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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-10
A Test Case.

One of the lower courts of Boston rem.
dered a decision Thursday which is of gem
eral interest in Vermont. This case was
docketed as Warren f. Kellogg against f
q. Smith Mr.. Kellogg is publisher of the
New England Magazine, and the defendant
is ex-mayor of st. Adams.
The suit grew out OF the publication of 8
book entitled "Men OF Progress, Vermont
and for which, it is claimed, larger mum.
Der OF subscribers were obtained at S38 each
1y the misrepresentation OF the agent for
the book. He represented, among other
things, that the book was to be written by
Colonel g. G. Benedict OF Burlington, and
to contain the portraits and biographical
sketches OF those whose names had been
given the agent by Colonel Benedict. After
learning the statements made by the agent
were false, several subscribers in st. AL
bans joined in letter OF protest to the New
England Magazine withdrawing their sub.
scriptions. About year later, in Novem-
Der last, two agents appeared to deliver the
book which 1T was claimed, was q chesp
affair, hlled with errors and in no way came
up to the descriptions given by the agent at
the time he solicited the subscriptions. All
but two or three subscribers in that CITY re-
fused to accept the book, and Joined in a
chancery proceeding against the New En-
gland Magazine.
Judge Munson granted temporary in
junction restraining the publishers from
collecting the money, and later the tempo
rary injunction was made perpetual. Mr..
Smith was arrested for payment OF his sub
scribtion at one time when he was in Bos-
ton. He gave bail and the suit followed.
The decision rendered in the Boston court
this week is against the publishers. The
case will be appealed but those familiar
with the matter consider the prospect for
the defendant more favorable in the higher
court than 1t was in the court below. This
case has been watched with great interest
all through Vermont as the victims are
scattered throughout the State.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-10
STAFFORD.

Rev. K. Blake will minister to the Free
Baptist Society at South STAFFORD another
year.
b. Frank Dow has moved from Copperas
Hill TO the Daniel Dow house at South
STAFFORD.
Married, in STAFFORD, May 3, by Rev. e.
Blake, Irving w. Prescott and Gertrude v.
Slye OF Strafford.
Oscar A. Norris has moved into the New
comb house and Mr.. Cole has leased the
Kibling farm for year.
Mrs. Addie j wife of l.. X. Wood of
Hanover, N. H., was brought 10 the home
OF her mother, Mrs. Janette Bacon in this
town last week, i'll with lung trouble.
The dwelling house and barn OF Harry j.
Warrington were struck by lightning, May
l, and both were totally consumed A
valuable cow was instantly killed by the
same bolt. Hardly anything Of clothing.
furniture or provisions was saved. No in.
surance.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-10

Demonstrations of honor, as fervid
az they are spontaneous, the express
ions of the intuitive homage of mems
hearts for the modest but superlative
hero of the Oregon's perilous voyage
and battle race, have attended Captain
Clark in his unheralded passage through
parts of Vermont and Massachusetts.
The captain must begin to understand
that, willing or unwilling, he is hero,
and such a hero as captivates the hearts
OF the people, whose heroic rank the
great masses are not slow to compre-
bend and appreciate.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-10

In franklin county court Friday morn
ing Col. Willard Harrington, counsel for
Jack Powers, who was recently convict.
ed OF the burglary OF the Richford savings
bank last November, moved to set aside
the evidence on the ground that 1t was
contrary to the might Of evidence, Col.
A. A. Hall argued against the motion for
the State. Judge Munson took the matter
under advisement and late in the afternoon
announced his decision overruling the mo-
ton. Powers will be obliged to remain in
Jail at b. Adams until the October term of
supreme court, when his counsel will plead
exceptions taken at the trial. 1t is also
quite probable that the case will not be
reached In supreme court before the gem
eral term in January, 1900.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-10
ARTHUR ROPES. General Editor.
Stanton and Alger.

