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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-24

the procession returns from the Lyndon
Center cemetery the address of the day
is to be given in Music hall by Rev. Mr..
Davis, d. D., of Springfield. In the even
lug the annual concert by Lyndon In
stitute students will be given in Music
hall, the entertainment to commence at
eight O'Clock.
Fred Stevens and wife of West Derby
spent Sunday at Mrs. Stevens mothers,
Mrs. ]. Hovey.
Harry Quimby has gone to Concord,
N. H., with the intention of leasing the
Capital City Hotel.
Mrs. Mcdowell has returned from a
three weeks visit at her home in Glover.
Mrs. George Weeks has discontinued
housekeeping and is boarding with her
son, Will.
Frank Counter has finished work as
coachman for Mrs. Julia Hutchins.
Harry P. Slsby is still quite sick with
tonsilitis.
The concert by Blaisdell's orchestra
and the Lyndonville Military Band given
in Music hall last Wednesday was excep-
tionally fine. There was a fair sized
audience although there were not as
many as the band boys had hoped to
have.
Miss Jennie Newell gave small party
to some of her musical friends last
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Emma Wilmot and daughter
Ethel were in Boston last week.
Ben Lincoln is to move into the tene-
ment in Will Jeffer's house lately vacated
by A. D. Page.
Willis c. Conner has moved into H. G.
Perrigo's house and Miss Carrie Fletcher
has moved from Mr.. Fosters house to a
tenement in ]. c. Eaton's house where
she will continue her dressmaking work.
Miss Lila Lamberton, trimmer in Mrs.
Frank Willey's millinery store was at her
home in Montpelier o ver Sunday.
The liquor taken from m. Legendre' s
house and also that taken from the
freight station has been spilled by order
of Justice Hubbard. Mr.. Legendre has
been conspicuous by his absence since his
trial.
Mrs. James Moore and son of Littleton
are visiting her mother, Mrs. John
Mccain.
Miss Eta Robinson of St. Johnsbury
is working i'll Mrs. E. Bigelow' millinery
shop.
Hiram M. Pearl of Boston was in town
recently.
Esther Spaulding is quite sick.
Jesse Spencer was in Boston last week.
B. U. Wells has sold his house on Park
avenue to E. T. Wood.
Mrs. H. P. Cushing of Montpelier is
visiting in town.
The turf is being taken from the base
ball ground so as to make dirt in6eld.
The local team play with the Barton
Landing team on the afternoon Of Memo
rial Day.
The Lyndonville grammar school boys
played game of ball with team from
st. Johnsbury and were defeated by a
score of II to 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ford went to Bos-
ton Sunday night on brief business trip.
Mrs. Fred Gorham was in Kirby last
week caring tor her mother, Mrs. Wilder,
who has been very sick.
Preparations are being made for Chill
dren's Day concerts in most of the
churches.
Memorial Sunday is to be observed
next Sunday by an address in Music hall
by Rev. E. " Stevens of the Universalist
church, Singing will be furnished by a
chorus under the direction Of the Univer-
salist choir. Exercises are to commence
at two o'clock.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-24

Hobo-"Can get bite to eat here ?"
Woman-"If you'll saw that pile of
wood" Hobo with an injured air)-
"Do | look like ten,dollar-a-plate
Democrat H- Puck.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-24
HOODS Pills

On retiring, and tomorrow your di-
gestive organs will be regulated and
you will be bright, active and ready
for any kind of work. This has
been the experience of others; it
will be yours. HOODS PILLS are
sold by all medicine dealers. rs cts.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-24
LYNDONyILLE.
Memorial Day.

