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The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
PURSUED BY HIS CONSCIENCE
Man Guilty of Smuggling Has Very
Miser bile Trip,

Miserable Trip.
From the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat: Il was never mixed up with a
smuggling transaction but once in my
life,' said New Orleans business man
whose name may as we'll be left out,
and my experience was so painful
that | swore off then and there
had a deal in west Texas on bsno at
the time, and had made . short trip
over Mexican frontier. dirlng which |
picked up handful of very fine opals.
A wicked friend showed me how easy
1t was to carry them over the line
without paying tribute to Uncle Sam,
and | was weak enough to yield to the
temptation. When | got on the cars
at Ell Paso, however, to come east to
Dallas l was haunted by a guilty con-
science and had horrible premoni-
tion that some secret service officer
was on my track. Presently my at
tentlOn became attracted by a man
with black beard, who kept looking
at me furtively from a seat across the
way. | tried to persuade myself that
it was all imagination, but number
of things occurred during that ride
that satisfied me l was really being
watched. | went into the smoker. for
instance, and before long caught
glimpse of the black bearded chap
peering through the end of the window
from the platform. 1t was the same
in the dining car, and, to make a long
story short, | reached Dallas thorough
lV unStrnpy That 30
think | had shaken the fellow off my
track. when | happened to stroll out Of :
the hotel, and there he was standing
behind the pillar. Needless to say
didn't sleep wink, and when I
bumped into the sleuth next morning
and saw that he had shaved off bis
beard | gave myself up for lost. How
ever, that was the last of him, and for
the balance of my stay | was unmo-
Tested and gradually regained my
equanimity. That the man had been
shadoWlng me was undeniable, but
what his purpose could have been and
why he dropped the game so abruptly
were mysteries which | was forced to
leave unsolved. 1t was two years be-
fore | found out. Then | ran across
the man one day by accident in ST.
Louis restaurant and he owned up. It
seems that he had been public Of
fetal in a small Texas town and got
mixed up in his accounts. He swore
to me that it was only bad bookkeep-
ing, but the grand jury indicted him
for embezzlement and he skipped until
things calmed down. | happened to
coincide with description he had of
a. detective, and all his strange moves
were actuated by exactly the same mo-
tive that prompted me to run-namely,
to see whether he was being watched.
We were both fooled by our fears. His
affairs had since been settled up and
we enjoyed a good laugh and cold
bottle together. But | am a reformed
for life"
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
CAN MAN STAND 1000 VOLTS?

A report has come from New York of
man having received an electric
shock sufficient to run four lines of
trolley and to furnish hundreds of
lights, and yet he lived to tell of it..
This is the story:
"New York special: Joseph Hampel,
an employe of the Lexington avenue
cable power house, while working at
his switchboard received and survived
an electric shock of about 1000 volts.
The mans body was burned black from
head to foot; every stitch of clothing
was torn from him and he fell sense
less through a hole instantaneously
burned in the floor by the terrific cleo
trical power. The doctors who at
tended him say there is no case on rec
ord of man withstanding a similar
shock. The accident was caused
through Hampel trying to tighten a
loose screw on the switchboard and in
some way creating a circuit. The
enormous power of the shock may lie
Judged from the fact that until the
circuits were readjusted all the cars of
the road were brought to standstill."
The report is discredited in Chicago.
One of the leading electricians of the
Edison company said: Such a thing
could not occur, and regard the dis
patch purely as fairy tale.' It re-
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19

qulres current Of from seventeen IN
2,5OO volts in cases of electrocution and
II the report of Joseph Hampel be cor
rect, then | say many persons having
been electrocuted and declared sc;en-
tifically dead have been buried alive
And no current of 1000 volts could
burn hole in floor large enough for
man to fall through"
City Electrician Edward El,ioott
said on the subject: "It is imnossible
1or the man to have received So great
a shock in power house for no street
car line in the United States uses .
greater current than 500 volts. Again
II the mans body was burned black If
was not from the electrical sbock sor
1t Is not reported as forceful enough
TO cause him to turn color. but n,ust
nave peen caused by the burning NJ bis
clothes. 1t is possible for man -
survive shock of 1000 volts, provid-
ed it did not strike him on vito1
spot. One Of the city electricians u,os
injured last year by current or a mn
volts force, and no holes were made in
the moor, nor did his clothing catch
hre, but he lived. The blow came on
his arm, between the hand and elbow
He was in a hospital for six months
and after that seemed to be all right t"
Chicago Chronicle.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
ESCAPED THE PYRE.
A THRILLING ROMANCE OF
HINDOOSTAN.
An Eastern Woman with "a wild History
She Was Doomed to BE Burned OH
she Funeral Eyre OF Her AhiaLced
Indian Lover.