The wall of public opinion on which
the Humpty Dumpty OF the war de-
partment sat before he entered the
cabinet was never very high struc-
ture. But, such as it was, Humpty
Dumpty had great fall when the facts
and circumstances of the administra-
ton of the war department, at home
and abroad, during the period of hos
tilitles with Spain, in Cuba and Porto
Rico, began to be known and under
stood, and all the Kings oxen and all
the Kings men, on investigating
boards or commissions or elsewhere,
can't put Humpty Dumpty back again.
General Merritt's ill-judged boost at
Detroit has simply landed the unfortu
nate Humpty on the other side of the
wall.
Too many men are living, too we'll
remembering all the history Of STAN
toms administration of the war depart
ment during the civil war, to tolerate
for an instant any comparison between
Alger and Lincoln's great war minis
ter. Had General Merritt compared
Alger with Simon Cameron, Lincoln's
first war secretary, whom the Presi-
dent removed from office when his in
efficiency became apparent, the COM
parison would have been instantly
recognized as exceedingly opposite.
Stanton was criticised, and often de-
nounced, but for what? Failure to sup
ply promptly with food, clothing, mill
tary resources of every kind, or men, ca.
sonably and in ample quantity and good
quality, all along that star flung battle
line" where million men were con-
tending for the Union? Not at all. The
impetuous secretary of war would
brook no delay. He would accept no
excuse for failure from subordinates,
he would tolerate no hindrance to the
prosecution of the war in any depart
ment his authority could reach or could
be stretched to reach. Such a consum-
ing flame was his zeal and such
mighty engine his executive capacity,
that he even dominated the President,
and at times Lincoln was himself con-
strained to acknowledge, with that
ever-permeating dash of humor, that
he chad no influence with this admins
tration." Grant, in all his campaigns,
in his mighty battle-msrch to Rich
mond; Sherman, fighting every inch of
his way through the mountain region of
the enemy's country TO Atlanta; every
commander, on every scene of opera
tions, near or remote, had subsistence,
transportation and ammunition, ord
nance for battle or siege, pontoons for
crossing broad rivers, men and mater
ial for rebuilding bridges and railways.
Stanton's faults, and the cause often
of merciless detraction, were the ven
ial ones of an excess of zeal, an excess
of the stern quality of the iron admin
istrator of the department on which the
triumph of the Union cause depended,
a personal honesty and integrity of
purpose no temptation could reach, no
intimidation could daunt. His energy
was sleepless, his ability and capacity
for business were imperial, he spared
not himself and he was equally unspar-
ing of others.
What shall be said of the man who
exalts Alger to the rank, and above the
rank, of this imperious, but imperial,
war secretary Ones plain blunt opin-
ion on this subject might not look well
in print.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-05-10

+. A. Bragg has been appointed road
commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by
the failure of w. M. Durkee to give the
necessary bonds.
Samuel Maxwell has been appointed tru-
ant officer. Sam" is the right man for the
place. When he says the boys must 90 to
school he means it and will see that the law
is enforced.
The people Of this town were shocked to
learn of the sad death of Mrs III. X. Sher-
bnrne who was killed by cyclone at Kinks
was native of this town and is pleasantly
remembered as a bright intelligent young
lady, loved and respected by all who knew
her.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
GA. - E8 @ ER K n.
Bears tho ~ The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature "s N@>zG2zIz<I
Keep on Sowing Oats.
(Grecnville News.

Allow mo space to answer publicly the
many inquiries which have been made
of mo as to tho best course to pursue in
order to meet tho adverse conditions of
weather and soil rs to tho small grain
crops.
Since August last there has not been
ono week Of continuous good weather
for plowing AS consequence tho per
centage of wheat and oats put in is small
and tho extreme severity of the weather
proved worry damaging to that which was
sOwn.
In ordor to mako up for tho deficiency
l would suggest that every available day
up to tho middle of March, or oven to
tho first of April, bo utilized in sowing
oats. Good crops may be expected If a
mixture of nitrate of soda and acid
phosphate is used as a fertilizer. Fifty
pounds OF nitrate and ono hundred
pounds Of acid phosphate per acre will
produce wonderful results, either plowed
in with tho grain or as top dressing for
fall grain lightly narrowed.
When buying acid phosphate it Is
economy to got 1t without potash. II
potash is "antod it is cheaper to buy
kainit and mix with tho phosphate,
either for small grain or cultivated Crops.
If parties interested will writo to "Pro-
paganda for Nitrate of Soda" II John
street, New York, they will havo mailed
to them valuable information on tho uac
of Nitrate of Soda.
Very respectfully,
Nj. il. DONALDSON.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
Democratic Party Policy.