The usual procession of members of
the 6. A. r. and S. V. will form on Broad
street in front of Music hall at 1 p. M,
headed by the Lyndonville Military
Band. The various local orders have re.
ceived invitation to march in line. The
school children will also march. After
the procession returns from the Lyndon
Center cemetery the address of the day
is to be given in Music hall by Rev. Mr..
Davis, d. D., of Springfield. In the even
tug the annual concert by Lyndon In
stitute students will be given in Music
hall, the entertainment to commence at
eight o'clock
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-24

No matter what the season or the meal
a salad is always refreshing and accept
able.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-05-24
Tonight

If your liver is out of order, causing
Biliousness, Sick Headache, Heart
burn, or Constipation, take dose of
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
Winds Will Not Blow
For The Great Racers.
Second Attempt to Solve
Question of Supremacy
Fails

New York, Oct Again the sea
today refused the Shamrock Co
lumbia a fair contest !; again today
the multitude which went out to
watch the contestants for the yatch
ing championship of the world
returned disappointed and not little
disgusted The question of supre
macy of the two great yachts is still
as much an open question as before
they first met, as the contest today
was in some respects more of a
huke than that Of Tuesday 1t was a
drifting match almost from start to
finish. The yatch crossed the line
with breeze of FIVE knots and the
wind never blew more than elk knots.
most of the time less than three and
part of the time not breath of air
was string. After sailing four hours
and 43 minutes the yatcbs having
covered only IL miles o: the course
to the outer mark. the regatta COM
mittee declares the race off. as it was
manifestly impossible with the breeze
then blowing for the boats to round
the stake before the time limit
expired, much less to take home
again. During the time in which the
yachts were at it the winds which
carried them dead before it over the
line, had hauled around until at the
finish they were beating into it's
teeth. While the wind held astern
the Columbia steadily outfooted her
rival until she was fully half mile
head, but in the shifting, battling
vinds following during the last
three hours, with the great sin
gle stickers .acking and beating
ard gybing to catch every streak of
wind, with fortune helping oDe about
as much as the other the Shamrock
gradually worked her way Up until,
when the race was declared eff the
two boats were about on even terms,
The Shamrock perhaps half length
ahead, but so close was the Columbia
that Capt. Barr could have thrown
biscuit to the foreigner The only
lesson learned By the nautical sharps
from today's trial of the abilities of
the two boats is that in light weather
conditions the Columbia is the super
ior in running and reaching, and the
Shamrock slightly better in beating
There has yet been no indication of
what either boat can do in a piping
whole sail breeze
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
The South's Good English.

Writing in the Pail Mall Gazette
for October on "The American Ian
guage,'' or the difference between
English ard American modes OF
speech, Mr.. William Archer falls into
error in assuming that the northern
custom of propouncing GU as "oo'
is general in the United States, the
fact being that such pronunciation is
not favored south of Mason and
Dixon slime. Mr. Archer mas found
many of his American acqusintances
pronouncipg Dewey as "Dooey. "
and once heard Chief Justice Fuller
pronounce constitutional "constitoo-
tionai," but his Inference that "the
liquid 'y6o' is very seldom heard in
America" is entirely too wide.
Throughout the south "yoo' is
deemed the only correct pronuncia
ton of "u" in the class of words
suggested, and the same is to be
said of we'll educated people in Mas
sachusetts In other words, the
southern people anc the better edu
Gated people of Massachusetts, agree
that Now York is not moo York,
union is not "oonion,' duty is not
"dooty No doubt a great many
fairly educated people in the north
have fallen in with the popular mis-,
pronunciation of "u," but even tha:e
it is not accepted generally by care.
full speakers as the correct sound =
Baltimore Sun
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11

Columbia, Oct 5-The 80 days
notice having been given and no one
having raised objection under the
railroad incorporation act, the secre.
tary of state yesterday issued com
mission to the Chattanooga, Augusta
and Charleston Air Line Railroad
company, which is to construct the
Seaboard Air Lines proposed road
from Charleston to Eiberton, Ga. !,
via Augusta, Ga.
Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 4 4-Marza
Townsend of Decorah, Ia, about ~
years old, was killed on the Carnival
circus grounds this evening While
attempting parachute leap While
up 1000 feet in the air the parachute
failed to open and he fell to the earth
like stone and was picked up dead
and terribly mangled A large crowd
saw the accident
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
No Right to Ugliness.