There recently arrived in this coun-
try from India, via Yokohama, wo
man whose history reads like a ro-
nance. The woman is Mrs. Mammie
Lalros. Her husband is a Eurasian
t1sm Lahore, and Christian, but the
woman, although she dresses in Eu-
ropean fashion, is staunch hlnLoo,
VINO refuses to be converted, end has
brought with her from her native
benares copper statuette of the god
dess SILVA, which she worships at
leisure, while her husband may be at
tending services in the nearest Epis-
copal church. They tolerate each 9TH
er and live happily together with
thelr three beautiful daughters, two
OF whom are of their fathers creed,
while the third, the youngest is a de-
vout worshiper of SILVA and Ganeesha.
Mrs. Lalros' history is thrilling She
was about to become a victim to the
terrible suttee of her caste when res
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
RISkED LIFE FOR A CHILD.

Willie Brooker, an S-year-old lad,
living in JeffersOnvlle, Ind, was res
cued from a watery grave the other
day by the heroic and daring efforts
of Capt Matt Dugan engineer of the
ferryboat City of Jeffersonville. The
boy in company with some friends,
had been playing on an old wharf boat
at the foot of Wall street, when he
either fell or was thrown into the
water. His companions at once set up
a cry for help, and a number of per-
sons were attracted to the spot. The
little fellow was struggling heroically
in the waves, but none dared risk the
plunging into the icy cold water to
save him The City of Jeffersonville
was just landing at the ferry, a short
distance from where the lad fell into
the river. Melvin Skaggs, an en-
ploye of the ferry company, was the
first to venture to the boys assistance.
He had, however, swan only a short
distance when he was seized with
cramps and was compelled to return
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
DIDN'T DISCOMFORT ORATOR.
"A Speaker Who Got Back at the Man
Who Interrupted Him.

"Oratory is not lost art" said
| Major Newman of Tennessee, now in
Chicago on business; "at least, it's still
power in my state. One of the most
famous Old-time orators in southern
tennessee was William, universally
known as Bill Grove He was a law.
yer of decided ability, though his con-
vlvial habits prevented him from ac-
cumulating any property. Before the
war Lincoln county, where Grove re-
sided, was decidedly democratic, the
lawyer being an enthusiastic whig.
Like the great majority of his party,
Bill was opposed to secession, but
finally yielded to sectional prejudice
and enlisted in the confederate service,
serving with considerable distinction
for four years. After the close Of the
war Bill became Democrat, but many
old-tlmers never forgot that he had
been whig and lost no opportunity
OF irritating the old lawyer. A few
years ago the surviving confederate
soldiers of southern Tennessee held a
grand reunion, Bill Grove being the
orator of the day. The opera house
was crowded and Bill was doing honor
to himself and his section in delivering
mastery and telling address, when,
while speaking of the outbreak of the
war, an old democrat in the rear of
the room hoping to embarrass the ora
tor, shouted out: Where were YOU
then, Bill" The face of the old law
yer blushed, but he was a real orator,
and had evidently no intention of
spelling the well-rounded period that
came next in order or losing the op-
portunity of making a grand climax,
for he never looked at the man who
had sought to confuse him, but bided
his time and continued in ringing
tones: That little stream of blood
which first began to trickle down the
nations side at Fort Sumter rolled
on, widening, deepening, surging, un-
til it became a vast deluge-a deluge
upon whose red bosom rolled and rock
ed the frail ark of southern national
ity-an ark which knew no Ararat,
but wrecked and ruined, sank beneath
the engulfing flood deeper than plum
met ever sounded; carrying with it the
noblest ship and the boldest crew that
ever fioated upon the sea of time-I
was there, you fatherless reprobaate,
Where were you?'"
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19