AT tho instance Of tho Democratic
members of tho Committee on Foreign
Affairs, there was n caucus Of Democratic
congressman in Washington last Wcdncs,
day for tho purpose of agreeing upon q
Philippine policy. The following was
agreed upon by a strong majority, but
without division, division under the cir
cumstanccs being inadvisablo:
"Wo hold that the constitution of the
United States was ordained and estab-
lishcd for an Intelligent, liberty-lovine
and sclf-governing people and cannot be
successfully applied to people of differ
Ont virtues and conditions.
"Wo hold, therefore,, that colonial
policy is contrary to tho theory of our
government and subvorsive of those
great principles of civil liberty which
wo have been taught to cherish. We
boliove with tho declaration of independ-
ence, that all governments derive their
just powers from tho consent of tho gov
crned, and arc unaltorably opposed to
tho establishment Of any government by
the people to be governed, and in con
formity with these principles, we instruct
tho minority members of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs to Introduce and urge
tho following resolutions:
"ResOlvcd, That tho United Statos dis
claim any disposition or intention to ex-
crciso permanent sovereignty, jurisdic-
tiou or control over tho Philippine is
lands, and assert their determination,
whom m independent government shall
havo been erected therein, to transfer to
said government, upon terms which shall
bc reasonable and just, all rights secured
und>" the ccssion by Spain, and thoro-
upon TO leave tho government and con-
troll of tho islands to Il people,"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
800 REWARD 500.

The rcadcrs of this paper will be
pleased to learn that thcro Is at least ono
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all it's stages, and that is
catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to tho medical fra
ternity. Gatarrh being constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
mcnt. Halls Catarrh is Cure taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon tho blood and
mucnous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying tho foundation of the disease,
and giving tho patient strength by build
up the constitution and assisting nature
N doing its work. The propriotOrs have
have SO much faith i'm it's curative pow
ora, that they olior one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials.
Address, +. >. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
nalPs Family Pills arc tho best.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
FOLLOW As rnH MONT RjtE DAY, THOU oANsT
wAIHAllA, SOUTH oARolINA. MARoH 10, 1900.

nit and pay 80 much for killing it,
and if they had job a certain per.
centage of their wages had to be
turned over to the government.
They had to pay so much a wheel
for vehicles. That accounts for so
many two wheel vehicles here. The
refusal to pay these enormous taxes
ment being. thrown into prison and
when the prison got too full, the once
that had been. there the longest would
be taken out and shot. When we
took charge of the prison W. libe-
rated several that hadn'tseen daylight
for five, ten and fifteen years; some
that had never been tried nor any
charges preferred against them. One
old man, when tho shacklcs were
taken off, had forgotten how to walk.
These islands arc very rich. Ba-
nanas, oranges, lemons and all kinds
of fruit grow wild. The principle
industry is rice, tobacco, sugar, hemp
and the famous Manila rope. They
claim the interior is very rich with
minerals. There have been several of
our men who visited the interior, fur
thor than the Spaniards ever dared to.
They found gold and every indica.
tion that there was plenty Of it..
Pickcns journal. March 9th.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
Price OF Armor plate.