The woman who is lovely in face, form and
temper Will always have friends, but one who
would be attractive must keep her health. II
she is weak, sickly aud all run down, she will
be nervous and irritable. If she has constipa-
ton or kidney trouble, her impure blood will
cause, pimples, blotches, skin eruptions ana a
wretched complexion. Electric bitters Is the
best medicine in the world to regulate, stom-
ach, liver and kidneys and to purify the b.ood.
It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth
velvety skin. r;Sa complexion. 1t will make a
good looking, charming woman Of a rundown
invalid. Only soc at J. F. DeLorme's Drug
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11

necessary to argue as TO right 10
exist of capital fos the purpose of
industrial development Every great
movement in the worlds progress
has been opposed Machinery bas
done more for the benefit of labor than
ali the acts of reformers and govern
ments, yet originally the class most
benefited endeavored to prevent its
use
The introduction of fast coaches
in Great Britain was opposed to sucn
an extent that petitions were present
ed TO the King and council, asking
that no public coach be permitted to
go more than thirty miles a day.
Macaulay in commenting on this
historic fact, was prophetic when he
wrote: I'VE smile at these things.
It is not impossible that our descend
ants, when they read the opposition
offered by cupidity and prejudice to
the improvements of the nineteenth
century, may smile ID tnelr turn.
Mr. Flint was writing of the i'm
portance of industrial combinations
aiding the United States to develop
our manufacturing interests and to
gain foreign markets, and if this be
true, as it surely is, for the country
at large, how much more important
is it for the South to appreciate the
need of these new methods. Unless
the South follows the worlds lead IN
industrial combination it will be
fighting its battles with the muzzle
loader against the worlds industrial
army fully equipped with repeating
rifles. Where we should stand in
the end is only too plain. This
great cotton mill combination ought
to become the South's most powerful
weapon for gaining the control of
Che worlds cotton manufacturing
interests.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
Cotton Seed Oil in Demand

(grom tie New York Commercial
The cotton seed oil market is 10 a
state of wild confusion So unsettled
are tie conditions that toe tao leading
manufacturing concerns in the trade
have refused to MAKE any contracts
whatever for the future delivery Of oil
Prime summer yellow in large
qualities vas sold ic the New York
market last week for 80 cents per
gallon, when the highest price obtained
last year at this tine was 22aa cents per
gallon
So strong is the situation that the
trade generally is looking for 40 cent oil
before 1ss Of next mouth. The causes
leading TO the advance tbis year are
tuo-foid, the scarcity of seed at home
aud .he sbors production Of olive oil io
Itaiy and the Mediterranean section
The season is fully three weeks late
this year. and it cannot be said to have
fully opened even nov TIE c,ushsrs
through the South are complaining that
they caDnos get seed euough to begin
crushing. and up to date pos gsI!oo
Of pew crude oil las beer offered 90
the New York market.
I Seed IS selling at twice the price It
sold last year 10 Texas there have
been sales as high as S18 per toe,
delivered at the mills. while the maxi
nun price last year was SO per roD,
and some sold Gs low as S.
The development of the cosion seed
oil Industry has been marked within the
pas, f7e years Where only one-'hird
Of tie seed crop il former times was
utilized for maksoe eli. II las grown
unsi! oow thirds Of ali the seed is
con inverted iato a nerchautaole product,
;os,ead Of being spread upoo the
ground as fertilizer.
Europe has also lea-led to substitute
cotton seed oil more aud more for olive
oil. The use Of oil IN cooking 10 Italy
Frapce and Spain and, in fact, through
out the Cootinent has so increased that
the olive crop has been insufficient to
supply the demand even in bocnteous
year.
The demand for cotsou seed oil as a
substitute or for the purpose of mixing
With olive oil has grown to enormous
proportions. The exports from the
United States have grown from $780,
700 gallons 10 1889 to 40. .230. 784
GALLONS iu 1898 There is practically
no oil on the market at the present
time, aud there is large demand.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
Death by Suffocatlon.