Atlanta Constitutions: A friend asks
for the origin of this poem. One story
has it that the story was written by
Mrs. Sarah Hale in 1927, and set to
music by DR.. Lowell Mason, who had
singing classes for children in the
Boston public schools. The incident oc-
Cured to her when a child The 9TH
er story makes Mary Sawyer, of Som
erville, Mass, the heroine of the poem,
and the poet young man named Roul-
stone or Rowlston. The lamb of this
story was killed by a COW one Thanks
giving day.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
Arrested for Murder of ,Ho

Dallas CTexas) Cor. Chicago Inter
Ocean The sheriff of Austin county
last night arrested Captain John Mo.
Donald, for two years a resident of
that county on a warrant charging
him with murder committed in San
Patricio county forty years ago. Can
tain Mcdonald secured his release on q
writ OF habeas corpus after his arrest
for the killing of Jim Moyet in 1859
His bond was fixed at $1,000. He dis
appeared from there, was soon lost
sight of in the war between the states
and was not fully identified until yes
terday as the man wanted under the
old Indictment
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19

under the body of the native who was
nrst killed, and this was also presented
to him as memento of the encounter.
Smiths parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Smith, live on a farm near Lake Pres
ton, s. D., and are naturally very
proud of their heroic son.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19

cued by the man who afterward be-
came her husband. AS is the custom
IN India, Rance Khud, while still a
toddling child, was affianced to the
son of friend and neighbor. At the
age OF ii, just on the eve of the chill
drens s marriage, the youth of 13, who
was to be the bridegroom, died, end,
according to the irrevOcable laws of
her caste, she was doomed to be burn
ed on his funeral pyre on the banks
OF the sacred river Jumna. over from
the city of Benares. AS Lalros had
much to do with what followed, It is
just as we'll he should tell the story
Il, the son of European father,
was guiding a detachment of the First
Bengal cavalry through the jungles to
Benares. While concealed in the bush
waiting for sunrise we saw the dead
youth carried down to the waters
edge on a bamboo stretcher. and.
judging from the sort of crowd that
had assembled, we concluded that we
were about to witness a suttee. The
body was covered over with a green
SILK robe-for he was high-caste
Brahmin--and placed on a pile of res
inous sandalwood logs. Then the
cloth was removed, the bier placed on
the pyre, with the feet toward the
Jumna, six logs were laid on the body,
and all was ready for the widow.
Led by relative, Rance walked
slowly down the bank to play her
tragic part in the ceremony, covered
with a flowing robe of white. A Bra
min priest stood at the head of the
body-the scene is before me now as
if it were but yesterday-and he di-
rected the proceedings in the coolest
manner possible. Taking the rod pre-
sented her by the Brahmin in her
right hand, Rance walked three times
around the bier and waved if over
her head. The Brahmin next handed
her torch, which, though to all an
pearance not lighted, contained a
spark of fire within. Very soon the
waving of the torch caught a current
and ignited. I could not see the girls
face all this time, but | could see that
her form shook like an aspen leaf.
The Brahmin now, amid profound
having ordered her to applv
the torch, Rance advanced toward tbe
pile with tottering steps, and in a mo-
ment the pile was ablaze. Now came
Ramee's time to sacrifice herself. to
perish then and there in the fierce
1ames that were already stretching
out their tongues toward her n,msv
robe.
"She hesitated, she trembled and nv
command of the priest two men were |
about to throw her on the blazino
)yre, when the officer COMMANDING
he detachment, a young man with a
'oft heart, ordered his men to charee
They obeyed the order with alacritv
md not a moment too soon. disners,
ng the suttee party, which fed to IFS
'oats, leaving Rance fainting on tho
lver banks. In taking this sten the
'fficer really disobeyed orders. For
unately we found what we had come
or. We saw that the rebels were
ortltylng Benares. AS for Rance. the
olonePs wife took her under her nro-
ectlon, and she became nv wife
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
Had Enough.

Parson Howlett-Mah tex TO- dis
ebennin's disclose am toe be foun' in
Philippians, chapter Deacon Goode
(arising and making for the door,
Sorry TO- toe cause talk. but hears
dis Philippines question six days in de
week, an I doan sit TO- to hear it on
Sundays nohow. (Bares the door).-
JUDGE
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
WOULD-BE REVOLUTIONIST.
paris letter.

Paul DeroUlede. the founder Of the
League OF Patriots, who has been ar
rested for melting revots against the
civic authorities, is fiery agitator,
whose championship of the army has
been conducted in literature as we'll as
in politics. His ability to write in
verse comes to him naturally enough
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
Shaving Between Bayonet Cbarpe.