senator I1llman has, during the pas
several sessions OF the Senate, lost M
opportunity to take a shot at The man
ufaoturers of the armor plate used OF
the war vessels. Up to a few years ago
all the armor plate used in this country
wee manufactured atread, lis Eroauo
tion requires an expensive plant, backed
by vast outlay Of capital. Upon tht
assurance of an enormous price for fhei,
products, Pennsylvania steel mon organ
lied q powerful syndicate and establishe ed
the necessary plant. On their early pro
fductions they got tremendous prices
They have not been ipolined to reduce
their figures. just how much they
ought to have Is q question that can only
DO arrived at with difficulty; but it is
quito likely that even $500 ton is big
price. Tho matter came up again last
Wednesday during the discussion of the
naval appropriation BILL The following
is from the report sent out by tho Asso
oiatod Press: ~.
The controversy over tho price OF
armor plato was then precipitated by Mr.
Tillman, who offered an amendment re-
ducing the prioe nxod by the bill from
$445 per ton to $500. ). .... q.
Speaking Of his amendment, Mr.. Till
man deolated that millions of dollars
were being squandored by tho govern
mont in feathering the nests of the armo
trust, and he folt that tho Senate and
country ought to know "what kind of q
| steal was going on"
He said in tho course of his speech
that he proposed an alternative PROPOSE
tion to establish q government armol
plant 80 that tho United States could say
to the armor trust that If it did not sup
ply armor at proper price tho govern
mont will manufacture it's own armor
He said 1t was perfectly evident that the
two Pennsylvania armor plants had {
| "pull, whatever that might mean," II
the other house of Congress and were
able to hold up the nrice Of armor.
Mr.. Tillman became engaged in &
sharp colloquy with Mr.. Gallinger ovo,
tho subject of doing government work il
private or in government factories. Tho
latter maintained the navy department
had hold that it's work could be done
cheaper by private concerns than by til,
government, and that accounted for thu
fact that private shipyards were busy
and government shipyards idle.
Mr.. Tillman favored tho doing of thu
work by tho government, even at an in
creased price, for then labor and no
capital would receive tho benofits.
why" he demanded, "aro we to yielt
to those armor plato thieves, these rob
bers? AFRO we to permit these people tx
order us to stand and deliverp have
deemed it my duty to protest against
these methods and therefore have Offered
my amendment reducing the price t.
$500 ton."
Mr.. Chandler, of New Hampshire, sup
ported tho amendment. Mr.. Tillman'.
amendment was adopted-34 to 20.
Senator Butler, of North Carolina
thon offered an amendment providing
that If the companies refused to accep
$500 e ten, the Secretary of the Nav,
should proceed to erect an armor factor,
at cost of 81, SOC, 900, and appropriatinl
S2,0OO,O0O, for operating tho plant. Thi,
amendment was adopted by vote of 81
| to 27
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
Want Eggs Badly In Havana.

SAVANNAH, Ga, Maroh ia dealer
In this oity has just shipped 1000 dozen
eggs to Havana, for which he will receive
$1.G0 per dozen. The order came before
tho blizzard and tho egg famine. At the
time eggs in Havana wera worth five
cents eaoh. Tho freeze cut off the sup.
ply and the dealer cabled that ho could
not fiji tho order lowor than 81. 60 dozen.
Tho reply cemo to ship them anyway.
1t is said he paid around 80 and 40 cents
per dozon., 49,.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
The Secret Is Out.

An Illinois boy was asked to write an
essay on Masonry, and hero is what ho
wrote:
' liking Solomon was n man who lived
80 many years in tho country that ho was
the whole push. IIo was an awfully wise
man, and one day two women came to
him, each holding to tho leg of baby
and nearly pulling it in two, and each
claiming it. King Solomon wasn't feel
ing rightgood, and he said, why couldn't
the brat have been twins and stop this
bother?' And thon ho called for his
machctc and was going to Wcylcrizo tho
poor innocent little baby and give each
woman a piece of it, when tho real mother
of the baby said, Step, Solomon; stay
thy hand. Let tho old hag have it. If l
can't have n whole baby l won't have
any, Then Solomon told hcr to tako tho
baby and go home and wash it's face, for
he know it was hers. lie told the other
woman to go chase hcrself. King Solo
mon built SolOmon's Temple and was
tho father of Masons. lie had sovon hun
dred wives and three hundred lady
friends, and that's why there arc so many
Masons in tho world. My papa says King
Solomon was q warm member, and I
think ho was hot stun myself. That is
all / know about King Solomon"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
MARCH, APRIL, MAY.
These are tho Months In Which to
Purify Your Blood.