Those who remember the mikado's
s.object ali sublime" will fod evi-
deuce of continued stndy ir the report
that the japanese goverumeus is con.
sidering the advisability of iu6icsiog
capital punishment by means of suffo-
cation-placiog toe subject io an air.
tight chamber and then exhausting the
air from toe chamber by means of q
pump.
The death" or vacuum" chamber.
as Ii is 70 be kuo@o, is to be az air
sight eel! built 10 or adjouruing the
prison. II is to be eight feet in height,
ter feet vide and ten feet long. The
four sides are TO have each 40 air-tigh
odow of three quarter ioca plate
glass, 80 that the operators, prison and
Other choisls may have 40 opportunity
to witness TIE execution and determine
to results.
"The cell will be c:pDeeted with an
air pump which will Eave power of
causing she expulsion Q! the air ic the
eel, in ooe minute and forty seconds,
thus acting so quickly as nos to allow
the victim to become sufocated or dis
tressed iu even the slightest degree.
but, Instead, causing almost instant
death. 10 fact. it was shown when the
experiment was tried upon a large St.
Bernard dog that the animal was dead
Minute and half after the vacuum
was completed.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
Warships Ordered to the
Philippines.

Washington. Oct. 4 The president
today directed the Immediate dispatch
TO tie Philippines of number OF
vessels of the Davy including the
cruiser Brooklyn aud the gunboats
Marietta aud Machias.
The action is the result Of Admiral
Dewey's interview today, in which be
went over the Philippine situation with
the president
The orders g;veo are in lioe With
the expressed de,ermlnstIon of the
president to furnish the army and navy
every resource for stamping out the
Philippine resurrection at the ear'iea'
possible time.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
Notice Of Registration.

The State of South Caroline-Sumter Coun-
ty-Of6ce of Supervisors of Registration,
Sumter County, Sumter, S. C, February
lst. 1899.
Notice ia hereby given tha, in accordance
With an Act of the Geeeral Assembly, and in
conformity With the requirements Of the State
Constitution, the books for the registration
of all legally qualified voters, and for the
issuing of transfers, tt,,, will be open at the
Office OF Supervisors of Registration in the
court house, between the hours of o'clock
a. N and 9 o'clock p. N, on the first 81 on.
day of each month, uutil thirty days before
the next general election. Minors who shall
become of age duripg that period of thirty
days shall be eutisled TO registration before
the books are closed, if otherwise qualified.
The requirements FOR qualified voter are
that the applicant for registration shall be
able TO read and write correctly, or possess
10 his own name property TO the amount of
three hundred dollars, upon which be pays
taxes. +. + BURROWS,
T. D. DUBOSB,
j. ST. KNIGHT,
Supervisors of Registration Sumter Co.
Mch
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
Death Of D. E. Converse.
Founder Of the Great Clifton
and Glendale Factories


of D E. Converse, of spartanburg,
whose death on the 4th instant has
been announced, appeared in the
telegraph dispatch from that city
Dexter E Converse was president
of the Clifton and Glendale cotton
factories, leader in the building of
Converse college, Spartanburg and
one of the most prominent, success
ful and influential cotton mill men
in the country He had been i'll
about three weeks, and although
his fr::eads, who included the entire
population of the community, hoped
until the last, his death was not un.
expected
Mr.. Converse was born in New
England about u years ago He
was thoroughly grounded in the
cotton mill business there, and came
to this country in 1857 or 1858, and
applied TO John Bomar. Sr, who
then had small frame yarn mill on
the site of the present Glendale yarn
mills, for employment. Both of them
used to relate with glee that Mr.
Bomar was at first disposed to reject
the proposition and did refuse fatty,
but Mr.. Converse persisted and at
last was given work. He quickly
proved his value ana remained at the
mill until 1861, when be volunteered
as private in the Confederate army,
going out with Spartanburg com
pany. Although born and brought up
in New England. Mr Converse was
throughly convinced that the South
was right and the ConfedeEacy had
no brayer or more devoted soldier
than be was
There was urgent need for yarns
both by the government and people,
however, and because of his skill in
the milling business Nj Converse
was detailed and sent back to Glen.
dale where be worked until the end
of the war.
A few years after the war he had
developed the business so far that he
built brick mill at Glendale, one OF
the first in the State, and considered
at that time very fine one. Later
he bought the shoals at Clifton and
in the seventies he began to build
new mill there The business mas
steadily developed until there are
now three mills at Clifton and the
enterprises there and at Glendale
represent capital Of s2,o00,0o0
Sir. Converse holds large shares of
the stock of both establishments. He
was worth between $750,o00 and
Sl,000,000
He was Que of the leaders in tbe es-
tabiisbmeot of Converse College, and
has given to it $4,000, or. per.
haps more.
He was member of the Presby.
teriau Church and liberal giver.
In fac, DO call was made upon his be
nevoleoce OF his public spirit in vain
He was always ready DOT only to do
bis fail part 10 money but to take active
persooai interest 10 everything that
promised good for mankind or the
community. One peculiar and beanti
ful trait OF bis life and character vas
that be was rarely. if ever, known TO
speak evil of any mai
he leaves a widow, who was Miss
Twitcbei!, sister of the treasurer of tue
Clifton and Glendale mills. and one
daughter, Miss Marie Converse.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11