A barber was doing a rushing busi-
ness in the Kansas trenches Sunday.
The barber solicited custom from one
soldier who preferred to wear lilacs,
and was greeted with the cheerful re-
ply: mo, l had a close enough shave
yesterday coming into Caloocan."-
Manila American.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
Stale of Spanish Trade.

United States Consular Agent Mer-
tens, at Grao, has submitted figures
relative to the Spanish trade last year,
showing that, Notwithstanding her de-
feat in war and her distressed econo-
mic condition, Spain was able to show
a balance of trade in her favor for
1898. The total exports were S132, ,4O1,- :
O3S and the imports s91, ,772,45O.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19
MOurnful Contrast.

There is no doubt about it." "a
marked Willie Washington, with a
sigh, some girls are tickle" "Yes "
answered Miss Cayenne, "it is nosi-
lively depressing to see how some NJ
them have stopped kissing heroes and
gone calmly back to pug dogs wash
ington Star.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19


full and the horse covered with blood.
He was afterward taken to the hos
pital. That man after being so Sc
verely wounded should have the pluck,
not only to face his foes and fight, but
to kill one of his assailants on the spot
and mortally wound the other, ex-
cited the admiration Of all the soldiers
at Manila. He was congratulated on
his plucky fight by practically the
whole army, even Gen. Otis calling
upon him while in the hospital and
shaking hands with him and commend
ing him for his bravery. A fund was
raised among the soldiers and officers,
with which they purchased an elegant
gold watch and presented it to the
hero. The machete, a very fine one
with an inlaid gold handle, which
came so near being the means Of end
ing his life, was found on the ground
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-05-19

Texas Cotton Seed in Manila.
Enterprising Texas planters have
shipped 5000 pounds of cotton seed to
Manila.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25
PROBATE BUSINESS.

The following business was transacte d
by the probate court during the past week ::
Thomas Fleming estate, Newport. APP
pra1sers' Inventory returned and accepted.
VIM. G. Hawkins, non compos, Barton
r. B. Skinner, guardian, resigns. Ethan
S. Nelson appointed guardian. Former
guardian settles his account.
John F. Lyon estate, Coventry. Com
missioners' report returned and accepted.
James A. Grove estate, Glover. APP
praisers' inventory returned and accepted.
Sarah A. Porter estate, Troy. Admin
istrator presented his account. Referred
to Jan. %, 1900, at Newport.
Ella A. Blake estate, Derby. Admins
traitor settles his account. Decree of dis
tribution made.
Ella c. Day estate, Coventry. M. P.
Day appointed administrator.
Fletcher r. Kendall, insane, Coventry.
License granted guardian ito sell real
estate.
D. G. Patterson minors, Glover. c. W.
Williams, guarQlan, resigns. Nett1e Fat
terson appointed guardian.
G. E. Grandy trust estate, Derby. Grace
n. Grandy appointed trustee. License
granted to sell real estate.
Eben S. Woodward estate, Charleston
Executrix settles her account. Decree of
distribution made.
j. @. A. Mcclellan estate, Glover. APP
praisers' inventory returned and accepted.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25

In the course of a long editorial
INoring Judge Powers re- election to
Dngress the Burlington Free Press
Tvs: "The new man in Congress,
bwever able, is an apprentice. He
ts no recognition from the speaker.
he is placed on any committee it is
the tail of some unimportant one.
takes him one term to get ac-
ainted with his brothers, and at
|e departments; and beyond the
Iutine of bsuiness as number, he
Ia accomplish little for his constitu-
Its or sustain the standing Of his
hte on the floor of the house. With
4 o new untried men, Vermont would
n nowhere" Yet when the Free
ess urges the election of ex-Gov.
bingham to the senate it advocates
H|t what it depreciates in the case of
i Powers. Be consistent, Mr.. Free
s.-SlUanto1 Courier.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25
killed and thirty one wounded during
the day. and several from the 4th.