This is tho season when your blood is
loaded with impurities, accumulated dur
ing tho winter months from close con-
tinoment, rich food, and other causes.
These impurities must DO driven from
yonr system or they may breed serious
disease and cause untold suffering.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is tho greatest and
best blood purifying medicine it is pos
siblc to obtain. 1t is what tho millions
take in tho spring. 1t will purify and
enrich your blood, create an appetite,
tone up your systom and give you sound,
robust health.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
Shot Down In Her Home.

j. q ~ 4
On last Saturday night our city
was checked by a terrible tragedy.
Mrs. John NJ, Stuart, member Of
Washington Street Church, was shot
fatally and her husband was seriously
wounded by Dispensary Constable
Crawford. Accepting either account
that Of members Of tho Stuart
household or of the constables-~-there
was no excuse for the horrible deed.
The constable first called Mr.. Stuart
ffooi and upon similar reply, slapped
and struck him. That far all ac-
counts seem to agree. The parties
differ as to the firing of the first shot,
But it is certain that Crawford gave
the first offense and that he fired so
recklessly that a harmless woman
was laid low by his bullet. ...,.-, r.
We demand the speediest punish
ment of the criminal. Tho resist,
ance to search gave tho officer no
reason for his violence in word and
deed. His violence led to strife and
his aim destroyed life. A woman's
blood cries out for justice, and the
court must render it.. Legal delays
and technicalities must neither post
pone nor prevent punishment. The
citizens of Columbia behaved with
great self-restraint and prudence,
and left the outrage to the law.
Now, the law must not fail. 1t has
disappointed us before, but it must
not in this instance. The coroner's
jury has found a verdict of murder
against Crawford and his fellow
constables. Let the court without.
delay carry forward the issue. .
Again, we call for better men for
this Office. The search of mans
home is an extraordinary proceeding.
Only extreme circumstances can ex-
cuse it. 1t should be a last resort,
and when undertaken it should be
done in most considerate manner.
The authorities must find men who
can control their temper and tongues,
their hands and weapons, while dis
charging duty, specially such deli
cate and offensive work as house
searching.
We have had more than enough of
official slaughter. Our people have
not forgotten Mr.. Turner, shot down
on the highway, as he was going to
tho session of his Association. They
remember other deeds of death
other lawabiding citizens cut down
in moment. The climax was
reached when an inoffensivc woman
was slain under her own roof by "an
officer of the law" Officials are to
protect not to destroy. When they
pervert their pNwer it is a gre ter
crime than when an individual is
guilty of such outrage. 1t is time to
call a halt. And those that have the
authority should call it sternly and
quickly.-Southcrn Christian Advo-
cate.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
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Ed lieBt CoGBh Syrup. Tastes GOOd. Uge aJ
Ea In time. Sold by druggists. EEG
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a German doctor who has been
collecting information about the
habits of Iong-livcd persons, finds
that the majority of those who at
tanned old age INDUCED in late hours.
Eight out of ten persons over 80
never went to bed till well into the
small honrs, and did not got mp
again till late in the day.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16
All Records BrIk6iia

A special from Washington says: "rhe
official statement of Representative
Joseph G.. Cannon. of Illinois, the Chair
man of tho House Appropriation Com
mitteo, summing up tho appropriations
of the Doth Congress, shows an aggregate
appropriation by tho entire Congress- of
81 $3.50, 800, ,01G, and for tho session just
closed of 3,G58, 400, with authority for
contracts subjects to future appropria-
tions amounting to so, 100000.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-16

j. II. Hill, Packsyille, s. c., writes: ]
have used DIR. NJ. A. Simmons Iivor
Medicine for dyspepsia with better results
than 1 had from long trial of zeilin'a
Regulator, which found not so good.
Mover had any such good results from
Black Draught used. .