Loodou. Oct 6 The Paris cores,
poudent of Tue Daily Mail says :"
earu that Germany is aooct to hand
oyer documents which lead to the
quashiug of the Dreyfus verdict"
Spartapb burg, Oc:. ID f Con-
verse, died hcre at $50 tais afternoon
sfer tea days illness lie was y
years of age TIE funeral services
will be held 10 Converse College audi
tor:um at II O'Clock Friday morning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11

is an omipous sound to the man Who
isn't Insured, wheo be sees his home
disappearing 10 flames and smoke.
We can hardly have any compassion
on him. when it is SO easy and at such
a small outlay 10 provide against such
loss A policy iu the Hartford lDsur-
ance Co. costs you but snail sum
when We draw it for you, and gives
you security as safe as sbe Bank of
England.
A. C. PHELPS co.,
Gen'lInsurance Agents, Sumter, S. G.
Mch l5-o
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-10-11
BOARDING.

VTAvING TAKEN the House on Main
Street second door so1th of the Nixon
House, am prepared 10 accommodate lew
Iegular boarGers, and also lodeirg and meals
to transient customers.
Terms ressonee.e.
ass. ". B. SMITH.
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Stories, AG 2reSseS.
Poetry ard Sermons

See Partial List below
Nay 70 God. y. L. Moody.
S!essureyaud Profit in Bib
.e Stuoy. u. J.. Moody.
Light On LIES Duties. f.
B. Aleyer.
Point s25 Purpose in Sto-
~ and Saying.
Sowing and Reapinc. d..
chrissie's HGis Old Organ. Mrs.
o. Walton.
Naaman the Syrian. 2. B.
Mackay.
Lost Crown. J. W Chap
man. 9
Crew of the Dolphin. Hes
ia Strettol.
Nest for the Masters Use.
T. 3. Meyer.
Nur Bible. Chas. Leach
,aa r. 4 TorreT.
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:. ORDER TODAY
Alone in Loa6ca. Ees5S
Stretton.
Secret oe Guidance. z. z
Meyer.
Spirit-Filled Lie. Jshg
NacNeiI.
Overcoming Life. D. L
Moody. -
Jessica. Eesba Stretror.
Possibilities. Pres.J.GN
Mcclure. .
Heaven. D. L. Moody.
Prevailing Prayer.
Weighed and Wanting. IS
L. Moody.
John Ploughnan's Ia:s
Q. n. SpIr2eon-
Temperance
Mocdy's Anecdotes.
Drommond's Addresses
Select pcenS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-05

figured or satin striped pique. Bayadere stripes
are out OF favor. The new cotton materials are
to be had in all the prevailing shades Of blue.
pink. coral and red.
About the latest developme ont in the coat line
is the motor car coat. and one pretty imported
model is made OF pale tan cloth. with a rolling
collar. faring cuffs. and a straight attached
piece at the bottom OF mlroir velvet OF a darker
shade. The cloth is so scalloped and finished
with stitching as to give the effect OF an over
dress. Straps OF the velvet and steel harness
buckles finish tho front OF this stunning gar
ment. which is admirably adapted for spring.