killed and thirty one wounded during
the day, and several from the 4th.
During nearly the whole afternoon
there was nothing to prevent the
rebels from coming around either our
right Or left and marching US off to
Richmond. 1t was known to some of
US two hours before our capture that
capture was inevitable unless we re-
treated or received heavy reinforce
ments; yet we had positive orders
to "hold the lines at all haz zards." At
dusk we were out of ammunition. A
more but the detail did not return.
At O'Clock we had fallen back under
cover Of the woods and when almost
the last ray of hope had expired we
were temporarily made glad by seein g
body of men in our rear moving
towards us down the hill, which we
took to be reinforcement of our own
men. We could not restrain our joy
at the sight and prepared to give
them three cheers. Hardly had the
first notes escaped our throats before
bullets sang and snapped around our
ears like hailstones in a storm. Our
supposed friends proved to be enc
mics, and they had mistook our cheer
for Yankee yell preparatory to
charging bayonet. They had marched
one line of battle around our right,
another around our left and closed up
in the rear. E. H WEBSTER.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25
TO BE CONTINUED.

The effort to have a lawyer candi-
date for congress from every county
in this congressional district will sue
ceed, if the bosses can have their way
1t certainly looks strange to the
thinking voters. Why is it that
nothing but lawyers are put up against
@. S. Page, the peoples candidate?
Was congress created as a sinecure
for lawyers, or was it established as a
medium through which the peoples
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, if you
please-should enact laws beneficial
to the entire country. There is not
now in congress a sufficient number
of representative from the diversi-
fed interests of the country. The
lawyers largely predominant. This is
wrong. There are other interests far
more important than the profession
of law, but they are practically unrep-
resented. In urging the selection of
c. S. Page to succeed Judge Powers.
we believe we are voicing the sent
ment of large majority of the voters
of the district. Because he is in all
respects the peer of all the candidates
mentioned or suggested. Because he
would represent the business interests
of the state better than any of the
lawyer candidates. AS regards the
candidacy of such a number of law
yers, it is our opinion, and there are
many who hold similar views, that
some of them are in the field to elect
delegates that they can trade and
thus thwart the will of the people.
This is a matter for the careful consid-
GRAFTON Of the voters, and we be-
lieve that sufficient number of them
will attend the primaries and see to it
that the delegates elected are men
who will go to the convention and
vote for the best man. With such
delegates in the convention there will
be no question as to the selection of
c. S. Page of Hyde Park, the loyal |
Vermonter and enterprisiug business
man.-BristOt Herald.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25

The choice of Philadelphia for the
Republican convention next year,
by a majority of one vote in the ma
tional committee, was most fitting in
view of the brotherly love now ex-
sting in the republican party, which
ID more harmonious than at any time
ID it's history, and of the fact that the
hcket is likely to be nominated by
Reclamation. Chicago lost the con-
kention by over confidence, accepting
the belief that it was bound to be
bhosen, instead of hustling; New York
was never seriously considered.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25

General Lawton was shot and in
tantly killed by Filipino sharp
hooter while standing iu front of his
nen last Tuesday. He made record
bring the Cival War and in fighting
hdians in the west after the close of
he war of which any man might be
broud. and when the Spanish war
|roke out he Immediately entered the
leld and by his heroic conduct did
huch to make the invasion of Cuba a
taccess. Later he was sent to the
|hilippiness and has taken a very
rominent parti in the campaign which
bsulted in the breaking up of the
hilippine army.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25

he great reverses of the English
Africa have brought the home
Eernment to see that they have a
to contend against which will not
easily conquered and they are
ting forth every effort to stem
tide before other more serious
bplications arise. The best and
bt experienced officers are being
/ to the front while many of the
| ng men among the English nobili-
re taking up arms trying in every
to get in the front ranks. Eng
II realizes that if the war continue
she fails to make better show
there may be great uprising in
\ lea and also in India against her
Ter, while European nations would
areful to take every advantage
ible of her hampered condition to
oach upon the territory which
hitherto only been maintained as
raj territory through the persls-
N efforts of Great Britain.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-12-25

Ieaker Henderson had an un-
II experience in connection with
Republican financial bill, which
passed by the House last week,
decisive majority, including
republican member of the
and few democrats, and he is
rally much pleased. He had the
of being chairman of the caucus
nittee which prepared the bill
ell as being the speaker of the
/ that passed it. The bill will go
to the senate at once, but
her it will be reported to the
e from the finance committee, to
d it will be referred, with
dments, or whether the bill pre-
by the republican members of
5committee during the summer
which differs somewhat from
ouse bill, will be reported as
tute, is not vet positively
d, although the chances favor
tier action.