the time in gardening,
planting French beans, which were ripe
in about six weeks, and gave them some
fresh vegetables. They also had some
of the ships stores, and made bread.
thus managing TO live very well.
L'Olonnois was never intended by
nature to be boatbuilder, and when
the boat was finished it was discovered
that it had been planned so badly ths :
it would not hold them all, so .he..
drew lots to see who should embark !
her, for one-half of them would hays {
stay until the others came back {:
course L'Olonnois went in the boat. a:.,.
he reached the mouth Of the Me rag u.
river. There his party was attacked BY
some Spaniards and Indians, who killed
more than half of them and prevented
the others from landing L'Olonnois
and the rest of his men got safely away,
and they might have sailed back to the
island where they had left their com
rades, for there was now room enough
for them all. But instead they went tc
the coast of Cartagena.
The pirates left on the island by theil
heartless companions were rescued by 6
buccaneering vessel, but l. Olonnois ha6
now reached the end Of his wicked ca
reer.
On the shores where he landed he die
not find prosperous villages and peace
full inhabitants to be robbed, but instead
he came upon fierce tribe Of Indians
called by the Spaniards "bravos, >
or wild men. These people would never
have anything to do with the whites
It was impossible to conquer them or tt
pacify them. They hated white men
They had heard Of L'Olonnois and hi
buccaneers, and when they found thi
notorious pirate upon their shores they
were filled with a fury such as they hat
never felt toward any other Of his race.
Nearly all Of the buccaneers were
killed, and L'Olonnois, being taker
prisoner, was put to death with mos
| cruel tortures-a fate Of which he hat
no right to complain.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
SNOW DAYS.

Oh, the children love the snow, and they new
er grumble over It'll
Old winter snaps, but in their wraps they toss
and tumble over it.
In q laughing, jolly tumble,
Through a snowdrift first they stumble.
Then snow man, like dough man
Though he really looks like no man
They freeze stiff as any Roman,
Ere he has q chance to crumble.
30, helloi Who loves the snow
Let him out APPLYING goi
On the road 1t makes a cushion so the wheel,
can't rattle over it,
But all the boys in merry whirls they ro.nI
and battle over it.
Then the girls, both high and humble.
Bring their sleds without a grumble,
And a-coasting, checks a-roasting,
Every one of speed a-boasting,
Down the hill they all go coasting,
With a jounce and bounce and tumble.
80, helloi Who loves the snow
Let him out a-play1ng goi
Martha Burr Banks in st. Nicholas
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-05-05
Startled the Old Man,

The acoustics of Statuary hall in the
capitol at Washington are matter Of
wonder to tourists, and many are the
tricks played upon them. An exchange
tells Of youth employed in one Of the
departments who was visited by his
father recently and took the old gentle
man to Statuary hall. There is block
about the center Of the circular hall
where, if one stands and faces the
north, sound uttered from the door
way, 40 feet in the rear, seems to be
Immediately in front of this block. The
youth managed to get his father on the
block and, attracting his attention to-
ward a statue in front, slipped to the
rear and said: "What time have you?
My watch has stopped" The father
drew out his watch and was half
through giving him the time when he
looked around and saw that he was
standing alone and that the son was
nowhere to be seen. He was bewildered
and looked like the man from beneath
whose coat collar the magician has just
extracted live goose. Presently the
son stepped forth from the pillar where
he had been in hiding, but it required
many explanations to restore the old
gentleman's serenity.